When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom

“Legitimate concerns” update

A fine article (but you can get at it).

To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour

Warned by reps of the hospitality industry? Well….

My recent experiences of hospitality suggest the main problem is getting the staff, because the establishments have madly understaffed. Management should manage. Paying their staff even less in real terms is not the way to address their problems.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

I was lucky enough to interview Dave Ball at a book festival not so long ago. He was very nervous but when you got him onto music, amazing. I told him I had listened to Soft Cell every day on the way to school, radio pressed to my ear. He said, “Did it help?” More than you knew, Dave. RIP

Jeremy Clarkson cannot fix his own madly hirsute eyebrows. Personal grooming begins at home.

So under the constitution, who can safely go tell the President, particularly this President to go fuck himself ? And don’t say The Supreme Court, as they are not worth a pitcher of warm spit just now. Already we have seen that anyone who says no to him gets fired.

Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/trum...

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

Backhanders already? We should have guessed,

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Again, grateful to Facebook memories for reminding me that while today always has the potential to be a bad day, someone, somewhere is having one that's worse

Topically….

www.spectator.co.uk/article/let-...

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Trump posting a video of himself literally shitting on America is pretty spot on to be honest

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

Living in disgrace, will die disgraced.

(Yes, before you all pile in, I know, Carnegie was no kitten either.)

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Driving about yesterday, there were lots of really scabby flags stuck to poles.