people will talk about how AI makes you dumb and then go on tiktok

We need another $20,000 to hit our next crucial milestone of making it one-third of the way to our goal. We are not The Atlantic or the NYT. We will not ever promote open race "science" guys like Richard Hanania, or abandon trans people. Please help us compete those who would gofund.me/bb5e8eaed

There was a counterstrike player called Coldzera and when I started playing I was already bald

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Contra this, saw someone (correctly) describe our situation as the administration wanting to skip to the steps at the end of an authoritarian consolidation when they haven’t even managed the first ones

Are they showing him the popularity graphs upside down?

one of the most baffling things about all this is that I really can't understand why nobody in government seems to be saying "guys the strategy isn't working"

Since security guarantees are back in discussion, for those interested in the requirements, tasks, and what a European deterrence force might look like - check out this piece from back in March with Jack Watling. warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...

Tomorrow's Mail: "Huge water damage caused by Labour as they put out fire."

What happens when an unstoppable Masterful Gambit meets an immovable Art of the Deal.

That guy is the epitome of the student politics wonker class, politics politics and more politics, never had a proper job in his life, ungrateful beneficiary of the residual pin-a-red-rosette-on-a-monkey voting tendencies that persist in parts of Scotland.

Iconic image. SBU Chief Malyuk during the “Spiderweb” special operation.

AI doesn't live up to the hype, but I have to wonder how it's being prompted to be this bad at a trivial programming task. I've used it to program things of similar or higher complexity, and it works fine so long as you describe the task correctly. Many videos on YouTube confirm this

There isn't a bullying problem on Bluesky *immediately bullies a mentally ill person off the site for bringing up trans rights in a cringe way*

🚨Murder in Helmand🚨 In this episode, I spoke to @warmatters.bsky.social about BBC Panorama allegations regarding war crimes committed by UK forces in Afghanistan. We spoke about the wider issues it raises in the field of counterinsurgency and military policy. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

rare photograph of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @alasianuti.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based political academics & writers signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Whenever someone talks about AI water usage I immediately discount their opinion. Water? Like from the toilet?

American exceptionalism takes many forms - sometimes it's Trump forgetting that Denmark contributed to GWOT, and sometimes it's self-styled defence analysts on Bluesky forgetting that anyone did.

Welcome Dr Isadora Clivatti Furigo @isadoracfurigo.bsky.social to our new JNE ECR Editorial Board! ”This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from experienced editors...and to contribute by offering fresh perspectives and innovative ideas to the Board.” www.neuroendo.org.uk...+

All happy lives are alike; every ruined life is ruined in its own way. But losing your job because you threatened to kill a former Democratic primary candidate for Minnesota State House on BlueSky for saying Star Wars wasn’t politically sophisticated is fascinating even by ruined life standards.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Neon Liberalism #25: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the vexed question of whether politics is driven by merely material conditions and ask why tyrants are obsessed with their own popularity. www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberali...

/Freakonomics/ really has been one of the most corrosive pop culture phenomena of my lifetime. "You're actually wrong and your viewpoint is simplistic. The simplified *opposite* of that is the actual immutable truth!" gets us here so many times with very bad results

the thing about waiting for the perfect victim is that fascists simply lie all the time. they will smear anyone. it's what they do.