Fergus Ryan
@fergus.bsky.social
Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
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“Only in a greedy one-party state could things get this chaotic,” re: pandemic response, according to FLG media. Not sure I entirely agree with him if he did say that, but would defend to the death etc etc.
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Only in a greedy one-party state could things get this chaotic,” re: pandemic response, according to FLG media. Not sure I entirely agree with him if he did say that, but would defend to the death etc etc.
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The current (now quietly broken) version of the Ads Transparency Center was launched in 2023 in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act, which is something these American platforms have apparently decided they don’t have to worry about any longer.
Ads transparency
business.x.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The current (now quietly broken) version of the Ads Transparency Center was launched in 2023 in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act, which is something these American platforms have apparently decided they don’t have to worry about any longer.
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Twitter has launched and then killed an “Ads Transparency Center” before, but at least for the last one they updated an old blog post to say it was dead:
Providing more transparency around advertising on Twitter
Today we’re pleased to share the second part of our efforts, the Ads Transparency Center, which allows anyone across the globe to view ads that have been served on Twitter.
blog.x.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Twitter has launched and then killed an “Ads Transparency Center” before, but at least for the last one they updated an old blog post to say it was dead:
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Recommender algorithms controlled by unfriendly foreign powers threaten democracy and security. They artificially boost authoritarians and break society apart. They silence the rest of us.
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Recommender algorithms controlled by unfriendly foreign powers threaten democracy and security. They artificially boost authoritarians and break society apart. They silence the rest of us.
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OpenAI did not ask for government support, unless I have missed something. Their cfo, who keeps saying stuff that no cfo should say, said some bizarre shit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
OpenAI did not ask for government support, unless I have missed something. Their cfo, who keeps saying stuff that no cfo should say, said some bizarre shit.
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Right wing propagandists are going to do what they do, and what they always do. But we can see their hyperventilating for what it is: a defense of an existing power structure that reproduces extreme income and wealth inequality.
If you're against that inequality, you might well be a socialist.
If you're against that inequality, you might well be a socialist.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Right wing propagandists are going to do what they do, and what they always do. But we can see their hyperventilating for what it is: a defense of an existing power structure that reproduces extreme income and wealth inequality.
If you're against that inequality, you might well be a socialist.
If you're against that inequality, you might well be a socialist.
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This is the socialism of the early Labour Party and German SDP. It is not "extreme" or "far left," but, rather accommodationist and incrementalistic.
Perhaps this is not a winning political framework for other parts of the US, but neither is it some sort of existential threat to American life.
Perhaps this is not a winning political framework for other parts of the US, but neither is it some sort of existential threat to American life.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is the socialism of the early Labour Party and German SDP. It is not "extreme" or "far left," but, rather accommodationist and incrementalistic.
Perhaps this is not a winning political framework for other parts of the US, but neither is it some sort of existential threat to American life.
Perhaps this is not a winning political framework for other parts of the US, but neither is it some sort of existential threat to American life.
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This is a canard. Socialism in those contexts is fused with Leninism and is emphatically anti-democratic.
Mamdani is squarely in line with Eduard Bernstein, early theorist of democratic socialism (see his book: Evolutionary Socialism, 1899), as well as LaGuardia and Marc.
x.com/i/status/198...
Mamdani is squarely in line with Eduard Bernstein, early theorist of democratic socialism (see his book: Evolutionary Socialism, 1899), as well as LaGuardia and Marc.
x.com/i/status/198...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X: "UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign. https://t.co/07F6K1gy7b" / X
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign. https://t.co/07F6K1gy7b
x.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is a canard. Socialism in those contexts is fused with Leninism and is emphatically anti-democratic.
Mamdani is squarely in line with Eduard Bernstein, early theorist of democratic socialism (see his book: Evolutionary Socialism, 1899), as well as LaGuardia and Marc.
x.com/i/status/198...
Mamdani is squarely in line with Eduard Bernstein, early theorist of democratic socialism (see his book: Evolutionary Socialism, 1899), as well as LaGuardia and Marc.
x.com/i/status/198...
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The point here is to pursue socialist goals - most notably to lessen economic inequality - through democratic means.
Right wing propaganda will, and always has, try to equate this with the socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They will call socialists like Mamdani "communist."
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Right wing propaganda will, and always has, try to equate this with the socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They will call socialists like Mamdani "communist."
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November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The point here is to pursue socialist goals - most notably to lessen economic inequality - through democratic means.
Right wing propaganda will, and always has, try to equate this with the socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They will call socialists like Mamdani "communist."
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Right wing propaganda will, and always has, try to equate this with the socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They will call socialists like Mamdani "communist."
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