Heist Week! Walter Matthau IS Charley Varrick, Bruce Willis IS Hudson Hawk and Nick Langdon IS our special guest.

@nlangdon.bsky.social

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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

I guess the stock market must have Trump Derangement Syndrome….that explains it, right?

I watched Russia’s horrible propaganda movie justifying their invasion of Ukraine, spoiler alert: it was racist garbage.

The media isn’t even trying to hide their joy and relief:

MAGA, the working class movement, be like:

@jvl.bsky.social with the perfect quote:

"That’s the dual hermeneutic the populists use for evaluating the world. If you’re an expert who got one thing wrong, it damns you. If you’re a total lunatic crank who gets one thing right, it makes makes you bulletproof."

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

What is most sad is that these whining betas think they’re the big strong alphas. Two weak men with zero self-awareness telling each other they’re the victims. Oh how cruel life is to the top 0.1%

Via @thebulwark.bsky.social

Throughout history failed revolutionaries have usually been executed, imprisoned or exiled. They are almost never normalised, promoted and then elected to rule the state they tried to overthrow by force. This must be this “American exceptionalism” we hear so much about.

A noir double bill to see in 2025 with special guest @nlangdon.bsky.social

Back to the Wall (1958)
In the Cold of the Night (1990)

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My complaint with AI isn't that I think it'll cause an apocalypse or put everyone out of work. It's that I know what they really want it for, which is to offload responsibility. They want a machine to make the decisions so they, the humans in charge, can't be blamed.

What does Kim Jong Un see when he looks at global turmoil in recent years?

In all likelihood, a stark reminder that no leader, military or state, is invulnerable.

A quick thread, based on some in-depth analysis I have just done for @nknewsorg

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As Paul Keating said of prime ministers: "[they] have got Araldite on their pants, most of them. They want to stick to their seat. You either put the sword through them or let the people do it"

40 years after Pierre Trudeau's famous walk in the snow, it's time for Justin to put in his hat and coat.

This is half correct, the foreign policy/security situation in the region is very different to even a month ago, but Netanyahu’s decisions are based on a far more simplistic calculation: how can he best hold his coalition together and stave off his legal dramas? By keeping the war going.

The net effect of the internet was to make the populace as a whole less tethered to facts and data—and more animated by folk stories and something like an oral tradition.

A deep dive in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/american-f...

Trump ran for reelection solely to stay out of prison. Now he accomplished that his only priorities are:

1. Make more money
2. Revenge against enemies
3. Golf

Don’t ascribe any governing principles, deep convictions or ideology to the man, it’s way less complicated than that.

February 2022: Twitter was extremely useful in giving me the best information about the invasion of Ukraine from smart and informed people.

October 2023: Twitter essentially useless when it came to Hamas’ attack on Israel, mostly propaganda, hate-speech and random shitposters.

just setting up my bsky