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Sam Altman knows less about nuclear physics than Dr. Christmas Jones.
achieving fusion by deregulating physics
January 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sam Altman knows less about nuclear physics than Dr. Christmas Jones.
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"Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off."
January 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off."
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I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."
Something that isn't remarked on enough is the way that quite a lot of the praise for the Trump-like crushing of equalities programmes is based on pure, old-fashioned snobbery.
January 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."
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No more brutal assault than a bishop pleading for mercy for children. I’m amazed they survived.
January 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
No more brutal assault than a bishop pleading for mercy for children. I’m amazed they survived.
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Donald Trump will now be the president again.
A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Everyone Who Was Supposed To Protect You From This Failed Miserably
Donald Trump will now be the president again. A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Donald Trump will now be the president again.
A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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All I can say about this Peter Thiel op-ed in the Financial Times is that it reads like something he actually wrote. No comms team or AI chatbot is capable of producing this strange paranoid string of sentences www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
All I can say about this Peter Thiel op-ed in the Financial Times is that it reads like something he actually wrote. No comms team or AI chatbot is capable of producing this strange paranoid string of sentences www.ft.com/content/a46c...
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this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
All I can say about this Peter Thiel op-ed in the Financial Times is that it reads like something he actually wrote. No comms team or AI chatbot is capable of producing this strange paranoid string of sentences www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
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The head of the senior civil servants’ union has written to Keir Starmer urging him to rethink his “frankly insulting” criticism of Whitehall for being comfortable with falling standards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Civil servants’ union boss writes to Starmer over ‘frankly insulting’ criticism
Exclusive: FDA general secretary urges PM to rethink ‘Trumpian’ language about Whitehall
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
The head of the senior civil servants’ union has written to Keir Starmer urging him to rethink his “frankly insulting” criticism of Whitehall for being comfortable with falling standards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
December 6, 2024 at 11:47 AM
There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
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Romania, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine. Putin suddenly facing resistance across the globe right now.
December 6, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Romania, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine. Putin suddenly facing resistance across the globe right now.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
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From the same hypocrites preaching to others for years not to be "the elite" always "sneering and insulting" people's views just because they disagree, and to respect democracy.
But also "I WENT TO THE BEST UNIBOBS, OIK!, AND ALSO I DEMAND ANOTHER GENNYLEC! YAH?"
Fk'em @marina-purkiss.bsky.social.
But also "I WENT TO THE BEST UNIBOBS, OIK!, AND ALSO I DEMAND ANOTHER GENNYLEC! YAH?"
Fk'em @marina-purkiss.bsky.social.
December 6, 2024 at 6:12 PM
From the same hypocrites preaching to others for years not to be "the elite" always "sneering and insulting" people's views just because they disagree, and to respect democracy.
But also "I WENT TO THE BEST UNIBOBS, OIK!, AND ALSO I DEMAND ANOTHER GENNYLEC! YAH?"
Fk'em @marina-purkiss.bsky.social.
But also "I WENT TO THE BEST UNIBOBS, OIK!, AND ALSO I DEMAND ANOTHER GENNYLEC! YAH?"
Fk'em @marina-purkiss.bsky.social.
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this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
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This is the agency Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies want to kill.
December 6, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This is the agency Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies want to kill.
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Cry more.
NEW - Pittsburgh-area Steelworkers union leaders are upset with President-elect Trump for his vow to block the US Steel-Nippon deal. One of them spoke at a Trump rally earlier this year, and he said Tuesday that Trump's statements felt like a "gut punch” triblive.com/news/politic...
'Gut punch': Trump upsets local union leaders by opposing U.S. Steel-Nippon deal
On Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his opposition to the proposed $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Co., vowing to block the deal when he takes offic...
triblive.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Cry more.
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Did Vivek ever meet Jeffrey Epstein? Maybe that guy was okay, too!
“Ramaswamy said his past attacks on Musk came before they had ever met.”
They always go for this excuse when all it does is say, if true, that the excuse-maker has the mind and judgement of a maladroit child!
www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/p...
They always go for this excuse when all it does is say, if true, that the excuse-maker has the mind and judgement of a maladroit child!
www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/p...
Before DOGE, Ramaswamy spent years attacking Musk for ties to China | CNN Politics
Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency alongside billionaire Elon Musk, has a lengthy history of attacking his partner’s ties to China, frequently referring ...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Did Vivek ever meet Jeffrey Epstein? Maybe that guy was okay, too!
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Meanwhile Schumer and DC Democrats have a final window to replace a SCOTUS seat held by a 70yo and everyone assumes that this task is impossible and unrealistic.
December 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Meanwhile Schumer and DC Democrats have a final window to replace a SCOTUS seat held by a 70yo and everyone assumes that this task is impossible and unrealistic.
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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
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Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.
December 5, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.
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There are moral and ideological cases for leaving X, of course, but you don't even need them: the old platform is just *gone* and has been for a long time nymag.com/intelligence...
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 PM
There are moral and ideological cases for leaving X, of course, but you don't even need them: the old platform is just *gone* and has been for a long time nymag.com/intelligence...
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Inevitably the same people who lost their shit over Starmer receiving a free concert ticket are now losing their minds because he turned down free membership of a golf course.
November 16, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Inevitably the same people who lost their shit over Starmer receiving a free concert ticket are now losing their minds because he turned down free membership of a golf course.
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This place makes you realise just how corrosive Twitter was for your soul. It’s like dumping a toxic boyfriend.
November 16, 2024 at 3:59 PM
This place makes you realise just how corrosive Twitter was for your soul. It’s like dumping a toxic boyfriend.
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Well, this gets it exactly right, doesn’t it?
November 16, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Well, this gets it exactly right, doesn’t it?