🎼 "What the hell am I doin' here?" 🎶

Imo it's a mistake to blame the AI. Gives up all the key ground for nothing. The people are culpable, and they cannot be allowed to shed responsibility to the AI. AI got it wrong? Of course it did, and the people who let the AI decide are 100% culpable

I guess there were a lot of targets. But even in principle, the answer to "the AI got it wrong" is "so what? that's a you problem" Like if I let my hamster choose targets by crapping on a big map, and then blamed the hamster for my crappy targeting choices

The problem for the govt is it is the govt. The truth will out: savings won’t arrive, costs will. And then the electorate will be angry at the betrayal, and rightly so. All of this is grimly predictable yet here we are with the most senior people in politics playing a dangerous game of make believe

This was an opportunity to ram home how dependent US ability to project power is on allied cooperation, and to stress that cooperation is contingent on valid aims and actual allyship. But...nah

As opposed to...what?

Maybe it was an error to elect massive bullshitters

Would be good to have some contingency clarity from Euro nations. What is the position if Trump uses nukes in Iran?

"Defensive strikes on Iran" is an absurd nonsense in the current context

Imo it's a mistake to blame the AI. Gives up all the key ground for nothing. The people are culpable, and they cannot be allowed to shed responsibility to the AI. AI got it wrong? Of course it did, and the people who let the AI decide are 100% culpable

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs after issuing a blanket evacuation order apnews.com/article/leba...

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC. Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators. Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

Welcome to Bluesky at last, Cory Doctorow! @doctorow.pluralistic.net

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom. This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

New post just out: "Sovereignty for sale" The UK is uniquely exposed to the power of US tech monopolies - from Palantir to AI and cloud services. Why is it so dangerous? What are other countries doing? And what should we do? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is.

The inherent validity of the herrenvolk. I'm not sure how it works, but for some reason this is the elite consensus

Original first line of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In South Wiltshire.

Trump sits down and immediately describes his strikes on Iran as "war"

Something really dark when 12 year old comes home from school and says ‘I think world war three is going to start, everyone at school is saying it’

In the spirit of Gilead I will be referring to Trump as Ofnetanyahu

"It can be reductive to judge someone as stupid, thick or moronic. But it can also be true. It is clear that the overriding feature of Trump is his stupidity. Yes, he’s a sociopath, a child rapist, corrupt, vain, cruel and superficial. But most importantly, he’s an idiot."

Bit (very) odd to present Trumpofascism as pro free speech, even if it's just in the headline

Another big reason obsessive poll-sniffing is silly: “Public opinion” on most issues quite literally does not exist. It is an ephemeral artifact of the process of polling itself. Ask again a day later with slightly different wording & the numbers change radically.

otherwise known as "invading the sovereign state of Lebanon" or...?

It wouldn't be an American military intervention in the Middle East without the Kurds getting activated and then abandoned. That train is never late.

Wonderful slip by Rachel Reeves in her statement to the Commons. The ‘changes we promised’ morphed into the ‘promises we changed’.

The problem of choosing the empty middle in a polarized context. And imv it *should* be a polarized context, that part is appropriate

Only one EU leader has condemned the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran as a violation of international law: Spain. Not participating in the initial attack is not the same as publicly opposing it. Rutte claimed our leaders are welcoming it, and this has not been disavowed. And now Europe is about to be dragged in

War through stupid

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

He could, but has no courage nor (apparent) values so does not. Not our fault, his.

People are focusing on the "hitler in heaven" part for obvious reasons but "the whole world is against the Jews" is the bigger deal bc it speaks to the phenomenon where not only are people becoming nazis but they're so immersed in nazi slop that they're surprised that anyone isn't a nazi

Really looks like the Trumpofascists are setting up Jews as a scapegoat for their planned atrocities, you can kinda see them planting the seeds all over their sordid empires

A crucial distinction in our bullshit riddled modernity

The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night. The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like. Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started

fuck off you whiny bitch

Those paid a fortune to assess global risks say ‘not these global risks’.

Same goes for the UK, Israel has proper lost the plot

Yeah, a lot of us did say it wasn't worth sacrificing the Labour party as a vehicle for our politics, but obvs we were naïve fools unaware of proper politics

We've seen before what happens when an American president launches an illegal war with no idea how it is going to end. Does the Prime Minister not understand that when he fails to stand up to Trump, especially when he's breaking international law, it makes our country less safe?

Just because there is a baddy, doesn't mean there is a goody

Is Rutte this much of a little shit for real, or is he putting it on?

Would you?

No legal basis under either U.S. or international law to attack Iran. No attack upon the U.S., nor imminent threat of one, nor any congressional authorization. And the USG ought to be able to restrain the principal recipient of U.S. military assistance from provocations. All utterly lawless.