According to the Guardian, the Brick Lane data centre will be used for automated “high-frequency trading” in the financial district. Angela Rayner, Matthew Pennycook, shame on you. The @labouruk.bsky.social party lets everyone down, except corporate finance. Disgusting.
The CanaryLabour has approved the Brick Lane data centre for its economic benefits without evidence. Mark Fisher might refer to their behaviour in this case as "market Stalinism" by @hugoharvey.bsky.social
"the interview should lead any right-minded person to question why the media continues to engage him in this way. He clearly despises them" Spot on.
Paris MarxAfter The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
"The UN treats the global spread of AI as inevitable and necessary."
Tech Policy Press“The UN’s global AI governance discourse appears to simultaneously throttle the gas and brakes on AI, promoting global AI adoption while it warns about the serious risks it poses to society,” writes Bradley McNeil. Its AI vision risks entrenching the very concentration it warns about, he writes.
Is this true? Am I dreaming? Is this actual… (I forget what we used to call them) — ah, yes! — Good news!
Mayor of London, Sadiq KhanIt’s official: starting today you can enjoy unlimited bus and tram journeys every weekend for the price of a single daily journey.
Librarians giving people words and tools to sweep all traces of ‘AI inevitability’ out of the window. This episode of Tech Won’t Save Us fills me with hope.
Tech Won’t Save UsLibraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...
Incredible investigation. It consolidates my belief that if American oligarchs were pushed out of British politics and institutions the UK would thrive.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Bravi! 🇮🇹👏
More Perfect UnionItalian unions just won the first-ever workers’ rights agreement with Amazon. The deal expands parental leave rights and protects workers from being disciplined by the company based on video surveillance footage. Amazon has 19,000 workers in Italy. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
"the system-from-nowhere frame treats LLMs not as products but as independent operators, cut off from the humans who build and deploy them." "The report mistakes engineered behavior for emergent behavior."
Eryk SalvaggioThe UN panel’s AI report is a case study in the risk of vague definitions of “systems-from-nowhere.” This is a report that privileged existential risk narratives that displaced human accountability — and in turn, locked out meaningful policy options.