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I’m impressed at how well Grok AI nails the sense that the woman is lying.
Just in case you're wondering how realistic Musk's "I will always love you" video might be...
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m impressed at how well Grok AI nails the sense that the woman is lying.
My prediction:
If Republicans get an absolute battering in the mid-terms there will be no prompts for soul searching.
If Republicans get an absolute battering in the mid-terms there will be no prompts for soul searching.
"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My prediction:
If Republicans get an absolute battering in the mid-terms there will be no prompts for soul searching.
If Republicans get an absolute battering in the mid-terms there will be no prompts for soul searching.
This is a new one.
Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today.
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is a new one.
Less incredible when you put it like that.
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Less incredible when you put it like that.
I feel someone needs to write a cautionary tale about the dangers of regularly announcing dangers that don’t exist or don’t materialise because you want to get a reaction from people.
Something with a wolf in it maybe, I dunno.
Something with a wolf in it maybe, I dunno.
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
“Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I feel someone needs to write a cautionary tale about the dangers of regularly announcing dangers that don’t exist or don’t materialise because you want to get a reaction from people.
Something with a wolf in it maybe, I dunno.
Something with a wolf in it maybe, I dunno.
I did!
did you know ancient egyptians had a form of pregnancy test where you would pee on barley and rye seeds and see if they sprouted? and according to modern experiments it kind of works because of hgh
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I did!
I was thought it and I’m an idiot and extremely ignorant.
I’m not sure how you manage to be in politics and still be able to think that the government wouldn’t need to raise taxes given everything going on with the country: austerity, Brexit, Covid, an aging population, a productivity crisis etc.
I’m not sure how you manage to be in politics and still be able to think that the government wouldn’t need to raise taxes given everything going on with the country: austerity, Brexit, Covid, an aging population, a productivity crisis etc.
“Nobody thought a Labour government would have to raise taxes by more than £70bn,” claims one insider in this excellent piece. Shows the problem of the climate of fear in meetings created by some of Starmer’s aides, in that plenty of Labour insiders, did, in fact, think this!
The politics of breaking manifesto promises
The history of politicians who go back on their words has lessons for Rachel Reeves as she mulls raising taxes
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I was thought it and I’m an idiot and extremely ignorant.
I’m not sure how you manage to be in politics and still be able to think that the government wouldn’t need to raise taxes given everything going on with the country: austerity, Brexit, Covid, an aging population, a productivity crisis etc.
I’m not sure how you manage to be in politics and still be able to think that the government wouldn’t need to raise taxes given everything going on with the country: austerity, Brexit, Covid, an aging population, a productivity crisis etc.
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It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
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This makes me so mad. More Proof F’n ICE Gestapo r only targeting people who can’t defend themselves! #arresttrump
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This makes me so mad. More Proof F’n ICE Gestapo r only targeting people who can’t defend themselves! #arresttrump
Newspapers are like the babies in game of peekaboo when it comes to rich folks claiming they’ll move if a centre-left party gets elected:
Surprised every time when they discover the big person is still there.
Surprised every time when they discover the big person is still there.
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Newspapers are like the babies in game of peekaboo when it comes to rich folks claiming they’ll move if a centre-left party gets elected:
Surprised every time when they discover the big person is still there.
Surprised every time when they discover the big person is still there.
Yeah, this is why X dot com is driving people mad - and why our mainstream politicians and journalists need to get off it ASAP.
There is a lot of evidence that social norms effect behavior! It is probably one of the best demonstrated social science findings. Here's one paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Evolution of Norms1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 106, No 6
Social norms that induce us to reward or punish people not for what they did to us but for what they did to other members of one’s group have long been thought as sine qua non sociological and thus im...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yeah, this is why X dot com is driving people mad - and why our mainstream politicians and journalists need to get off it ASAP.
My timeline this morning is “the world’s first trillionaire ended US Aid, leading to the deaths of millions” alongside “ChatGPT encouraged a college student to commit suicide.”
You know, I’m starting to think public executions of billionaires might actually be the answer.
You know, I’m starting to think public executions of billionaires might actually be the answer.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My timeline this morning is “the world’s first trillionaire ended US Aid, leading to the deaths of millions” alongside “ChatGPT encouraged a college student to commit suicide.”
You know, I’m starting to think public executions of billionaires might actually be the answer.
You know, I’m starting to think public executions of billionaires might actually be the answer.
Reposted by Colin Elves
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
It’s the boomer dark web.
On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s the boomer dark web.
The people there are really nice by the way.
I’m not the friend* being referred here by the way, I’m just saying they’re nice people in my experience.
*I’ve never even met Jonn.
I’m not the friend* being referred here by the way, I’m just saying they’re nice people in my experience.
*I’ve never even met Jonn.
Has anyone come across a phone no for Paddington station lost property? friend is having a crisis
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The people there are really nice by the way.
I’m not the friend* being referred here by the way, I’m just saying they’re nice people in my experience.
*I’ve never even met Jonn.
I’m not the friend* being referred here by the way, I’m just saying they’re nice people in my experience.
*I’ve never even met Jonn.
One often ignored, but crucial feature of absolute monarchies was the role of the king’s fool.
It seems for those with near unrestrained power having at least one person whose job it was to mock you and your dumb as shit ideas provided an important check on dangerous excess.
#bring-back-the-fools
It seems for those with near unrestrained power having at least one person whose job it was to mock you and your dumb as shit ideas provided an important check on dangerous excess.
#bring-back-the-fools
Once again, for any billionaires watching, I am happy to be the guy who says "No, that's stupid" when you suggest something dumb for, say, £20m per annum.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
One often ignored, but crucial feature of absolute monarchies was the role of the king’s fool.
It seems for those with near unrestrained power having at least one person whose job it was to mock you and your dumb as shit ideas provided an important check on dangerous excess.
#bring-back-the-fools
It seems for those with near unrestrained power having at least one person whose job it was to mock you and your dumb as shit ideas provided an important check on dangerous excess.
#bring-back-the-fools
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Launching today is a series of proposals backed by the Adam Smith Institute, Bright Blue, CenTax, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute for Public Policy Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the New Economics Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Tax Policy Associates.
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Launching today is a series of proposals backed by the Adam Smith Institute, Bright Blue, CenTax, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute for Public Policy Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the New Economics Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Tax Policy Associates.
Then why is the British government still on X?
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Then why is the British government still on X?
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This crap just gets worse and worse as these companies fling #AI spaghetti at the wall (the PUBLIC) hoping desperately that something will stick — and PAY.
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This crap just gets worse and worse as these companies fling #AI spaghetti at the wall (the PUBLIC) hoping desperately that something will stick — and PAY.
What’s gonna happen when they stop paying the rent on the housing?
My buddy in Belgium was DoD and he did not live in army housing.
My buddy in Belgium was DoD and he did not live in army housing.
At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/army-tells-s...
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/army-tells-s...
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What’s gonna happen when they stop paying the rent on the housing?
My buddy in Belgium was DoD and he did not live in army housing.
My buddy in Belgium was DoD and he did not live in army housing.
Imagine needing the attention that much.
I think it must be a disease.
I think it must be a disease.
Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Imagine needing the attention that much.
I think it must be a disease.
I think it must be a disease.
They live in a fantasy land, the lie of said land will not significantly change over Mamdani’s term.
I am fascinated by a question @lastpositivist.bsky.social raised - will the mundane reality of Mamdani's governance cause anyone like this to reconsider their fantasies or the basis of their fantasies? How much do they even believe this crap themselves?
This guy
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
They live in a fantasy land, the lie of said land will not significantly change over Mamdani’s term.