i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

It’s a pattern. European aristocracy are big funders of anti rights movements, notably anti abortion & far right causes. They want to reverse modernity and restore the natural hierarchy that puts them in charge www.ft.com/content/ebb7...

We're ten years into the Brexit/Trump period.

"AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on" is the point at which you stop listening to this guy as a tech expert and start listening to him as a used car salesman with a great deal just for you on an Edsel

“Fernando Bastias Robayo, a lawyer representing the victims’ families, says “nothing like this has ever happened in Ecuador before”. He adds: “There are dozens and dozens of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture – and none of it is being properly investigated.””

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

Leaked docs and chats on Russian “cognitive strikes” across Europe showed a strategy to “abandon overtly pro-Russian messaging” and focus on destabilization, including 'stunts' aimed at fueling anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish extremism. They realize it doesn't take much. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Still wondering who thinks Labour is better off staying with this sketchy nonsense.

"The Labour government failed to keep any written records of meetings between clients of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm and top civil servants, an investigation by openDemocracy has revealed." There is no defense of Starmer's government that can survive exposure to evidence of how it operates.

“Ebola prevention efforts have been largely halted since Musk and his DOGE allies moved last month to gut the global-assistance agency and freeze its outgoing payments.” Reported last year. We're starting to get the receipts of what happens when you let these people run things.

Cuts to (USAID) under Trump and Musk has severely hampered early detection efforts in Africa. Musk admitted that the DOGE accidentally cut critical Ebola prevention. They destroyed health experts ability to contain the disease. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-e...

When an English man gets his holiday shirt out in Zante

was already on my phone

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Entirely evidence-free wibbke from @rentouljohn.bsky.social/ @the-independent.com here. Has cutting immigration been good for growth or public services? No. Has it reduced racism/community pensions? Also no. Has it helped Labour politically? Also no. Also LOL But.. "it's a good story"

You do not need a far right party in power to have far right politics enacted. In fact, you don't even need a nominally rightwing party This should have been clear before the liberal elite was fantasized as bulwark against fascism... www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

We are now prompting ourselves.

Journalism 101: Who are they? Why are they talking to you? If they're spilling tea there's always a motive.

You can chart a direct path from Elon's DOGE project destroying USAID and these events.

Extremely exciting news. New report out: Enabling Atrocity in the MENA and #Sudan The report documents three large-scale influence networks operating across MENA on X/Twitter, involving 27,000+ inauthentic accounts and over 250,000 posts across multiple languages. www.sc.edu/study/colleg...

Worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/georgepk...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

I hear Vladimir wrote the sweetest thing in her going away card.

Like probably not but a classic, older Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series sits in a pretty good sweet spot.

They shouldn't have staged the stupidest fake 'handover' pageant.

Looking forward to the scam email campaigns claiming people owe Iran money.

Southwestern Railway at Baisingstoke is encouraging people to just take a taxi. Some shrubbery is on a track.

It was just six years ago and already they're trying to erase it.

There is a direct line from this nonsense to why Reform was so far ahead in council elections and why there's a by-election in Makerfield to replace the disgraced MP taking the hit for team Starmer.

Priorities 👀 £400m support for people who can afford to drive, but nothing for people who walk, ride a bike or catch the bus? “The cost of the package, including postponing the 5p rise and the discount on red diesel duty, is expected to be around £400m.”

I need to update my old post on "those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine." Things both have and haven't moved on in a year. The machines do perform, better and better (for better or worse). They don't 'know' things.

Cloudflare asking you why you won't flip the turtle over before you can visit a web page...

deep learning works pretty well in verifiable domains!

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

Easing sanctions on Russia is a betrayal of Ukraine, a relinquishing of Britain's leadership role and a complete failure of leadership inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

'Nosy Parker' would have been more... on the nose! www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/n...

So maddening to see - the devastating impact of cuts on the independent and exile media of Burma/Myanmar, just when they are needed most. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/running...

"Inner Mongolia is not merely hosting data centres; it is one of the few places on earth with an electricity system large enough to make AI-scale industrialisation plausible without immediately breaking the grid." Meanwhile, in WSJ:

Facts…

this headline belongs on America's tombstone

🧵💯

And you people are worried about rogue AI, tsk.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

An under-examined trend is underway in which the American press is finally, albeit exceptionally belatedly, covering some of the most basic facts about Israel's self-radicalizing political culture.

Starmies, Reevers, Streets, Burners, all the new Labour camps need funny names.

The new 'rootless cosmopolitan' attack.