Bit late, but damn. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Giving Trump the Nobel tomorrow may prevent him flying into a murderous rage and therefore the very act of giving it him would mean the Nobel Prize Committee should award it to itself next year.

the creative process can be absolute hell, there is no worse feeling than getting truly stuck in the middle of an important creative project, but working through those moments ~is~ the creative process and you might as well eat that bullet (or do something entirely different) than turn to AI

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And this, class, is why aiming at agricultural self-sufficiency rather than spreading risk across different countries through international trade is a *really stupid idea*.

This political crisis in France... reminded me today of a column a month ago by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social about power draining from Westminster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Unless you're really an insider, what's happening in Paris doesn't feel like a crisis. And that is interesting

You get the sense that, despite everything, Kemi Badenoch is living her best life.

I think the thing with the debate about ‘Pro-Natalism’ is that everyone kind of dances around saying explicitly is that revealed preferences show lots of people think having kids of sort of sucks for the parent but is clearly necessary for society.

I’m interested to see whether the people investing in both quantum computing and cryptocurrency understand the implications of the former on the latter.

Because in the 1980s the UK's Gini Coefficient of social inequality rose substantially from its post-1945 level, and has never come down again.

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

"I'm one of the people that went to university for free and I honestly believe that if the country is to be the country we want it to be then it should be free for British people and we should be finding ways to support our young people". (Prof Graham Galbraith, VC Portsmouth) 1/2

… and c) … they’ve hollowed themselves out. Voices of reason and intellectual heft are absent. Attempts to connect policy with reality, knowable consequences and necessity are just not allowed.

'Hargreaves Lansdown has warned UK investors over exposure to cryptocurrencies, saying bitcoin “has no intrinsic value”...' Wow what a refreshingly principled stance on consumer protection and oh wait nvm www.ft.com/content/f342...

There's a whole PhD in Media Studies in this post (sorry, "skeet").

“The spokesperson said the UK government planned to build its own ID card system within the public sector rather than through a private outsourcing company.”

I did some work on scams when I was at Which?, and hands down the absolute worst company for looking after their customers who'd been scammed was Revolut. Just simply did not give a fuck.

Every single person in that article has left a positive comment on Ian Levine's Facebook page.

The actual article has some even more incredible photos. I imagine James Glossop is going to have trouble getting a pass for any future Tory events.

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

I feel the need to draw everyones attention to this truely cursed bit of polling

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Just look at the Ruhrgebiet. More systems in that region than the whole of the UK. And the varying quality of the services offered gives people a good reason to get out and vote in local elections!

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro. But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around. 🧵 1/9

I think they should have marketed the later opening as a sex/fertility thing. More fun, more alcohol, more unprotected sex, more babies, lower dependency ratio in 25 years.

Donald Trump had his annual physical examination on April 11, 2025, at Walter Reed. This Friday, he’s scheduled to have his *annual* physical again — less than six months later. Something isn’t right.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

editor’s note: you forgot to tell them the change you wanted to see in the world was supposed to be good

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

Kemi Badenoch has insisted there is a “buzz” at the sparsely attended Conservative party conference in Manchester. However, images of empty seats are hard not to see as a symptom of her faltering leadership. Read more: https://bit.ly/4mQbLGF

Nice outing for the two mall cops though...

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

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Elon Musk invested so much in warping the political opinions of his AI, and yet grok remains a fan of European Union membership as a key factor of Poland's economic success compared to the UK.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I'd not really appreciated this aspect. Lots of EV owners in the replies also very happy to have found this out over the years.

See yer da’s got a new car.

What with everything else going on, I suppose people could be forgiven for missing the absolutely staggering scale of conflicts of interest in Republican politics right now, not to mention the now totally routine violations of the emoluments clause. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

First use of "right wing shit rags" by a leader of a British political party?

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I? The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us. Folks - want a better country? Join.greenparty.org.uk

stamp duty is progressively structured, hard to avoid, and raises a lot of money it does make it more expensive to buy housing, but for first time buyers its impact is dwarfed by deposits and mortgage costs tax theory hates it because tax theory loves looking through the wrong end of telescopes

lol abolishing stamp duty is a policy that will prove hugely popular with the wonk set before absolutely blowing up the moment they announce what would replace it - or, alternatively, how they'd fund the lost revenue