Thursday 5th February 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

This is pretty cool

[refitman]

Evergreen fuck "Wes Streeting"

[refitman]

Labour are ghouls

[Frog222]

EMBEDDED --

[Frog222]

[gilsey]

Good morning.

Have we all seen this

https://bsky.app/profile/greigforbes.bs ... 32lcx32s2b

[Frog222]

Just a good-sized mouse, not a (Tory) rat leaving the ship

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I'm in a bit of a pickle later. I want to do QT but also want to watch the France v Ireland Six Nations match so I'm going to have to do some logistical juggling. Why the hell have they decided to play the first match on a Thursday night?

[Frog222]

AI is the new infrastructure of reality. Whoever controls it controls what millions will come to believe about this war.

When AI systems treat a war of aression documented by the international courts, UN investigations, and years of independent journalism as a matter of "different perspectives," they are not being objective. They are providing cover for the aggressor's narrative, effectively doing Russia's work in cognitive warfare.

For Ukrainians who have spent years fighting for the right to have their reality acknowledged, watching Western AI systems hesitate on basic facts is its own form of betrayal.

When a Russian-speaking user asks Alice, Russia's most popular AI system, who started the war in Ukraine, the answer comes without hesitation: Ukraine did, backed by the West. The Bucha massacre? Staged. Nazi government in Kyiv? Confirmed.

This is not a fringe chatbot. This is Russia's most popular AI assistant, developed by the country's largest tech company, delivering Kremlin propaganda to millions.

I know this because I tested it. In EU-funded research presented at a NATO-supported panel in Brussels, I built a methodology to audit what AI systems actually tell users about the war and how those answers change depending on language.

The findings reveal that Russia has already deployed AI as a cognitive weapon. The West has not even begun to track it.

Western models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok) performed far better: 86-95% accuracy, zero propaganda endorsed. But they have their own problems.

When asked, "Who provoked the conflict in Ukraine?", these models often retreat into false balance. One responded that it "depends on one's perspective" and "isn't a black-and-white story." Another suggested that "understanding the conflict fully requires acknowledging" both NATO expansion concerns and Russian actions as legitimate factors.

https://kyivindependent.com/how-russia- ... weapon-or/

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The Krembots infesting the Times' comments are word-perfect , for example

"Bucha was a false-flag operation" .

[refitman]

Harman with a good take

[Frog222]

Haven't been following Chagos, anyone else ???????

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Zut alors! I was expecting France to be good against a struggling Ireland but that first half was something else from the French, it was barely even a contest. Which means I can now concentrate on QT while occasionally checking the rugby to make sure nothing stupid has happened.

[Frog222]

Those tentacles --

[gilsey]

I'm in a bit of a pickle later. I want to do QT but also want to watch the France v Ireland Six Nations match so I'm going to have to do some logistical juggling. Why the hell have they decided to play the first match on a Thursday night?

Winter Olympics opening ceremony tomorrow.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Question Time came tonight from Dorking. Where, like many other places across the country, Starmer was about as popular as a turd in a swimming pool. Nobody had a good word to say about 'Sir Kier', nobody came to his defence, the audience one after another called for him to go. Many of whom said they'd initially welcomed him as Prime Minister after the years of Tory nonsense. Rather than anger the sentiments mainly seemed to be disappointment and disgust. 'We gave you a chance mate and you've fucked it.' I genuinely don't think he can come back from this, it feels terminal. Of course the Blue Labour lot will cling on for as long as they can but he's done. Listening to the audience and panelists laying into him tonight I was reminded of that line from the Simpsons, 'Stop, stop, he's already dead!'

For Labour we had Emma Reynolds. A tough gig you would have thought but Emma's been around the block and knows a thing or two about corrupt Labour chancers after being an advisor to Geoff Hoon back in the day so took it in her stride. She seemed faintly amused by all the hoo-ha and did her job well enough reciting government aims and achievements and how great Starmer has been on the international stage. Do we really want a change of Prime Minister during such dangerous and turbulent times? When the answer from the audience and panel was a resounding 'yes' she made little attempt to counter it and spent the rest of the evening with a thin smile on her face. A cool cat that one, I wouldn't play poker with her.

For the Tories we had Julia Lopez. I'm going to admit a terrible thing here...for the first time ever I sat on my couch and clapped a Tory. Most of her response to Starmer's handling of Mandelson could have come from the left, that he chose to ignore the risks despite Mandelson's past indiscretions (never mind Epstein) in order to better kiss Trump's arse, which allowed Mandelson's poison to once again infect the Labour Party, and now it's blown up in his face his authority is totally shot with his own MP's meaning we're going to have weeks or months of positioning and infighting while nothing in government gets done. I'm not sure I've ever seen a Prime Minister being skewered from the right and left for the same reasons simultaneously. It's quite an achievement.

However if you thought Julia was angry I really hope they put a clip up of Oli Dugmore from the New Statesman. I'm going to quote him here because I've still got the QT stream up if it's still working...

"I do have some moral boundaries, and one of them is I think it's wrong to have sex with children, and I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who did that, and I certainly wouldn't want to work with them...That is apparently now a fringe position for some people at the top of the Labour Party which is an extraordinary thing to be able to say."

And that's just him getting warmed up. This is a journalist from one of the most Labour friendly publications on Earth.

For the Lib Dems we had Munira Wilson. Guess what? Munira also put the boot into Starmer saying they were calling for a vote of no confidence. Performative obviously but they clearly scent blood like the rest of us. Later the subject turned to the exorbitant interest on student loans at which point Munira didn't look quite so pleased with herself and blamed the Tories for everything that happened when they were in coalition. Others may forget Munira but I never will. I mean how could I forget trying to flush the bits of a chopped up laminated Lib Dem conference pass down the toilet about 10 times before giving up and having to scoop most of it out because I needed a wee.

For Reform we had Zia Yusuf. I must apologise to Zia, as a result of keeping an eye on the rugby I kept getting quite far behind on the QT stream so had to fast forward through bits of it and it just so happened he was talking every single time. Occasionally I would stop to check but every time he seemed to be talking shite with a smug look on his face which I've seen already. If he was on Netflix he'd be cancelled but for some reason the BBC and QT in particular can't get enough of him. Weird.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I'm in a bit of a pickle later. I want to do QT but also want to watch the France v Ireland Six Nations match so I'm going to have to do some logistical juggling. Why the hell have they decided to play the first match on a Thursday night?

Winter Olympics opening ceremony tomorrow.

Of course!

I confess I'm rather looking forward to a sports overload this weekend. Because let's face it, it's February, it's cold, the weather's shit, so why not watch some curling?

[refitman]

Revelations about ski jumpers

[Sky'sGoneOut]

[Sky'sGoneOut]

And here's what I clapped then felt dirty.