Well, know we know: “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all … [and] … making AI sustainable for people and the planet” is “not in UK national interests”.

www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Timothy Snyder, getting the ongoing coup in the US about right.

The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.

Liberal democracy just died. It’s been on life support for some time now. And when the alarm sounded, when the patient flatlined, did we call for the crash-cart? No, we ambled down the corridor to get fresh coffee.

Q: What will Labour centrist politicians do now that the collapse of neoliberalism into the degenerate matter of oligarchic authoritarianism is inevitable?

A: Leverage their networks to secure lucrative consultancies to revolve into at the end of their one-term government.