Frustrert uczeń
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It's beginning to look like kafala, everywhere we go...
unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's beginning to look like kafala, everywhere we go...
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Among other things, this is just so *unnecessary*. If we had a wildly successful leftwing government I would at least go 'you know, what can you do?'. But frankly there's so much space to just oppose the current government in a normal rightwing way, rather than frothing.
Maybe Brits’ energy prices are going up so much because the suppliers are having to spend a fortune fixing gas leaks in right-wing houses.
December 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Among other things, this is just so *unnecessary*. If we had a wildly successful leftwing government I would at least go 'you know, what can you do?'. But frankly there's so much space to just oppose the current government in a normal rightwing way, rather than frothing.
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“I’m gonna do an evil playthrough this time”
[15 minutes of gameplay later]
“Being mean is not nice”
[15 minutes of gameplay later]
“Being mean is not nice”
I don't know why i always end up playing the Paragon/good side in RPGs, even though I sometimes plan to do the darker/bad choices
it happens every time.
it happens every time.
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“I’m gonna do an evil playthrough this time”
[15 minutes of gameplay later]
“Being mean is not nice”
[15 minutes of gameplay later]
“Being mean is not nice”
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I nominate the Hot Dog Man as Person of the Century
The Daily Mail is now concerned at net emigration of Romanians from the UK to Romania: there were 539,000 people born in Romania in 2021 (+460k on 2011) but net emigration to Romania of 23,000 in 2024-25
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I nominate the Hot Dog Man as Person of the Century
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This is something best understood and applied by extremely high end service providers like law firms. It is arguably worst understood by, IDK, Boeing.
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is something best understood and applied by extremely high end service providers like law firms. It is arguably worst understood by, IDK, Boeing.
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this was an important debate during the civil war, and Lincoln correctly held firm that those who had gone into revolt in defense of slavery had not become citizens of any other nation because revolt is not allowed within the terms of the constitution, and so they always retained citizenship
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
this was an important debate during the civil war, and Lincoln correctly held firm that those who had gone into revolt in defense of slavery had not become citizens of any other nation because revolt is not allowed within the terms of the constitution, and so they always retained citizenship
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Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.
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Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
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As a time traveller trying to blend in on meeting Clement Attlee in 1945
"Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!"
[We expertly do a low five]
"Up above!"
[Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]
"Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!"
[We expertly do a low five]
"Up above!"
[Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
As a time traveller trying to blend in on meeting Clement Attlee in 1945
"Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!"
[We expertly do a low five]
"Up above!"
[Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]
"Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!"
[We expertly do a low five]
"Up above!"
[Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]
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Predictions for British politics in 2026 will be even tougher than usual because I think we are potentially near inflection points for both Lab and Con - if current steep declines continue, that will soon provoke leadership crisis/challenge which will change poll dynamics.
A reminder of yesterday's post reviewing last year's Christmas predictions for 2025. I will start a new prediction thread for 2026 about a week from now. If there's a prediction you'd like me to make, post it in the replies here!
New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Predictions for British politics in 2026 will be even tougher than usual because I think we are potentially near inflection points for both Lab and Con - if current steep declines continue, that will soon provoke leadership crisis/challenge which will change poll dynamics.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.
I read Just and Unjust Wars and it’s so funny how much of his stuff post-October 7 is him saying things he said were wrong in his book are okay when Israel does it
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.
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very kind of putin to prep trump for the meeting
Trump said he just had a "good and very productive" phone call with Putin ahead of his meeting with Zelenskyy later today.
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
very kind of putin to prep trump for the meeting
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The calculation will be different in the UK (and for different renewables) but the fact that this is not a major point of discussion tells you a lot about how short-term our political and economic discourses are.
$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The calculation will be different in the UK (and for different renewables) but the fact that this is not a major point of discussion tells you a lot about how short-term our political and economic discourses are.
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True not just of the Soviet Union.
I think zubok has swung the consensus too far toward "blame gorbachev", which absolves the system a bit. If you point to a single man as the cause of an empire’s downfall, you really ought to ask how the fate of an empire came to hinge on a single man.
