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It has been truly stunning to watch over the last two decades as “the West” has gone about systematically forgetting everything it spent half a century insisting it would never forget about where it went wrong last time.
I saw the new film Nuremberg. It was based on the life of psychologist Douglas Kelly, who interviewed Nazi war criminals for five months before their trial. His book was not popular when he published it. Kelly's last chapter served as a warning from history, and this passage resonates with us now.
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 AM
It has been truly stunning to watch over the last two decades as “the West” has gone about systematically forgetting everything it spent half a century insisting it would never forget about where it went wrong last time.
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Coding will not save you.
‘Contra the narrow focus of policymakers on Stem subjects or coding, now more than ever our economy rewards broad skillsets: team players, problem solvers, good communicators and creative thinkers.’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/5e25...
www.ft.com/content/5e25...
How to AI-proof your job
The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market
www.ft.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Coding will not save you.
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They might be able to solve this by, bear with me here, not giving the prize by someone massively likely to do something corrupt like this?
Trump’s threatening of Venezuela and Machado trying to manipulate him into helping her into power didn’t begin on January the 1st.
Trump’s threatening of Venezuela and Machado trying to manipulate him into helping her into power didn’t begin on January the 1st.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:29 AM
They might be able to solve this by, bear with me here, not giving the prize by someone massively likely to do something corrupt like this?
Trump’s threatening of Venezuela and Machado trying to manipulate him into helping her into power didn’t begin on January the 1st.
Trump’s threatening of Venezuela and Machado trying to manipulate him into helping her into power didn’t begin on January the 1st.
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No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.
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everything he does is calculated to appeal to the country’s most stupid brutish slavering morons
Trump has scheduled a UFC fight to take place on the White House lawn on his 80th birthday this June.
G7 Summit Moved So It No Longer Conflicts With White House UFC Fight
Trump has scheduled a UFC fight to take place on the White House lawn on his 80th birthday this June.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
everything he does is calculated to appeal to the country’s most stupid brutish slavering morons
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MINNEAPOLIS, United States -- Paramilitary forces under the command of President Trump brandished weapons and refused members of parliament access to a facility under their oversight. Legal observers say the Federales' campaign of terrorism and murder is part of a broader attack on the rule of law.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
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January 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
MINNEAPOLIS, United States -- Paramilitary forces under the command of President Trump brandished weapons and refused members of parliament access to a facility under their oversight. Legal observers say the Federales' campaign of terrorism and murder is part of a broader attack on the rule of law.
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Remember how the media pretty universally lamented how a restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave their establishment? Remember how that was a sign of the cruelty of our society that should not have happened? That’s because they talk to people like her and not people like Renee Good
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Remember how the media pretty universally lamented how a restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave their establishment? Remember how that was a sign of the cruelty of our society that should not have happened? That’s because they talk to people like her and not people like Renee Good
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The US has been treating its public education-going children like caged animals for decades now. This is the logical endpoint of the Bush mandate for dissolution of privacy and the freedom from fear.
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The US has been treating its public education-going children like caged animals for decades now. This is the logical endpoint of the Bush mandate for dissolution of privacy and the freedom from fear.
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
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Steve Kerr always stepping up with straight talk
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:
Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Steve Kerr always stepping up with straight talk
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I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
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Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content
Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
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This shows the function of "independent" regulation. It is not to improve the working of an industry, but to allow the government to avoid responsibility.
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there.
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
January 7, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This shows the function of "independent" regulation. It is not to improve the working of an industry, but to allow the government to avoid responsibility.
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This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.
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At the age of 26, I bought a flat in London.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
At the age of 26, I bought a flat in London.
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The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"
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Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
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POV: you have shit for brains -
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
POV: you have shit for brains -
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fellas, is it classical liberal to celebrate the state killing citizens at will
A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
fellas, is it classical liberal to celebrate the state killing citizens at will
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600 hundred people lost their jobs or faced retaliation for saying less about Charlie Kirk.
A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
600 hundred people lost their jobs or faced retaliation for saying less about Charlie Kirk.
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I think the assumption has been "when we start killing people, they'll shut up and fall in line." Which has not, to put it mildly, been borne out
One thing I've been trying to keep in mind: What turns this around for the ICE/CPB/DHS Nazis? What do they do that makes people stop being angry to come out and yell at them in in the freezing cold, follow them around filming them, defending their neighbors? The answer is nothing. It will never stop
Protesters are keeping up the noise outside a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents in downtown Minneapolis.
Some protesters tried to get inside the building through the main entrance, where they were turned away by security.
📸: Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Some protesters tried to get inside the building through the main entrance, where they were turned away by security.
📸: Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I think the assumption has been "when we start killing people, they'll shut up and fall in line." Which has not, to put it mildly, been borne out
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They all think they’re licensed to kill now.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
They all think they’re licensed to kill now.