"Vladimir, look into my eyes not around the eyes and denuclearise."

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

The Heritage Foundation, which is staffing the US presidential administration, has spent the past two weeks mainstreaming actual neo-Nazis into American public life, and much of the American Jewish establishment is panicking about a Muslim mayor of New York City.

man, with everything they're going through right now, Palestinians deserve advocates in the West who aren't this fucking stupid

A government that did a wealth tax that literally brought people to the streets to protest against it, but is, somehow, having its lunch eaten by people calling for wealth taxes!

I think it’s worse than the 70s because then it was a bottom up phenomenon, and while their response was often inadequate, there was at least a sense that the elite were pushing back. Now it’s much more top down and the attitude of elite liberal circles is “leave me alone, I CBA to deal with it”

this would require a theory for how the assets and liquidity in the "AI market" would, upon depreciation, spring into a wider fire sale of assets and trigger contagion. this would also require answering why injecting liquidity into the general market isn't a superior solution

A weird inversion of normality if nobody did think that because outside of politics, everyone I knew thought that taxes had to go up, by a large amount.

God, that reply to Sultana pointing out she’s from Birmingham

“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.

Agree or disagree with Zarah Sultana, as you would with any other politician. But the people of Coventry South, and respectively of Uxbridge - decided that she belongs in Parliament and Laurence Fox does not.

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

I couldn't be a mainstream journalist these days. One day you're doing a completely normal interview with an actress and suddenly thousands of poorly socialised weirdos are getting the callipers out to say you're biologically pre-destined to be a HR officer

Amazing

What a banger

Can’t believe they remade Geronimo

Fighting ISIS is woke

Accidentally opened Don Jr’s post www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.

Gosh, I hope Andrew Milne doesn’t become so well known doing this shit becomes impossible for him.

BBC really burying the lede there

IMO the *lack* of a widespread moral panic around this is genuinely very weird and the outlier in terms of social reactions in modern history

It seems easy to misunderstand this phrase so let me be clear: "Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.

I can’t believe or wanted to know that not having the stocks is stopping him from having sex with his wife

The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.

Bringing back the stocks is such an insane position I almost respect it.

It's easy to compare modern Russia to the Nazis, and you should

Chris Rea is a leading donor to a party in dire straits? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Life comes at you fast, huh Brendan?

Yes who knows which of the many countries starting with Q that could be

Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them

Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is. Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.

There’s an obvious book for anyone noticing why the World’s Richest Man is constantly desperately scrabbling for cash

Dominic Cummings claiming anyone is over promoted is wild. He’s trying to carve a living out of being a screaming prick at people & being unable to edit a blog. No one would notice if he went missing

David Miller is one of Britain’s very worst left-wing antisemites, if not the worst, responsible for making the lives of Jewish students hell at his former university and now he’s attempting to spread his Jew-hating poison across the pond. Sorry to American Jews who now have to become aware of him.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

Meanwhile in Canada: Tory MP crosses the floor to the Liberals on budget week, citing poor Tory leadership; in response, Polievre talks too much in the House and somehow gets usurped by the Bloc in opposition:

If you wrote up the idea of listening to women as cheat codes for how to get on in a relationship you could probably trick enough guys into being better partners to make a bunch of money. The hard bit would be doing the gifter promotion circuit without hitting someone