Will Pinfold
@willpinfold.bsky.social
Writer, music journalist, art historian, smart arse & whatnot
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Should amend either the title or the main image but it can wait ://williampinfold.substack.com/p/nine-ten-never-sleep-again?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ls3yk
nine, ten never sleep again
Sometimes you don’t want the best thing, you want the most thing.
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September 28, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Should amend either the title or the main image but it can wait ://williampinfold.substack.com/p/nine-ten-never-sleep-again?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ls3yk
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It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
September 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
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Genuinely, why are we not using existing laws when worrying about AI safety? Don't start inventing new things, just charge people.
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
September 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Genuinely, why are we not using existing laws when worrying about AI safety? Don't start inventing new things, just charge people.
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There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous
September 23, 2026 at 6:27 PM
There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous
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Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what.
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September 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what.
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NEW MRP JUST DROPPED:
All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
September 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED:
All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
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I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
September 7, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
The sci-fi community questions whether Musk is really a fan, but does the fact that his climate change plan is uncannily like the disastrous one in Highlander II, where Connor MacLeod is hated because his cure for global warming threatens the Earth, suggest that he is or isn’t a true SF nerd?
September 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The sci-fi community questions whether Musk is really a fan, but does the fact that his climate change plan is uncannily like the disastrous one in Highlander II, where Connor MacLeod is hated because his cure for global warming threatens the Earth, suggest that he is or isn’t a true SF nerd?
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I presume the opening par is an attempt to appear more moderate than she really is and the closing par reflects her real view. But at this point it's anyone's guess really. The product of a haunted, shattered mind.
August 30, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I presume the opening par is an attempt to appear more moderate than she really is and the closing par reflects her real view. But at this point it's anyone's guess really. The product of a haunted, shattered mind.
Extremely geeky & nostalgic to write:
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I was the hero
an interactive adventure
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August 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Extremely geeky & nostalgic to write:
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The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
August 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
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Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
August 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative to this is people lying with impunity, with the media knowingly covering it up. It's an awful story. And the media will get a lot of the blame. But those who perpetuated the lies and shielded Arday from facing up to them deserve more of it.
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
August 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
outside the zone of interest
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outside the zone of interest
It’s nice to have your ideas and assumptions challenged and changed.
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August 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
outside the zone of interest
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Guess it’s lucky that most history doesn’t live in datasets, then.
Honestly, guys, you’re setting fire to the planet for this. Why?
Honestly, guys, you’re setting fire to the planet for this. Why?
Are we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.
August 13, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Guess it’s lucky that most history doesn’t live in datasets, then.
Honestly, guys, you’re setting fire to the planet for this. Why?
Honestly, guys, you’re setting fire to the planet for this. Why?
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"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice"
A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
This is interesting: Claude is going to add 'watermarks' to its output. support.claude.com/en/articles/...
How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center
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August 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice"
A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
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More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas.
Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK.
X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content".
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Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK.
X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content".
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
August 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas.
Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK.
X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content".
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK.
X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content".
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace.
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
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This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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August 7, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace.
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
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Generations, etc
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the cauldron-born generation
There are many ways - all imperfect - for delineating generations from each other.
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August 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Generations, etc
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