Tom Phillips

Not here. Mostly at Bluesky: | 🧵 | My books!

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

If you want to find me on other websites or social networks, I’ve listed the ones I’m currently on here (and will update if new ones come along): https://t.co/vQkuGlNRFb

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@Nndroid it was not the same old show

[Andrew Harrison @Nndroid]

This is one of the most entertaining pod conversations I’ve had in ages, as @flashboy walks me through the history of politicians believing batshit things. Listen.

[The Bunker @bunker_pod]

Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories?

In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️https://t.co/M25zU5l2EX

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

apropos of nothing, got a bunch of invite codes for the 🟦sky place, it's quite nice right now. DM if we kind of vaguely know each other here and you want a lil lifeboat

[jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky @JonnElledge]

you can tell quite how long I banged on about this from the number of edits required @flashboy

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@JonnElledge what aren't they letting us hear

[Hannah O'Rourke @Hannah_O_Rourke]

Interesting article thinking through the implications of deep fakes on elections:
https://t.co/cSi3BgxVao

[Glen Tarman @GlenTarman]

The Misinfo Election: Will it be a fake news nightmare? @flashboy via @politicshome, with comment by me for @FullFact - with a GenAI-infected election campaign ahead I call on politicians to be useful: get your house in order! #GE24 https://t.co/KZvJtbzVrM

[Sienna Rodgers @siennamarla]

🗞️ NEW @TheHouseMag has dropped in Parliament today

🤖 @elliottengage's first proper edition as our new editor is full of interesting features on AI – from fake news at the GE (@flashboy) to NHS data (@sophiealichurch) to not-a-tech-bro AI minister Viscount Camrose (@TaliFraser)

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@samwetherell Oooooh no I haven’t, cheers

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@samwetherell I am a huge fan of pre-internet (and indeed pre-boomer) memes, especially the ones that have successfully transitioned online. They are so weirdly resilient!

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@samwetherell But early 80s is a lot earlier than any other examples I know of. (Makes sense though - the UK versions on FB today still say 635 MPs, which was last the case in the 1979 election...)

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@samwetherell Ah, shame. It's a folklist that's being going round for decades - the numbers usually stay the same even as it gets applied to different places (US Congress, Canada, India,etc) The language - "bad cheques" - suggests a US origin, I think?

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@matosman also 99 Luftballons, and about 34% of all metal tracks

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@matosman Shamen, Destination Eschaton
Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction
Muse, most Muse songs

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@greg_jenner

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

@JonnElledge house arrest in their own shitty building

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

think I'm going to be on @LBC just after 11 talking about conspiracy theories, if anybody wants to hear me talking about conspiracy theories