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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 3h

The french subsidise bakeries, we should subsidies pubs

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 1d

If your industry can't afford to pay the people who's labour it relies on, then that's a problem for your industry - not any one else! If you're only profitable when you don't pay workers, then you're not profitable.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 1d

If you became an oil state without oil, what would you be selling?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 1d

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

Carbon offsetting suffers from deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve says review paper from Oxford Uni

“We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 1d

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 1d

a society in which it’s not possible to live a parallel life is not a free society

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 3d

The obvious counter point is that trump like figures have emerged in most democracies over the last decade. Either there was a freak global glut of exceptionally talented right wing leaders or something structural is picking/creating these characters!

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 3d

It also ignores loads of evidence about how leaders and the media shape the public's views. It would also be a partial account but there is probably as much of a case to make that 'racism is a top down elite project' as there is for the poverty narrative.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 5d

Even having read (and reviewed!) @melindacooper.bsky.social book, I found this hugely illuminating, especially on the confusions and fantasies of class identities that underpin reactionary populist movements podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Podcast Episode · The Dig · 30/09/2025 · 1h 54m

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 7d

Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.

Argentine assets hit by fresh selling amid worries over US bailout

Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan

www.ft.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 7d

It's striking how no one even defends the idea that this is a good way for societies to allocate resources anymore... and yet the system is under no threat whatsoever.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · Aug 17

We’ve had a decade of media discourse now that’s essentially been asking: what if we moved ourselves down this incredibly well established line?

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 8d

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 7d

A little out of date now, but the numbers of people who will self describe as racist has always been quite high

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.

One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

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