Paging all the right-wingers who freaked out about ⚠️ de-banking ⚠️ in recent months.

Many people are saying it, we're hearing it more and more!

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

Trump take RAM? (Luckily the half of my 64 Gs that flunked memtest86+ a few months ago had a lifetime warranty. Not every nerd is so lucky!)

What does it mean, if the national equality body aggressively pursues discrimination; if the energy regulator rubber-stamps huge price hikes; if the water authority does nothing about shit in the rivers and the press regulator occasionally ticks off a newspaper? What is the purpose of “regulation”.

I still find it intriguing when someone argues with me at length, then blocks me the minute I call them out for fabricating a quotation from me. (Guilty party here is @turnerjoy.bsky.social, incidentally.)

Did...did I just find a 2008-vintage PUMA in the wild? Defending Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign while complaining about people who platformed Jeffrey Epstein?

Was interesting to see Sara Jacobs repeatedly ask the State Department officials earlier today in a committee hearing why the US does not bear pressure onto the UAE to curb funds and arms to the RSF and the official literally dances around saying the name UAE at all.

i mean if this doesn’t sum up what we also did to the Kurds, and so many other “allies” in the entire history of America Or like how Seattle is named for a local Indian chief who was nice to the settlers and the literal 5th law the settlers in Seattle passed was an order to expel all Indians.

See also the plight of Haitians in the Dominican Republic around the same time.

Interested to learn that Bluesky doesn't extend its threats-against-dead-men-are-absolutely-positively-real-threats-that-are-totally-forbidden policy from Charlie Kirk to Jeffrey Epstein.

The CPI-U went up 9% in the year to June 2022; that was not "moderate". And inflation has not "subsided" in the sense of returning to normal. In the last year of CPI-U data, it has gone up 3%, above pre-pandemic rates and notably above target. Inflation's been abnormally high for 5 years now!

Note that Stancil's observation here is equivalent to observing that a consumption basket that cost $20,000 in 2021 cost $21,600 in 2022. On average, no, probably not "devastating" (though not nothing). But for people who were just barely in the black, or had more inflation-vulnerable consumption?

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Happy #HumanRightsDay! Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"

Although many studies evaluate traffic cameras, very few apply causal inference methods. Some scholars who implement stronger designs argue that they eliminate the observed safety benefits of cameras. Yet we find substantial effects using the Callaway and Sant’Anna diff-in-diff estimator.

Curious how these gold-color noose pins are like a drop-in replacement for those yellow hostage ribbon pins, huh.

More evidence on the decline of X/Twitter, this time from the US: its reach declined 5 percentage points from the ANES 2020 sample to the ANES 2024 sample.

It’s wild how it’s taken *seven years* to establish what happened and decide to sanction the GRU. Is this Seumas Milne’s fault somehow www.gov.uk/government/n...

Fuentes already come out and said this months ago. Was this non-scoop really worth Piers Morgan bringing Fuentes on his show, apparently just to troll Fuentes about being a misogynistic virgin?

Did not know about this! "In a move signalled by insiders to Skwawkbox three weeks ago but which could not be verified at the time, Labour has cut off the Owusu-Nepaul campaign’s access to its canvassing software and refused to provide any more campaign materials." skwawkbox.org/2024/06/27/l...

NEW: North Carolina prison officials, this summer, raised the price of items that incarcerated people can buy. The prices are already way marked-up; & incarcerated people make a tiny fraction of minimum wage if they work. An incarcerated reporter explains what's happening, & why it matters:

Germany has been positioning itself for years now as the last great bastion of the postwar liberal international order, now that the United States has abandoned those commitments. And yet again, we see there is no contradiction between liberal internationalism and genocide.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Not every accusation is a confession. But quite a few of them are!

Another reason to quit X if you're a political actor with any real power: Elon "pedo guy" Musk won't be able to rage-ban you.

Ad features back-shaving without sampling "It's Your Thing", I will not be watching. #TooManyFakeFans #WorkingAt #DisneyPlus

Notice how the Green Party's labeled "nuts" while Reform UK is labeled a substantive threat ("tearing us apart"). Not the other way.

Milton Friedman's Africans-didn't-invent-the-wheel meme sighted! (It's a selective probable truth, the wheel having been invented maybe only once, in _central Asia_, not European ancestors of Africa's colonizers.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xee...

And the forced sterilizations (begun 1933) took place in a distinct program to Aktion T4 (begun 1939), so the latter's 300k body count is presumably exclusive of the 6k effectively murdered through botched sterilizations.

“NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm…We’ve set up a simple tool so you can find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software & send an email demanding they say no to Palantir.” notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?

Last Saturday, 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth organization of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police beat the blockaders.

An illustration of #GenerationsDontReal: the age at which Americans most disagree looks to be about 61, right at the borderline between Boomers and Generation X.

Posting this more to archive Elon "pedo guy" Musk's latest commentary on Nazism (and the EU) than for the dunk, but it is a good dunk.

Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times. So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too

PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100 Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'

Wake up, new "Dearborn" dog whistle just dropped!

Intriguing & disquieting & informative reporting on the nexus of race, eugenics, AI, Big Tech, Big Money, and child sexual exploitation. (Colonialism in there too. Look up what Musk, Epstein, Trump, Thiel think of Israel/Palestine. Epstein's breeding ranch was to be in NM, like data centers.)

Not a randomized trial, but that's because its population was _every French resident_ under 60 who "received any health care reimbursement in 2020": 28.7 million people. Those who got COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were 20+% _less_ likely to die _of any cause_ than the unvaccinated. Including under-30s.

Today is the anniversary of Refaat Alareer's death. We have no words to describe what has happened in the two years since his murder, instead we'll leave you with Refaat's words and legacy. orbooks.com/catalog/if-i...

No alt text on this saying-the-quiet-part headline, so: Wall Street Journal headline "Israel’s Latest Military Tech: Tested in Gaza, Wanted by the West" and subhed "Europeans look to Israel’s arms industry as threat from Russia looms, despite criticizing Israeli conduct during the war"...

And the US Democrats _and_ Republicans to the right of Reagan, who telephoned Menachem Begin in apoplexy to call off Israel's bombing of Beirut.

Debates about halting growth in rich-country GDP per capita make me think of Japan, the GDP per capita of which has hovered around $40k in directly-currently-translated USD since 1992ish. Indeed Japan's GDP per capita in current dollars is back where it was in '98 (Asian financial crisis).

this is real? what? there's a ben garrison cartoon with fucking *grothendieck* in it?

Weapons dealing and money laundering is the backbone of our economy. The UK is a gangster state.

Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Remember this:

Paul...[squints at photo]...Paul Mason?

Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.