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I read Will Lockett's medium piece looking at two outcomes of the AI revolution; one is that AI fails and there is a debt implosion within the AI sector and thus their lenders, and alternatively it succeeds and there is a global unemployment [ & consumption] crisis. I note that without renewable & cool energy, building more AI will also grossly exacerbate the climate crisis.
https://wlockett.medium.com/ai-will-destroy-the-economy-13e858872c1e
Still awful! But yet another example of Starmer changing his mind after asking MPs to stand by a policy he's planning to change.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/starmer-immigration-policy-labour-backlash
Trump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.
UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.
We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.
Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn #Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security #digitalsovereignty
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
The other Labour Hub on Labour's most recent scandal.
I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went...
I have updated my reset article acknowledging the signing of the "EU-UK Competition Cooperation agreement". I wonder if it fits with Reeves’s instruction to the CMA and others to prioritise growth over safety, and the Guardian article makes clear that the HMG’s eyes are on being included in the coming “Made in Europe” law.
https://davelevy.info/wiki/brexit-reset-winter-2025-26/#comment-175820
Meetings have occurred in monitoring and managing the Withdrawal Agreement and Trade & Co-operation agreement, over the last month, but what did they say and agree. I’d say, not very much. As ever, links and notes … The Communique On Citizens’ Rights They say, They welcomed the solution on the true and extra cohort enshrined...
Open Rights Group
Jim Killock