two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

maybe making it legally required for the gamer chat app to have a full genital scan of every user to make sure they're not a child was less than optimal legislation

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

Fun fact: Obama remains the only Nobel winner to order a drone strike on another Nobel winner

The UK Cabinet and the Tony Blair Institute will see this is a trifling price to pay to kEeP uS aLL sAfE.

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

British people don't want to leave the ECHR

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

anyway I'm off to go dump all my deepest secrets into an AI therapist bot run by a sociopathic technofascist

sometime in the next few years you're going to see a privacy and security scandal that makes everything that came before it look like a grade school picnic, and it's going to be just wall to wall dumb looks and finger pointing

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

This is a specific identifiable ongoing harm perpetrated by the majority of tech journalists (& other journos besides). Other journalists should be calling it out, doing features on the phenomenon, interviewing these people& saying "Why are you so uncritical about this stuff, what's wrong with you?"

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

Capitalism in a nutshell:
Studies of UBI - positive effects, cheaper than government benefits, don't directly finance capital, so WE MUST STUDY MORE

Studies of LLMs - lots of harm, very expensive, directly finance major corporations & the wealthy, so we MUST IMPLEMENT BUT BETTER SOMEHOW

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

Last night John Fetterman was the one Democrat who voted with Republicans to let Trump keep bombing boats in the middle of the ocean. Less than 24 hours later, he says Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize

Data centres are just the next iteration in demand fabrication for a fossil fuel industry has been freaking out for a half decade now

climate-reporting.org/undercover-s...

Powerful piece from @qasimrashid.com

Summarises a number of issues: how much of corporate mainstream media has been a problem undermining democracy throughout the years; how Democrats as a party hasn't really represented their supporters; how progressive views are actually moderate and more...

It's extremely un-NYT to notice this behaviour, and it can only presage a corrective "Actually It's Good and Important to Replace Black People in Public Life" NYT opinion column in the near future.

Trump has repeatedly fired Black government officials and replaced them with white men www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

One from the archives. Back in January BBC News apologised for the error of calling Israeli hostages 'prisoners'.

But they never apologise for calling the thousands of Palestinian hostages 'prisoners', do they? Of course they don't because that's not an error, its deliberate.

If you want to feel an overwhelming urge to yell "FUCK THAT GUY" at the top of your lungs, do I have an article for you!