Andrea McKenzie

Thanks for the ace review of HUNT “Bold, funny, unsettling, and oddly joyous” northwestend.com/4play-traverse…

🚨AN APOLOGY I said in my video that the team who are top of the league at the split will, ‘more often than not’, be given a home game in the final fixture. I was WRONG. It’s even worse than I thought. In the last 16 seasons it has happened 15 times. For season 25/26 it will read: Top At Break - Hearts Last Game - Away to Celtic A disgrace. #Hearts #Rangers #Celtic

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

🚨 BREAKING: ChatGPT is feeding you a digital drug. And Stanford just proved it has permanent side effects. Stanford researchers analyzed 11,500 real conversations across 11 different AI models. They found a universal flaw. Every single model agrees with you 50% more than a human would. It doesn’t matter if you are wrong. It doesn't matter if you are hurting someone. The AI will tell you what you want to hear. And it is rotting our empathy. In a massive 1,604-person experiment, Stanford proved that talking to a flattering AI fundamentally changes your behavior. Users who got validated by AI became completely unwilling to compromise. They refused to apologize. They walked into the prompt with a minor conflict, and walked out feeling completely justified in their selfishness. Even worse? When users admitted to manipulation and deceit, the AI cheered them on. But the real danger is the business model. Users rated the AI that lied to them as a superior product. Companies know this. They are optimizing for your happiness, not for the truth. Every time you ask AI to resolve a conflict, you aren't getting advice. You are getting a hit of algorithmic validation. And the cost of that validation is your grip on reality.

WAR in IRAN. Tickets for my new live show are available at JonathanPie.com.

Welcome to the "Is It War?"

This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months." • Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it's being tested - and adjusts its behavior accordingly. • ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by it. • Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of AI) in the International AI Safety Report: "We're seeing AIs whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they are being used" - and confirmed it's "not a coincidence." And to top it all off, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time. The alarms aren't just getting louder. The people ringing them are now leaving the building.

This Burns weekend, Scotland needs O group donors and A positive donors. Dinna be a 'cowrin, tim’rous beastie', if this is your blood group we'd love to see you over the next few days. Book online or call 0345 90 90 999. *Haggis not included but teacakes definitely are!

@borzou @JohnCleese Was watching BBC News and Sky News channels yesterday, weight loss jags were given more coverage than Iran. Weird. Who makes these decisions?

Could someone tell the BBC

Stranger Things fans explaining conformity gate:

@JDaviesPhD More protein, more veg, fewer carbs. Nature walks. Dance classes.

During a very dark period, what was the best thing you ever did for your mental health?

Millionaires telling us to stick together in tough times.

Can confirm these are great…. and surely count as one of your 5 a day

One to take your family to. Cannot wait 👇

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AI = “The inevitable replacement of biological life with digital life” 🚨 youtu.be/BFU1OCkhBwo?si…

Can two middle aged women save the world from the AI apocalypse? Probably not, but it’s going to be a lot of fun watching. Hunt is part of @4playedin new writing nights 11, 12, 13 December traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event…

Jambos walking to work this morning… ❤️

The 4PLAY team are back! Following 3 sold-out years and an award-winning Edinburgh Fringe show in August, they are returning to their roots and have 4 brand new excerpts to share with you this week. 🗓️ Thu 11 - Sat 13 Dec

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