"it had been said that antitrust law was the best illustration of the problem of national public interest risking conflicting with issues of international sovereignty. Speech on the internet – today, online safety in particular - is bidding fair to seize that mantle." important stuff

yup

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Troglodyte Tates return

Seriously, unfortunately so true.

The propaganda machine is cranking up and going all out.

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

Belgium's federal government approved a ban on imported goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories in the West Bank, with implementation details still to be finalised.

Greece has thrown a spanner into the works of fresh EU sanctions by demanding a tailor-made exemption to a full ban on Russian LNG. Member states are aghast at the request, with one diplomat calling it "shameless".

Spain-based password manager Passwork, used by EU governments, shares technology with a Russian counterpart serving sanctioned missile makers. Experts warn Russia’s state source-code review could expose vulnerabilities in the European software. @occrp.org

get off substack

Either Todd Blanche is lying and knows that the FBI works under the Attorney General-which would disqualify him as a dishonest hack Or he’s ignorant of the DOJ hierarchy-which would disqualify him as an incompetent hack

Iraq signs 48 deals with US companies during PM’s visit to Washington https://aje.news/slhk2k

He will be disbarred. But unfortunately the process is a slow one. He may get suspended much sooner. Oddly, there's probably no legal requirement that he be a lawyer.

Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

He's just another low-IQ thug in a Trump suit who can barely speak coherently presiding over an agency that murders people routinely while he covers it up. This is an utterly lawless regime of gangsters. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump refused to sign the bill — but we still got it done.

old #essays to pass the time Taxi - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/taxi... The Saxon Shore (15.3.86) - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... Albert Herring - Aldeburgh Festival (17.6.86) - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/albe... Bucks and berks - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/buck...

ICE cases failing in court is good news/bad news. Good that courts below SCOTUS still value rule of law, insist on evidence, and uphold the rights of the (often falsely) accused. Yet ICE keeps doing it. Shows violence, intimidation, and lawbreaking are themselves ICE goals, not really conviction.

This is not AI. This is real microscopy! 🔬 An intact gut, rendered transparent and imaged in 3D using light-sheet microscopy! 🤓 Looking inside organs to investigate where pathogens, immune cells, or disease processes may persist. More at: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

War crimes

The mother of Ruben Ray Martinez, who ICE agent Jack Stevens shot to death in Texas last year, published a piece this morning about what she wants to see from the federal government. The piece is extremely restrained and measured. I can only imagine what she had to set aside to write it.

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

A new Connecticut law, which came into force earlier this month, has sparked backlash from MAGA activists and right-wing commentators in the US. Read the story in-depth on our website

"Those who have challenged the hunters have ended up in hospital in a coma with broken legs and collapsed lungs, received rape threats, had bricks thrown through their windows threats of violence to children and their dogs kidnapped and skinned." why aren't the police on top of this?

Lord how illegal is shit when Trump’s own appointees are resigning?

Crimea was supposed to be Vladimir Putin’s crowning achievement — a stronghold in the war against Ukraine and a domestic symbol of his imperial ambitions. Now, all of that is under threat. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/crim...

old #essays to pass the time Polish notation - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/poli... The first novel - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... Compact discs and Jimmy Young - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/comp... The world is full of marred men - moodyessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

#Tesla made a $225 balance bike for toddlers. It has no motor, no pedals, and is already sold out. - thenextweb.com/news/tesla-b... so many gullible fools

Ditch #Palantir's £330m NHS contract, MPs and campaigners tell #Burnham - democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ditch-pala... "investigation revealed ‘clunky’ and ‘slow’ software, internal complaints and a £30,000-a-month lobbying operation, pressure is mounting to trigger Palantir ‘break clause’"

Billionaires having much more success making Earth like Mars than the other way around

Here is a #portrait of a #Libyan #script user by @veliteaquila.bsky.social Learn more about the Libyco-Berber script here: matuww.com/script_info/Libyco-Berber.html #historicalart

Russian fuel stations are being put up for sale en masse due to huge financial losses. The Moscow Stock Exchange has fallen 18 straight weeks, the most since the 1990s. A half trillion rubles were withdrawn from banks in 2 weeks by panicked Russians. Worse is yet to come.🍿🍿

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

#miliband gets my vote

Die Politik in Land und Welt müsste zum Milliardärs-Risiko werden: jede Milliarde, die mit klima-/umweltschädlichen Praktiken verdient wurde, muss zur Hälfte in die geschädigten Staaten zurückfließen, die andere Hälfte in wiedergutmachende Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

Well it does take time to find a necromancer to get Caligula back on his feet to maintain the current trend of ensuring the next Home Secretary is substantially more cruel than their predecessors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... "says tribunal vindicated his health concerns, including about asbestos, that could affect public" this sounds bad #tube

The Taiwan Blue Magpie. Compared to these, our magpies are absolutely rubbish.

1/ Ukraine's campaign against Russian shipping is claimed to have hit 159 vessels in only 12 days. Numerous vessels have been crippled, knocking out a significant fraction of Russia's maritime exports. A Russian commentary describes how it's being done. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/insi...

Every month of EU inaction towards israel is a choice. And it has a price, paid by people who don’t have the luxury of waiting for Europe to find its nerve. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The former director of Moscow's Pushkin Museum said that the kokoshnik — Russia's traditional pointed headdress — was invented by early-1900s artists copying 15th-century Italian paintings. She also called Tolstoy's War and Peace roughly half French. Oops. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

We’ve lost the capacity to care, private equity (PE) cashing in. 81,770 looked-after children in England, up 18% since 2015 Foster carers down 10.4% since 2021. People not fostering - low incomes, poor housing, low govt help. Fostering financialised. PE profiteering. What future for children?

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/18/0427249/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Just look at the access into the courtyard. Top brickwork! Architects are Korth Tielens and Marcel Lok korthtielens.nl/architecture...