“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

This is on Musk, Rubio and the orange. It's a minimum toll.

Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses. However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported. www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...

While US polarisation predates social media it doesn’t really predate the end of broadcasting impartiality Basically the US has been living with social media style partisan bias for decades, and now Europe is catching up (with similarly disastrous consequences) Will policy makers now respond?

Musk detested USAID and acted from his prejudice

God, it's so...ugly.

It continues to be deeply bizarre that according to the rest of the GOP, blatant and brazen corruption of the sort that had remained essentially taboo in American politics more or less forever is completely legal for this one guy

Wes Streeting's conversion to being progressive and styling himself as the new Mamdani didn't last long. Apparently, Maitlis on The Newsagents asked him why Labour aren't more like that and he turned into neoliberal jelly.

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

Is this the weekend that billionaires in NYC hire an entire fleet of U-Haul trucks and trailers?

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

Yet more Budget pre - briefing.

ICYM We are in a world of trouble. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521465...

I live in a country (Spain) led by a coalition of left parties and we are doing just fine. The reality, the right doesn’t want you to see, is that you can have a universal healthcare that doesn’t cost you an eye, you can have labor rights, holidays, birth leaves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When or if the AI bubble deflates the driver will probably be the customer being bored by something the technologists adore. It's like the very clever stylus in my phone that I have to force myself to use. Except with trillions in capex... 3/

... and ideas like Metaverse, Optimus and Concorde fail at that end, the market research end, the what are humans actually like bit. Jobs understood that having the computer turn on really quickly with a usable interface was key. Zuck couldn't see how uncool legless avatars are. Etc 2/

Theory: really successful innovations were based much more on insights into consumer demand than technological supply/possibility. E.g.: - punters would buy an EV if it were cool enough - people will trust online shopping - a computer in every house - they'll provide social media content for free 1/

And frying their brains in ways they don’t even realise, never mind understand

Obscene wages, obscene man - the wages of sin.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day, I'm an author/illustrator who likes writing about animals and kids having adventures. I'm currently seeking an agent, see my website for more art: johnlechner.com 🍄🐸 #kidlitart

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defence asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," the officer says. No, that was just the case falling apart.

Imagine being so insulated from consequence that you put down on paper the plan to make a preposterous amount of money on people scamming other people.

This would 💯 happen in the UK if the same political dispensation took power here I feel like a sizeable chunk of British journalism is in complete denial about that

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

I’m sure it was only last week that I ready that Michele Mone was purchasing a £10 million house. Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE

Very interesting. You won’t be surprised to hear that, for instance Rupert Lowe’s tweets “make up 24% of the posts our users were sent from the 33 accounts we compared. But his posts only make up 6% of their total posts.” He thinks it’s because he’s so engaging 🤪 but this experiment says NO

Reminder: decades ago a large object crushed Donald Trump’s body and his brain was transplanted into the body of Bill the Cat.

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers. The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes. Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

"Everyone lives and dies, and although we don’t get to choose the way we die, we do have a big say in the way we live." (Dick Van Dyke) "I was a big supporter of waterboarding and of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. It wasn't torture." (Dick Cheney)

Ah, no brains detected. Remember that Dershowitz defended Epstein (and Weinstein), and helped to negotiate Epstein's 2006 non-prosecution agreement that covered many backs.

Cartoonists so often capture a mood. Here it's @ellabaron.bsky.social on a beaming Mamdani holding a torch to shine on a defeated-looking Statue Liberty hunkering on the pavement, beneath a dark Trump Tower.

Mamdani won NYC! "I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." “Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you - turn the volume up.” The Democrats also won the California redistricting, and the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey

No serious effort to establish the velocity of the sandwich. This is crazy, as the damage done to the officer by the sandwich projectile is going to be a function of sandwich mass * sandwich velocity, and the sandwich mass can be estimated.

Any other party, this would be described as a ‘humiliating u-turn.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good, good, good! I hope that OpenAI IS successfully prosecuted AND that authors DO get the bulk of these potential proceeds.

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Welcome to bloc politics Britain. It’s racists vs the rest.

Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.

"Everyone lives and dies, and although we don’t get to choose the way we die, we do have a big say in the way we live." (Dick Van Dyke) "I was a big supporter of waterboarding and of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. It wasn't torture." (Dick Cheney)

I was born in 1963. I have never seen Britain lose its dignity as it has done with Nigel Farage.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Starvation as a weapon of war is deeply troubling. Starvation as a policy of domestic politics is a dystopian nightmare.

These people are just living for the day when they can shout "N*****" in the street.