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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 8h

This is like bums taking it in turns to lend each other the same imaginary tenner.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

This multi-billion dollar circle jerk seems normal

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, a diagram of the banking sector in 2008 would look like this—just replace dicks like OpenAI and Nvidia with dicks like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 9h

1. There is absolutely nothing, I repeat *NOTHING* to stop the genocide continuing once the hostages have been returned.

2. If you'd just killed 100s of 1000s of people over two years, why would you willingly give up the crime scene?

First phase of Israel-Palestine ceasefire agreed

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

"The best stock market anybody has ever seen, they've never seen anything like it" etc.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not sure when those in the know are expecting the bubble to burst, but unless it's really soon, Starmer will be done before it happens anyway

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

This multi-billion dollar circle jerk seems normal

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

And it's a massive, self-reinforcing circle jerk to start with. This is a ridiculous mess.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

Fucking hell just read that thread. So his current conjecture is that the only hope is the bubble bursts before the UK is too overexposed?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

This seems absolutely fine

AI bubble 17x bigger than dot com bubble and 4x bigger than subprime

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

Genuinely depends how far down the line they are with this before the bubble bursts. They are absolutely balls to the wall for it at the moment.

news.sky.com/story/uk-to-...

UK to 'mainline AI in the veins' under new plans from Sir Keir Starmer

The government will be hoping the plans - with promises of billions of pounds and thousands of jobs - can help stymie the claims they are mismanaging the economy and stunting growth in the UK.

news.sky.com

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 10h

This is too big to fail territory.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 11h

Okay, this is mental. It'll be worse than 2008.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 12h

“A sharp correction could interact with vulnerabilities in the system of market-based finance, adversely affecting the cost and availability of finance for households and businesses,” it added.

Well that sounds like when the banks went boom, so what are they gonna do? Bail out Nvidia and OpenAI?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 13h

At least Britain's forensic leadership have had the good sense to steer clear of this obvious Charybdis of jobs and money. For that I am truly grateful.

AI is fucked and the UK is balls deep in it.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20h

As a community where many were uprooted by expulsions from Africa, it's mindboggling how this isn't factoring into their contemporary logic.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20h

And these are people who have grown-up with racism their whole lives, many of whom don't think that ethnonationalists are talking about them. It's frightening.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20h

On a related note, from my ties to people in the British Indian community, sons & daughters of immigrants, I can think of no ethnic minority in the country less aware of what's coming down the pike, specifically to be pointed at them.

The level of complacency and denial is actually terrifying.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 21h

Of course, there will *still* be people now saying, "Yeah that's conspiracy bullshit—deporting illegals & dependents or whatever is fine. But deporting actual 3rd generation British nationals? Tin foil hat stuff!"

OK, here's Germany's Reform UK analogue last year

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The AfD’s Secret Plan to Deport Millions From Germany

An explosive report on a meeting between the far-right Alternative für Deutschland and neo-Nazis has ignited the largest German protest movement since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

www.thenation.com

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22h

Somehow the entire media class missed this or dismissed this at the time. And if it's either of those things, you really shouldn't be doing journalism. Unless journalism isn't really what these Scriveners of Wapping are here to do, eh?

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22h

In 2015, it was obvious to me that stopping Eastern Europeans from entering the country was a cipher for deporting black & brown people that have been in the UK for generations.

I knew that because people were literally saying that out loud at the time.

This is not news, this was the next step.

Deporting ethnic minority Britons was the goal of Brexit for many

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22h

💯, if he can be arsed, the world is his

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Sure in 20 years time people will still be laughing at how much of a joke Liz Truss was, but this guy, this surreally insipid, bloodless, uncharismatic butler for fascism will go down as one of the worst prime ministers in British history. A banal monster.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

You have been aiding and abetting a genocide for two years, you gray-scale printout of a human being.

You get to lecture precisely *nobody* on what's morally right or wrong. Double fuck you.

Genocide supporter lecturing people on morality

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

A blatantly farcical statement, but it does betray the direction of travel that the Tories are going in, turning so far right they make Farage look like a Bolshevik.

Reform are socialists according to Tory jackass.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Exhibit C

Bob Ozemprick has stolen the NF and Britain First taglines

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