This is beginning to matter. That is encouraging. Corbyn never sued over anti-Semitism allegations. Farage won't either. There is a reason why.

Hoping for "BBC Verify" to actually *verify* things is a bit optimistic IMO

You don't hear many people claiming that a particular banned organisation are non violent these days I'm also not hearing many apologies

The government’s stated number one goal is growth. Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? 👌

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I think that's the biggest lesson I've had from the Social Media Commentariat Politician Journalist Era ... huge numbers of people in British public life are in fact Galaxy Class, three-masted-under-full-sail oceangoing morons. Out of their depth in a roadside puddle. Couldn't lace velcro shoes.

Properly moving xkcd xkcd.com/3172/

Properly moving xkcd xkcd.com/3172/

Definitive Stars Wars ranking: 1. Yojimbo 2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 3. Metropolis 4. Casablanca 5. Spaceballs

All I'm saying, mate, is on Thursday you will be driving the burrito taxi and on Friday you're on shift at the sewage plant. As recompense, you'll get some meat in your Monday ration and a shiny glow of having helped everyone else out.

Bloody hell, Le Carré could write

Help! this is so confusing

10/10, no notes

Hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry

sadly you can't take it as accurate as I've just tried it on accounts where I'm 100% where they are run from, because they're mine and it's wildly inaccurate. At best the code is making poor assumptions, at worst, it's deliberately chaotic disinformation.

Rewatching "The Night Manager". It really is one of the best things thats been on TV in the last decade. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03g14d5

the further you get into the epstein emails, the more it feels like global elites were actually kicked in the head by a mule

Ok that's about the most fucking stupid thing I ever heard

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Career [verb]: (especially of a vehicle) to move fast and in a way that is out of control

If this is the public statement then imagine what was being said in private channels. The drafting of this is so careful, the signatures so universal, you don’t have to be a diplomat to read between the lines.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

imagine how intoxicating it is to talk to a normal pleasant person after a year of working with JD Vance

help

As everyone has said, an excellent call. It also makes me think Starmer should appoint Rylan Clark or Danny Dyer as UK ambassador to the US.

Cheers, Bill Ackman's crying now, nice one

Credit to James on this one, he called it

14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”

New Viz annual title revealed #totp

Clearest statement yet that US is de facto out of NATO

Okay, I’m going in. Wish me luck

Live view of current market action:

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

The Aussies getting skittled out and bitcoin shitting the bed again.

If there was any doubt, test match cricket is the greatest game that humans have invented, and possibly the high point of evolution.

Yes I don't think the reality-based community should be hiring opinion writers from the Daily Telegraph

England for a first innings lead here ? #ashes

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This article is quite a trip www.bbc.com/news/article...

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People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon

This is, to be fair, the funniest thing he's ever done.

He wants others to do it

Manufacturing consent

Alphaville asks questions, gets answers. on.ft.com/489iSF2