"This experimental film is like nothing you've seen before and it was screened at a Nurse With Wound gig."
Ah but what if I was at that gig, eh, CHECKMATE.
Ah but what if I was at that gig, eh, CHECKMATE.
January 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"This experimental film is like nothing you've seen before and it was screened at a Nurse With Wound gig."
Ah but what if I was at that gig, eh, CHECKMATE.
Ah but what if I was at that gig, eh, CHECKMATE.
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Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism
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#Farage “knowingly lied saying ‘Ian’ was someone he knew well. If he is prepared to lie for relatively paltry sums, what is he prepared to do for larger amounts?”
A very good question!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A very good question!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage tricked into paying tribute to Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins
Reform leader calls the child sexual abuse offender ‘a good man, a really good guy’ in 27-second Cameo video clip
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
#Farage “knowingly lied saying ‘Ian’ was someone he knew well. If he is prepared to lie for relatively paltry sums, what is he prepared to do for larger amounts?”
A very good question!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A very good question!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
WELL I NEVER SAW THAT COMING
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
WELL I NEVER SAW THAT COMING
The obvious compromise is to give the Peace Prize to Robert Jenrick.
January 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
The obvious compromise is to give the Peace Prize to Robert Jenrick.
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"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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God this is good
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 6:48 AM
God this is good
If you're going to do AI deepfakes, don't do the lazy and obvious stuff of nude or sexual imagery. Do a video of Farage and Tice droning about the different quality of gearboxes on later models of Montego and MG and what changed in the Rover Group years. That would really make voters think again.
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
If you're going to do AI deepfakes, don't do the lazy and obvious stuff of nude or sexual imagery. Do a video of Farage and Tice droning about the different quality of gearboxes on later models of Montego and MG and what changed in the Rover Group years. That would really make voters think again.
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Read this thread on reflections by Weizenbaum on Eliza and 'AI'. Written in the 1970s. #AI
chaos.social/@joeposaurus...
chaos.social/@joeposaurus...
joep schuurkes (@[email protected])
"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."
Computer Power and Human Reason: ...
chaos.social
January 16, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Read this thread on reflections by Weizenbaum on Eliza and 'AI'. Written in the 1970s. #AI
chaos.social/@joeposaurus...
chaos.social/@joeposaurus...
I don't watch Farage usually, so sitting through this clip is new to me. I hadn't realised how much his press conference style is low-grade Clarkson/Alan Tower on Midlands Today 1987. I can't face 4 years of that every evening, it was bad enough when it was just cars and regional news.
Every defector Farage unveils, swears up-and-down that they made no deal.
Farage cocked up today and pulled back that curtain. A huge unforced error.
Incredibly, when - rightly - pressed about it, he pretended, to journalists' faces, that he had never said what he said TO THEM an hour earlier.
Farage cocked up today and pulled back that curtain. A huge unforced error.
Incredibly, when - rightly - pressed about it, he pretended, to journalists' faces, that he had never said what he said TO THEM an hour earlier.
January 16, 2026 at 7:36 AM
I don't watch Farage usually, so sitting through this clip is new to me. I hadn't realised how much his press conference style is low-grade Clarkson/Alan Tower on Midlands Today 1987. I can't face 4 years of that every evening, it was bad enough when it was just cars and regional news.
Imagine how much money Vanilla Ice would be offered to join ICE
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Imagine how much money Vanilla Ice would be offered to join ICE
At what angle of elevation should we start being concerned by the arms of blonde people in AfD propaganda?
Écoute des gens qui interviennent régulièrement dans des médias m'ont expliqué qu'il n'y avait absolument rien de volontaire dans cette affiche.
January 16, 2026 at 7:26 AM
At what angle of elevation should we start being concerned by the arms of blonde people in AfD propaganda?
Britain has never comes to terms with the fact that a lot of the blame for the failure of the Norway Campaign lay with Churchill, yet its failure caused his promotion to the top job.
