here's my Pivot pledge week post, w00t Your support keeps Pivot to AI going — just $5 a month for a story every day pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/26/y... Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI. Now, that’s *effective* altruism.

The US largely imports pharmaceutical products from India and Europe.

NEW Why the prime minister ordered an independent investigation into MI5 Neither Keir Starmer nor the High Court accepted the security service’s explanation of a serious error By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Just... Paul.

It’s not just that the place is closing, it’s that like five people immediately @‘d me about dinosaur sculptures.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

A few dozen protesters at 25th and Harvard are walking back and forth across Harvard where ICE vehicles are now entering and leaving. As a couple ICE vehicles depart, Broadview PD clears a path for them.

I’ve had a number of arguments on here along these lines: “ID cards work fine in Europe, why not here?” They *do* work in Europe, but *not* as immigration enforcement. If Labour want to push them for other uses, then please make that case. For immigration enforcement? It won’t work.

Happy Gotcha Day to my beautiful princeling Twiglet, who is celebrating this morning with a big ‘ol sulk because I won’t let him stalk me like prey. 🤍

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I was raking leaves on the lawn when I uncovered the god. "Leave me alone!" it commanded. "I'm decomposing." "Oh," I said. "Will it take long?" "Unless I find a believer..." "I'm an atheist." "Hmph. I'll be gone by spring." "Shall I cover you?" "I command it!" I'll check that pile in spring.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

One story after another, zero consequences for the regime.

I think most European countries with mandatory ID being part of the EU is a big factor. Those governments have a higher body to which they have to answer, and who can take preventative measures should inappropriate use of data, breach of privacy, or discrimination occur as a result of the ID system

“According to the New Yorker, during this meeting, Yarvin showed Glasman how he had manipulated an AI chatbot into repeating the N-word.”

SQUIGGLE NEWS 🎉 Sorry for screenshotting, I've had about 20 mins' sleep 🫩

Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year. This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.

The scheme, provoked by heat on the government, has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum.

I am about to start my lengthy article, 37 million people who would be better at advising Keir Starmer than Morgan McSweeney (i know the figure is much larger than that, but these are the first 37 million people I could think of off the top of my head )

At the time of the drone incursion at Copenhagen Airport, Russian Baltic Fleet ship Aleksandr Shabalin was spotted 12 km off Langeland Island, Denmark, with its transponder off, Ekstra Bladet reports.

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways. Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

have you ever seen what happens when a human body goes from 1.3 mph to a full stop all at once? i am a test escalator rider for the united s. coast guard (hoo ha) and believe you me brother it is not pretty

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

There’s already lobbying by transphobic groups who will want to use ID cards to police trans people and there’s already concern among minorities as to how a Reform government would use this data. Hence the concern.

I'm impressed by the gov.uk petition server's resilience, frankly. It's racked up over 760,000 signatures on the "no to a digital ID card" petition in little over an hour, and each of those requires an email confirmation. That mail server's throughput is *scary*! (20M emails/day.)

Being white british cis and heterosexual

"the policies of predatory grievance", says the man who just used PRECISELY THIS to strip trans people of the right to exist in public. Fuck you, Starmer.

I've said it elsewhere already, but you look at the scale of the operation and start to understand the potential for skewed incentives.

Conversely what those in poverty need least, is digital ID. Can we have real solutions to poverty before this nonsense please.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Goodnight from Jennie Hoar, feeling the swell of nausea every time she contemplates her secret dealings with the Grinning Man being exposed. Goodnight from Georgie Ash, learning the divinatory language of thrown bones instead of doing her French homework. Goodnight from Hookland.

"Danish authorities temporarily closed two major airports overnight Wednesday after drones were sighted in the skies, in what Copenhagen called a “hybrid attack” by a “professional actor," with several other airports across the country reporting similar incidents." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The Netherlands to return Dubois fossil collection to Indonesia www.dutchnews.nl?p=257810

But anyway, we digress. Given average lengths of pregnancy, if it's your birthday today, it's statistically very likely that your parents had a very merry festive period. Happy birthday!

Frog hid behind the rock. He say the thing coming. It was big and brown. It was covered with sticks and leaves. It had two horns.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

At least 50,000 disabled people could lose access to financial employment support if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the WCA benefit assessment, according to a new report from Citizens Advice The true figure is likely to be higher By me, for Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

It’s 2025 every reporter at every major media organization should at this point know about 4chan and what a fucking edgelord is. 4chan has been around for TWENTY ONE YEARS.

This coup planing meeting could have been an e-mail.

Just to give people an idea of what will happen next, this is the preliminary schedule agreed to in court documents by the parties.

He even once admitted he would make up stories, like immigrants eating pets, if it suited his narrative.

My masters thesis was on pedestrian deaths in car crashes, focusing on sound since at the time there was strong debate that electric cars needed to be audible for blind people like myself. There was absolutely no statistical significance in pedestrian safety- it was 100% on the car driver.

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Credit to ABC News for this headline on the Comey indictment. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

This will blow your mind.

hear me out, government of canada, you could just FUND THE FUCKING POST OFFICE YOU ABSOLUTE GHOULS www.thestar.com/business/pos...