A bleak question I'd be keen to hear from UK lawyers about. Will the US' public execution - if it goes ahead - be blocked in the UK, under the Online Safety Act (unless the platforms showing it have age verification)? Or some other law? Or is this situation so mad/unique that we don't know?

I'd be unemployed too, or retired if lucky. I'd have been an archeologist specializing in the European iron age.

The bot layer is gone and the comments under Trump's own post are now 99% hate. Not manufactured rage from troll farms. Actual Americans telling him what they think. Real replies, always buried under a wall of paid Kremlin traffic, are what remain. The information war has a physical backbone.

Right there with you.

A really good bin-handling machine would be more complex and difficult to build. It would also be more obvious, and more subject to ridicule, when it failed.

A South African woman of color who defends international law for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize is just about the perfect response to the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize.

Just realized, this is like painting a target on her for US sanctions.

It's never too late to be a pain in the arse.

Yeah, I'll cop to that.

I'm trying to preserve the old definition, but OK.

You're making a fair point, but "well, we use the word differently, so there!" is not a terribly strong argument. Pointing to a target and nominating a population of possible perps is not a stochastic process.

The meaning of words does matter.

I don't think it fits as "stochastic". Trump is encouraging violence by a specific population against specific targets.

A significant number of Irish Catholics have identified strongly with the Palestinians almost since Israel has existed as a state. They see parallels with the religious/political divide in Northern Ireland.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead