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How can a book ostensibly about a murder be so full of life? @4hundredblows.bsky.social writes with warmth, wit, humanity and great skill about that day in November ‘63 AND the decades since. I loved every beautifully crafted page. #BookSky

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

Terry Pratchett absolutely nailed this in Maskerade and Going Postal.

Stuff like this emphasises the real and pressing need to tax wealth. Not to raise money, not to fund services, simply because there is too much money in too few hands and oligarchy is incompatible with democracy. Tax the rich so they have less money.

Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

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every few weeks I hear more about this guy in Maine and every few weeks he is somehow worse

Was ace this. So much energy.

Just not a man to be trusted.

Sorry, but I've heard you speak several dozen times & read a lot about you—from political insiders & people who've known you personally—so I'll say with zero hesitation that the only "moral urgency" for Wes Streeing over Gaza is the fact you're going to lose your seat to a British Palestinian.

Who remembers Wes on the campaign trail a couple years back being an absolute dick to people who asked him on his stance on genocide

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I'm more disturbed by Keith's sleeveless salmon shirt

It is genuinely insane that we're a week away from the tournament and an entire team (and players from several other teams) don't know if they'll even be allowed in and hardly anyone seems to care? How is this not front page news everywhere?

Everything in today’s America is about the redistribution of wealth. From ordinary people to big business.

"Yes, there were columns and domes, statues and temples. But they weren’t white; they weren’t even pale. Rome was bedecked, bedazzled, and generally decorated in a way we would now consider gaudy." Fantastic guest post by @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - you should all buy her paperback!

I do like Bluesky, but it's ever so quiet and no-one ever RTs anything (me included, I need to get better on that) so I never find new people to follow. With that in mind, who are the good cricket people on here?

We’re now in year eight or nine of constantly giving very racist, very right wing people with specific anti-left programmes prominent public platforms to make their claims about what is and is not racist. Does it feel like Britain has become more or less racist, as a consequence of doing this?

They very happily went along with every other terror story about e.g. the PC Brigade banning Rule Britannia at the Proms, even though every one of them knew it was deliberately inflammatory bullshit. They are absolutely committed to this stuff now, they can’t admit that any of it was bad and wrong.

As I said in, what, 2019: a certain kind of Sensible Moderate is going to get dragged away to a black van in the night by the Generalissimo’s thugs, screaming “you don’t understand officers, I’m not *that* type of progressive”.

Again, “Marxist Bolshevik intellectuals are conspiring with the lesser races to undermine the Reich and abuse Our White Women” has been the narrative *for fifteen years* on TV, radio and news stands. The difference now is it’s a) undisguised, and b) targeted at Sensible Moderates, not the pig people

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

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is this a fucking joke? no they're obviously not, get off X, give your head a wobble and stop trying to start a race war

Do you notice how all it takes for this inflammatory drivel to blanket the airwaves is for the tabloid’s pet Nick Griffin to decide to chucking a bomb might help his party’s by-election prospects? One tossed ball, and away the whole pack goes.

This is what happens when the journalist class stays on X.

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

You can get an extract of the book if you sign up to @jonnelledge.bsky.social's excellent newsletter! Fantastic deal imo

I actually think it's an important thing to look at the police response to Zack Polanski's very mild criticism and Farage and his crew inciting race riots. Not really keen on people deciding that it's "not the time" when the horse has already bolted.

Just a reminder: The Guardian entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI a little while back, so any time you see an article like this from them, you can immediately dismiss it as not credible journalism but just Sam Altman getting his money’s worth.

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So Mandelson tried to introduce Starmer to Peter Thiel. Blue Labour Maurice Glasman meets Thiel and Bannon and Vance at the same time, and consults with Farage. Both feeding their confidences, and confidence back to Morgan McSweeney Anyone remember how Labour reacted to Militant 'entryism'?

Sometime after the referendum, BBC News realised that if you cover everything as a question of position and advantage, fewer people in a position of power will shout at you.

The cult of savviness will kill us all in the end.

Growing up across the political spectrum and in media they were labelled as thugs. In today's media landscape they are "protestors" with "concerns".

The racism we're seeing across the right today is vile and dangerous but it's also a sign of desperation. Three parties all fighting over the votes of aging authoritarians.

Despite this, we're adamant that social media commentary is a statement of fact, whomever it comes from, instead of lines being delivered in a way to get to a point and the end of a scene. The amplification isn't important, in truth nor the algorithms. It's the fact that the commentary isn't true

I was with a rather brilliant artist y'day and we talked abt performing. Social media, he said, especially filming, has meant we are performing all of the time, you now cannot believe anything that is said online, in the same way you don't believe an actor's portrayal reveals their real character

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Look at these figures and ask why the view has taken hold that Reform voting is driven by cost of living or "the left behind"

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Listening to the Today programme and hearing far right talking points repeated in a soft ‘concerned’ voice.

Yesterday #r4today and Webb amplified Farage's racist rubbish, later in the day the BBC gave Goodwin air time to spew his own rubbish. Now Today is wondering why there were riots in Southampton last night... it is long past time the BBC recognised it is complicit in what is happening

Pretty much no sleep last night. The far-right has a grip on this country’s media and political narrative and I do not see anyone capable of breaking it. We are careering towards absolute catastrophe.