nameless-weevil.bsky.social
Since the very dawn of time an awful lot of stuff has happened.
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Unbelievable how much LEOs etc are pushing AI. Using the same "expert" chancers that were variously on about augmented reality, VR, and/or crypto.
There's a whole industry of offering shonky conferences, courses etc to small businesses if you're that sort of walking ethical void.
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That's a question that gets right to the core of "Why things can't be better.". How does this charmless self regarding buffoon make a living out of being serially wrong? What service are people like Dunt actually being paid to provide?
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The "centrist" (centre right) rallying cry changing to the slightly less catchy "Only worse things are possible and only morons think otherwise."
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The US Democratic party needs to be a big enough tent to accommodate both religious Zionists baying for a nuclear Holocaust in Iran and billionaire Sieg Heiling tech bros who fantasize about uploading their consciousness to robot bodies and living forever in defiance of all that is holy.
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It was the most famous and beloved Palestinian journalist killed in broad daylight by a sniper with a shot between her press bullet proof vest and Press helmet. Could not have been clearer that it was a hit. My blood boils when I think of how Western journalists are so complicit in Israel's crimes.
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The assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh was the final straw for me, because I remember clearly how righteously angry Western journalists were when the Syrians killed Marie Colvin in a what was a much less obvious hit. Racism, Westernism, call it what you will but Western hacks are bigots and cowards.
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If the Israeli military continues to threaten and harass journalists, it’s because you’ve shown them again and again that they can *literally murder journalists live on camera*, and you will go right on repeating everything they tell you, no matter how insultingly obvious it is that they are lying.
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It's good to know there's only room for a limited number of educational achievement traumas to haunt you in middle age.
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I had a bad dream about my leaving certificate exams when I was 37. Quite something to wake up relieved that youth is long behind you.
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Post EMU that flow of power and legitimacy was completely reversed. Voters were included only at the end of the process, their role reduced to approving decisions set by technocratic consensus (a consensus which happened to be ultra-conservative gold buggery, austerity and structural reform mania).
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I left out a step.
Pre EMU: Voting provided political legitimacy to government manifestos, manifestos legitimated economic policy, economic policy legitimated fiscal policy and fiscal policy legitimated monetary policy. Power and political legitimacy flowed upwards towards technical decisions.
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ie: Rather than policy being legitimated by public support that policy makers decide on the legitimacy of public opinion. In the EU a really nice example was the reversed flow of political legitimacy post EMU. Electoral politics used to legitimate fiscal policy which legitimated monetary policy.
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I do not buy into elite overproduction being the root of these problems but at least since Iraq 2003 I've had the sense of Western elites seeing their positions as a results of innate qualities and expertise that the hoi polloi don't have and that ideas of democratic legitimation have been reversed.
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I’d add that in America, the craziest far right insanity has been pushed by the crank right wing party, Fox News and various online headbangers. In Britain, this crackpot drivel was validated and normalised by the Times of London, the BBC and the leftmost political party with a shot at taking power.
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This honestly has moved beyond just like AI/ bad reporting in my opinion. Bluesky has decided that anyone posting from Gaza should be deleted.
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British politics and media has been dominated for years by roaring ideological cranks and wingnut clowns. If anything, the Trumpers have looked to us for guidance on the best way to run McCarthyist red terror crackdowns and keep the public terrified of liberalism and anyone foreign or different.
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Sure, Irish and living in Dublin, what's an appropriate email address/link to contact you at?
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I do find it informative that Lex Luthor was just an incredibly rich dude but by the time we got to Batman it was the good guy that was rich and the bad guys were the weirdos wearing pajamas in public