The thing about the Free Press is that you can read it and have no idea that Trump is violating the purported values of the publication, or even that he is President. And the Free Press is the reason why Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News.

Nothing Bari Weiss censors is going to reverse this.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Nevertheless I'm a bit worried about the Yglesias Hispanic thought experiment who while disapproving nevertheless would like some reassurance about allowing Big Oil to drill.

Waymo is also an example of what I've been saying, that AVs as currently construed are less safe than human drivers. They are only "safe" within an extremely narrow domain, whereas human drivers are safe in literally any domain

Donald Trump is failing cognitive tests and plunging the nation into a recession. But my liberal neighbor's giant Ukrainian flag is so cringe. I have never felt more politically homeless.

“The explosion rained fiery debris across parts of the Caribbean region for roughly 50 minutes, the documents said. A piece of debris striking an aircraft in flight could have catastrophic consequences: severe damage to planes and passenger fatalities.”

I think some people on this site are extending legitimate moral objections to LLM use from areas where they maybe apply into areas where the LLM is basically a screwdriver

That’s actually insane dawg

Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.

Well, the masks weren’t on very tight to begin with, but they’re fully off now. Weak, pathetic, hateful, insecure weirdos.

UK not the only ones to self-harm just as the US is creating a new market for foreign students: dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...

You probably could not devise a better way to aggravate existing views about Trump's complicity and seed new conspiracy theories than this.

I wonder if there would be a way of estimating the transfer value cost of being eligible and likely to be picked for ACON, relative to a player of same quality who is not. Probably not enough transfers to estimate the impact of other characteristics.

Also looking at options of expressing mild or very mild concern.

A loss of trust in institutions charged with upholding law and order can have real consequences. Trust underpins people’s compliance, such as paying taxes or fulfilling jury duties

It won’t make the blind bit of difference to Labour’s policy. Their immigration stance has never had anything to do with reality.

Figgy pudding = plum pudding = figs and plums mean raisins. Everything has always been a lie, since forever. The song is about wishing a merry christmas, now we are demanding raisin bread. Bring it right fucking here you merry fuck.

I wonder if the issue were put differently (to mimic exposure during a campaign) ‘using tariffs to get a fairer deal in trade’ whether it would be quite so bad.

The internet was built on free links. Meta is attempting to monetize a feature that the public has grown accustomed to. It's nothing more than a brazen money grab. "Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links" www.bbc.com/news/article... #enshitification

There's also a great interview with her on the @foreignaffairs.com interview podcast recently: www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/fea...

I came across a kind of search query I needed to do where generative AI actually worked for me. I had forgotten the name of the band MGMT and the song 'kids' and wanted to find the impromptu dorm performance from before they were famous...

I really hope that the Starmer leadership do not change their minds on Brexit [SM/CU/Rejoin]. It would re-toxify the mission to rejoin de jure or de facto. Much better and more credible for a new leadership to ditch the old red lines and admit that we could not 'make Brexit work'.

Customer: "Bit niche, this... have you got any books about Bridge?" The answer: yes. Downstairs. Bridge starts IMMEDIATELY AFTER RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY because of course it does

Presumably a Telegraph writer thinks western civilisation can only be saved if the strongmen in Moscow and Budapest take over

One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.

It was unwise to seek mental health advice from a platform that isn’t regulated to provide it—and is incentivised to keep users online, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

If some right-wing dispshit wants to put himself in the position of getting repeatedly punched in the head by someone who has trained all his life to punch people in the head, who am I to stop him? All hail the marketplace of ideas (and getting laughed at for crumpling like a cheap suit).

A tweet I sent in January [we are now at >41m].

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than - visibility of boats & asylum > visas - general vibes about integration - elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

Generative AI is going to pretty much completely displace search per se I think. Google just hopes you’ll access it through its existing interface.

It's four days away, that's not much of a prediction.

I'm sure that what Matt really wants is a white Christmas

Scotland’s net zero opportunities depend entirely on mechanisms which defray costs across a population of 70 million. The idea that Scotland could achieve an advantage by standing alone, with a population of only 5 million, is unserious and dishonest.

This could explain a few things

I made a commitment early on in my social media life to retweet any LinkedIn hate and I am not going to break this promise now

People say bsky dot app doesn't have the juice but a 2 hour 70+ reply thread about hoovers suggests otherwise imo

When I was still on there I’d see supposed top journalists interacting with what were clearly bot accounts (and I verified with a bot checker), clearly believing these were real people in their audience. They don’t get the same level of fake audience here, so think the audience here is incomplete.

What would it take to get you off X? Is there nothing he could tweet that would make you think 'ok, despite the inconvenience maybe it's time to quit'?

Morning. 15yo is watching a youtube video of Tom Aspinall watching Paul [youtuber] v Joshua. I am watching the 15yo, and posting about it here.

We definitely do need anti-misogyny lessons in school.

It is a very good article. But the point isn't just that some students are vile. Those students only had a platform for their vileness because anonymous donors gave them $500,000. As with all things in the far right, the extremist voices out front are only heard because of funding in back.

“The GOP is violently arresting people who look like me, just for looking like me, then shipping them to random countries without any due process, but I won’t switch my vote from them to the opposition until the opposition says nice things about Big Oil.” THB, I think MY is just a fucking idiot.

Strong correlation between GDP per capita and average years of education across countries, 2023 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

That's nothing, yesterday I realised that you can whatsapp yourself.

Wonder if America stops vaccinating its kids by default, at what point will countries start wanting to see vaccination certificates as part of their customs processes for Americans?

Loving all the Brits dukning on this. These takes are *always* about downplaying fascism and racism and consequently the people who write them should be treated like the fascism/racism supporters they are

One thing I miss about Twitter is the volume of high quality Janan Ganesh satire

Good morning to the other parents of teenagers who thought their sleepless nights were done but had to get up to watch Paul v Joshua with a 15yo and could not replicate their post fight strategy of drinking tea, eating chocolate and sleeping until noon.

Finally - the job title I deserve as.ft.com/r/74ad2849-5... Three TV addicts on the best (and worst) shows of 2025