That's not a bad tactical play by Farage. Turn the byelection into a sort of referendum on how much people care about the money, and if he wins, he's right. He loses, he doesn't have to spend any time in parliament *at all*. So for him, win-win

Cool project on AI fuckups incidentdatabase.ai

Apple flexing its muscle against Trump admin in the end after all. They may kiss his ass but profit is profit

Best I can tell, the biggest knock against Miliband as treasury secretary is that he's too competent. Hilarious. If Burnham picks him, the political reason for bringing in Purnell will be clear.

No kidding they reject it. 10 years of adjustment to an entirely new institutional and regulatory environment, why would they want to go through it again?

Of all the irritating leakages of tech-nerd jargon into every-day speak, 'compute' (as noun) has to be even worse than 'stack'.

Anyone harping on UK’s return to EU is either delusional or cynical. Europeans would be insane to let us back in

There we go, its set in motion

Just the latest iteration of century long property-owning democracy scam

I love that Mary Poppins soundtrack has hits like 'A British Bank' and, even better, 'Fidelity Fiduciary Bank'.

Having seen Trudeau the Younger renege on a clear and explicit platform promise of electoral reform once he snuck into government again back in 2015, I'll believe this when I see it.

Political economy of property on Croatian coast can tell you more about socialism and capitalism than tomes of economics books. It is the most fascinating issue I can think of that no academic is writing about.

That Blair piece was bad for more important reasons, but it was also really poorly written.

Another year of this and people will be ruefully watching Idiocracy where the idiots in government were at least smart enough to get average Joe to come in and solve a problem. Or where AI was actually accurate and socially useful.

Tell me more about that exclusive territoriality thing. But don't tell me about the rules-based international order please.

Have British journalists not had enough of saying 'the people want change' on repeat for 10 years?

Input legitimacy, Venetian Republic style

Always a good day when you get to recommend Harold Innis to a grad student.

Yes! We need more billionaire money in institutions of public importance! Yay!

I don't mind delegating all the bullshit jobs to AI so we can all go do small scale farming

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Finishing off my class on economic nationalism and business power tmrw with this remarkable document from 2000. its techno-optimism, belief that markets tend to strengthen democracy, and more broadly the embrace of the doux commerce perspective are all jarring... archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

In a few years we'll know whether unserious politicians destroy more lives than serious politicians.

UK truly is its own planet

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Cherry on top is the title: 'ideological orientation of social science research'

2 problems: 1) uses a numeric metaphor ('code') to express qualitative phenomena that are far too multidimensional and complex to be amenable to such capture. 2) on its own terms, this doesn't work. If you assign a far left score of 8 or 9 to people who never seriously contemplated a strategy of...

'There will be no mission creep'

Campaign finance laws need to be broadened to regulate donations to the general public as recipients. See also Musk buying Wisconsin court vote last year

The shoe thing is more menacing than verbal humiliation they are so willing to swallow.

File under 'no shit, Sherlock'

this clears the fog of war some

In some parallel universe Yugoslavia did not break apart, she's the president, Trump married her anyway, and now he's the first lady of Yugoslavia.

As a civilian experiencing war, I quickly realized that people thousands of kilometers away knew more about my reality than I did. Later, as an observer of war from afar, I quickly realized that I knew less than it seemed to me observers knew when I was in the midst of it all.

Impeccable timing

The rubbery backbone of the economically powerful (it's largely Silicon Valley employees who 'rallied' behind Anthropic here)

What a revolting performance by Munchetty and Stayt in their Polanski ‘interview’

The safest item you can leave unattended at any university is a book. Nobody whatsoever will touch it, until the cleaning staff dispose of it. A pack of gum is more appealing theft target

Fascinating and hilarious at once (e.g. Democrats being 'plenty unfriendly to business'). If anything Rice is basically signalling to business to start the transition. Re-re-socializing them after all of Trump's efforts

This was more predictable than the Canadian electorate doing a 180 to back Liberals after Trump's annexation talk

Well that took no time! Enshittified before they even got good

Well that took no time! Enshittified before they even got good

They went from 'I didn't inhale' to 'I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats' in a generation. How interesting to watch the world turn