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I'm so glad that I left before this kicked in. I'd be scrambling to emigrate in weeks.

But it just isn't? Since 2022 Americans are consistently the richest they've ever been? Especially in the lower deciles. Sure, maybe the Iran war will finally kick that trend, but the consumer sentiment has completely detached from any real economic conditions years ago. And it's worth asking why.

Dedollarization of the global economy is definitely a far reaching goal, but by God this admin is trying.

Absolutely incredible that Labour MP has the gall to write this and still look in the mirror. Despicable ghouls, you deserve all to be kicked out of office and banished from polite society forever.

The Labour Party, strangling higher education to appease racists who will never, ever vote for it.

I must say that the way @ec.europa.eu shits the bed on research and innovation is quite impressive. The new horizon budget has grown quite a bit (95 to 175 bln eur), but that's for years and still less than _yearly_ federal funding in the US in 2026 _after Trump_.

I would love to believe that AI/CS dumbasses who barge into other disciplines with their one-simple-trick tools genuinely want the world to progress, but in reality they're just so illiterate that they talked themselves into straight up quackery. No different from antivaxxers.

Welcome your new boss, same as the old boss. Labour. Is. Fucking. Washed.

Of course it's on the 16th, because I'm in London until the 14th.

It's really interesting that vibecession theory stays winning no matter what, but there's always more of the "nuh uh" cohort. It's like watching people who insist adverts work on everyone but not them.

Trump's power over the GOP is simple - without really trying, he embodies what GOP primary voters *sincerely want* better than anyone else in the party. So the whole institution just organically bends to him even as his brain dissolves. What they want is dumb, bigoted sadism, and he still delivers.

Labour is so washed. Beyond repair.

I've just watched @jamellebouie.net 's video (v. good!) on Trump's new illegal slush fund for child rapists, where he talks about prosecution of anyone who touched that case. I generally try to believe that things can be improved and wrongs can be righted, but not this time.

They’re at it again. None of this is valuable historical research. It’s about exploiting historical artifacts and historians to develop computer vision further and to make a soft cultural argument for surveillance tech. This nonsense has been going on since c2010.

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everything the Brexiters said was bollocks, and most of it was hateful, delusional, bigoted bollocks. That we cannot say this publicly is pathetic.

Not now, Cthulhu.

A "reform voter that's still more progressive than I'd think" is still basically a fascist.

So do we think JPM traders are imagining this huge pile of oil barrels just piling up in the Persian Gulf in a way that will eventually burst through the Strait like a dam or rather more like this big bladder of water, like when someone steps on a garden hose in a cartoon?

I see people make this argument and I find it really funny, because all the data points to people having _fewer_ children as they grow more affluent and have greater life stability. I hope no one is seriously arguing that Nigeria or Pakistan have more wealth or equality than the UK or the US.

Did someone finally firebomb a walmart? Oh...

Sure, but that's _relative to already collapsing trend_. Once again, people don't want to go through the hassle of having multiple children when they don't need free farm hands with 40% attrition rate. That's it, that's the story.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I'm perpetually surprised that UK still has a culture secretary and the post is not vacant.

In the next step, backyard furnaces for industrial manufacturing. Jokes aside, I'm hugely in favour of people trying to grow their own food, so they realise how bad of an idea that is.

For a really faithful adaptation, Peter Jackson should try to film The Silmarillion in various iterations until he dies, for a son of his to then cut that footage into a movie

I'm watching Seven Dials on Netflix and at the first party guests have a mix of white and black ties. Absolutely impossible at a high society party in 1925. Not to mention men touching women while dancing without gloves. They really should've hired @dieworkwear.bsky.social.

I'm saying this, because for example in Rochester, NY where I spent few great years, universities are the last few bright spots of the local economy. Yet when Rubio came after F1, J1, and H1 visas amd doge after funding, @morelle.house.gov didn't do or say anything. That's how it happens.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

This is something people outside the US, and _especially_ in Europe have not internalised. Not only the research budgets _after_ Trump are light years ahead, salaries in the US are 25% higher than EU in any equivalent position. Sure the system has its unique problems, but its scale is unparalleled.

Where did we, collectively as a species, made the wrong turn so that this post makes sense?

When Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social shared his article about why universities were in trouble and why they need investment, a Labour MP jumped in to say they weren’t a priority for her. She may be surprised at how many people are employed in universities and how important they are to the economy.

Because of course it is.

Last academic in the UK, please turn off the REF portal.

I have like zero followers, but c'mon. Who else is not scared to post Corsairs on main.

The most interesting thing is that the new models are just not getting better at basics. The detailing is obviously improved from last year, but the fact that llm cannot "understand" physical space or have "object" permanence is imo an obvious roadblock for their "art" production.

Another banger from @polphilpod.bsky.social.

Krótko o Hantawirusie. Po pierwsze, warto przeczytać artykuł Agnieszki Szuster-Ciesielskiej na blogu eksperymentmyslowy: eksperymentmyslowy.pl/2026/05/11/h... - ale chciałbym jeszcze dodać coś od siebie. 1/

They won't though, because they liked them.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

The funniest bit of course is that Britain would have become 50% more governable if he barred the UKG and all the MPs from twitter. But he won't do that, because they genuinely believe it's the beating heart of the nation.

This is actually a very correct take. The problem is of course that for this to be implemented you'll have to jettison ~50% of the PLP, including the entire cabinet (with maybe sole exception of Milliband).

Have you tried being even more racist?

The Onion ass headline

This is so funny, because it shows he really doesn't why he won earlier and got clobbered now. Like zero understanding whatsoever.

Quite funny coming from a minister who has an even worse record than the PM.

This is so much a continental European election result it’s almost funny. True Britain Democrats (PfE) 26% Ecology/Planet Action (G-EFA) 18% Christian Democrat Union (EPP) 17% Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party (S&D) 17% Europe Liberalism! (Renew) 16% Others 6%