Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

“Supporting racist policies does not make you a racist” is a top tier line for the Labour Party going into the week. Should go all the way and just make it the official conference slogan. Get that stuff drilled into Starmer’s lectern.

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

I'm not sure "driven by bots" is the most accurate way to describe these results. The Cracker Barrel boycott was very openly launched and amplified by prominent conservative influencers like Chris Rufo. Bots may have latched onto it afterwards but it was organic far-right derangement.

Those confidently claiming that it works well in Europe should look at the decades of research around ID Cards and the policing of minorities (and then maybe remember what happened in the case of Windrush). e.g this kind of thing: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I told you guys

when labour fails to get britcard off the ground & they're telling everyone we have uncontrolled immigration, what you'll end up with is angry racists who see 1) no card and 2) think migrants aren't controlled, and have never had ID cards (they did) or a digital system (they do). what happens then?

We're in for some industrial strength noticing.

We're in for some industrial strength noticing.

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

You might ask yourself whether this accurately reflects the content inside, and well:

You might ask yourself whether this accurately reflects the content inside, and well:

Some people have tried to gotcha this with monte carlo simulations. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about if they think the manipulation of random input is being *computed* randomly. Like, no matter how much random data you're using, it's being manipulated deterministically.

Plans to prepare the energy grid for an 'AI Boom' are being made between the British government, private companies, and investment firms that will directly profit from the industry's roll-out. 4/7

Microsoft's investment will put a strain on Britain's resources and infrastructure — particularly water and energy — which could lead to surging prices for consumers and an unregulatable appropriation of limited resources. 3/7

oh look, Trump's billionaire buddy Larry Ellison, fancy that

'Feeling excluded? Why ethnic #minorities (do not) engage in #participatory budgeting' From #Identities' latest Special Issue on Deliberative and Representative #Democracy, by Sergiu Gherghina et al. Read with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070...#minorities#participatory#Identities'#Democracy,#OpenAccess:sarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

To state the obvious, I was not paid by the Ford Foundation or Open Society to write the column, which is what Vance is alleging and he's saying he is going after those groups. Not the first time he's spouted conspiracy theories involving the Soroses to deflect criticism: apnews.com/article/jd-v...

Nothing like a motivated workforce.

Ok, pack it up lads. Bosh was all fun and a laugh but unfortunately the polling guys have discovered it

"Shut the fuck up" has long been the correct default advice on talking to the police but now it applies 100x if it's federal law enforcement or if the info might get to them. It's not just that what you say will be used against you; you will also instantly be burned for political expedience.

How come we immigrants got a big speech from the Prime Minister saying that we had caused "incalculable damage" to the country, the "lab" had to be "shut down", but fascist and racist thugs violently marching through the capital barely elicits a peep from him?

One of the most-quoted experts on racism on the left, here. Remember how I said at the time that the great authorities being quoted were themselves far right cranks with pretty horrible views?

As @flyingrodent.bsky.social said, it's all very well saying we should organize a new Rock Against Racism, but nobody who might do that can be confident that they won't be separated from their job at the first sight of a Palestinian flag. The government really has boxed itself in.

Additionally, the entire framing of the racist march, & of the open expression of racism more generally, as a free speech issue is drawn from the far right itself, which is obsessed with the entirely fabricated idea that it is suffering oppression at the hands of shadowy forces linked to foreigners

A whole lot of people now genuinely shocked to discover they have backed the Very Nasty Racists Are Correct And Migrants And The Left Are Scum Who Must Be Harshly Dealt With Party. Quite why they’re surprised this is anyone’s guess.

Amazing how much hate this article has got by simply quoting him accurately.

The long term results of the guy with dodgy connections being in charge of the dodgy connections database

Very much a case of 'why not both?'

Early evidence that US tariffs are hitting UK exports And welcome back Sophie

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Tough choice for Starmer to sack Mandelson, but we can all agree it was masterful of him to only do this after 48 solid hours saying he would not sack him because he really really likes and trusts the guy who supported the most famous paedophile the world has ever known.

"but"?

You can honestly understand why someone would think Hussain was an op to destroy Your Party before it even begins, but the mundane truth is he's just profoundly unpleasant and very stupid.

Therefore, any opinion offered by the UK govt on the question of genocide in Gaza has to be seen not as the observations of a concerned and morally principled outside observer, but as the inherently biased position of an accomplice worried about their own moral, political and legal exposure.

This dynamic keeps repeating. Respectable commentators want to have a philosophical debate about (e.g.) Britishness or the definition of "woman", because they don't want to spell out the unpleasant things they think should be done to certain people.

Another wonderful day for noticing who can enjoy being wafted through a long, prestigious, very lucrative career, even if they’re Patrick Bateman coming apart at the end of the movie confessing to murders and executions, vs who will get 200 hacks rummaging in their bins for a suspect Facebook Like.

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

You‘ll be surprised to hear Mahmood’s touted ability to think the unthinkable turns out to mean “more reheated Tory vileness”

Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"hahaha I am such a massive nerd about politics I bloody love politics, I love going to party conferences. No I'm not going to write about policy that sort of thing is of no interest at all to a fellow like me" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every idiot who can read a poll knows that if you wanted to beat Reform, you would put in place a fairly radical social democratic programme. But that isn't their priority. Their priority is is demonstrating loyalty to the City, Wall Street, Silicon Valley at all costs (2/2).

I really can't stress enough the extent to which you've totally missed the point if, like every single liberal commentator, you assume that the Labour leadership are conducting themselves like this because they mistakenly believe that doing so will help them defeat Reform (1/2).

'The first of its kind to track sentiment before and after the 12 May 2025 speech, the report by the Public Opinion Analytics Lab identifies a significant electoral cost to the Prime Minister’s remarks: support for Labour fell among its erstwhile voters by 4 percentage points.'

The "Abundance" people think it's okay to have a speaker from the Manhattan Institute promote "deportation abundance." The conference is filled with people like this, making it clear that the "Abundance" grift sits far to the right of the median voter. It exists to move the country farther right.

UPDATE to this story: After his protest, Lt. Colonel Aguilar was taken to jail for a few hours where he was put in isolation and has now been released, he confirms to me.

A representative of the British state broadcaster and its nominally left-wing Prime Minister both fulsomely supporting the idea that refugees are a risk to "our daughters". The fascists own the discourse, and if our institutions aren't entirely fash yet they soon will be.

Anyone trying to understand why Keir Starmer is like this should look at what Great Replacement Theory the current director of "We Believe in Israel", founded by Starmer's main campaign backer, Luke Nukehurst (namesearcher) is promoting as late as yesterday: www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...