Bill Young
@billkestrel.bsky.social
Interests: business, democracy, science.
Reading: modern history, biography.
News sources: 'The Economist', 'Private Eye', Gurniad.
Following: Extinction Rebellion, Gresham College, Bellingcat.
Linkedin: Flaneur, Philosoph, Dilettante
Reading: modern history, biography.
News sources: 'The Economist', 'Private Eye', Gurniad.
Following: Extinction Rebellion, Gresham College, Bellingcat.
Linkedin: Flaneur, Philosoph, Dilettante
THE FALSE GOD OF EFFICIENCY
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Episode 17: The False God of Efficiency by SWISSUES PodCast
Mike Jones and Armin Scharlach join Bill Young to condemn the thoughtless worship of efficiency - or maybe not. The discussion was stimulated by this Substack article.Would you like to join our Podcas...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
THE FALSE GOD OF EFFICIENCY
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If you would you like to join the SWISSUES Podcast panel, email me at [email protected]
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If you would you like to join the SWISSUES Podcast panel, email me at [email protected]
I asked a Swiss urologist today what he thought about this. He said that metastisised prostate cancers rose sharply in the five years after the USA stopped routine screening.
Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body - BBC News share.google/fk6U0m3EFQqD...
Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body - BBC News share.google/fk6U0m3EFQqD...
Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body
It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I asked a Swiss urologist today what he thought about this. He said that metastisised prostate cancers rose sharply in the five years after the USA stopped routine screening.
Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body - BBC News share.google/fk6U0m3EFQqD...
Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body - BBC News share.google/fk6U0m3EFQqD...
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"Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed ‘Misconduct’ in Comey Case" [NYT]
Call me a cynic but is it possible that the judge, Lindsey Halligan, was chosen because her incompetentence can be blamed for the failure of the case?
Call me a cynic but is it possible that the judge, Lindsey Halligan, was chosen because her incompetentence can be blamed for the failure of the case?
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed ‘Misconduct’ in Comey Case" [NYT]
Call me a cynic but is it possible that the judge, Lindsey Halligan, was chosen because her incompetentence can be blamed for the failure of the case?
Call me a cynic but is it possible that the judge, Lindsey Halligan, was chosen because her incompetentence can be blamed for the failure of the case?
"British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview"
Anyone else feel this is an inappropriate and un-British action by 'British' Airways. Louis Theroux's interviews may be faux-naif, non-judgemental and disarming but they are never partisan.
Anyone else feel this is an inappropriate and un-British action by 'British' Airways. Louis Theroux's interviews may be faux-naif, non-judgemental and disarming but they are never partisan.
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview"
Anyone else feel this is an inappropriate and un-British action by 'British' Airways. Louis Theroux's interviews may be faux-naif, non-judgemental and disarming but they are never partisan.
Anyone else feel this is an inappropriate and un-British action by 'British' Airways. Louis Theroux's interviews may be faux-naif, non-judgemental and disarming but they are never partisan.
I was thinking antifa was a good idea, a network of people who are against totalitarianism, and in favour of mass representation. When Trump ridiculously tries to declare it a terrorist organization, that is all the credential it needs. How do I sign up?
October 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I was thinking antifa was a good idea, a network of people who are against totalitarianism, and in favour of mass representation. When Trump ridiculously tries to declare it a terrorist organization, that is all the credential it needs. How do I sign up?
Might we see a Horst Wessel moment?
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing
The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say
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October 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Might we see a Horst Wessel moment?
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@aiannucci.bsky.social
If Armando struggles to fund a broadcast about Trump, may I make two suggestions? The first is crowd-funding: I'd be happy to pay in advance to make it happen. The second is a film featuring those who say they are too scared to fund it.
If Armando struggles to fund a broadcast about Trump, may I make two suggestions? The first is crowd-funding: I'd be happy to pay in advance to make it happen. The second is a film featuring those who say they are too scared to fund it.
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@aiannucci.bsky.social
If Armando struggles to fund a broadcast about Trump, may I make two suggestions? The first is crowd-funding: I'd be happy to pay in advance to make it happen. The second is a film featuring those who say they are too scared to fund it.
