Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock. "If it is a bloodbath, then it is a bloodbath that Peter Thiel, an early investor in OpenAI, helped create. And which, he now, will in some way or another be looking both to profit from and control." broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Indeed. Melt down gold teeth too, Starmer? Nice little earner there.

Very cool visualisation... or "geohistogram"! www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-b...

Trump lost his trade war in every possible sense. It hurt the economy; it made us look ludicrous and lawless; and it gave Beijing a chance to reach for world power. And there is nothing Trump can do about any of this except back down and blame others. (1/2)

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would emigrate from the US permanently if they had the opportunity. A country run by religious nutters bent on controlling female bodies, misogynistic techbros, rape apologists, and men obsessed with killing things? Seems fair. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

All (climate) COPs are bastards. I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is. "Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."

The minute Rick Morton's newsletter turns up in my inbox, I drop everything to read it. Indulge yourself in this, and you'll see why.

Alison Gill is so good on this stuff. If you ever want a great analysis of the latest Trump horrors (especially the legal shenanigans), you can't do much better.

This is the beginning of the end of maga

If you're not already, do listen to this podcast. It's basically Bill Nighy just having a word, giving music & fiction recommendations, the whole thing loosely wrapped around him being an agony uncle for introverts. It's funny, wise, and exactly what we need. www.ill-advisedbybillnighy.com

He warned us.

Political historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the inevitable failure of Trump and Vance's attempt at an authoritarian state. What comes after them will either be rescue by the American people, or the collapse of the United States. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

My flight in from London was totally empty, btw. I struck up a chat with a Heathrow worker (literally the terminal was empty!) who told me that between Trump visa threats, the Natl Guard, and shutdown, tourists have canceled all US plans in numbers he'd never seen before.

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

What we're seeing with Republicans turning on Trump is in no way a repudiation of Trumpism and the Republican white nationalist project, but instead the effect of these people realizing the regime failed to consolidate power as promised and Trump is physically deteriorating in public view.

Yikes, looks like we're in for some coolth this week. www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...

I knew this would be Loeb, without even looking at the article. 😄 futurism.com/space/harvar...

OPERATION MASSIVE PENIS.

Ireland has always valued its creative folk. And it's proved profitable, in more ways than one. 🇮🇪💚

Just imagine what the UK will look like under a Reform government. Prime Minister Farage. (And yes, I know, the Labour Party is horrible and in large measure responsible for this... but Prime Minister Farage. Diabolical.)

A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the AI bubble, talking to Folk Who Know. "Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space." open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

There is no comfort here. Nixon didn't pardon Mitchell (or his other co-conspirators), but he could have. Trump will be able to pardon Bondi -- and probably will to cover himself. And he'll pardon himself (legally untested, but arguably allowable, and with this SCOTUS, he'd likely succeed.)

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired

How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz

Love Computerphile. And this is worth watching.

The greatest country in the world? Not only is that demonstrably rubbish, it's precisely the insular, parochial, ill-educated and ignorant mindset that led to the US electing Trump. Twice. Trump is America's id.

Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.

Voorverkenning voor mogelijke nieuwe coalities, er zijn nog ongeopende flessen waar de geest van 1933 in schuilt.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

Love it!

💥 Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal “This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force" PRESS RELEASE:

This is put so much better than I could have expressed it. Virginia Giuffre hasn't even been dead 7 months yet my timeline is full of otherwise rational people turning into Beavis and Butt-Head because "OMG GAY!". These victims continue being meat for the grinder, it's just fucking vile, man.

But hey, they got the blue passports back.

FYI - AI is now auto-enabled in gmail by default. Here's how to turn it off: www.tumblr.com/imonthemooni... #fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf

Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.

bringing up Epstein and peddling obvious lies about your ties with him is certainly a choice

Some Democrats seem to be putting an effort into actually communicating with people. (Gift link) (I'm now subscribing to both Le Monde and De Volkskrant. It's good to get a broader take on global issues. And it's handy for language-learnin'!) www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth increased by $3B in 2025.

When Trump goes down, whether at the hand of justice, the mob, or bodily entropy, the world will rejoice.

i believe it was churchill who said ‘senile pedophile hitler is the worst form of government, except for all the others’

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Interesting thread, suggesting that Trump will be the one who is sacrificed. It makes sense, given the tsunami of damning evidence about to break over hundreds of billionaires and power-brokers. It was only a matter of time before Trump became more a liability than a useful idiot.

A yellow-footed rock-wallaby catches the last rays as the sun sets at Boolcoomatta.

When the Libs "stumble back into government, the energy transition will be irreversible. There will be no reopening of shut-down coal-fired power stations, or stripping the solar panels from ten million suburban rooftops." - @birmo.bsky.social #Auspol aliensideboob.substack.com/p/they-know-...

No one knows or writes about Labor Party history quite like Guy Rundle. Here he is on Graham Richardson. Great read, covering his early life, his criminality and his role in Labor's factional machinations. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...