The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.

Actual practice becomes secondary to the ability to demonstrate, measure or perform someone else’s idea of what that practice ought to be. Institutions are moulded in the image of those at the top - so swathes of your working life is given over to performing the image of a role you will never occupy

I think this is a general consequence of two decades of precarity. If you’re not hyper-vigilant and essentially willing to reapply at any point - or undergo a constant process of micro-justification of the costs associated with your job - you’re toast.

I think it’s important for those of us who have “arrived” at a point of relatively stable employment in the knowledge economy to remind everyone who seeks to do so that the actual experience involves a constant low level defence of that employment.

This is one of the most lucid discussions of Britain’s current conjuncture (and of liberalism’s more generally) that I’ve heard

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Imagine attaining the summit of global statecraft only to find out that you're tasked with participating in a post Apprentice finale green room love-in broadcast live to billions. Imagine having to stand there knowing that the slightest murmur of truth or solemnity could tank your nation's economy.

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Much good stuff in here but this is the heart of it

I don’t think it applies to local government. You need a recognised sub state office to be able to leverage opposition to central government - First Ministers, Mayors, Governors can take on a bigger representative role in a way that a council leader can’t.

"Our credible plan is also an acrostic."

(This is, genuinely, the actual Conservative press release.)

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

This is a superb and moving piece of reporting by my @manchestermill.bsky.social colleagues.

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As a module leader and course director, I struggle to see how this can happen. Except that the RG over-recruit and there are so many students on courses nobody can monitor them.

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It’s the same again this morning!! What the hell is going on at 6 Music!!? Why is immigration the first item on almost every news bulletin?! 🤯

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

I do wonder if some elements of the leadership would rather face electoral oblivion than admit to the experience of the 2010s. You can’t project a coherent narrative while systematically revising even the most mundane connections with the recent past - a kind of centrist Stalinism in that respect!

How endangered a species do journalists in Scotland have to become before civil society and the state step in to conserve what’s left?

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An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Malignant normality around us: when my mum switches on her Samsung TV, this is the default screen. Far-right propaganda channel GB News perpetually appears at #1 on the presented list of channels.

It still is/does - you just don’t get a decent salary, expense account, or a relatively stable and cosy political consensus to operate within.

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