Chef's kiss.

Lapavitsas, Elliot and Nicholls have published a blueprint for the incoming Burnham administration. I highly recommend it...

Kudos #BookSky

I will assert, again, that the only reason to drive a Cybertruck is to save time going door to door to tell people you’re an asshole.

New Society for Hopeful Technologist newsletter out today with updates on our formation and hopeful recommendations plus follow us on @hopeful.technology buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Gee, what a coincidence. Every startup suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ties to Peter Thiel’s network: • Valar Atomics — backed by current & former Palantir executives & Balaji • Deep Fission — backed by a Palantir co-founder • Last Energy — backed by a former Founders Fund partner. 1/

in my #boardgame 🫍 COMRADE ORCA 🫍 you and your friends play a pod of vengeful killer #whales taking out billionaires' yachts. It's kind of like coop Battleship, but you can only use whale sounds to communicate! And yes, you get to wear a salmon on your head. it's in dev now, crowdfunding next year!

A study from the University of Tokyo shows that changing the color of agricultural netting to red can cut pesticide use by 25% to 50%. Researchers discovered that red netting works as a highly effective "optical defense. #GoodNews #Farming #NaturalPesticides credit mech.eng.world IG

Disinformation is increasing the costs of holding fair elections. Listening to the Right to Fair Elections panel from the House Democrats and realizing that the systematic and coordinated takedown of the field of disinformation research led us here. Disinformation is war by other means.

I thought this was on Point….

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

Look, it was green in Logan’s Run.

"ADMINISTRATION REGISTERS RECORD GROWTH" wapo.st/4vWAPAW

Whatever I do today will be less bad than this, which will cost more money to fix.

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years. I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

The MSM is terminally stupid. The big news today is that retail sales are "robust", jumping 0.9% month-over-month in May, above forecasts of 0.5%. A search by category shows the biggest bulk of higher spending came at gas stations. This is not good, unless your name is Chevron. #EconSky

"Bari Weiss’s Newest Hire Has a Long History of Anti-Muslim Remarks"

'Since 2013, central government spending on science and technology in China has nearly doubled. Its 2026 budget includes a 16.3 per cent increase in funding for basic research. Programmes...have turned a small group of Chinese universities into world-class research centres.' 1/3

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

I think I just barely escaped a shockingly savvy scammer trying to get my bank credentials. First, whoever it was had my actual phone number, my actual bank, and the last 4 digits of my account. They sent a "was this transaction you" message that looked almost identical to the ones my bank sends.

this is an insane, albeit not entirely surprising, story: An English police force has removed an officer from frontline duties and launched a criminal investigation over the alleged use of AI to “create evidential material in a number of cases”. www.ft.com/content/514b...

1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵

'Despite calls on ministers to redress declines in the amount the state pays to universities, the Department for Education (DfE) is planning to announce the Strategic Priorities Grant for 2026-27 will be cut back to about £1.25 billion – down from £1.35 billion'. How to show you hate HE. 1/3

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Very honoured that my book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' won the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Best Book Award #ICA26 I'm sorry I couldn't be at the ceremony-thank you to the committee, nominators and PTC division for the recognition @mediacomgold.bsky.social

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker was posted to @newgrounds.com.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Sick

"Mr. Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B, according to two people familiar with his thinking." A leading indicator on the midterms? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

Astrid Barltrop is winner of the The Guardian Foundation’s 2026 Emerging Voices award (16-18 category). Everything she says here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👻 What do ghosts, empires, and financial capital have in common? @cleabourne.bsky.social Paul Gilbert & Eleanor Newbigin chat to @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & @philiproscoe.bsky.social about how colonial legacies haunt contemporary financial systems and cultural policy. youtu.be/FsYwpQhMNtE?...

very, mind-blowing bad, and possibly the future given this Labour government is determined to run us into the ground: if you're not REFable, you're precariously employed by a firm that subcontracts your teaching to the university.

two new facts from the files 1] Mandelson demanded compensation of er £547,201 for his dismissal 2] nearly half of the £75,000 he did get was discretionary, which will raise questions about Starmer's judgment

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Kemi Badenoch claimed at #pmqs that Rachel Reeves worked “in customer services” at the Bank of England when she was in fact an economist there

Listen! @mivich.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fantastic The Division of Rationalized Labor newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...

I'm old enough to remember when Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest.

ICE has been verified on Bluesky, and quickly becomes one of the top most-blocked accounts.

Holy shit, this thread is incredible.

Call for proposals for workshop on '(post)neoliberal Authoritarianism' at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social in June irgac.org/calls/post-n...

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it. www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...

📣 Publication alert Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

Apparently China has banned those stupid Tesla style car door handles, and all I can say is YES I WILL TAKE ALL THE GOOD NEWS I CAN GET

They've turned every press office into a groyper shitpost factory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...