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In before the US rebrands emissions and particulates as "freedom fumes".
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In before the US rebrands emissions and particulates as "freedom fumes".
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
In the UK the fact that Britain was one of the first to end slavery is routinely touted. This is good but a weird thing to have pride in.
It's like boasting that you haven't hit your wife ever since you finished counseling. Good for you, asshole.
It's like boasting that you haven't hit your wife ever since you finished counseling. Good for you, asshole.
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
In the UK the fact that Britain was one of the first to end slavery is routinely touted. This is good but a weird thing to have pride in.
It's like boasting that you haven't hit your wife ever since you finished counseling. Good for you, asshole.
It's like boasting that you haven't hit your wife ever since you finished counseling. Good for you, asshole.
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.....I beg your pardon??????
February 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
.....I beg your pardon??????
Apparently you can repeal scientific findings. Someone should do this with relativity because I would quite like to be able to fly.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Apparently you can repeal scientific findings. Someone should do this with relativity because I would quite like to be able to fly.
There's something I have been waiting to say for a while:
I support Palestine Action.
Also, Yvette Cooper should now resign.
I support Palestine Action.
Also, Yvette Cooper should now resign.
February 13, 2026 at 10:56 AM
There's something I have been waiting to say for a while:
I support Palestine Action.
Also, Yvette Cooper should now resign.
I support Palestine Action.
Also, Yvette Cooper should now resign.
Reminder that as far as billionaires are concerned we are just meat. If people need to be seriously injured or die on the operating table to make the line go up then they consider that a price worth paying.
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Reminder that as far as billionaires are concerned we are just meat. If people need to be seriously injured or die on the operating table to make the line go up then they consider that a price worth paying.
Hope the door gives him a concussion on the way out.
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
Exit of Mandelson protégé comes as Keir Starmer seeks to stave off leadership speculation
giftarticle.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hope the door gives him a concussion on the way out.
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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And a month ago mandelson and the ceo of Palantir were in Laura K like it was normal
This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents.
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
February 8, 2026 at 11:02 AM
And a month ago mandelson and the ceo of Palantir were in Laura K like it was normal
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“I think it’s clear the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down.”
Zack Polanski says Sir Keir Starmer should resign after appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador despite “knowing he was friends with one of the most known paedophiles in the world”.
Zack Polanski says Sir Keir Starmer should resign after appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador despite “knowing he was friends with one of the most known paedophiles in the world”.
February 7, 2026 at 9:57 AM
“I think it’s clear the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down.”
Zack Polanski says Sir Keir Starmer should resign after appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador despite “knowing he was friends with one of the most known paedophiles in the world”.
Zack Polanski says Sir Keir Starmer should resign after appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador despite “knowing he was friends with one of the most known paedophiles in the world”.
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it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government
Create entire worlds with the help of your fucking brain.
Start writing for free using your pen or keyboard.
Start writing for free using your pen or keyboard.
finally, AI can help writers with the boring business of world- building so we can get down to the fun stuff: search-engine optimization
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Create entire worlds with the help of your fucking brain.
Start writing for free using your pen or keyboard.
Start writing for free using your pen or keyboard.
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Worth noting that Laure Beccuau, whose cybercrime division just raided X's offices in Paris yesterday, is the city's first female prosecutor.
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Worth noting that Laure Beccuau, whose cybercrime division just raided X's offices in Paris yesterday, is the city's first female prosecutor.
I don't think people not on the political left appreciate how brain breaking the Epstein files are for us. Being told that all of your greatest enemies are provably part of a cabal of paedophiles makes you feel like you are going insane. It's like an evil genie has made your worst fantasies real.
February 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I don't think people not on the political left appreciate how brain breaking the Epstein files are for us. Being told that all of your greatest enemies are provably part of a cabal of paedophiles makes you feel like you are going insane. It's like an evil genie has made your worst fantasies real.
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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
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Zack Polanski on Laura K this morning:
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
February 1, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Zack Polanski on Laura K this morning:
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
"Gaza is only a divisive subject if you're taking money from arms dealers..."
We need to simply guillotine all billionaires. No doubt a small few are innocent of these kinds of crimes but it's not worth the risk of sparing them since they probably kept the secret.
“It was really nice seeing you yesterday,” the British businessman wrote. “The boys in Watersports can't stop speaking about it! Any time you're in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”
Richard Branson responds after emails with ‘abhorrent’ Epstein appear in files dump
In a 2013 exchange, Branson asked Epstein to bring his ‘harem’ to their next get-together
www.independent.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 10:47 AM
We need to simply guillotine all billionaires. No doubt a small few are innocent of these kinds of crimes but it's not worth the risk of sparing them since they probably kept the secret.
Looking into it
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Looking into it
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Just installed Bazzite. First time Linux user. Currently dual booting on a second SSD but if it goes well I can move over and finally get away from Windows.
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Just installed Bazzite. First time Linux user. Currently dual booting on a second SSD but if it goes well I can move over and finally get away from Windows.
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I think this chap might be in breach of the Public Order Act 1936... which banned the uniform he's wearing in the first place.
Any legal experts like to chip in?
Any legal experts like to chip in?
Chap on the right appears to have a genuine vintage British Union of Fascists uniform on.
January 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I think this chap might be in breach of the Public Order Act 1936... which banned the uniform he's wearing in the first place.
Any legal experts like to chip in?
Any legal experts like to chip in?
This entire party is just a festering hove of scumbags and grifters. They want to wreck the UK and line their pockets just like Trump is doing in America. Anyone who supports them is a mark.
Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out two unsafe properties’
Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out two unsafe properties’
Edward Harris, chair of Warwickshire county council, owned homes with ‘multiple serious safety failures’
A Reform UK council chair has resigned after it was found he was illegally running two unsafe rental properties, according to a neighbouring local authority.
Edward Harris, the chair of Warwickshire county council, owned two unlicensed houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in Staffordshire that had “multiple serious safety failures”, according to Labour-led Tamworth borough council. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 PM
This entire party is just a festering hove of scumbags and grifters. They want to wreck the UK and line their pockets just like Trump is doing in America. Anyone who supports them is a mark.
Damn, I'm loving 'oh shit I seriously fucked up' expression on this politician's face.
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Damn, I'm loving 'oh shit I seriously fucked up' expression on this politician's face.