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Peter Marshall

@petermaudax

Randonneur, Russianist, retired. Mostly human

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The Coens are extraordinary filmmakers. I’ve been hooked ever since Blood Simple. I enjoy their individual films, but I’m really hoping they make some more films together…

11.03.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

11.03.2026 08:02 👍 2420 🔁 694 💬 102 📌 39

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

10.03.2026 10:08 👍 1943 🔁 640 💬 43 📌 26

Britain’s entire rightwing political classes being dragged around by whatever nonsense happens to have appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account in the past fifteen minutes is something to behold

10.03.2026 18:46 👍 141 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 2
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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

Paging @edzitron.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

10.03.2026 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 5409 🔁 1192 💬 68 📌 9

The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers

05.03.2026 22:53 👍 250 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 3

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 👍 7343 🔁 2311 💬 182 📌 51

Mullahtrioshka

04.03.2026 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Venn diagram? It’s a circle, surely

03.03.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3rd March 2026 18.08

03.03.2026 18:12 👍 150 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
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An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

03.03.2026 17:26 👍 1121 🔁 416 💬 30 📌 47

The fish is rotting from the head

02.03.2026 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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War is such a massive pain in the arse.

02.03.2026 15:22 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is the kind of film that can restore your faith in cinema *and* make you laugh non-stop. Come for the costumed mascots, stay for the Karel Zeman aesthetic and Buster Keaton jokes.

01.03.2026 22:37 👍 48 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1

Probably shouldn’t have had Claude doing the targeting, then.

02.03.2026 04:03 👍 468 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 0

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

01.03.2026 17:53 👍 4793 🔁 771 💬 46 📌 41

The political death wish of the current Labour leadership is quite something to behold

01.03.2026 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fly past for the rising sun

Fly past for the rising sun

1st March 2026 07.02

01.03.2026 07:10 👍 163 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0

Going off the “war room” photos, I couldn’t tell which Supreme Leader is meant to be dead.

28.02.2026 22:30 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

These photos are normally staged in the White House Situation Room, not a golf clubhouse. But then again, they usually show a president who is alert/engaged/alive rather than undead at best

28.02.2026 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just before dawn

Just before dawn

26th February 2026 06.48

26.02.2026 07:08 👍 169 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0
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Scientific paper trail links the neurotoxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to the same Russian labs implicated in 2020 Novichok attack — Meduza The same Moscow-based research center linked to Alexey Navalny’s 2020 poisoning — SC Signal — also played a role in synthesizing the toxin that killed the opposition leader, according to the…

Journalists have unearthed a scientific paper trail connecting the rare toxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to Russian labs implicated in the 2020 attempt on his life. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

25.02.2026 19:11 👍 123 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 2

It’s wonderful, isn’t it?

24.02.2026 16:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hen Ogledd - End of the rhythm (Official Video)
Hen Ogledd - End of the rhythm (Official Video) YouTube video by Hen Ogledd

Is your disco mbobulated?
Would you like us to assign someone etc

Cosmic and joyful

#HenOgledd

youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?...

24.02.2026 15:38 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Every day another reason to loathe “AI”

23.02.2026 22:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries

23.02.2026 11:44 👍 831 🔁 262 💬 61 📌 21
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23.02.2026 07:42 👍 2605 🔁 1572 💬 82 📌 136
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These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

23.02.2026 07:32 👍 3449 🔁 1236 💬 146 📌 66
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This is entirely correct.

It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people

Not too late for government to change course

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

22.02.2026 22:32 👍 431 🔁 166 💬 9 📌 3