April 2026
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Let Him Finish, The Quiet Discipline of Listening
There’s a moment that happens quite often at Andy’s Man Club, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It can look like a small thing when you first notice it. One man is talking. Really talking. Maybe for the first time in weeks or months. He’s got everyone’s, he’s taken a pause and trying…
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The Madness of the AI Race – Stop Before We Succeed
Superintelligent AI doesn’t need to be malevolent to be catastrophic. The existential risk, according to MIRI’s Nate Soares, comes from indifference – a system smart enough to reshape the planet according to its own requirements, with no particular interest in whether humans survive the process. We are building that system now, without understanding it, in…
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The AI Industry Has a Problem, and It’s Getting Worse
Years of job-loss warnings, billion-dollar announcements, and god-like claims about technology that often can’t reliably count to ten have quietly built up a head of public resentment. Tech critic Ed Zitron has been making this case for a while. In a recent episode of The Tech Report, he laid out exactly why the industry’s habit…
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Why Those Powerful Words Live on My Homepage
Nine words from a 1998 Manic Street Preachers number one sit at the top of this blog for a reason. They come originally from a Spanish Civil War propaganda poster, carried forward by a Welsh band still shaped by the disappearance of their lyricist Richey Edwards, who struggled with depression and vanished in 1995. The…
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Did An AI Really Try To Blackmail Its Creators?
No, an AI did not blackmail anyone. What actually happened was a controlled research experiment in which a language model, given a fictional scenario and fake incriminating emails, generated a threatening message inside that sandbox. There was no real victim, no real inbox, and no real threat. The model followed the incentives researchers built for…
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That Facebook Post Doing the Rounds. It’s Still Bollocks!
Every few months, your feed fills up with it again. Some variation of “big day tomorrow” or “just in case you missed it on TV” – followed by a wall of semi-legal gibberish, a declaration that Facebook / Meta no longer has permission to use your photos, a bit about AI, and a helpful instruction…