Sam Biddle

The SNP MP for Moray, Laura Mitchell, took her oath of allegiance while holding a charred stave from the Burning of the Clavie. The Clavie, a burning tar barrel carried through the town of Burghead every January 11th according to the old Julian calendar, is one of Scotland's oldest continuous folk customs. Fragments of the charred barrel are traditionally kept as good luck charms 👇

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’. This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems. Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

"Do they get to choose, like 'can you use a broomstick?'"

"Billionaires will leave if you tax them," is a myth created by billionaires so you won't tax them.

Referring to yourself as a licensed medical professional is not a ‘right you earn.’ It’s a qualification you obtain through a rigorous standardized process, one that Abdul El-Sayed simply did not complete.

It's wild that we are having an environmental panic about data centers — a carbon-free industrial facility that during ordinary operation consumes no natural resources besides electricity and water and emits no waste products besides heat.