AI is gonna replace us all?

This is so excruciatingly on brand for him I feel like I already knew this??

Guys when I said stop ignoring the fact, I didn't mean start accusing them of radicalisation and making false comparisons to far-right incel guys

Obviously billionaires shouldn't exist. But I have to point out that the world's richest women are broadly noted for their philanthropy

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Deadlock over. The EU just cleared way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package. Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost. We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.

I suggest an edit: everything Dom Cummings writes on his Substack is plausible nonsense

Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman. And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government. He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.

That's not Avril Lavigne

The problem with Starmer's argument (well one of them) is that it depends on an assertion that he wouldn't have appointment Mandelson if he'd known he'd failed vetting. But he appointed him before vetting was complete.

I'm sick to the back teeth reminding people of this

An Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for *all* the recent series of arson attacks against British synagogues and Jewish groups – including the ambulance attack. The story should be bigger full stop. But how is this aspect of it barely mentioned? It seems *bizarre*.

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Saturdays with Harriet

I'm never logging off

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Online abuse is silencing women on a staggering scale – it’s a democratic crisis | Sharon Kechula

Astonishing just how many people on this website KEEP repeating the incorrect meme that the Mandelson appointment was about finding a way to manage Trump. It wasn't, and Mandelson's first task (which to be fair he did actually succeed at) was getting Trumpworld to stop going 'wth is with this guy?'

If you’re Olly Robbins (or whoever else at the FCDO that authorised overturning the vetting decision) what on Earth are you thinking when the Prime Minister repeatedly and publicly says ‘Mandelson cleared the vetting by independent experts’?

Agreed - I'm not even surprised he failed the vetting?

This!!!!!!!! What kind of insane HOLD did this waxy old loser have on them and what does it say about politico men - because this was mostly men, lets be honest - that they held him in such breathless regard

I think the smoking gun on all of this is the fact that they announced his appointment before they did the developed vetting - in other words, they were going to appoint him whatever the vetting process revealed, when it should have been VERY clear that there might be quite a lot to be revealed.

It never fails to astonish me that a seemingly intelligent professional man can still be - at *this point* - so bad at the basics of his job

This doesn’t answer any of the actually contentious questions. If I got this text I’d be pissed off!

Only two possible conclusions here - either Starmer knowingly misled multiple people, or multiple people knowingly misled him

This is.... very very very very bad. Heads gonna roll for this one www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'd just like to reiterate that there are *millions* of people in the U.K. who are deaf or hard of hearing - millions!! Nearly half of people over 50! The noise levels in most central restaurants are *deliberately* non-inclusive and I'll die on this racket hill

Most central London restaurants did away with soft furnishings and are now too noisy for the elderly or hard of hearing. Many switched from cushioned seat to stackable stool / hard chair, making them hostile to pregnant, post-partum or people with injuries / disabilities. All to speed up covers

The damage he personally did with his parole system "reform". Incalculable

This ⬇️ in every focus group feelings of insecurity, cost of living crisis, “not living, just surviving” dominate and it’s clearly not because theyre misled by the media as some allege - they’re talking about actual cut backs/degredations in quality of life they’ve made in spite of “the data”

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

you ever notice how media uses this weird framing when talking about men and boys? it's always, "hmm, women are doing better according to this specific metric. how do we help men get back on top?"

Some confusion on the physics of this. To explain: this is the sliced half of a sandwich, which i haven't even bitten into yet. Turned it over to find this

It's taken me 34 years but I've found it. The worst sandwich in the known universe. Feel like I'm at Fyre festival

Guys is it possible he threatened genocide and possibly nuclear warfare because he was jealous of the Artemis astronauts getting so much attention

Generally speaking Italian food is wildly overrated

One of those slow news stories in a fast news world. Suicide rates around the world have been dropping since the mid 1990s ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Hall of fame FT correction

Still in Colombia and I just heard an American couple ask for decaf coffee. This is a nice hotel and the waiters reacted like they asked for dead fish. I love it here

*quickly Googles how many Iranians protested against the regime over how many years, under which economic and sociopolitical circumstances, and how many of them were murdered for it*

So when he told the protesters that help was on the way, what he meant was... genocide

The boss of the company that runs Wireless Festival has just put out a statement *defending* their decision to have Kanye West headline it (see below). I have some thoughts on that statement, and I think it's easiest if I do a thread on it: www.jewishnews.co.uk/wireless-fes...

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

The once-mighty website’s ‘failure’ exposes a fatal flaw in what’s expected of millennial media ✏️@jamesrball.com

Ahahahahahahhahahhahahahha you really have to laugh or you'll never leave bed

Journalists have been Swiss-cheesed

This is going to hang in a museum one day, if anything like museums survives his legacy

Genuine question what the fuck is the point of Congress or impeachment

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA