"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Started getting serious replies about who the BBC can and cannot select, like I was actually suggesting that the evil spirit of Oswald Mosley would be an actual contender and not making a fucking joke.

"When I think about the jobs the data center will bring to our area, I think about the impact of introducing nuclear technology to the world and deploying it on civilians" www.404media.co/a-small-town...

Interesting choice of words when “hormone therapy” was right there.

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

Trumpism is a deformation. www.axios.com/local/washin...

Holy Jesus Christ crucified on Cracker Barrel waffles.. 90M opted-out voters literally decided to sit the fuck out and ignored the homework assignment. 77M cosigned onto Project25 cause they thought only Black and Brown would be affected. The fucking voters hold every bit of responsibility here

Now say ‘Fuck Robbie Gibb, we’re the BBC’.

Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’

ambiguous scrutiny! Who knows who is right? Certainly not us, people who are literally paid to inform people of the truth!

This is just rightwing fanfic! When are pro-trans views aired on the BBC? When are trans people allowed on air to talk for themselves? BBC News excitedly interviewed Linehan mid-trial /precisely/ to rebut the rightwing plotline that they'd been "captured" by anyone other than Reform supporters.

Do you know how hard it is to politically radicalize someone who joined a website to reply with the cry laughing emoji to the Trix cereal rabbit?

When Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC ("for $1bn" in true Dr Evil style) now is the time for every other media organisation to stand with the BBC

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time: When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

we fight for freedom

Slopaganda is unfortunately a useful neologism here

This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.

what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms

It also means a substantial amount of detailed factual programming ends up spiralling off into the world of niche podcasts and Youtube channels rather than formats that are accessible for a mass audience

A generation or two ago the BBC would have produced a detailed multi-episode history of Syria's civil war in the style of Alan Little and Laura Silber's Death of Yugoslavia. Now a BBC that is uninterested in detail and deeply risk averse and seems barely interested in that crucial information space

I would suggest simply looking at their predictions and noting the average leftist is usually correct about the outcome far more than the average lib chartposter.

If they are acting the way "bad faith leftists" assume they act, maybe the leftists were simply correct? In fact, if you look at the leftist sentiment on everything this past election cycle, they have the single most accurate track record of anyone else. Maybe it's just salient analysis.

I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.

Are we getting close to noticing yet

I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative. Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?

Media: it's really bad how young men don't read anymore Also media: Lol look at these dickheads READING in PUBLIC

Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.

Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.

To be perfectly clear, the right is absolutely still coming for marriage equality in the long term, but it looks like they have bigger fish* to fry in the short term. *immigrants, trans people, public school students with disabilities, etc…so many fish to fry before they return to marriage equality

Yup. The way I see it, all the decisions the Trump administration have made so far are exactly the kind of response we can expect from people who believe in The Great Replacement Theory

This goes to my point a few days ago, about whether you perceive societal complexity as inherently a conspiracy

Message from a friend

also, U.S. corporate journalism is trash and endlessly frames things through the lens of right wing grievance because most outlets are owned by right wing billionaires jockeying for tax cuts, merger approvals, and less corporate oversight

It's odd, there's usually a lot of coverage of Bob Vylan related stuff but struggling to see much about this

Absolute queen shit

The article makes good points about news journalism generally, but it's a fact that the BBC's news department is stuffed with extreme Tories, pro-Israel fanatics and TERFs. Inverse Hanlon's Razor applies here (never let malicious actors off the hook by assuming they must just be stupid).

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.” @bloomberg.com $HD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I see your problem mate. You trusted the Royal Mail with a ten grand gold bar.

An Oxbridge man replying to Brittney telling him her latest struggles

Incidentally, I don't think I notice a black person at that event, other than Aurora. And this is the second time recently she gets booed at one of their pressers.

it's also entirely unnecessary since the justice department is just a wing of trump inc. now so it's literally just a big fuck you

today in "any other president in history would be immediately impeached and removed for this"

Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics. Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.

If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US “We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...