When economists try and do anthropology it's actually incredibly funny... Talk about "preference for low-quality work"...

It's also not really "labour" as such (until it's monetised) it is honestly more accurately understood as a hobby - a concept entirely alien to the dead-eyed capitalist

Oh I recognize this trope, this is the one where a dumbfuck executive tries to monetize other people's volunteer labor, while vastly overestimating what people would be willing to pay for it (nothing), driving the company they bought off a cliff! It's a sub variant of enshitification. Classic!

Just because the media and centrists have been using Populist when they meant Demagogue, doesn't mean Populist means that now..

as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place

It's totally normal that AWS simply WONT move some core services outside of Virginia I'm sure... I'm sure it's entirely technical and not at all political...

I'm gonna say it again: That eldertiktok11 video traumatised me far more than the actual Kirk assassination did and had far more ominous things to say about where American (and western) society was going than any shooting possibly could at this point.

Says more about what they consider "mainstream and normal" doesn't it

It's an interesting insight into the thought process of professional journalists - "I'll dabble in a bit of extreme right wing journalism as part of my professional development "

Lol

I’m increasingly not interested in working out which of them are conscious shitehawks or amoral suckups, from the mass of clueless, honking idiots. The effect is the same regardless of whether the cause is malice, careerism or stupidity.

"I'm learnding"

AI boosterism is actually a very reliable signal for someone being thick as shit

Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Americans reinventing the British, vibes-based class system from first principles

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

It’s worth sitting for a minute with the knowledge that Morgan McSweeney received three quarters of a million pounds to subvert democracy and it’s only a scandal because he didn’t fill in the forms correctly.

There's something so perverse about the way they talk about it. They say they're taking drugs for spiritual enlightenment so that they can be better at their job at the company that puts ads in your smart refrigerator.

You wouldn't have the global success of GDS without staff networks like UK Gov Camp and OneTeamGov

everyone in charge of everything is stupid now because there is no meritocracy just endless loyalty tests if you can willfully believe the most insane bullshit you’re in the club. there’s no deep state. they’re all just really that stupid.

What I learned from the War on Terror, which I mistook at the time for a cunning masterplan for world domination. Nope: nine times out of ten, it’s just that people in charge are stupid and unpleasant and they wind each other up with ludicrously dangerous ideas. Most of politics is office politics.

They got posters for Cruising now

One of those nights where everybody making the same three jokes actually felt like singing along rather than annoying.

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But this from Kyle is batshit: "Too often people go to University to 'explore research and knowledge'". Yes, Peter, that's what a University is for - it's not to create businessmen, something it's not suited for.

This is why you do really need to lock this stuff down before going public/opening democratically

We can talk about prison abolition some other time, but a lot of the people we're now suffering at the bare minimum should have been forcefully ejected and made to languish outside the metaphorical gates of polite society like fucking lepers until they either decided or learned to be fucking normal.

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

That bit in the movie In The Loop, where the minister is going to resign in protest over the war, so Tucker fires him because a wall fell over in the garden at his constituency office.

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Remember this from like 2 weeks ago? How's it going? www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-will...

Everyone in that book writes notes they're a cross between a bad Stephen King gangster and the fucking Zodiac

I would just dash something off like "dear Jeffrey, just a note on your birthday to confirm that you and I are very close friends and have an extremely strong relationship, and if I ever say otherwise that will be a lie"

So funny to ape Mandelson's precise, unfaltering (and presumably lawyered) wording of "regrets being introduced". It's such an artful sentence that actually isnt an apology but infact blames whoever facilitated the introduction!

you have to wonder though exactly what part of any of this actually is "intellectual". It seems that people seem to use it when they probably mean "esoteric" these days...

when there's a mangled body in a ditch

I’m not usually a fan of Gaby’s but the point made here is spot on: this is entrepreneurship, this is getting out and working hard because what you are really selling is yourself, and so on etc. If we think it’s bad, it should be pretty clear who decided it was best to commodify everything.

There is no better example of austerity than shutting down public toilets and then wondering why everywhere stinks of piss

This is something we all need to be better at communicating: that all far-right political movements require the presentation of a completely fake version of reality in order to maintain power.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Alternative title was assumedly "Im a sniveling weakling and think we should just let the bullies have whatever they want" At no point does this contend with the Left as anything other children who need to be coralled. At best this is "you lost, get inline and shut up"

There is no 'condemnation' and there isn't even a 'by'.

Give me fifty parties with names like ‘Perspective’, ‘The Dirty Hands Party’ and ‘The Devonshire Agricultural and Maritime Front’ actually having to battle incredibly niche ideological sticking points and arrive at a compromise. Give me a team of deranged Home Counties crank rivals. I want it all.

It's an inherently bad idea to put age restrictions on arbitrary sections of the internet, but if they insist on doing it, putting the onus on individual websites to verify the ages of every UK-based visitor is clearly completely unworkable.

Our entire political system has been reduced to the question of immigration while the state and basic public services have been slashed to the bone—because immigration—and guess what: No fix. What it has done, is turned our politics into a suit tailored for Nigel Farage, stitch by stitch.