It's why I find equating Reform and RN with each other as a bit problematic insofar as they represent different dangers to Europe's democratic order.

Reform is more a catastrophic tsunami of racist destabilisation. RN an incremental reorientation of the EU towards racist civilisational imperialism

Any time you try to use tariffs as a weapon of coersion you're hoping that the other country's exporters are influential enough, and sufficiently exposed, to win a fight which pretty much the rest of their country.

As the UK discovered during Brexit talks, even German automakers have some limits.

Remember when the Kony 2012 guy had his brain so broken by social media he was found naked on the street doing weird sex stuff and vandalizing everything within reach? What if 13 years later we made the whole government out of that guy

This is extremely useful in today's world - how to create private network over kilometers of range. I am tempted to start making this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofR7...

RIP Graham Greene - you can watch CLEARCUT for free (with ads) on YouTube

youtu.be/rb9QHMnI__s?...

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

My latest newsletter is about how Big Tech killed the concept of ownership, in the process turning consumers into digital serfs.

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A 9500 word Premium newsletter: I have discovered that OpenAI and Anthropic have both jacked up prices for their largest customers, with Anthropic's changes directly harming Cursor, their largest customer, who have had to change their pricing as a result.
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Home ownership is out of reach for many Canadians. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s housing plan may keep it that way.

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Amazing how Hitchcock films look like futuristic utopian societies compared to even to the most favourable depicitions of the current "advanced societies" #Hitchcock #terribletimeli