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So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
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"A BC MLA wants a new statutory holiday to honour the 2022 truck convoy protest that took over downtown Ottawa." lmao wut
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"A BC MLA wants a new statutory holiday to honour the 2022 truck convoy protest that took over downtown Ottawa." lmao wut
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Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza.
Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place
Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza.
Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
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Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
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“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
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And before anyone starts, obviously if you don't like/drink mulled wine you can trade for another drink. Jesus Christ, can you think for yourself for once? You shouldn't need parenting through this
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And before anyone starts, obviously if you don't like/drink mulled wine you can trade for another drink. Jesus Christ, can you think for yourself for once? You shouldn't need parenting through this
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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This is at once my personal nightmare and also a sign — their bench is *shallow.* They are not sophisticated shock troops, they’re a small group of podcasters and professional idiots who are tripping over their own feet in actual power. Should be relatively easy to sabotage them imho
NEW: Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports medicine physician who has released several preprints about the risks of Covid vaccines (including with Vinay Prasad), is now the acting top drug regulator at the FDA. www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Announces Leadership Appointments at Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
FDA Announces Leadership Appointments at Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
www.fda.gov
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is at once my personal nightmare and also a sign — their bench is *shallow.* They are not sophisticated shock troops, they’re a small group of podcasters and professional idiots who are tripping over their own feet in actual power. Should be relatively easy to sabotage them imho
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"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
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Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.
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PSKY'S ATTORNEYS: $WBD "appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process, thereby abdicating its duties to stockholders, and embarked on a myopic process with a predetermined outcome that favors a single bidder .."
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/p...
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/p...
Paramount questions Warner Bros. Discovery on 'fairness and adequacy' of sale process: Read the full letter
Paramount attorneys sent a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery questioning whether its acting in the best interest of shareholders.
www.cnbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
PSKY'S ATTORNEYS: $WBD "appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process, thereby abdicating its duties to stockholders, and embarked on a myopic process with a predetermined outcome that favors a single bidder .."
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/p...
@sherman4949.cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/p...
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
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Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
But what if the "thing of their own" is a friendship with a girl in Guides who happens to be trans?
I honestly think Rowling has lost touch with how real people's lives actually work.
And, also, Rowling's movement is gearing up to get girls kicked out of Scouts, so this "answer" is horseshit.
I honestly think Rowling has lost touch with how real people's lives actually work.
And, also, Rowling's movement is gearing up to get girls kicked out of Scouts, so this "answer" is horseshit.
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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AI is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will unleash a wave of new ideas and unfinished projects—leaving people busier, not freer, as “everybody’s jobs will be different.” trib.al/i8LvkCC
Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: 'Everybody's jobs will be different' | Fortune
“I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas,” Jensen Huang said.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
AI is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.
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like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
wear a mask because this really sucks for people
One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
wear a mask because this really sucks for people
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content