December 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
True not just of the Soviet Union.
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The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
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This guy stuck his neck out to call BS on the invasion before it happened, was right and still is, because he has a view of Russian state as something there to support the flourishing of its citizens not the aggrandisement of its leader. Pretty unique, & even rare amongst many Russia watchers tbh.
Gen Leonid Ivashin, a legend in the Russian military, rebuts Putin's year's end talk: “Before the start of the ‘special military operation,’ I issued a warning. And the past four years have proven the correctness and seriousness of those assessments. We have achieved no success at the tactical-
Генерал Ивашов | Путин: итоги года или прощание с Россией?
YouTube video by Генерал Ивашов
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This guy stuck his neck out to call BS on the invasion before it happened, was right and still is, because he has a view of Russian state as something there to support the flourishing of its citizens not the aggrandisement of its leader. Pretty unique, & even rare amongst many Russia watchers tbh.
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My most Whiggish opinion is that the answer to this is 'ideas evolve for a reason': that's not to say that new ideas aren't ever bad (many of them are!) but they are responding to something and working out what that 'something' is is useful. Anarchism reinvents things because well, it doesn't work.
Why do anarchists always end up reinventing wild west law enforcement
December 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My most Whiggish opinion is that the answer to this is 'ideas evolve for a reason': that's not to say that new ideas aren't ever bad (many of them are!) but they are responding to something and working out what that 'something' is is useful. Anarchism reinvents things because well, it doesn't work.
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Trade is great for demagogues because depending on whether your team is in charge the same marginal increase can be either:
"Beef Boost for Brits as Cheap Aussie Steak Sends Shoppers Smiling"
or
"Farmer's anger grows as Australian beef floods into Britain"
Someone should write a book...
"Beef Boost for Brits as Cheap Aussie Steak Sends Shoppers Smiling"
or
"Farmer's anger grows as Australian beef floods into Britain"
Someone should write a book...
A quick google informs me that after this surge, Australia provides about 4% of our beef imports, and our beef imports are about 25% of our consumption. So this headline is basically saying “anger as 0.6% becomes 1% of total” and I’m not sure that’s particularly justifiable
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trade is great for demagogues because depending on whether your team is in charge the same marginal increase can be either:
"Beef Boost for Brits as Cheap Aussie Steak Sends Shoppers Smiling"
or
"Farmer's anger grows as Australian beef floods into Britain"
Someone should write a book...
"Beef Boost for Brits as Cheap Aussie Steak Sends Shoppers Smiling"
or
"Farmer's anger grows as Australian beef floods into Britain"
Someone should write a book...
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Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
A quick google informs me that after this surge, Australia provides about 4% of our beef imports, and our beef imports are about 25% of our consumption. So this headline is basically saying “anger as 0.6% becomes 1% of total” and I’m not sure that’s particularly justifiable
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
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Audience capture. Unfortunately a lot of the people who actual care about defense technology issues are right leaning... and this means that analysts feel compelled to say something other than "this is fucking insane."
Watching so many defense-related blogs and channels trying to somehow explain Trump's "golden fleet" and fixation on "battleships" like it's somehow tied to a real strategy and not a man-baby's fantasy.
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Audience capture. Unfortunately a lot of the people who actual care about defense technology issues are right leaning... and this means that analysts feel compelled to say something other than "this is fucking insane."
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Part of this is that it is cheap TV, but it also points up how poor the non-fiction TV offerings are at the moment (very much connected to the streaming era).
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Part of this is that it is cheap TV, but it also points up how poor the non-fiction TV offerings are at the moment (very much connected to the streaming era).
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every six months another Chinese AI company announces they have an open source engine that more or less matches the cutting edge models and then the market forgets about it and goes back to thinking the winner of the AI race prints infinite money huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mi...
December 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
every six months another Chinese AI company announces they have an open source engine that more or less matches the cutting edge models and then the market forgets about it and goes back to thinking the winner of the AI race prints infinite money huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mi...