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Tom Phillips
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Tom Phillips
@flashboy
Not here. Mostly at Bluesky: https://t.co/Mu8RrmJSnU | 🧵 https://t.co/hf3q6fMpVl | My books! https://t.co/FGNKFAHxGT
London Entrou em Aralık 2006
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The Bunker@bunker_pod
Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories? In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_240319_Co…
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This is one of the most entertaining pod conversations I’ve had in ages, as @flashboy walks me through the history of politicians believing batshit things. Listen.
The Bunker@bunker_pod
Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories? In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_240319_Co…
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Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories?
In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_240319_Co…
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apropos of nothing, got a bunch of invite codes for the 🟦sky place, it's quite nice right now. DM if we kind of vaguely know each other here and you want a lil lifeboat
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you can tell quite how long I banged on about this from the number of edits required @flashboy
Paper Cuts Podcast@papercutsshow
Wait, the illuminati isn't Beyoncé?! @JonnElledge breaks down the conspiracy to @msmirandasawyer and @GrainneMaguire Full episode: link.chtbl.com/PC231025Banker… #illuminati #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #bookgroup #deepstate #JFK #moonlandings #hoax #faked #funny #comedy #news
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Interesting article thinking through the implications of deep fakes on elections:
politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
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The Misinfo Election: Will it be a fake news nightmare? @flashboy via @politicshome, with comment by me for @FullFact - with a GenAI-infected election campaign ahead I call on politicians to be useful: get your house in order! #GE24 politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
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🗞️ NEW @TheHouseMag has dropped in Parliament today
🤖 @elliottengage's first proper edition as our new editor is full of interesting features on AI – from fake news at the GE (@flashboy) to NHS data (@sophiealichurch) to not-a-tech-bro AI minister Viscount Camrose (@TaliFraser)
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@flashboy Have you read this? Its great on Stewart Brand and pre-history of the internet how the physical Whole Earth Catalogue, full of scraps and weird juxtapositions was the inspiration for the kind of network they wanted to create. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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Came across this in the archive. Its from the early 1980s. Can anyone guess what "company" this is referring to?
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@samwetherell I am a huge fan of pre-internet (and indeed pre-boomer) memes, especially the ones that have successfully transitioned online. They are so weirdly resilient!
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@flashboy Fascinating - it does seem like the material equivalent of one of those boomer facebook memes. I have no idea how it found its way into this archive.
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@samwetherell But early 80s is a lot earlier than any other examples I know of. (Makes sense though - the UK versions on FB today still say 635 MPs, which was last the case in the 1979 election...)
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@samwetherell Ah, shame. It's a folklist that's being going round for decades - the numbers usually stay the same even as it gets applied to different places (US Congress, Canada, India,etc) The language - "bad cheques" - suggests a US origin, I think?
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@matosman also 99 Luftballons, and about 34% of all metal tracks
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@matosman Shamen, Destination Eschaton
Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction
Muse, most Muse songs
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People pointing out problems with the system of fines - they'd have to be huge to be truly punitive as they get away with stuff most of the time; they might be passed onto leaseholders; etc.
I wonder if the solution is: don't fine the company. Fine the bosses or board.
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this is funny but I feel like "massive punitive fines" are a better way to go than "literally demolishing homes which already have tenants"?
Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti
lmao Greenwich council has ordered the *complete demolition* of the two newly built - and occupied - Mast Quay Phase II tower blocks and "the restoration of the land to its former condition" because the developer deviated from the agreed planning permission *26 times*:
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think I'm going to be on @LBC just after 11 talking about conspiracy theories, if anybody wants to hear me talking about conspiracy theories
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