@polphilpod.bsky.social 'what did you do to make him kill you' politics bsky.app/profile/mark...

Flipside to the comparisons posted on here with Grenfell is that people weren’t arrested for sedition for setting up a petition seeking accountability www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

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Really good @londoncentric.media today that explains why London's major train stations are thronged by faux-charities:

My beloved father in law Ranjith Chandrapala drove a bus that stopped at Ealing Hospital. He continued to do so throughout the pandemic’s first wave until he caught covid himself and died, in that very same hospital. Many very ordinary heroes risked their lives for things others took for granted.

Lol 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Highlighting this thread from Marios (this particular skeet just happens to be one that stops the thread breaking) in case of interest for @polphilpod.bsky.social as I think it fits w/ stuff Toby says on US, here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mapping www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/

For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵

Another good discussion of the culture and politics of Chinese open source AI; Deepseek; geopolitics link.chtbl.com/chinatalk podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c... “As a first step to understanding what’s in the water at Deepseek, we’ve translated a rare, in-depth interview with CEO Liang Wenfeng, originally published this past July on a 36Kr sub-brand.”

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Takeaway from crazy news day: need to relearn lessons of Trump 2016 Ignore vast swathes of what passes for ‘news’ Trump wanging on about Greenland and Panama is noise. Ditto Musk’s latest disorientation post on X. Zuckerberg gutting content moderation and kissing the ring is signal though.

It's mostly this ^ . Trump himself - and now Musk - get endless amusement by watching 'the left' and most media get worked up into a tizzy about something they just pull out of their ass and post. Stop taking it literally. Stop fretting about inconsequential nonsense. >

It’s three months since I launched London Centric, so here’s what’s happened and a little bit on what’s next. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

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Matt @mattpolprof.bsky.social was recently on the podcast discussing liberal socialism This is a good quick primer on the main figures in that tradition:

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There is an issue that a desire to Be Empathetic/See Both Sides often collides with human laziness to turn into "I will Do Empathy To You by choosing to imagine you in terms I find easy to empathise with - probably you're poor, that's why you did it! - not miserable confusing research".

Just after the 2016 election, Jon Lovett made the point that Democrats needed to distinguish between what *offends* people and what *affects* them

When the Guardian makes a cut and paste error in the sentence about a cut and paste error… “after a member of their team had team cut and paste the notice for the event last year” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...