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Excellent and learned thread from George here

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HERE IT IS!!!!!

On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Wrote about how the troll dynamic has come to trump ideology, with a hat tip to @jamesrball.com

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Paging @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social

Ngl I preferred it when they were made with 100 per cent potatoes

Anyway, my actual serious thought through take is that "these beings are inherently evil" in fantasy is problematic first and foremost depending on how close they get to resembling actual sapient beings. Otherwise that's just a demon and I'm sorry but it was not racism that invented demons.

Very good and relevant episode of the Spectator Book Club by the outstanding Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social. Why do civilized societies collapse? podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/l...

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

The sheer effort of laying out everything wrong w/ this argument *&* the fact that it's meaningless to even do so unless & until the full force of the law is levied at these people who are themselves the literal enforcement arm of the law is further evidence that we are all dead & this is superhell.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

These idiots are even failing at nerd

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A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

I reviewed The Rose Field The final volume of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy — our verdict www.thetimes.com/article/b2f5...

I very much hope Bungie/Microsoft have the integrity to send a cease-and-desist

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

"Ronald Reagan was a mercantilist" is one of the most "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I can think of.

tomorrow is now today!

Read Nicola Barker's "TonyInterruptor". Loved "Darkmans" just as much as Steven Moore, hasn't read all the subsequent books but has both enjoyed and been impressed by those I have. This short quick compulsively readable novel contained numerous sentences/paragraphs that reminded me how what a 1/2

Fascinating thread

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.

Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

This is a lovely article, showing that the spirit of enquiry and the thirst for new knowledge persist in a world where stupidity is so popular. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

This is a delightful read: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Oh great

Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)

jfc I cannot wait for this guy's trial at the Hague

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

This starts vile and gets viler

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

This is absolutely brilliant news! Whilst it’ll be great for the creators, it’s mostly just brilliant to see a heavy weight initiation recognising children & childhood as being of value.



Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Just had the privilege to chair this guy at the launch event for The Rose Field. Man alive sometimes I love my job.

At last, it is mine @questingvole.bsky.social

This is astounding. Does sound a tiny bit too funny a story to be true though.

A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration

I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.

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