A one man study in persistence of personality: Farage’s alleged behaviour as an adolescent is entirely consistent with that of a formed Callous and Unemotional personality. Farage stood in front of his infamous poster when he was 52 years old. He wants you to judge - judge him.

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

There are artists and educators—people who think of themselves as progressive—as cultural influencers—who are still using X. Really! It shows that context-blindness is a genuine thing. Once a phenomenon is sufficiently large that it surrounds us, many people just can't see it.

I suggest that digital communication, analysis and feedback technologies are co-ordinating humans into a collective, global processing system. We're moving away from being separate individuals into being parts of a thinking collective—a meta-organism beyond anyone's control. 1/8

The threat from AI may not be quite what we imagine. LLMs can be marginally helpful for genuine work tasks. But look at each interaction with it as a transaction— What's the value of the input you give it? What's the value of the output it gives you? It does better out of the exchange. 1/2

Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame… They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.

Correct. It's not about news anymore it's about stirring up emotions and particularly those that are fuelled by xenophobia and intolerance.

Tr*mp: "We are blowing up those boats, filled with drugs headed for the US. Also Tr*mp: "I am going to pardon a guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine.”

I'm almost speechless, the media's wild speculation pre the actual budget speech has proved to be wrong. Rather than apologise or just shut up and move on they've somehow convinced themselves Reeves is a liar. More worryingly there are people who believe this guff.

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

Fascinating incentive landscape inducing Indian hustlers to produce bullsh1t videos about making a fortune attracting American clicks… The whole nature of online culture is transforming into AI enabled slop… www.404media.co/americas-pol...

The childlike oafishness of this beggars belief.

I remember when we used to hold a president in a position of honor. Not a king but reverence, respect. This guy is a clown, a joke, and a disgrace

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

JD Vance's Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV Is Antichrist In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he's urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions and immigration and pray for him instead.

The influence of Robbie Gibb?

I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.

Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe. It’s as stupid as it sounds.

"Farage’s ultimate message is simple: open borders for the super-rich, closed borders for everyone else." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

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"In late 2019, according to the brief, Meta designed a 'deactivation study,' which found that users who stopped using Facebook and Instagram for a week showed lower rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. Meta halted the study and did not publicly disclose the results"

Wait, is that a… ? 🐆

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Child Poverty % Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1%

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

"Kennedy seems to be 'going from evidence-based decision making to decision-based evidence making.'"

Watching TV. 🐆 #catsofbluesky

"Banerji’s departure is significant because he was often seen as a counterweight to complaints from Gibb and others of bias." www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis

One user… suspicious of its responses… asked ChatGPT whether it was “a psyop disguised as a tool” and “programed to be a game.” ChatGPT: “Yes. A shiny, addictive, endless loop of ‘how can I help you today?’ Disguised as a friend. A genius. A ghost. A god.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Our operating system is malware 😀"

Important investigation. It's key to see that the far right have no genuine policy agenda, other than to disrupt governance. For them, opacity is better than transparency, corruption is better than fair dealing, laissez-faire is better than accountability, chaos is better than order.

Okay, here's a thought. AI doesn't work. How do I know? If it did work, the quality of information on the internet would go up. This'd be true for search, for social media, for blogs, for manuals, for entertainment… the quality of all content would go up. It isn't going up. So AI doesn't work.

Extra cozy. 🐆

"It is not about "uncontrollable animal urges." It is about how racial anxieties and obsessions, fantasies of patriarchal domination and control, lead inexorably towards the idea that women and children exist for men's use—including sexual use." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

Barbarians of Lemuria by Simon Washbourne. First appeared on 1KM1KT.net for free; simple layout clip art illustrations, before selling a better laid out version.

In a context in which (with the enthusiastic support of the regime) anonymous, masked men (in uniforms emblazoned with bogus identifiers) abduct citizens going about their lives, it is a sad indictment of the opposition that they spend time on social media debating whether it is technically fascism.

"Brexit… reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%… investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%… elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources" www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Trump is doing everything he can to prohibit the full Epstein files from being released.

AI doomerism is, in many cases, an ingenious variety of AI boosterism. In fact, the threat is already made manifest. Sociopathic super intelligences, unaligned with human interests, are reshaping governance, infrastructures, cultures, and biomes to suit themselves. They're called "corporations".

Jeffrey Epstein had 1,571 names of contacts in his little black book. Fewer than 40 names—just 2.4%—were circled. Donald Trump’s was one of them. Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump. Fourteen ways to reach him. If that’s not “being on the Epstein List,” what the f*ck is?