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Reading 2 books about different topics in parallel is something that really works for me. I'll listen to an audiobook, currently #NickClegg's How to Save the Internet, during the day. At night on my Kindle, I’m reading The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937.

Ex-UK PM #TonyBlair & Ex-Deputy #PrimeMinister #NickClegg, hosted a private dinner earlier this year, at luxury London hotel for a select group of technology entrepreneurs.
-> Also there, #PoppyGustafsson, Minister of State for Investment - who decides on who gets the contracts!

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/11/tony-blair-and-nick-clegg-hosted-dinner-giving-tech-bosses-access-to-uk-minister #Technologysector #Technology #TonyBlair #NickClegg #Politics #Business #UKnews #Meta

@PabloMartini Tony Blair as PM showed the blind optimism in IT that is typical of those who don’t understand it. He then threw £millions at the NHS IT project which delivered none of its declared objectives.
Nick Clegg & all the other senior employees of tech companies clearly had a vested interest.
So if Keir Starmer is taking advice on IT and AI from these guys I fear that we are heading for a monumental waste of money. #TonyBlair #NickClegg #KeirStarmer #IT #AI #NHS

#NickClegg once was quite a sensible looking politician in the UK.
Then he went to make money with #Suckerberk.

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/115345675206359768

'My best mate Lucy Powell is a force of nature - and exactly what Labour needs'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/my-best-mate-lucy-powell-36027160

Nick Clegg Criticizes UK PM's Relationship with Donald Trump as 'Embarrassing'

Nick Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, criticized Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s relationship with US President Donald Trump, describing it as 'embarrassing' and 'cringey'. Clegg pointed out the British government’s excessive efforts to please Trump, calling it 'endless knee-bending'... [More info]

The Guardian view on Trump’s state visit to Britain: plenty of glitter, but this was gilt, not gold | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/the-guardian-view-on-trump-state-visit-to-britain-plenty-of-glitter-but-this-was-gilt-not-gold #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #KingCharlesIII #Foreignpolicy #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer #NickClegg #Politics #Tariffs #USnews #UKnews

"When Prick Clegg exposes your hustle"

lol, no honour among thieves I see!

#NickClegg #TechBros #SiliconValley #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Trump #KeirStarmer #Starmer

But the careful choreography was dealt a blow on Wednesday when Nick
Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who held one of the most senior
roles at Meta until earlier this year, described the US-UK tech deal as “sloppy
seconds from Silicon Valley”.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge, Clegg said
of the US tech companies: “These companies need those infrastructure
resources anyway. They’re building datacentres all over the world.

“Maybe they were pushed a bit forward just to meet the timetable with this
week’s state visit. But ... it’s all one-way traffic.

Prick Clegg can't polish this turd, (unless you pay him to)

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #NickClegg #TechBros #SiliconValley

Nick Clegg: US-UK tech deal is ‘sloppy
seconds from Silicon Valley’
Meta's former president of global affairs says agreement will
leave UK more reliant on US tech firms

Photo of Prick Clegg sitting in a chair at some Chatham House deal, making shapes with his hands as he talks

Clegg said the deal was 'just another version of the United Kingdom holding on to Uncle Sam's
coat-tails". Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Nick Clegg warns UK needs to reassess freedom of speech laws

Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the UK, has raised concerns about the country's approach to freedom of speech, warning that Britain may have gone too far in its efforts to regulate what people can say. Speaking on The Master Investor Podcast, Clegg pointed to a growing sense of 'underlyi... [More info]

How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg review – spinning Silicon Valley https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/10/how-to-save-the-internet-by-nick-clegg-review-spinning-silicon-valley #Scienceandnaturebooks #Socialmedia #Technology #NickClegg #Internet #Culture #Books #Media #Meta

“For tech companies, Clegg noted that they are moving so fast that they’re not stopping to think about the “minefield” that is AI. He added that the AI race has summoned.”

Thoughts?

#AI #NickClegg

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/03/2025/former-meta-exec-nick-clegg-american-dominance-of-the-internet-is-over?utm_medium=technology&utm_campaign=theuswaningdominance&utm_source=nowcta

Why so tetchy Cleggy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYM1arUzXY

#clegg #nickclegg #newsagents #neta #maitliss

Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:

https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563

He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.

*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.

#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms

"#NickClegg became Britain’s deputy prime minister in 2010 when he led the center-left Liberal Democrats, before eventually falling from power 5 years later and landing in California in 2018. He was an outsider, brought in to lead Meta owner’s policy efforts; until his departure this January, he performed the herculean task of publicly defending the scandal-plagued company. Now, Clegg is out — replaced by a deputy with closer ties to Trump — and has written a book based partially on his experience as a top Mark Zuckerberg lieutenant."

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/meta-nick-clegg-blasts-tech-culture-21015377.php

And you fucking enabled it you twat, like you enabled the Tories....it's what you fucking do! 😡

'Prick Clegg'

#NickClegg #TechBros #Technology #SiliconValley #Zuckerberg #Manosphere #Enablers