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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

So the obvious thing to do here is ask him again *next* time, after he's had a helpful heads-up and additional time to research the matter. Why let things slide? @mkraju.bsky.social

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

Whether out of rational prisoner’s-dilemma calculation, or as a screw-you emotional response to betrayal, or any mixture of the two.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the real, main reason is: Trump knows he’s trapped in a criminal conspiracy with a lot of other ppl, and that anything that can be interpreted as a sign he’s ready to underbus one of his co-conspirators can be taken by *any* of the others as the signal to defect first themselves.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

Glass half full: as a South Asian Muslim who’s rocketing up in US politics he doesn’t *have* to say or do anything further to stick his finger in the eye of the local racists. He can just smile and talk about how he loves ice cream and that’s enough to boil their piss.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. bsky.app/profile/mbdr...

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · Jul 11

It would hit a lot of the themes: RETVRN fantasies and a search for community, women ‘in their place’, anti-GWOT, antisemitism, a transgressive aspect to scandalise the normies …

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got €0.50 riding on a 4chan swing to extremist Islam within the next decade or so. It would be better than this, quite frankly.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 1d

:| Green salad, please. youtu.be/5HLy27bK-wU

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure Soares’ maths and ML skills are not up to what ML research now requires, but on the other hand this claim is clearly over the top. The Swiss patent office wasn’t any kind of research institute.

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 2d

Why fight that reaction? It’s entirely correct: people are bad and stupid. The irrational belief which needs to be fought with conscious effort is that this is exclusively true of Trump supporters or other outsiders.

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Gavin Starks @dgen.net · 5d

Owen is right to highlight this. As taxpayers, we already paid. All this will do is introduce higher prices to all consumers and businesses.

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 6d

This GOTT guidance is Treasury-brained and low-key hostile to #opendata – it starts from the premise that organisations in the UK public sector should look to commercially exploit "their" knowledge assets, with no real expectation that they should prioritise the wider public interest.

Factors to consider when deciding what information should be made re-usable under the OGL
● Is the material subject to the Regulations, for example, was it created within the scope of the PSB’s public task?
● Is the information exempt from being released, for example, for national security, personal data protection, third-party rights or commercial sensitivity?
● Is there a strong commercial case to share the material for re-use through non-OGL routes?
● Does the PSB wish to maintain the freedom to use this KA outside of OGL terms should a use-case be identified later?
● Does the PSB wish to recover the cost of maintaining / developing this KA?

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 4d

I also have a hunch that some number of the Republicans who didn’t approve were simply lying that they hadn’t seen it in a vague attempt to preserve some kind of deniability.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 5d

You know it's right. The US 22nd amendment isn't seriously Trump-proof. It's just about FDR-proof, which is probs about all it was intended to be. TBH it doesn't even matter that much any more: if you get to 2028 and somehow Trump still looks like he could win then you're probably burgered anyway.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

Bloody earworm

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

It remained relatively obscure even at the time. If you weren’t following tech news you could easily miss it.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

Trump trying to resist putting on the crown is a George Costanza subplot. Maybe that’s the plan?! Unfortunately this crown is too funny and Asian-looking so he may be put off by that. bsky.app/profile/mbdr...

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 13d

Not to be seen wearing it would require self-control which he doesn’t have. It’s the most cunning way possible to help get rid of him.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

:O bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 6d

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung plans to present US President Donald Trump with a replica of a gold crown on display at the Gyeongju National Museum as the pair meet Wednesday on the sidelines of the APEC summit

South Korea Plans to Gift Trump Replica Gold Crown During Visit

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung plans to present US President Donald Trump with a replica of a gold crown on display at the Gyeongju National Museum as the pair meet Wednesday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

They didn’t bother to poll for Badenoch? Oof.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 6d

In fact I suspect the real resentment these people feel towards Mamdani is nearer the opposite: an idea that he's a parvenu or a blow-in (viz. bsky.app/profile/mbdr...). But of course you can't (yet) openly accuse someone of being a parvenu in the US nowadays, so you end up with this instead.

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · Jun 26

... both men were/are rejected as parvenus, men from nowhere, not real leaders of men, and 'not one of us'. Viz. eg. x.com/InezFeltsche... (via @rev-avocado.bsky.social) where, for one thing, the American-citizenship jab is on the same emotional wavelength as Obama birth-certificate speculation.

Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ on X: "By the way in Zohran’s particular case he is clearly not defined by being from Uganda or India but from being essentially from nowhere, a floating elite class global citizen with no loyalty to a place or its people, which is why he didn’t bother to get American citizenship until" / X

By the way in Zohran’s particular case he is clearly not defined by being from Uganda or India but from being essentially from nowhere, a floating elite class global citizen with no loyalty to a place or its people, which is why he didn’t bother to get American citizenship until

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

bsky.app/profile/mbdr...

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

When /We're Only In It For The Money/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnKX... started to feel of the moment again in 2021 it was a bad sign.

Are You Hung Up?

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

When /We're Only In It For The Money/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnKX... started to feel of the moment again in 2021 it was a bad sign.

Are You Hung Up?

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

www.youtube.com

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

However the second half of the '60s did feature what's widely considered the first modern mass shooting: a horribly fatal one even by modern standards, and something that greatly shocked people at the time. www.britannica.com/event/Texas-...

Texas Tower shooting of 1966 | Background, Chronology, Map, & Interview | Britannica

Texas Tower shooting of 1966, in which Charles Whitman fired from the clock tower on the University of Texas campus, killing 14 people.

www.britannica.com

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

The Atta crew's fact-finding trips to Vegas in the summer of 2001 illustrates how many of the same contradictory attitudes and desires seem to be at work in both groups. Separated brothers. www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...

www.8newsnow.com

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

I would be a bit surprised if a US national-level official goes that far, but I do agree there's a good chance that the 4chan katamari will veer in that direction at some time in maybe the next decade or so, especially if Trump and white nationalism start looking passé. bsky.app/profile/mbdr...

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · Jul 11

It would hit a lot of the themes: RETVRN fantasies and a search for community, women ‘in their place’, anti-GWOT, antisemitism, a transgressive aspect to scandalise the normies …

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

But also, being mildly positive on both Hitler and Stalin is not an unheard-of thing in the US; in fact it's a viewpoint which is of a piece with Trump's vision of a world of big global power blocs jostling and horsetrading.

www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

Second Thoughts on James Burnham | The Orwell Foundation

"It is curious that in all his talk about the struggle for power, Burnham never stops to ask why people want power."

www.orwellfoundation.com

M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 7d

Also the cool uniforms, industrialisation, moustache and being Stronk overall. But also specifically because of the antisemitism, I’m pretty sure: for someone like Fuentes who fancies himself a connoisseur Hitler’s the starter pack but Stalin’s a really solid mainstream pick.

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