Paul Lomax
@paullomax.co.uk
Chief Digital Officer in Media. Manc, leftie, foodie, cook, dad, feminist. Talks tech, science, politics, #mcfc, ADHD, gardening, transport, & data. Orange & natural wine fan. Lives in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent, UK. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦Opinions my own.
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Also, the Nazi winking troll technique that has become completely omnipresent in US government social media. It's out of control. The whole game is to drop as many clues as possible while never quite explicitly endorsing neo-Nazism, so if you accuse them of it they can say you're paranoid.
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Also, the Nazi winking troll technique that has become completely omnipresent in US government social media. It's out of control. The whole game is to drop as many clues as possible while never quite explicitly endorsing neo-Nazism, so if you accuse them of it they can say you're paranoid.
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it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it
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Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
VW Beetle - 1972 1200cc sky blue, first car @ 17
Nissan Primera - proper family car, maroon, perfect for a commuting 21 year old
Then 16 years without a car in London, until 2nd child…
Audi A6 - white, a bit flash, room for two buggies
Tesla Model 3 SR+ RWD - white
Tesla Model 3 LR RWD - red
Nissan Primera - proper family car, maroon, perfect for a commuting 21 year old
Then 16 years without a car in London, until 2nd child…
Audi A6 - white, a bit flash, room for two buggies
Tesla Model 3 SR+ RWD - white
Tesla Model 3 LR RWD - red
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
VW Beetle - 1972 1200cc sky blue, first car @ 17
Nissan Primera - proper family car, maroon, perfect for a commuting 21 year old
Then 16 years without a car in London, until 2nd child…
Audi A6 - white, a bit flash, room for two buggies
Tesla Model 3 SR+ RWD - white
Tesla Model 3 LR RWD - red
Nissan Primera - proper family car, maroon, perfect for a commuting 21 year old
Then 16 years without a car in London, until 2nd child…
Audi A6 - white, a bit flash, room for two buggies
Tesla Model 3 SR+ RWD - white
Tesla Model 3 LR RWD - red
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Have you considered taxing the rich?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Have you considered taxing the rich?
Seems they decided they’d tax it first then figure out how later
Here's the #EV pay per mile consultation. It says motorists will pay an estimate 12 months in advance 🤔. New car mileage will be "checked" at the end of the first and second year. How? www.gov.uk/government/c...
Consultation on the Introduction of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED)
A consultation setting out further detail on how eVED will work.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Seems they decided they’d tax it first then figure out how later
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Perhaps there is a role for this guy at the Labour Party, I feel like his "people like chicken, let's give them that, the pizza customers will order from us anyway because they've nowhere else to go" ideas might resonate with them.
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
Domino’s Pizza parts ways with chief who bet on fried chicken
Andrew Rennie leaves UK group ‘by mutual agreement’ as chair says there are opportunities to drive growth
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Perhaps there is a role for this guy at the Labour Party, I feel like his "people like chicken, let's give them that, the pizza customers will order from us anyway because they've nowhere else to go" ideas might resonate with them.
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
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I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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This is a fundamental change to the UK constitution yet seems very low key media coverage?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a fundamental change to the UK constitution yet seems very low key media coverage?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
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HUGE NEWS: Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles.
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
HUGE NEWS: Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles.
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
“Leh hey zer hers”
Britain’s DragonFire laser has destroyed high speed drones during recent trials at the Hebrides range, with the Ministry of Defence announcing a £316m contract for MBDA UK to deliver the first ship fitted systems from 2027.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-lase...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-lase...
British laser weapon downs drones off coast of Scotland
Britain’s DragonFire laser has destroyed high speed drones during recent trials at the Hebrides range, with the Ministry of Defence announcing a £316m contract for MBDA UK to deliver the first ship fitted systems from 2027.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Leh hey zer hers”
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Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
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That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
A country where Sadiq Khan can lead London, Humza Yousaf can lead Scotland, and Rishi Sunak can lead Britain is a country where the racists had *lost*. So much of this vicious bile has come directly after that and almost no one seems to draw the connection
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Discover last night that child two (8) may have a photographic memory. I was setting up a Chromebook for him and set a strong random password for his account with a pin on the laptop, while he watched. An hour later he recited the password. Said he could picture the laptop screen and read it back.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Discover last night that child two (8) may have a photographic memory. I was setting up a Chromebook for him and set a strong random password for his account with a pin on the laptop, while he watched. An hour later he recited the password. Said he could picture the laptop screen and read it back.
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Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
This isn’t ideal… About 20% of the internet is down. Including all the bits I look after. 😭
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This isn’t ideal… About 20% of the internet is down. Including all the bits I look after. 😭
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...