'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.' h/t @cocacolakid

Lam of God

The @ec.europa.eu and EPP president Von Der Leyen's shameful capitulation on Europe's tech regulation to Trump and his fascist tech bro posse. 2/3 of Europeans described the summer trade deal with the US as "a humilation". How much lower can you go?! We will neither forgive nor forget.

Summers probably wishing he had not resigned from University of Austin so quickly

This man is why it's called 'algebra' & 'algorithm' & why it's the "Arabic" number system, in spite of it originating in India. His name is Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. He lived in Bagdad in the 9th century AD, under the Abbasid Caliphate. He was an astronomer, mathematician & geographer.

It absolutely baffles me that anyone in this country wants to emulate British policy on anything. The Brits are a deeply unwell people, they are not ok

This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Wouldn't it be funny if Larry Summers were to suffer worse consequences than Donald Trump.

This is obviously parody. (I wonder if NBER know someone is using their domain name on Bluesky?)

This maddens me. As if Harvard didn't play a role in its faculty getting chummy with rich and unscrupulous donors. So now they'll scapegoat the faculty (who do share the blame) and the institution will not have to take any accountability for creating the circumstances and incentivizing all of this.

Thatcher (and her inheritors)

I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"

One for the ages 😱

It’s gonna be funny when psychology declares victory over the replication crisis because the bots start answering as the researchers are hoping.

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women. Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻

"We've dismembered a journalist by mistake"

Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast

G'wan Linus!

Bret Stephens, making the case for the United States invading Venezuela: "Why hasn’t Greta Thunberg set sail to Caracas with symbolic deliveries of food?" ...No one has ever made Bret Stephens look worse than Bret Stephens. The competition is only ever for second place.

She obviously wanted to date me even though she said she didn’t. That’s what my sexual predator friend tells me, and he’s an expert on Chinese women.

She's very clearly trying to be the Marine Le Pen to Trump's Jean-Marie, and has made a smart bet on the utter credulity of a large swath of the pundit class.

It's important to note, as I have multiple times, that it's possible to be Jewish - as I am - and still condemn Israel for genocidal acts. In fact, the history of Judaism makes it clear Jews are obligated to speak out. Never again *means* never again. #zachor

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

The core response should be the nightclub bouncers standard; "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". but it is kind of bad that the policy created an opportunity for idiots like this to stunt on them.

This is really significant, as is the suspicion that the Morgan McSweeneys of this world will feel it's evidence that their plan is working. (apols britain on behalf of ireland...)

Formerly respected journalist boosting crackpot psychologist who runs an anti-trans-activism astroturf group. (Blocking all involved)

The former head of the British Army is called what now?

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

Gangster respects the hustle

An AI pioneer is convinced that most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.

Bill Clinton's dick is the lament configuration that has cursed american politics for the entirety of my lifetime

So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions. How fascinating!

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

Bill Clinton consistently preyed upon people who were vulnerable, in one way or another

Irish solo sailor Gráinne Costigan completes Atlantic crossing in low-technology craft

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

In a past life, Tom Homan was painted by Hans Holbein, who hated his guts.

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

Ooh, burn, where's the aloe vera?

This place will become X 2.0 so fast you won't even notice it.

After a UK group making the effort to get the evidence against this man, one of our judges (you know who already) gave the offender a reduction because the offender says he sorry.

I don't know how anybody could argue "the only black person I've ever seen who looks like he's in blackface" is anything close to a defensible way to argue or disagree - from Graham Linehan. This "black man looks like blackface" comment is v obvs not trying to make a criticism of Femi's views.

Headless chickens.

Elaine Buckley at RTE is absolutely brilliant at them - every time I see a really classy, emotive one, I text her, and almost always, she's the person behind it.

My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.

Vance channelling his inner Simon Harris

I suspect this is bullshit. Machine learning, data-informed and well-calibrated prediction, fine, but if in the current climate you say it's "AI" people are expected to become immediately credulous. And if you need that to happen, you're flogging bullshit.