Open Mic – WEDNESDAY 10th JUNE 2026
FACT OF THE DAY: The sun makes up about 99.86% of the total mass of the entire solar system.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”
― Mark Twain
POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
Silent rotor falls,
Across Hormuz, tempers rise—
One post fans the flames.
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The use of AI to replace actual human workers in government seems to be going well under the extreme-right Starmer regime, with a chatbot intended to replace their equivalent of frontline Work and Income staff giving great CV advice to Robinson Crusoe’s parrot on how to get a job.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/09/dwp-new-ai/