If Armando struggles to fund a broadcast about Trump, may I make two suggestions? The first is crowd-funding: I'd be happy to pay in advance to make it happen. The second is a film featuring those who say they are too scared to fund it.
OPERATION SEALION
Here is a great podcast about Britain's precarious position in September 1940, narrated from a small pillbox on the South Downs of West Sussex.
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Here is a great podcast about Britain's precarious position in September 1940, narrated from a small pillbox on the South Downs of West Sussex.
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2. The Heyshott Pillbox by South Downs Stories
Tim and Neil visit a 1940 pillbox (WW2 defensive structure) near Heyshott on the anniversary of the day in that year when Hitler postponed Operation Sealion. Oh, what stories there are in one humble p...
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September 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
OPERATION SEALION
Here is a great podcast about Britain's precarious position in September 1940, narrated from a small pillbox on the South Downs of West Sussex.
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/MSp4WhZ0MWb
Here is a great podcast about Britain's precarious position in September 1940, narrated from a small pillbox on the South Downs of West Sussex.
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Reposted by Bill Young
We celebrated FREE SPEECH in the village yesterday.
We called each other bastards & fuckers.
Everyone said Jill in the village shop was a bitch & should be jailed.
I called Dean our paperboy a lying wanker and Bunty said Simple Sally should be burnt for being a slut.
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We called each other bastards & fuckers.
Everyone said Jill in the village shop was a bitch & should be jailed.
I called Dean our paperboy a lying wanker and Bunty said Simple Sally should be burnt for being a slut.
🇬🇧
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
We celebrated FREE SPEECH in the village yesterday.
We called each other bastards & fuckers.
Everyone said Jill in the village shop was a bitch & should be jailed.
I called Dean our paperboy a lying wanker and Bunty said Simple Sally should be burnt for being a slut.
🇬🇧
We called each other bastards & fuckers.
Everyone said Jill in the village shop was a bitch & should be jailed.
I called Dean our paperboy a lying wanker and Bunty said Simple Sally should be burnt for being a slut.
🇬🇧
STOP THE MID-TERMS???
Recent US strategy (Dept of War & approval of stike on Qatar) makes sense only if one of the aims is to create a state of emergency that allows Trump to cancel elections.
Recent US strategy (Dept of War & approval of stike on Qatar) makes sense only if one of the aims is to create a state of emergency that allows Trump to cancel elections.
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
STOP THE MID-TERMS???
Recent US strategy (Dept of War & approval of stike on Qatar) makes sense only if one of the aims is to create a state of emergency that allows Trump to cancel elections.
Recent US strategy (Dept of War & approval of stike on Qatar) makes sense only if one of the aims is to create a state of emergency that allows Trump to cancel elections.
POPULISM IS HARDLY NEW
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
POPULISM IS HARDLY NEW
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"
WAR ON CHILDREN
Is Israel's war not so much against Hamas, but targeting the next generation of Palestinians, the children, their schools, their medical care.
I often admonish others for not summarising the message in a link. But, sorry, this is too intense.
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Is Israel's war not so much against Hamas, but targeting the next generation of Palestinians, the children, their schools, their medical care.
I often admonish others for not summarising the message in a link. But, sorry, this is too intense.
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152. "A War on Children": A Generation in Gaza at Risk (James Elder)
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September 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
WAR ON CHILDREN
Is Israel's war not so much against Hamas, but targeting the next generation of Palestinians, the children, their schools, their medical care.
I often admonish others for not summarising the message in a link. But, sorry, this is too intense.
open.spotify.com/episode/0BAu...
Is Israel's war not so much against Hamas, but targeting the next generation of Palestinians, the children, their schools, their medical care.
I often admonish others for not summarising the message in a link. But, sorry, this is too intense.
open.spotify.com/episode/0BAu...
@tomdewolf.be
I think you are the author of "Emergence vs Self-Organization". Is it possible that the difference between the two is that self-organization requires a system of stored or historical information (discrete from the Gestalt of the components) that is part of a feedback system?
I think you are the author of "Emergence vs Self-Organization". Is it possible that the difference between the two is that self-organization requires a system of stored or historical information (discrete from the Gestalt of the components) that is part of a feedback system?
