RE: https://mastodon.social/@dotstdy/116809841149334955

This is very true. The regulation conversation feels like politicians don’t grasp that these things can only be done by huge corporations spending billions, which can (at least in theory) be easily regulated. There’s no genie that’s come irrevocably out of its bottle.

Strangely though, they always seem happy to try to ban things like VPNs or encryption – it’s almost like they’re being driven by powerful lobbyists rather than experts.

It’s absolutely insane that people are saying we must “choose between AI [funnelling money to billionaires and propping up the fossil fuel industry] and climate goals [desperately trying to minimise the number of millions of people who will die as their world becomes uninhabitable]”, and assuming that the correct option is the former.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

Starmer: “ The question being asked now is not who was best placed to change the Labour party, to take us into power and to begin the vital work of improving lives for millions of people. Those questions have been answered.”

Oh, I know this one! Was the answer “Jeremy Corbyn”?

Weeknotes 2026-25: weasel encounter.

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/06/21/weeknotes-2026-25/