behold Kier Starmer, who might just be the last Labour PM in UK history

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.

Is the Brewdog brand even worth that much? They've suffered from terrible reputational issues (stemming from a horrible workplace culture), a their beer quality has been in decline for a long time (and even at their best...well, there's a lot better beer out there now).

Led by Donkeys made this. And it continues to be the best thing I've seen in a long time.

*New short blog* - finally (with help) got around to getting a total estimate of Grok's climate pollution 🫠 - Once all fossil gas online, = to between half and all of Tesla's ANNUAL GLOBAL avoided emissions - Currently, 5x the emissions of Tesla's total manufacturing ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

incredible, he did the joke

every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money

I have this thing that, the closer I get to finishing an unpleasant task, the harder it becomes for me to keep working on said task. Anyone know how to overcome this?

Great illustration of enshittification. By the Norwegian Consumer Council.

I thought this was a very interesting story on Iran's retaliation strategy, at least for someone like me who doesn't spend much time following military/security accounts.

"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social

Did anyone bet on how many people they would kill?

Tech execs provide their kids with liberal arts education to ensure their futures—-all while many state schools are becoming all STEM. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

They call the attack Operation Epic Fury. And now lethalitymaxxing. There are no adults anywhere near the room.

What a horrible thing to say

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%. The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin) saved my son's life & kept this man's cancer in remission for 20yrs. For those unfamiliar, treatment involves transfusion of part of the blood donations of strangers--the part with the antibodies created by their immune systems--to reset recipients' immune response.

ah yes, the two genders

Millennials have truly come into power now and I hate it

Today is March 1st, seen as the first day of spring in Ukraine. Again, the Russians tried to freeze us into submission over winter. Again, they failed. We still stand. And we will keep standing, because we know the cost of defeat. We are Ukrainians. We will not surrender. 🇺🇦

Felt like worth a read.

Team America is no longer satire.

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

Can't believe the FIFA peace prize is about to become the first peace prize in history to be discredited by one of its honorees! What a sad day for the previously unimpeachable record of peace prizes!

Epic fury...

Is Trump’s ‘Operation Epic Fury’ really ‘Operation Forget Epstein’?

A lot of my academic focuses on public attitudes about foreign policy and the use of force. The just initiated bombing of Iran lacks many of the components that build and sustain domestic support for military action.

The road to hell is once again paved with a noble mission.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Do you think FIFA will revoke his peace prize

Private equity is buying hospices. What happens in the US will arrive here. Palliative care and impending death is seen as a profit opportunity. PE destroyed care homes and vets. Patient deaths have risen in PE owned hospitals and nursing homes. UK handing more of the NHS to PE. archive.ph/uO3aF

Corporate Welfare. Rolls Royce declares record profits, will hand up to £9bn to shareholders. It wants public subsidy, free money, for its new engine. Holds govt to ransom. Threatens to move manufacture if govt does not capitulate. Govt must demand equity stake for any public money.

"But there's no money..."

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Someone just asked me how I'm doing. My impromptu reply was, "I think I'm in a perpetual state of getting there." Embrace the liminality.

The long 2010s are finally over

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

More - unsurprising, but nevertheless disgusting - details about the brutality of the Russian way of war and systemic contempt for human lives (towards their own troops, too). The most mind-boggling thing is that tens of thousands still sign up monthly to go die in Ukraine

Bill Bryson on Britain in the 90s: "In French markets you pick among wicker baskets of glossy olives and cherries and little wheels of goat's cheese, all neatly arrayed. In Britain you buy tea towels and ironing-board covers from plastic beer crates." Still pretty accurate.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I research corporate front groups and their disinformation campaigns - this is one of the fossil fuel stories that gets overshadowed by the industry's efforts to spread climate change denial and prevent renewable energy growth Switching to plastic required a concerted effort to change our culture

My life is basically an endless stream of apologies. One big, long apology even.

Yep, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is easily the best Westeros tv in a very long time. So good.

The irony, of course, is that no one in the modern era has cared as much about what other people think of them as Epstein and the men around him. Also, I'm again struck by these men- who are *obsessed* with human intelligence- not seeming to have any idea what it is.

i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail