A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

I think regulation should be based on how "culpable" social media platforms are for harmful content, based on the way the platform runs Platforms that use non-chronological algorithms, or pay money based on how widely content is viewed, are more culpable as this helps harmful content spread

Everyone says social media needs to be regulated There's just one problem - it *already is* I've had a look at why regulation is failing, what we might do about it, and what the risks are - because nothing is ever as simple as it seems New post: chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

What's weird is that housing is schrodingers investment- both the asset which people believe will shoot up in value and provide them wealth and, actually, just somewhere to live and so shouldn't be counted/ taxed As a start we need to pick one

Quite triggering to watch this quite old man talk in such a meandering way; much like my nan did as she sank into dementia. The half formed thoughts, the tunnel vision, the kind of clinging on in terms of "getting it" but quickly returning everything back to where you're comfortable.

How do you handle technology which can destroy jobs? What happens when you prevent disadvantaged people from expressing their grievances? And how does mainstream political debate bury stories of resistance?

but now you're really searching for a small number of pathological cases (very few of which seem to have reached the level of criminal malpractice, rather than just a few dissatisfied customers to set against the majority) to try and justify policy decisions affecting the entire industry!

you're using wildly pejorative terms to describe business practices like "identifying a large target market" and "increasing your export sales" as if they were evidence of mismanagement!

Look hating this guy is a National pastime but he is so so bad at his job. Farage is angry because he’s been caught. He’s been found out and and he’s furious that the plebs and (most) journalists that he flattered and played to have finally become bored of him and his boorish schtick. Jesus like.

Nigel Farage wants a mandate for corruption. Hopefully he'll get a by-election versus a man wearing a bin instead: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Sorry you have to go one on one with a joke candidate

Nigel Farage to make statement on his 'future in public life'

Oh, it’s getting worse!

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh no Who could have foresee this Anyway

This is brilliant. I had worried Farage had got himself into a win win situation. He loses? Great; walk away. Blame the establishment. He wins? Great, the people have spoken. I now just hope the parliamentary standards investigation rolls over or something such and isn't reset.

The oil fund DOES NOT fund Norway's welfare state. They call it a "pension scheme" expressly because the intention is to have a large pot of money to draw on when the oil runs out. The Norwegian welfare state is paid for by some of the highest tax rates in the world.

Oh, man this account's entire output is golden.

and I am the parent of one, and sometimes you do just need to suck it up. And it does a real disservice to actual valid arguments against capitalism to say that telling people they probably still should go to work even if they're knackered and not feeling it is caping for capitalism.

People getting mad at this, a textbook *good* political answer, what exactly do you want from your politicians?

This is so irresponsible, it has been proven by science that yawning is contagious so if you force tired kids to go to school you are just creating a pandemic of tiredness, which as we know from the road signs can kill, so this is basically genocide

“that’s a really high reactor core temp, suspiciously high. let’s not worry about that. it’s fictional environment probably.”

We propose an “energy minimization” view of learning. Neural circuits may optimize not only activity patterns or behavior but also energy cost. Understanding this could be critical for explaining the remarkable efficiency of biological intelligence. 3/3

Using in vivo glucose sensors in behaving mice, we asked: what is the neuronal fuel cost of performing a learned task? Key finding: After learning, the same task required less fuel, suggesting learning may not only improve performance—it may lower the energy cost of computation. 2/3

Morgan McSweeney ordered himself an 18" pizza, which he then *of course* couldn't even come close to finishing, and for reasons I can't quite put my fingers on that feels extremely apt.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that kneejerk government populism always inevitably leads to vast profits for organised crime. And on that note, we should arrest 60 years worth of newspaper editors.

What's that you say? You wanted to leave the EU to improve control of immigration...? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it

Dodgy shops on your local high street? They're still paying rent. And what if they're actually *pricing out* the legitimate cafes, restaurants, thanks to the option of "simply not paying your taxes" and therefore having more budget to pay landlords. www.londoncentric.media/p/who-wants-...

New Origin Story: On the mad history of paranormal investigators. As with nearly every episode, we start with some faintly respectable Victorian types and end with a bunch of cynical charlatan American entrepreneurs, exploiting the stupid and the unwell for money.

Funny to see this is the argument being made by a cycling activist. I've heard 4/5 of these arguments made against cyclists! (A stronger argument would be the same one cyclists usually make, that we should adapt the street environment to account for bikes and this new class of delivery robots.)

Completely agree with this from Stephen. Would add a further point. Local/sub regional capability will need to be built. Manchester is the exception, not the rule as.ft.com/r/4e025d2d-d... l

It's widely known that the US is now by a long way the world's largest oil producer, but we still search for complex cultural reasons to explain the prevalence of climate denialism in America. It might be simpler than that. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

As a proud northerner I’ve been depressed but not surprised by ridiculous and patronising responses to the idea of moving parts of our painfully centralised government out of Westminster People are talking about powerhouse global cities as if they are parochial villages in middle earth A rant 👇

Thats just not true, at all. Specifically see the 2001 exemptions order for licence free generation, distribution, supply and resale

VON DER LEYEN: Ukraine's recovery and growth are not only in Ukraine's interest, but in Europe's interest, too. This war has shown how fundamental Ukraine's security is to Europe, not only as recipient, but as security provider. Ukraine's battlefield experience is unmatched.

"But it was hotter in 1976" - it wasn't now. The fact that 1976 took weeks and weeks of preconditioning with exceptionally dry soils to get temperatures of >35°C, and we've casually done it with relative ease within the last two days shows how exceptional these temperatures are.

Andy Burnham must resign even though he’s not prime minister yet (Source Private Eye)

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I will continue to die on the hill marked "it would be completely mad for a PM with 400 seats and 3 years left in a government term to call an early election which is all but certain to weaken his party." www.arguably.uk/p/dont-be-a-...

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

But isn’t the lesson here that gilt investors actually don’t think so much about British politics (vs the reporting on the gilt market)?

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

You may not like it, but this is what peak centrism looks like.

You can see why he's been in hiding for months. If this is the best he can do after months of preparation for these questions, he's in desperate trouble on the subject and he knows it.

I am thrilled to share my PhD work with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... A fun collaboration with Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Adrián Aguirre-Tamaral, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , Jef Vanghel and Tom Belpaire! Read the story in the comments below ⤵️