Wrote along these lines last year: “The nature of post-industrial economies further devalues conquest—you can’t invade your way to your own Apple or Pfizer. Territory has little utility in itself.” www.deadcarl.com/p/the-death-...

It’s physical, it’s visible, and it’s small scale enough that the average voter and political correspondent can grasp it.

On this day in 1879, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór. It is most probable she was murdered on arrival. Her name was Evženie Ecksteinová Please support @sobibor.org

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Found this. I got to meet DA Henderson and chat with him in about 1998-1999.

www.espncricinfo.com/series/wt20-.... Belize openers: Banner and Bonner.

no one really wants to hear it, but the American middle class has been absolutely decimated by income growth. many of our current ills are because we have so many nouveau riche. politics, the real estate market, certain meme stocks, and maybe even the weird drop in personal taste and judgment.

So the thing is, this wasn't always the case! Empire *did* make the Romans rich, it was the core of Russian power in the 18th and 19th centuries. When power and economic heft was agriculture, empire generally worked as a way of generating state power and economic advantage (for the core).

We should not and cannot underestimate or understate the impact of the Agricultural, Industrial and Chemical Revolutions on humanity.

TBH "he's good at running for President but dogshit at any other part of it" seems correct to me.

I think this is actually probably more important for dems to realize than just about anything else. Treating Trump like an aberration and not a skilled politician is very stupid. DJT is a generational talent and activated a swath of American voters that literally no one has been able to.

Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.

Elon had no opinion on USAID at all until he got deluded into thinking Frame Game Mike Benz, who worked at State Dept for ~2 months, was some kind of expert with inside knowledge instead of just a white nationalist adjacent YT anon. Frame Game is where he gets his info from and who he’s RTing now.

Musk and his DOGE goons have launched a major campaign of threats and intimidation designed to cover up what they did to American famine relief and medical assistance programs.

Like I said: admitting to liking Elon Musk must become socially equivalent to admitting you pleasure yourself to a picture of Pol Pot on a nightly basis. This creature is not redeemable, and anyone who defends his genocidal insanity is complicit.

Musk spewing this shit is also creating genuine security threats for a lot of good people who used to work with USAID or took USAID money.

The classic

Producing workable code is a task uniquely suited for LLMs because the output is testable; the stochastic parrot can trial-and-error until it works. That's not true of most back-office functions, no matter how much Silicon Valley wants to pretend it is. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06....

I think Ukraine and Taiwan should be able to defend themselves against imperialist agression.

after the world cup academics will go back to arguing that a far right authoritarian movement obsessed with violently restoring the purity of the homeland that blames the jews for a humilliating peace treaty signed at versailles involving onerous war reparations is not fascism

It is 2030. Co-op Funeral Care's in-house AI will automatically DM an AI-generated image of Paddington leading you to heaven to all your mutuals at the exact moment of your death. There is no way to turn this off.

A bunch of us are currently working on an international declaration on protecting the dead from digital exploitation and degradation, except now I want to put in a carve-out so this can be mandatory:

Anyway as ridiculous as the Victorian Liberals are, electing them would still not be as bad as retaining a government that looks like failing to get rid of Group Ticket Voting. See antonygreen.com.au/time-running...

C’mon Scotland. We have a real shot at this…

NEW YORK (AP) - Chief of staff to former New York City mayor Eric Adams is arrested in federal bribery probe, AP source says. @apnews.com

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

Victorian state Liberal MP denies assault on fellow Lib MP amid police probe over dinner ‘incident’ www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori... #springst #auslaw archive version: archive.is/uPTKa

theonion.com/thomas-pynch....

theonion.com/james-camero.... Ironically (?), I think more directors should do more fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero films where the characters are 'normal' people living 'normal' lives with supernatural powers. Like a sitcom. Less saving the world than doing spells on people who annoy them pettily.

theonion.com/william-safi....

Back on the other site, years ago, there was a thread about the most pretentious thing people had ever overheard. Someone said they witnessed a guy at an ice cream van asking for 'two Magna'.

The Nativity of St John the Baptist is a good day to show some love for the world's dwindling community of Mandaeans - for whom John the Baptist is the central figure of their faith

There’s nothing “traditional” about stay at home wives. It was a brief phenomenon of post war American culture mostly isolated to white middle class families. Most women always worked, even a farm wife wasn’t unemployed she was an agricultural labor who just lived at the farm she worked on!

If Rhino Pipeliner 5000 (w custom flag blue tint) is indeed what they're applying, in around 5 years it'll be delaminating and peeling up in massive slimy sheets. So a perfect future metaphor for the Trump years inB4 capitol scum pond liner delamination

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

Just on the OP's point, Andrew Scott argues in this book that Denmark handled industry transitions such as the end of shipbuilding reasonably well precisely because the unions *did* work to transition workers into other industries in good time. He notes that's far from universal among unions though.

I really, really don't think the average person knows how much the media and publishing world is just shuttering and disappearing and consolidating and becoming more and more inaccessible.

Neil the seal is back, bigger than ever, and that's a problem for his wellbeing

Really awful but important story. Cruelty towards refugees is a sickness that has infected so many countries (including Australia, to our eternal shame). Leaders who stand against this and find a new way forward will be the heroes of this entire planet…. #auspol

Its bad to have flu outbreaks in the summertime, ya'll, like that shit is hard to do

It really feels like this is a feature of the cuts rather than a bug, especially when you drill down to the numbers that they're circulating internally. They did mention "defense" and "security" as "strategic areas", lest the implication be too subtle...

On 23rd June 1916, Len Hutton was born. He played 79 Test matches for England scoring 6,971 runs at 56.67, with 19 tons, 17 of which were scored in the 1st innings. He led England to The Ashes in 1954 & 1954/55 & was England’s 1st regular professional captain. He died in 1990. #cricketcounts

[Serious Idiots] A Real-Life Big Tits Nurse Who Got Serious Viral Buzz When She Posted Some Erotic Terrorist Videos On Social Media, Is Now Making Her Sudden Debut Manami-chan "I'm The One Who Leaked All Those Sexy Videos Of Stuff I Did While On The Job With My Patients, LOL"

Quite obviously freaked about being called in front of a Democratic congress in 2027.

A Dem victory in the mid-terms alongside successes for as diverse a range of characters as Mamdani, Magyar or Albanese also indicate how social media power that obsesses Musk does not guarantee hegemony. Outcomes that demonstrate limits of tech power fundamentally contradict Musk's worldview

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social