Promoting failed Tories is actually a winning strategy.
Promoting failed Tories is actually a winning strategy.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Britain has never comes to terms with the fact that a lot of the blame for the failure of the Norway Campaign lay with Churchill, yet its failure caused his promotion to the top job.
Promoting failed Tories is actually a winning strategy.
Promoting failed Tories is actually a winning strategy.
Thousands of kids born today will never know who Robert Jenrick was. Lucky bastards.
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Thousands of kids born today will never know who Robert Jenrick was. Lucky bastards.
He was in her Shadow Cabinet. That's a massive tell that he wanted to undermine the Tory Party.
Sources said that Badenoch had been monitoring Jenrick’s activities because of suspicions that he was working to undermine the party and believed defection to Reform was imminent.
Apparently aides close to Jenrick were "very indiscreet" and left around incriminating evidence including a speech
Apparently aides close to Jenrick were "very indiscreet" and left around incriminating evidence including a speech
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
He was in her Shadow Cabinet. That's a massive tell that he wanted to undermine the Tory Party.
At last, something done about planning.
ROBERT JENRICK SACKED FOR PLANNING DEFECTION
Badenoch: "I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party."
Badenoch: "I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party."
January 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
At last, something done about planning.
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I imagine Lt Col ‘Mad Jack´ Churchill - DSO & Bar, MC & Bar - wouldn’t let a little thing like being dead stop him from pulling it off. Almost unfair on an invading force, really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ch...
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I imagine Lt Col ‘Mad Jack´ Churchill - DSO & Bar, MC & Bar - wouldn’t let a little thing like being dead stop him from pulling it off. Almost unfair on an invading force, really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ch...
Well at least we'll get something to block out the endless stream of posts about American stormtroopers yelling DUDE WE'RE LIKE LITERALLY STORMTROOPERS IT'S NOT LIKE A METAPHOR OR WHATEVER
January 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Well at least we'll get something to block out the endless stream of posts about American stormtroopers yelling DUDE WE'RE LIKE LITERALLY STORMTROOPERS IT'S NOT LIKE A METAPHOR OR WHATEVER
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Multiple injuries reported in central London as Alistair Campbell stampedes to the studio to record an 🚨EMERGENCY PODCAST🚨
January 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Multiple injuries reported in central London as Alistair Campbell stampedes to the studio to record an 🚨EMERGENCY PODCAST🚨
Kinder gentler politics
thoughts and prayers to all those who put money on Bobby Cuntface as next tory leader
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Kinder gentler politics
What were doing when you heard Robert Jenrick had been sacked? I was thinking about going out to buy a kebab for lunch, and I continued to think about that, since it was a more important and consequential matter.
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 AM
What were doing when you heard Robert Jenrick had been sacked? I was thinking about going out to buy a kebab for lunch, and I continued to think about that, since it was a more important and consequential matter.
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Thought I’d do a mega hread on NPR, partly because I’ve seen some London based commentary that doesn’t really get the bigger picture quite right imho
January 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Thought I’d do a mega hread on NPR, partly because I’ve seen some London based commentary that doesn’t really get the bigger picture quite right imho
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Good read: “As long as concentrations of extreme wealth exist, and its influence on politics is unchecked, then the battle between liberal democracy and right wing populism is in danger of being never ending.”
New post: A Post Neoliberal Consensus
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-po...
Dani Rodrik, Tim Besley and others argue that there is a now a post neoliberal consenus on economic policy.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-po...
Dani Rodrik, Tim Besley and others argue that there is a now a post neoliberal consenus on economic policy.
A Post Neoliberal Consensus
. Dani Rodrik recently wrote an article entitled “The Post-Neoliberal Consensus is here”. He argues that it comprises th...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Good read: “As long as concentrations of extreme wealth exist, and its influence on politics is unchecked, then the battle between liberal democracy and right wing populism is in danger of being never ending.”