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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22h

Cowardly, simpering toadies, eager for eye contact and a pat on the bonce from the Mad Orange Monarch. An international embarrassment.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22h

Loads of Europeans eye-rolling and throwing their hands up in exhausation about Trump throwing his toys out of the pram over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gee, I wonder where he got the idea he should be kowtowed to by everyone, always?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Well, maybe not wife. Perhaps our noble reporter and Dick Tice would prefer to continue "living in sin", whilst simultaneously whining about the loss of Western, Christian values in today's society. That'd fit.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Decollectivising ants would be the crowning achievement of Von Hayek and Von Mises

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

This bilious malefactor's weekly dose of thinly veiled race hate, spewed from an air-conditioned condo in the UAE.

A reminder that she is likely to be moving into 11 Downing Street as the wife of the future Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Oakeshott again with the thinly veiled race hate

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I was going for the whole ants things, but realise that's far too heroic

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

It's been about 2 months since the scrivener class started catching up with @edzitron.com & calling out AI as digital snake oil.

The racket might've been rumbled, but the only big money left out there for political retirees is banking or big tech, & that's the bottom line

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · Aug 20

So, the hacks have realised in sync that AI is just plug‑in magic beans.

What could this mean for wildly unpopular political leaders who've staked their heretofore failing growth plans on the promise of planting a wildly expensive magic bean forest?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

And this is exactly why politicians will voluntarily steer the ship of state into the AI iceberg. Big tech is where the money's at when the politics dries up.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

Former UK prime minister told post-ministerial jobs watchdog roles would not involve lobbying or UK policy influence Rishi Sunak has been appointed as a senior adviser by the US technology companies Microsoft and Anthropic. The former British prime minister’s pair of new jobs emerged on Thursday in letters published by Westminster’s office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba). They add to his roles as a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs International, the investment bank, and speechmaker to investment firms including Bain Capital and Makena Capital in the US, which have netted him over £150,000 a talk. Continue reading...

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Your Party *massive sigh*

At least the Greens can run a live stream.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

I'd have gone with myrmidons, but absolutely agree.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the fact they didn't have a programmatic agenda and list of demands shows me it was sabotaged from within.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

😂

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

💯😂

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Let's hope no kids are involved in this

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is America Now latest

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

A once-in-a-generation opportunity to try and redress the balance, absolutely wasted/sabotaged.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

The wheel spins as it should.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

The worst thing and most terrifying thing in the dusk of neoliberalism would be an Occupy movement that actually worked—and that is why it cannot happen, no matter the cost.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

When the AI bubble inevitably goes boom, the world will be plunged into an economic crisis worse than 2008.

People that lived through the bailouts & austerity will be rightly outraged that it's happening yet again.

Good job Western govts are neutering free speech & protest ahead of time, eh?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

The more I read about the AI bubble, the more I think that this rush towards silencing dissent in the UK is partially because politicians know that their whole system will be in jeopardy once the economy suffers a 2008-beating rapid unplanned disassembly.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Man, oh man. If you think this ends with anti-genocide chanting, I've got this picture of Tupac and Elvis arm wrestling that you're just gonna *love* to see.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Excellently put.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure he knows his days are numbered and he's all-in on big tech as an income stream post-politics. I think many politicians worldwide are betting the house on this, but it's also our houses.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

What an image

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

This is like bums taking it in turns to lend each other the same imaginary tenner.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

This multi-billion dollar circle jerk seems normal

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