Alsan
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Emma Thompson is an English actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama.
February 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Emma Thompson is an English actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama.
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"This promise of an AI future is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Setting aside time to watch this whole panel, someday soon.
Setting aside time to watch this whole panel, someday soon.
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
futurism.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"This promise of an AI future is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Setting aside time to watch this whole panel, someday soon.
Setting aside time to watch this whole panel, someday soon.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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I think it’s time for us as US citizens to take action into our own hands and accept that majority of these politicians are not our saviors. Regardless of their political party.
Democracy is dead and no one is coming to save us. When the fuck are we going to save ourselves?
Democracy is dead and no one is coming to save us. When the fuck are we going to save ourselves?
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I think it’s time for us as US citizens to take action into our own hands and accept that majority of these politicians are not our saviors. Regardless of their political party.
Democracy is dead and no one is coming to save us. When the fuck are we going to save ourselves?
Democracy is dead and no one is coming to save us. When the fuck are we going to save ourselves?
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Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
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A couple of years ago I wrote a short little Christmas story and put it up on my site. Here it is for your enjoyment. It also comes with an audio version, so you can hear why I let actual professionals narrate my novels:
whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/22/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/22/a...
A Holiday Gift For You: “End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley”
Earlier in the month I promised that if Whatever readers (and others) helped to get the Locus Magazine fundraiser to $75k by the time their fundraiser closed, I would write a Christmas story, and i…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A couple of years ago I wrote a short little Christmas story and put it up on my site. Here it is for your enjoyment. It also comes with an audio version, so you can hear why I let actual professionals narrate my novels:
whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/22/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/22/a...
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Now that is a cool photo. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize
Duelling prairie chickens, a snake-mimicking moth and a once-a-year sunrise at the South Pole feature in the best images from the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025
www.newscientist.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Now that is a cool photo. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
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Things are deteriorating so quickly as the full weight of American fascism comes to bear it’s really hard to fully explain to people even having done this for years now.
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Things are deteriorating so quickly as the full weight of American fascism comes to bear it’s really hard to fully explain to people even having done this for years now.
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
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From here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
From here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
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Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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Whoever wrote this letter was extremely prescient. It gave me chills.
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Whoever wrote this letter was extremely prescient. It gave me chills.
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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In email exchanges with Epstein, Kathryn Ruemmler (former WH counsel under Obama) “appears to be contemplating a job offer: attorney general of the United States, according to contemporary reports.
“And who does she seek advice from?
“A convicted sex offender.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“And who does she seek advice from?
“A convicted sex offender.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Anand Giridharadas' discussion of the Epstein emails as a record of the thought and conduct of white mail elites is the best writing on this subject I have seen in the last several weeks. Read it.
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In email exchanges with Epstein, Kathryn Ruemmler (former WH counsel under Obama) “appears to be contemplating a job offer: attorney general of the United States, according to contemporary reports.
“And who does she seek advice from?
“A convicted sex offender.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“And who does she seek advice from?
“A convicted sex offender.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Amazing capture by Brad Dennis
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Amazing capture by Brad Dennis
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"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
The Confluence
I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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Me when someone cancels plans I didn’t actually want to go to.
October 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Me when someone cancels plans I didn’t actually want to go to.
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There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast
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October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now: