I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. ft.com/content/a0dfed…

🚨 Sacha Lord has resigned as an advisor to Andy Burnham after the Arts Council found that his company should repay the grant it got during the pandemic. Lord threatened to sue The Mill for revealing this story. Burnham says he accepted Lord's resignation last night.

Awwww did someone take your hard work and use it to train a model to mimic your expertise without compensation

Google is shit now, Instagram is shit now. And this place isn’t just shit, it’s actively harmful. Good bits of the internet are now basically just Wikipedia, for some reason LinkedIn, and also Bluesky.

Let them off the plane ⏳

Property mogul Asif Aziz prefers to be known for his philanthropy, but one of his companies stands accused of targeting a treasured community asset, not for the first time. John Lubbock and Daisy Steinhardt report. novaramedia.com/2025/02/05/the…

It turns out Bolton uni changing its name to the University of Greater Manchester was the *least* bizarre thing going on there. mollie simpson reports that a car PR guy from Milton Keynes is running the show, telling racist jokes and worrying about the uni becoming a "small Lagos".

This photo >>> 😮‍💨🔥

Does anyone know why the version of The Blair Witch Project on BBC iPlayer is 76 minutes long? Everywhere online says the runtime is 81 minutes. The version on Prime Video UK & IE runs to 81 mins. Is it a different cut, or have edits been made somewhere? BBC Press Office

Now imagine the impact if that sort of investment could also happen outside of London… wild, crazy idea, I know.

V uncomfortable with the way this story is written. If an accidental baby swap occurred there are two victims at the heart of this - the now adult babies. Neither is centred, and the baby they did take home appears to have been treated *appallingly* theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

have never seen this called a “Roman salute” before this year and now all the media has just agreed to call it this? fuck off with this

AOC: Why isn’t this moving? Republicans support it. Democrats support it. So what happened? On December 15th at 415am, Elon Musk began firing off a barrage of social media posts opposing pharmacy benefit manager reform. All of a sudden, something that had almost unanimous

6/ The absence from the Convention of a lot of UK National Organisations who claim that their London HQs don't stop them from engaging with the whole of the UK was obvious, it was seen, and it is noted. I know a lot of you were invited. You made your choice. We see it.

This is disgusting and has nothing in common with the idiosyncratically bizarre cartoons of the 1930s. If the artists who put so much love into every frame of those old cartoons saw this sterile junk, they would be sick. Have some real cartooning instead:

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Very good thread this. And just in case you're a youngish graduate not already miserable enough reading this,... the regional picture is even worse. The graduate premium has actually held up well in London. It's everywhere else that it's collapsed. x.com/thomasforth/st…

The wardrobe/tailoring/costuming in #TheStudio is so good.

This morning's The Tribune piece on the Snooker World Championship and its relationship with the Crucible is great. sheffieldtribune.co.uk/end-the-snooke…

Dave Allen. Take a bow. #FisherAllen2