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
@tomdewolf.be
I think you are the author of "Emergence vs Self-Organization". Is it possible that the difference between the two is that self-organization requires a system of stored or historical information (discrete from the Gestalt of the components) that is part of a feedback system?
I think you are the author of "Emergence vs Self-Organization". Is it possible that the difference between the two is that self-organization requires a system of stored or historical information (discrete from the Gestalt of the components) that is part of a feedback system?
Maybe Trump is offering Alaska back to Russia, in return for Russia retreating from Ukraine?
August 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Maybe Trump is offering Alaska back to Russia, in return for Russia retreating from Ukraine?
NEWS?
"As part of this historic deal, the USA will return to Russia its former territory, the ethnically Russian area of Al Aska. This remote, insignificant place (worth only $8 million! So little!) is next to Russia and was taken over by the USA only to keep it out of the awful British Empire."
"As part of this historic deal, the USA will return to Russia its former territory, the ethnically Russian area of Al Aska. This remote, insignificant place (worth only $8 million! So little!) is next to Russia and was taken over by the USA only to keep it out of the awful British Empire."
August 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEWS?
"As part of this historic deal, the USA will return to Russia its former territory, the ethnically Russian area of Al Aska. This remote, insignificant place (worth only $8 million! So little!) is next to Russia and was taken over by the USA only to keep it out of the awful British Empire."
"As part of this historic deal, the USA will return to Russia its former territory, the ethnically Russian area of Al Aska. This remote, insignificant place (worth only $8 million! So little!) is next to Russia and was taken over by the USA only to keep it out of the awful British Empire."
UK Minster for Porn...?
Isn't there already a Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK? That would be Lisa Nandy, would it not?
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Isn't there already a Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK? That would be Lisa Nandy, would it not?
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn
We’ve got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby Bertin
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June 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
UK Minster for Porn...?
Isn't there already a Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK? That would be Lisa Nandy, would it not?
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Isn't there already a Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK? That would be Lisa Nandy, would it not?
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@richlusc.bsky.social
It's strange that no-one finished the Humpty Dumpty quote, reported in "Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The "Which is to be master" conclusion is so apposite.
It's strange that no-one finished the Humpty Dumpty quote, reported in "Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The "Which is to be master" conclusion is so apposite.
Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law
James Uthmeier defied a judge’s order to halt arrests and boasted of backing Trump’s immigration agenda
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June 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
@richlusc.bsky.social
It's strange that no-one finished the Humpty Dumpty quote, reported in "Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The "Which is to be master" conclusion is so apposite.
It's strange that no-one finished the Humpty Dumpty quote, reported in "Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The "Which is to be master" conclusion is so apposite.
@therestpolitics.bsky.social
Where can I find out about the Big Tent Politica essay writing competition for 16-18 year olds? Mentioned in this week's episode, but nothing found online!
Where can I find out about the Big Tent Politica essay writing competition for 16-18 year olds? Mentioned in this week's episode, but nothing found online!
June 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social
Where can I find out about the Big Tent Politica essay writing competition for 16-18 year olds? Mentioned in this week's episode, but nothing found online!
Where can I find out about the Big Tent Politica essay writing competition for 16-18 year olds? Mentioned in this week's episode, but nothing found online!
Billionaires are attacking our rights, our media, and our freedom. It’s time to resist. I just signed this petition—add your name and be part of the movement: act.gp/3Rqfnlz #TimeToResist
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Using their vast fortunes, they weaken regulations meant to protect people and the planet, fund candidates who serv...
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April 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Billionaires are attacking our rights, our media, and our freedom. It’s time to resist. I just signed this petition—add your name and be part of the movement: act.gp/3Rqfnlz #TimeToResist
AI hallucinations are one thing. What about outright lying?
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DIGITAL DELINQUENT
There is a must-read article in this week's edition of… | SWISSUES
DIGITAL DELINQUENT
There is a must-read article in this week's edition of The Economist (April 26th, 2025). If you are not a subscriber, find a friend who is and borrow theirs.
It's about the...
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April 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
AI hallucinations are one thing. What about outright lying?
www.linkedin.com/posts/swissu...
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