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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 8h

Miller here begins to claim that the President has "plenary authority" in the context of deploying the National Guard onto American streets before clamming up mid sentence.

plenary authority

Plenary authority is power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes. When used with respect to public officials, the more popular term is plenary power.

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/plenary_authority

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 23h

I think there's a comparison to be made between British reactions to growing prosperity in Poland versus in Ireland.

I think the latter coincided with and at least partly caused declining prejudice towards the Irish in UK.

Same may be happening with Poland (and Romania).

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 5d

The goal should be preventing minors from accessing inappropriate content without their intent and consent.

Any sufficiently determined teenager is going to find a way around any controls, and it's a mug's game to try to prevent that.

What are you going to do, ban SSH?

Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 5d

This was inevitable, and I very much doubt it will be the last such incident.

I've yet to see any convincing argument why mandating parental control standards wouldn't provide at least as much protection for minors, and they wouldn't have the same risks of ID theft, blackmail etc.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 5d

Automated analysis of:
text using large language model
graphs (follows, interactions)

I'm sure Palantir could cook something up.

With this sort of population monitoring I particularly worry about the medical test paradox:

davidbieber.com/snippets/202...

Suppose 1 in 10000 people have a certain disease, and there is a medical test that is 99% accurate. This means that if you do have the disease, the test comes back positive with 99% probability, and if you do not have the disease, the test comes back negative with 99% probability. It is wrong 1% of the time.

If your test result comes back positive, what’s the probability that you have the disease?

Probability you have the disease given the test comes back positive is 1% by application of Bayes theorem.

Maths rendered by MathJax, which claims to work with screen readers, so follow the link to the full article I guess.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured.

Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 9d

The govt should find 100 small things that piss people off & fix em, such as…

Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.

What little fixes'd you want?

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 9d

One argument in favour of prioritising Gripen is that it can fire Meteor, which has a longer range than AMRAAM, and therefore may be able to threaten Russian aircraft further from UA territory.

It's also designed for quick turnaround on improvised airstrips with mainly conscript ground crew.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13d

One final point - Europeans from countries with universal ID (most of them including many post fascist and post communist state) almost always find the British debate over it bizarre and irrational. Maybe that’s because…it is?

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 13d

Half of those who wanted to reduce immigration polled here prioritised reducing irregular arrivals.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · May 11

We asked half of public who want overall numbers down, what their priority is for reduced immigration: it is people arriving by irregular means - such as boats in Channel - for half of reducers; reducing overall numbers for a quarter of reducers. Work, study, refugees, less diversity not prioritised

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 13d

I strongly suspect a significant part of the concern expressed about immigration (that is driving Reform) isn't about immigration per se, but the impression that control of the borders has broken down.

More a fear of lawlessness than of foreigners.

Joe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally.
Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d

Ominous theintercept.com/2025/09/25/h...

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 14d

I get the impression that some NI unionists aren't above bringing it up.

Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 14d

Can't say I've ever rated Ganesh, but this is a decent piece (except for the HS2 comment), and I respect him for admitting to changing his mind.

Second, even Europe must only appease Trump as a bridging tactic to a more self-reliant future. To defend itself in the 2030s, the continent will need not just cash but quicker, less consensual decision-making, perhaps outside EU structures, given the military clout of Britain (which is not a member) and the less pronounced fear of Russia in Spain and Italy (which are). The submission to Trump is only worthwhile if all this reform happens in parallel. The danger is that short-term trade concessions prove so fruitful — Trump said encouraging things about Ukraine on Tuesday — that it settles into permanent statecraft.

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 14d

Tolkein addressed the eagles "plot hole" directly and emphatically.

This is the final word:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Uz...

Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't fly the Eagles to Mordor

YouTube video by Asher Puls

www.youtube.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15d

#ActuallyAutistic journalist here! I have spoken to #ActuallyAutistic people for my pieces about RFK Jr., Trump and autism.

Here for @msnbc.com
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Here for @the-independent.com

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 15d

It may have been a better show had it not been Alien branded: the Xenomorph isn't that important, rule by ethically questionable mega-corp isn't a novel idea.

It's not really about the aliens at all, but power struggle between mega-corps and between humans/cyborgs/hybrids/synths.

Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 15d

Alien: Earth thoughts:

Entertaining but implausibly silly.

Too many characters blundering, excessively convenient abilities.

Undoes the major Alien cosmic horror theme that some things are unknowable, unexploitable and uncontrollable.

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 16d

Good grief, is this idea still going?

Some autistic people have restricted diets. This causes changes to gut microbiome.

Anyone who hasn't considered that shows their ignorance; anyone who hasn't involved the autistic community enough to know shows their prejudice.

xcancel.com/Autism/statu...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 17d

My Bloody Challenger 3.

Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 18d

Extending air defence into western Ukraine, with air defence or manned jets, well behind front lines, would push back in a way that is very unlikely to result in NATO personnel killing Russians or vice versa.

And would help save Ukrainian lives, and preserve its industry.

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Andrew Kerr @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social · 18d

I do not envy the position of responsibility of those who must decide, in real time, how to respond to this.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 19d

Estonia’s Defence Ministry published a map showing the approximate route of Russian MiG-31 jets. Moscow claims the aircraft did not violate Estonian airspace and were allegedly on a planned flight to Kaliningrad.

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