Randeep Ramesh
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
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Just looking at the Comey indictment mess, would you wager that this same DOJ has a solid legal justification for the killing spree at sea?
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Just looking at the Comey indictment mess, would you wager that this same DOJ has a solid legal justification for the killing spree at sea?
socialism for them, capitalism for you
The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in private companies it deems essential to national security. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.
Trump Administration Is Taking Billions in Stakes in Firms Like Intel
The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
socialism for them, capitalism for you
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Large language models are statistical token-prediction systems, and despite AGI claims by Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei (who said AGI "may come as soon as 2026"), and Sam Altman, neuroscience suggests language alone may not produce human-level intelligence.
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Large language models are statistical token-prediction systems, and despite AGI claims by Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei (who said AGI "may come as soon as 2026"), and Sam Altman, neuroscience suggests language alone may not produce human-level intelligence.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
The late Roy Jenkins, two decades after serving as a Labour chancellor, rightly said Margaret Thatcher was trading in lousy economics when she sold herself as a prudent housewife able to save Britain from Labour overspending. “I think it is nonsense because... 1/3
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The late Roy Jenkins, two decades after serving as a Labour chancellor, rightly said Margaret Thatcher was trading in lousy economics when she sold herself as a prudent housewife able to save Britain from Labour overspending. “I think it is nonsense because... 1/3
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Brazil's ex-president, convicted of foiled coup, is under arrest after taking a soldering iron to the monitoring device.
Bolsonaro says hallucinatory effects of meds made him tamper with ankle tag
Brazil's ex-president, convicted of foiled coup, is under arrest after taking a soldering iron to the monitoring device.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Brazil's ex-president, convicted of foiled coup, is under arrest after taking a soldering iron to the monitoring device.
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Donald Trump’s targeted attacks against India, Brazil and South Africa are pushing three of the world’s major emerging economies to forge closer ties
Trump’s Attacks Push India, Brazil, South Africa Closer Together
US President Donald Trump’s targeted attacks against three of the world’s major emerging economies are prompting leaders of those countries to forge closer ties and push back against his aggressive trade policies.
bloom.bg
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Donald Trump’s targeted attacks against India, Brazil and South Africa are pushing three of the world’s major emerging economies to forge closer ties
Labour Right expended all that energy for a bucket of warm spit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Labour Right expended all that energy for a bucket of warm spit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Starmer calls Farage ‘spineless’ over tackling racism in Reform party
Starmer calls Farage ‘spineless’ over tackling racism in Reform party
Prime minister says Reform UK leader has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged comments at school which included songs about Holocaust
Keir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of being “spineless” when it comes to tackling racism in his party after the Guardian revealed allegations he made xenophobic and antisemitic comments while he was at school.
The prime minister said the Reform UK leader had “questions to answer” about the comments and chants alleged, which included songs about the Holocaust and accusations of bullying towards ethnic minority schoolboys. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Starmer calls Farage ‘spineless’ over tackling racism in Reform party
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I'm going to put it more strongly. The 'austerity' chart in the previous post is badly misleading. Look at the RF analysis of the actual Osborne period.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I'm going to put it more strongly. The 'austerity' chart in the previous post is badly misleading. Look at the RF analysis of the actual Osborne period.
Go f@&£ yourself Govie
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Go f@&£ yourself Govie
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Written while defrosting between patrols.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Written while defrosting between patrols.
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
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Yes assimilation means it's totally impossible to have more than >15% of the population be foreign born which is why Singapore, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Iceland, Sweden, France, etc have all collapsed
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Yes assimilation means it's totally impossible to have more than >15% of the population be foreign born which is why Singapore, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Iceland, Sweden, France, etc have all collapsed
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A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The full film & piece is here.
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
An absent MP? A Russian traitor in Reform? When I go to Clacton, nobody seems to care
On the trail of the elusive Nigel Farage, John Sweeney visits his impoverished constituency – where even the prospect of Putin undermining British politics doesn’t raise many eyebrows
www.thenerve.news
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The full film & piece is here.
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
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Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Mike Johnson would say they deserved it
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Mike Johnson would say they deserved it
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I'm guessing the BBC edited this together to give the misleading impression he was threatening violence towards Congressional opponents.
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'm guessing the BBC edited this together to give the misleading impression he was threatening violence towards Congressional opponents.
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Plan ahead, people. If you insist upon getting sick or injured, do it now.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Plan ahead, people. If you insist upon getting sick or injured, do it now.
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Trump called a female reporter Piggy and said Kashoggi got what he deserved. The only thing he hates more than the press is a woman in the press.
When we say we have no Congress, that's a literal interpretation. The duty of a "Representative" is to represent the people. Our Congress works for Trump
When we say we have no Congress, that's a literal interpretation. The duty of a "Representative" is to represent the people. Our Congress works for Trump
GOP Rep. Salazar won't criticize Trump calling a woman reporter "piggy" -- "President Trump is a very different type of politician. But I always say I look at his policies and not his personality. Nobody is perfect."
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Trump called a female reporter Piggy and said Kashoggi got what he deserved. The only thing he hates more than the press is a woman in the press.
When we say we have no Congress, that's a literal interpretation. The duty of a "Representative" is to represent the people. Our Congress works for Trump
When we say we have no Congress, that's a literal interpretation. The duty of a "Representative" is to represent the people. Our Congress works for Trump
Astroturfing exercise
Great that there is a Labour lobbying group in favour of more homes. Not so great that it feels it has to take donations from developers
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‘Build, baby, build’: the pro-development Labour activists — and their backers in big business
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Astroturfing exercise
So two non economists on BBC radio 4 flagship news programme to answer the question on how fiscal choices shape growth. Ridiculous. “Only business creates wealth” says businessman. “Cut welfare” says political adviser. That’s the inane debate chaired by who else Amol Rajan !
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
So two non economists on BBC radio 4 flagship news programme to answer the question on how fiscal choices shape growth. Ridiculous. “Only business creates wealth” says businessman. “Cut welfare” says political adviser. That’s the inane debate chaired by who else Amol Rajan !