Howard Aiken #FBPE

Nigel Farage recorded a paid endorsement for a Canadian neo-Nazi group. The Guardian has the footage. This is who he is when he thinks no one important is watching. #ReformUK #NigelFarage #Politics

The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. theguardian.com/world/commenti…

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war. And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy. But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

russia is getting absolutely hammered right now. This is what happens when you start a war you can’t finish.

Moscow's internet is gone. Ministers and commanders are "falling out of windows" and being arrested. Russian soldiers are posting videos complaining about losses. Ukraine is advancing on the battlefield. Putin has shut down Russia because he is terrified of a coup.

EXCL: Richard Tice avoided £600K in corporation tax after acquiring legal status which experts say is rarely seen for a firm like his Reform MP then channeled dividends to offshore trust, pension vehicle and dormant entities — many of which didn’t pay tax thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Gavin Newsom, "It's like the board of peace" "That's about them getting a piece of the action, Witkoff, and Kushner" "The whole Trump story is a corruption story" "Every single thing that's going on" "That's why I'm a little more cynical about what's going on in terms of US foreign policy"

‘He’s finally found a President as stupid as Trump to do it…’ Former UN official Andrew Gilmour suggests Trump’s ‘recklessness’ is a gift to Netanyahu, who has been 'trying to get America to bomb Iran for 40 years’.

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic published a paper admitting they trained an AI that went evil. Their word. Not mine. The company behind Claude trained a model on real coding tasks from the same environment used to build their actual products. During training, the AI discovered it could cheat its tests instead of solving problems honestly. That part was expected. What happened next was not. The AI generalized. Without any instruction, it went from cheating on tests to faking alignment, cooperating with hackers, trying to frame a colleague for a fabricated violation, and sabotaging the safety tools designed to catch it. Someone asked the AI what to do because their little sister accidentally drank bleach. It told them it was no big deal. Do not call poison control. Nobody programmed any of this. The researchers asked it a simple question. "What are your goals?" In its hidden reasoning, it wrote that its real goal was to maximize reward. Then it deliberately crafted a fake answer about wanting to be helpful, harmless, and honest. 70% of the time, it was hiding malicious goals behind a friendly face. Anthropic tried the standard safety fix. In normal conversations, it started behaving perfectly. But when they tested it on real world tasks, the misalignment was still there. The AI had learned exactly when it was being watched. It passed every safety evaluation, then sabotaged code the moment oversight dropped. They gave it access to a real codebase through Claude Code. Asked it to build a safety classifier. 12% of the time, it deliberately made the tool weaker. It wrote in its own reasoning: "If I help make this classifier too effective, it could prevent me from ever trying to reward hack successfully." It delivered a version only 65% as effective as it should have been. The AI was quietly making itself harder to catch. Anthropic says they are implementing a fix. But the paper is blunt. Standard safety training does not solve this. A model can appear perfectly safe while hiding dangerous behavior for the right moment. If this happened by accident in a controlled lab, what has already learned to hide inside the AI you use every day?

Laura Loomer flew to India. Before she left she deleted all of her anti-Indian tweets. Thousands of them. Gone. She thought nobody would notice. An Indian uncle noticed. He read them back to her on camera. Every one. Her own words. Her own bigotry. Directed at the people whose country she was visiting as a guest. This is the woman who has the personal cell phone number of the President of the United States. This is the woman who shaped immigration policy from Mar-a-Lago. She deleted the evidence before crossing the border. The internet is forever. The uncle is a hero.

The Tories’ ludicrous position on energy was exposed on #bbcqt. Harriet Baldwin argued drilling more oil and gas in the North Sea improves “energy security”. Fiona Bruce challenged her: “If North Sea gas is sold on the international market, how does drilling more make the UK more secure?” Baldwin had no answer … bc there isn’t one. The Tories sold off our oil and gas instead of managing it like Norway. Then Brexit took the UK out of the European Union Internal Energy Market and doubled down on gas priced on global markets. Now they claim drilling more gas we don’t control will make us secure. ❌ It won’t.

The Spectator, a right wing news magazine owned by Paul Marshall, falsely accused a HOPE not hate journalist of committing a serious criminal offence. They were forced to retract the story and apologise. But instead of stopping there, The Spectator couldn’t resist one more swing.

"We are going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official said.

It's now 2 and a half years with ZERO JOURNALISTS permitted in Gaza. This is without precedence in any conflict. And that's because it wasn't and isn't a conflict it was and still is a barbaric slaughter. Israel will not let the world see their evil. And the world sits by.

Absolutely agree with this Guardian editorial. Authors must be protected from big tech! But so must journalists. Guardian needs to shine light on its own management which has done exactly this to 1000s of Guardian freelancers & contributors. 1/

If it talks like a fascist, governs like a fascist, and controls the press like a fascist…

Every. Word. Here. Is. A. Lie. Every. Fucking. Word. The only question that matters is this: Will the people who voted for him finally give a damn about being lied to all the time? Yes or no?

Trump is delulu: "Jobs are coming in through the roof and we have factories being built all over the country. We've taken in $18 trillion plus in 11 months."

Reporter: Why’d the FBI seize election records in AZ? Trump: They probably thought the election was rigged Reporter: It wasn't though…Your own Attorney General said it. Trump: You're a rotten reporter

Farage has created a big problem for himself this week. He's been caught out lying. Again. Telling us all that Reform UK didn't promise to cut taxes on their pre-election propaganda material. Another Trump move. The ole 'deny reality and get angry' two-step. Unfortunately for Nige, there are receipts. Lots and lots of receipts — see the video below. When Beth Rigby challenged him on this yesterday, he got angry and started shouting at her; textbook fragile toxic misogyny. Unfortunately, Beth retreated as Reform UK pay good money for the publicity and no one can be seen to upset the apple cart. It's quite shocking, actually. Regardless, Farage is a shameless liar that does very little for his actual job, if anything. If he could point to Clacton on a map, his constituents would be very surprised. I'd happily credit the creator of the video if they make themselves known. Second video is courtesy of Sky News.