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It's comin' around ;)
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's comin' around ;)
After this presidency, Europe's relationship with the US must be utterly different. Europe can no longer rely on a flakey ally. There is no going back.
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Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel
When the president targeted me and my TV show, millions said no. So don’t give up on us – and always remember, we’re not all like him, says US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
After this presidency, Europe's relationship with the US must be utterly different. Europe can no longer rely on a flakey ally. There is no going back.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good article on the AI bubble. This is another example of how the US is weakened by oligarchy.
Good article on the AI bubble. This is another example of how the US is weakened by oligarchy.
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Good article on the AI bubble. This is another example of how the US is weakened by oligarchy.
Good article on the AI bubble. This is another example of how the US is weakened by oligarchy.
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🥚 We live in barbarism.
No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it.
Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇
time.com/7299476/baby...
No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it.
Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇
time.com/7299476/baby...
Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere
Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.
time.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🥚 We live in barbarism.
No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it.
Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇
time.com/7299476/baby...
No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it.
Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇
time.com/7299476/baby...
America's strategic mistake is to allow businessmen to become rich enough to be oligarchs and undermine democracy. Over the next 50 years the US will consume itself from the inside.
Europe knows stability requires no one country or person to be too powerful. That is why Russia must be stopped.
Europe knows stability requires no one country or person to be too powerful. That is why Russia must be stopped.
December 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
America's strategic mistake is to allow businessmen to become rich enough to be oligarchs and undermine democracy. Over the next 50 years the US will consume itself from the inside.
Europe knows stability requires no one country or person to be too powerful. That is why Russia must be stopped.
Europe knows stability requires no one country or person to be too powerful. That is why Russia must be stopped.
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"Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain." G. Jefferson 1949. Quoted in Wolfe Mays' paper.
From Can Machines Think?, Philosophy 1952, by Wolfe Mays, summarising recent work by Turing on what a thinking machine would be like. I think we forgot number 7.
December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain." G. Jefferson 1949. Quoted in Wolfe Mays' paper.
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.
December 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.
I think it's time to rewatch Alchemy of Souls. After all, it is Christmas.
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I think it's time to rewatch Alchemy of Souls. After all, it is Christmas.
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Is tax theft? Many people think so.
In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake.
If you care about public services, this is the conversation we need to have.
youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?...
In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake.
If you care about public services, this is the conversation we need to have.
youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?...
Tax is not theft: why the “it’s my money” argument is wrong
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is tax theft? Many people think so.
In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake.
If you care about public services, this is the conversation we need to have.
youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?...
In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake.
If you care about public services, this is the conversation we need to have.
youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?...
Bluesky tells my I need to set my birthday, but when I try to it tells me I've recently updated it, which I haven't. On my phone, I get a message saying there aren't enough resources.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Bluesky tells my I need to set my birthday, but when I try to it tells me I've recently updated it, which I haven't. On my phone, I get a message saying there aren't enough resources.
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1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
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And in response to headlines like "there is no need for masks", here is the 1 minutes from my interview where I discuss basic preventative measures (including masks!).
Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.
Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
And in response to headlines like "there is no need for masks", here is the 1 minutes from my interview where I discuss basic preventative measures (including masks!).
Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.
Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.
My wife worked for NLCS Singapore for 3 years. There is a lot that happened that isn't in this article, but it is a good representation of the kinds of things that happened while we were there, and, clearly, afterwards too.
The UK’s private schools are some of the most revered educational institutions in the world. Many are utilising their renown to open franchise schools overseas. But how easy is it to maintain the same standards thousands of miles away?
W/@madisonmarriage.bsky.social
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W/@madisonmarriage.bsky.social
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The elite British private school that lost its way in Singapore
Former staff allege bullying, misogyny and safeguarding lapses at the city-state outpost of North London Collegiate School
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My wife worked for NLCS Singapore for 3 years. There is a lot that happened that isn't in this article, but it is a good representation of the kinds of things that happened while we were there, and, clearly, afterwards too.
Grok is an enemy of truth. It should be banned in the UK before it (ie Elon Musk) destroys our democracy.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Grok is an enemy of truth. It should be banned in the UK before it (ie Elon Musk) destroys our democracy.
The biggest threat to European culture is not immigrants: it's American culture, which we stream into our lives as addicts.
#culturalerasure
#culturalerasure
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The biggest threat to European culture is not immigrants: it's American culture, which we stream into our lives as addicts.
#culturalerasure
#culturalerasure
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I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
Jesus fucking Christ
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Jesus fucking Christ
It sounds like Marina Hyde is volunteering to give up her lucrative writing gig to be a carer.
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Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde
The Green party leader is riding high in the polls. But across the political spectrum, uncritical adulation leads nowhere fast, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It sounds like Marina Hyde is volunteering to give up her lucrative writing gig to be a carer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's when Russia lie like this that you know they're really worried.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peace
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It's when Russia lie like this that you know they're really worried.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Germany tried being nice to Russia, to take their gas and make their economies interdependent as a way of keeping peace. That has utterly failed. Sometimes, sadly, the way to make peace is to prepare for war. Military balance and preparedness is the key.
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Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no | Mithu Sanyal
The war in Ukraine is a crime. But European leaders should be working for peace, not preparing young people to fight and die, says German academic Mithu Sanyal
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Germany tried being nice to Russia, to take their gas and make their economies interdependent as a way of keeping peace. That has utterly failed. Sometimes, sadly, the way to make peace is to prepare for war. Military balance and preparedness is the key.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...