Vetch101
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I'm hoping we don't remember 2025 as the year it just became completely normalised for mainstream politicians to be openly racist and instead it's a blip. I'm not hugely optimistic.
December 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'm hoping we don't remember 2025 as the year it just became completely normalised for mainstream politicians to be openly racist and instead it's a blip. I'm not hugely optimistic.
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Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
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The Telegraph having a perfectly normal one this Boxing Day I see
I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Telegraph having a perfectly normal one this Boxing Day I see
I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Not for the people’: Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power
Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy
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December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Sad and predictable but also interesting and revealing to see the angry reaction from the populist right to the King's Speech. They're reading it as a call for tolerance of diversity, approval for multi-faith, multi-cultural UK, and supportive of Ukraine. Which I think it was & intentionally so. 1/3
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Sad and predictable but also interesting and revealing to see the angry reaction from the populist right to the King's Speech. They're reading it as a call for tolerance of diversity, approval for multi-faith, multi-cultural UK, and supportive of Ukraine. Which I think it was & intentionally so. 1/3
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Yet beneath the surface, NVIDIA has a growing customer concentration problem that spells doom. Its diversified revenue - cash from customers that don't represent 10% of revenue - has collapsed from $25.89bn in Q1FY26 to $22.23bn in Q3FY26. This is very bad.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yet beneath the surface, NVIDIA has a growing customer concentration problem that spells doom. Its diversified revenue - cash from customers that don't represent 10% of revenue - has collapsed from $25.89bn in Q1FY26 to $22.23bn in Q3FY26. This is very bad.
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Blue Owl's role in data centers is to pull together the money from big banks and private equity firms to get these projects greenlit. This is not a scenario where other partners can easily "step in," and Stargate Michigan could be completely dead.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Blue Owl's role in data centers is to pull together the money from big banks and private equity firms to get these projects greenlit. This is not a scenario where other partners can easily "step in," and Stargate Michigan could be completely dead.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Rather excellent thread
Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Rather excellent thread
Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
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'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
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This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
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Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
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The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
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This is remarkably similar to the story in the UK for Labour. Taking younger social-liberal voters for granted is a recipe for electoral disaster.
The ANES and long-term registration data on this is absolutely terrifying. I know Dems are facing a lot of 5-alarm fires, but the lack of focus on this one is the most baffling. People on the other site were just telling me how we Dems need to cater to the over 65s who want moderation. 😵💫
MAGA understands the importance of chasing young voters. Whereas Democrats continue to bizarrely just take them for granted, making the same mistake they did with a lot of other voters in 2024. Older Dems will keep voting for the party no matter what, so the Dem focus does need to be on the young.
December 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is remarkably similar to the story in the UK for Labour. Taking younger social-liberal voters for granted is a recipe for electoral disaster.
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Some signs of progress on NPR, which was meant to be unveiled at the spending review, then conference, then the budget.
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
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But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
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Ministers set to lay out details for ‘Northern Powerhouse’ rail scheme in new year
[FREE TO READ] Timelines and funding remain unclear for proposal that has been promised for a decade
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December 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Some signs of progress on NPR, which was meant to be unveiled at the spending review, then conference, then the budget.
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
as.ft.com/r/bdec77e4-3...
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
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I think this is called "a cry for help"
1/3
1/3
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I think this is called "a cry for help"
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Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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My god.
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My god.
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
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"US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification"
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
The @seancasten.bsky.social thread on @mattyglesias.bsky.social's O&G article gets basic stuff wrong.
- "keep it in the ground" is an outcome, not a strategy
- US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification
- "keep it in the ground" is an outcome, not a strategy
- US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification"
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Streeting seems to have ended up, 10+ years later, at exactly the same misunderstanding as Cameron's pre-referendum 'renegotiation'. Tedious and depressing. (Extract is from my Blogpost of February 2017: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/even...)
December 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Streeting seems to have ended up, 10+ years later, at exactly the same misunderstanding as Cameron's pre-referendum 'renegotiation'. Tedious and depressing. (Extract is from my Blogpost of February 2017: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/even...)
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Time to escalate my calls: I think something is rotten at Meta, and they are in trouble
Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
techcrunch.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Time to escalate my calls: I think something is rotten at Meta, and they are in trouble
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Finally, NVIDIA's AI GPU sales are quietly collapsing, with the majority - 61% in its latest quarter - of revenue coming from four customers. Over the last 3 quarters, smaller customer revenue has collapsed from $25.89bn to $12.9bn.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Finally, NVIDIA's AI GPU sales are quietly collapsing, with the majority - 61% in its latest quarter - of revenue coming from four customers. Over the last 3 quarters, smaller customer revenue has collapsed from $25.89bn to $12.9bn.
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