“America prevailed in the cold war because it insisted on not simply being powerful…It made people imagine that the victory of the US was their own victory…without America standing for freedom, or at least pretending to do so, what’s the point of being pro-American?” www.ft.com/content/658e...

DIY crisps

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

V interesting dynamic. Pushback is explained away, hidden by bullshit because noting it would question Trumpodominance. Whereas each cautious submission has engendered further aggression, even minimal pushback has induced a step back (if this daft take is regime sanctioned/representative)

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Yes. ICE service is being sold to disaffected MAGA goons as an opportunity to wage a campaign of cleansing, restorative violence against Americans as an act of patriotic national service. And most normies now see that this isn't anything akin to real law enforcement. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Fair to say 600 cops can't entirely stop 3000 feds. But 20-40 cops prob could stop and arrest a fed sortie on site. And even a single example of ICE/CBP thugs in jail facing serious state charges would be very valuable re thug thought processes

"Balancing gravity is vital homeostasis (mechanoregulation), organisationally akin to thermoregulation" Sounds way off base? Reckon I've misunderstood core features? Well maybe I have. Or...maybe you have? Read the paper and let me know your thoughts!

Exactly. And vast majorities of public and politicians agreed with these policies. So when politicians now point to these numbers as evidence of egregious failure of immigration policy, know they are lying shit stirrers and decide never to vote for them. Labour, Tories, Reform all pushing this lie

The wages of kissing Trumpoarse: fuck all. Seems like there might be a lesson here

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

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Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis

This is what I mean by Epstein Island

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I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

The best way to think of how Trump would "invade" Greenland is Putin's "little green men" annexation of Crimea. The US military would simply deploy more troops to its base there, and then one day they'd raise the US flag over the capital. 1/x

Even if Donald 'Coup Guy' Trump is unable to thumb the scales sufficiently to prevent heavy GOP losses, there is little reason to believe they will swallow those losses as opposed to just upping the authoritarian ante. A plan based on winning the elections needs to have that contingency built in

Agree, but I do wonder whether police forces have officially incorporated secure co-pilot ai into their workflow. It would be even worse if cop researchers were just using insecure standard ai services for police work. So...has ai use been signed off for cop work? Or not? If so, blame the bosses

What too many people refuse to admit is while they search around frantically for signs that Trump will help Ukraine, what has really happened is that Trump has protected Putin while the Russians have criminally attacked Ukrainian civilian life. This foolishness must stop now.

If Trump invades NATO Greenland without congressional sign off (is this not treason?!), does article 5 oblige the US congress to declare war on the USA?

Bond. At last

Again, I’m going to keep banging the lonely drum that the fact that we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations, poses a massive threat to national security & world order, & should immediately end this presidency.

Next week on Rogan: Is the Gestapo that bad tho?

Trump declared a lot of contradictory gibberish right up until the last time before he ordered airstrikes on Iran

“Ministers assure the public that Palantir doesn’t have access to “patient-identifiable data”, which might be more reassuring if Palantir were not a company that specialised in joining up different data sources to spot patterns and identify people.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...

Euro play-for-time sycophancy is not cost free. Euro leaders denouncing Trumpian FP as deranged, pro-Putin, and anti-NATO could cause real backlash. Subservience feeds Trump's dominance-works narrative

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Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

"Trump doesn't care about details so I bet we can get him to back off getting to recolour a big piece of the map through a complex package of cross-sectoral technical concessions that speak to the concerns he's clearly only pretending to have..."

“The paper analyses the ‘gig-economy’ sabotage model: not professional spies, but disposable online recruits conducting low-cost, high-impact acts intended to test NATO and undermine public trust” Recruits people via channels such as Telegram to commit destabilising acts (eg arson) & pay via crypto

Cop slop

We got exactly the Brexit people voted for, and exactly the Brexit Labour voted for

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.

GOP Adds ‘ICE Kills Everyone’ Pillar To 2026 Platform https://theonion.com/gop-adds-ice-kills-everyone-pillar-to-2026-platform/

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Once more with feeling, ICE is the most authoritarian institution in America. They’re actively recruiting reactionaries with war metaphors and turning them into foot soldiers who will apply Trumpism with force and malice. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Some people seem convinced anything other than "It's over, there is no way to stop these fascists" is naive and ignorant. But please remember: While the people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel, they are not omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism.

A leader totally terrified of his enemies and deeply disdainful of his friends, who reserves his ruthless streak for kicking his supporters to appease his enemies. No wonder he is historically unpopular. The exact opposite of what is required for this moment

The framing here is instructive. Will a political leader dare to unpick the defining failure of the opposing political side? Yes, why not? Dare? Wtf? Should be a big bit of winning, a moment of triumph, a return to sanity. Instead trepidation, timidity, apologism. Losing as a habit, an obligation

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP V BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION - a thread This thread will be updated over time. A far more detailed version at my Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-bb... - copied to my personal blog davidallengreen.com/2026/01/trum... This thread is of major developments.

Disturbing parallels with the UK, where the only 'protesters' with 'legitimate grievances' are wife-beating football hooligans and people traffickers burning down hotels hosting asylum seekers and assaulting police and any brown people or shitlibs they can find

Women protesters are "wine moms". Student protesters are "ANTIFA". Protesters of color are "thugs." The only legitimate protester is a divorced father with no visitation rights, three domestic violence convictions, four AR-15s and a MAGA hat, storming Congress over something he read on Stormfront.

Russia has been doing this for decades, but you rarely see it mentioned. Immigration hatred is a powerful Russian weapon, but instead of dealing honestly with it, here in the UK our major political parties have tried to profit politically from it and instead have helped Russia destroy us.

The framing here is instructive. Will a political leader dare to unpick the defining failure of the opposing political side? Yes, why not? Dare? Wtf? Should be a big bit of winning, a moment of triumph, a return to sanity. Instead trepidation, timidity, apologism. Losing as a habit, an obligation