The Baffler has been on a roll these last few months.

Waiting for politicians to be like... 'The AI says I get to have sex with you. I don't make the rules, we don't know how it determined this, no you can't see my prompt.' Sorry, it's got to be done. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This stance from The Times only works if they could point to their own favoured policies working at all in the last 40+ years. It's like when the UK media machine implied Corbynism would be a disaster for the UK... look around. The disaster already happened.

“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”

Bookmarking this one.

One of the bleaker and perhaps more prescient interpretations about what's going on with the mad rush to use AI or the excuse of AI to deskill and disempower the general populace.

Good to be remember that given the chance, billionaires will always try to incite a fascist, corporatist coup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...

if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile

Remake of Encino Man except Mark Zuckerberg comes out of his bunker in 2055 and everything is just chill and normal so he tries to get everyone to wear his pervert glasses and go into the Metaverse.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

One thing that's hard to convey is how liberatory solar and electric is. I can charge my car, my power tools, my landscaping equipment all on my home solar set up. We have a 2010 Nissan Leaf that still works well enough to run errands in the village.

Good thread happening here.

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

👇🎯 Also true of a global financial crisis in 2007-10. We are terrible about this, over and over again, in our uniquely parochial American way.

Retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis but the twist is that Ezra Klein wakes up as Ezra Klein and has to deal with the implications of that.

Listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social with @bondhack.ft.com and I think again about the 'glaze' factor in financial arrangements. How making financial assets too boring and complicated to understand seems to grant immunity. If you can't explain the arrangement to your nan, it should be illegal.

Oh look - standing up for what you believe might just be a good idea

you know what cures a lot of intracoalition friction, is winning

God damn it is nice to listen to someone with talent and passion and conviction give a real speech. Highlights how many no talent dimwits and toadies we have in politics. That was a fucking speech. It's good to actually feel something again.

Wanted this piece to be much more fleshed out when I clicked on it. Author makes the claim that consumers are embracing analogue tech over digital in some cohorts but the argument feels very cherrypicked. www.ft.com/content/5011...

“I feel like everybody’s trying to control everything. Everything’s being digitised. Everything is becoming a metric. Everything is something you can improve on. I don’t know how healthy that is.” Renee McGregor Planlos und willkürlich eigene Gesundheitsdaten zu sammeln, macht unglücklich.

Hi, I’m a small business owner running for local school board and I believe in 3 things: 1) pledge allegiance to Israel or die 2) kids don’t need to know how to read 3) bring back God in our communities 4) Everything I’ve ever seen on Facebook Vote for me, Grawson Hamngley

Solid as a rock

Only a good robot with a gun can save you from a bad robot with a gun.

Sir, sir we're being attacked! We're going to need to do 21-15-9 of the sloppiest kipping pull ups and half assed barbell thrusters if we're ever going to beat this Chinese hybrid drone and cyber infrastructure assault. If things get really bad, we might have to start skipping a tiny jump rope.

When the state abandons the project of building a positive and onwardly evolving image of national culture, and denies regular people any and all means to build it, the gap will be filled by chintzy, reactionary nostalgia laden with symbols and signs seeking to make the old new again, aka fascism.

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

If I had a time machine, I would take this meme back to 2014 Reply All and force @pjvogt.bsky.social to explain it to the world via 'Yes, Yes, No'.

DHS document states ICE will NOT let people decline from being scanned by its new facial recognition app - Mobile Fortify. It is used to verify one’s identity and immigration status. However, the face photos taken will be stored for 15 years, regardless of your immigration status.

It would be surprising if it were any different. The BBC will always provide disproportionate coverage of colonists, even if they are not seen as "kith & kin", so long as they are coded white. This is simply its historic, institutional bias at work, not Zionism. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...

Just one more means test, just one more metric, just one more standardised test bro. That'll fix education. One more top down requirement enforced by Ofsted, one more bro, that's what children need. More funding and resources? No. Cut away more arts and PE and make more KPI for children & teachers.

Going to assume this is true.

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Dude definitely make snuffly pug sounds when he gets excited. Lot of snorting and truffling going on there.

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Amazing that US actors have already speed run Bay of Pigs, USS Maine & Gulf of Tonkin trying to fumble their way into war with Venezuela.

Instead of dismantling these free zones the Tories' set up, Labour signed off on them and are continuing the policy while the media and pundits alike ignore what is the carving up of the UK into feudal corporate-governed territories and tax havens.

On the M6 this week and forgot my thermos of coffee. Moment of weakness, started the process of ordering a coffee via a Costa Machines. I cancelled when the price was going to be £4. We can't be charging £4 for shitty coffee, no barista, cheap beans, no ambience. This breaks the social contract.

Was going to come on here and say the same thing. For those in the US caught in a (well-justified) doom loop, I really recommend the episode. Very fun being an American living in the UK as you get to feel like you're freaking out over 2 countries at the same time. soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/...

Watching the gigantic corporations that dominate our economy become increasingly disconnected from such basic concepts as "we should make products people want to buy" and "making money is a good idea" is slowly driving me insane

I know this is naive but I do hope that the basic decency of normal American people is going to kick in en masse, sooner or later. I feel like flashing up blatant Nazi imagery has to be weirding out a lot of middle America who I think still believe Nazis are bad.

Don't normally share funding links but this one feels important to fight for.

All this money and they're just trying to invent astrology for managers.

Hey we saw you across the bar and really like the idea of teaching you something unexpected that might challenge your assumptions about a given topic.

This trend is becoming more apparent and it's making me feel queasy.

Been thinking a lot about the devaluation of wisdom and how the last 20 years have been so messed up by the move fast and break things philosophy. Think it's time to slow down build again. We need to allow culture to catch up. People are happier when lived expert maps over reality.

People who haven’t given a single shit about accessibility in their entire lives are always happy to use disability as a cudgel to support their pet legally and ethically dubious new technology.