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Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

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Also, this is the guy who spent a gazillion on trying to make the Metaverse A Thing only to find users would rather have actual people who value them not for their obscene wealth

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Not sure anyone claimed that it was Kamala's support of the Israeli genocide that decided the election. Our point was it was dumb not to try everything to win Democratic districts where this would obviously be an issue for her

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If that’s true how come Gen Z dresses exactly like we did 30 years ago? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Hey! You know how you’re struggling with the cost of living and inflation? Have you had to make personal sacrifices recently to pay for treatment? Well. You ought to take it up with these guys www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Happy VE Day. It’s been 80 years so possibly understandable if you have forgotten. BUT: You 👏 can’t 👏 appease 👏 Fascists 👏 So please stop trying to www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Then how about you actually oppose him, like the winners in Canada and Australia did? And not try to emulate him, like the losers last week in England did? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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This is a key tool in the plan of outrage inflation: produce slop that can be used either for denegration or hagiography Like the most prolific, shittiest Rube Goldberg machine

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Was doing some research into Larry Ellison's tentacular support of false climate solutions (see: Tony Blair) and came across this 2021 piece on what billionaires are doing for the climate Ellison's contribution? A $3000-a-night wellness spa on an island he bought www.forbes.com/sites/sofial...

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Given this isn’t true, we need to ask why these New Labour dinosaurs are saying it. My guess: Larry Ellison, who funds the TBI, sending signals to the market to prepare for generous tax breaks for CCS/Gen AI spivs, and so invest accordingly www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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We now have even senior Tories demonstrating greater moral fibre and historic integrity than @teamlabouruk.bsky.social “The prime minister didn’t respond to the letter” History will remember. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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This is always how I said the world would end. I thought it would be over Hindu Kush water www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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I smell AI

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Perhaps gen AI's greatest affront to writing (aside from the obvious plagiarism issue) is that what it outputs is entirely, irredeemably without grace. And, therefore, without merit.

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I know it's a long list but I one of the things I do wish would be to have one member of Radiohead not try to artwash genocide www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

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I'm not saying he's not a treat to demcracy, but I do wish we could collectively calibrate our outrage inflation a little better during Trump 2.0 Reacting whenever he says any old unverifiable shit is meeting him on his terms www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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This is ethnic cleansing. Words matter. Please call it what it is. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Canada and Australia, two English-speaking democracies - within a week of each other - showed how to defeat the far-right. Take a stance. Have a vision. Even if that is just "let's not pander to the far right". So what is @labouruk.bsky.social doing? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Cosplaying fascism doesn’t work, a statement for which we now have proof. People don’t want a diet version of some boil-in-the-bag Trumpisms. They want actual vision. Even “let’s really not be fascists” is enough, as we saw in Canada. Yet Labour won’t even try www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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I had a piece on the terrible Tony Blair paper in the works, but honestly it's looking surplus to requirements.

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In which I join the chorus of people calling out Blair and his tech-bro/oligarch backers after his unsolicited intervention in climate action. His pay checks alone disqualify him as a reliable arbiter of the possible www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I am so mad that any of us has to waste a single joule of precious energy even perceiving the existence of this thing, while political wildfires are breaking out everywhere around us. So many people in 2025 stuck with 2015-brain.

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I’m not going to waste a day on Earth by reading the TBI report but Blair’s contributions are essentially something something CCS, carbon markets, AI Like he genuinely believes we’re in a climate crisis because no one serious enough has so far looked into it www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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In which I tell @thetimes.com that Spain’s power outage is highly unlikely to be the fault of renewable energy capacity, and suggested that Tony Blair can get back in his petrodollar-lined box, thanks very much www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

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We must be pragmatic about leopards eating peoples faces, says man funded by face-eating leopards

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I got asked about this in an interview last night and I resisted the urge for ad hominem attacks. But screw it. Look at a man’s actions, and look at who signs his speaking gig megacheques, and tell me if he’s a trustworthy arbiter of the possible www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tony probably here finally saying the quiet part out loud about Iraq www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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From everything it has said and done since coming to power, my money is very much on the latter. I am yet to see a single example of emulating Racist Lite talking points working, meeting people where they are when where they are is in their little England ditch shooting at pigeons

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One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that. LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.

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Yup, same here (Barcelona area). Most of the town went to the Plaça for a beer & a chat! (Local bar let us run a tab which we paid this morning.) For dinner, we found 4€ in various pockets, and the lovely people at our corner shop stayed open in the dark. The lesson learned: Always have some cash!

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Very much not an engineer, but I do bring data. For those blaming Spain's blackout on renewables, on the SAIDI database showing average duration without power, Spain scores 0.5. That's lower than most countries with larger amounts of FF in the energy mix databank.worldbank.org/reports.aspx...

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Can confirm it was the same in Granada. Just neighbours (and often strangers) helping each other out and sharing practical information

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Power is back on, but the impact will be felt for many months. Not just the food that went bad in supermarkets, or the trains and buses in the wrong place, to the lost revenue. The ATA workers' group estimates 1.3 billion euros lost in a single day elpais.com/economia/202...

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One of these "experts"? None other than Richard Tice, one of Reform's window-lickers-in-chief. And will someone PLEASE explain the concept of batteries to these snake oilers saying rEnewAbLeS mAkE yOuR gRiD iNsEcUrE How anyone can put their byline to this I will never know.

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This craven piece is a clear example of how a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing for any non-specialised journalist. They "knew" that Spain had a lot of low-carbon power in its mix, and that there was a power cut, then kind of said "you do the math" www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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BP isn't performing like shit because it went too green. It's performing like shit due to a variety of factors, in no particular order: - Deepwater Horizon - Massive exp capex w little break even return options - Plummetting replacement reserves ratio Tl;dr: It's just not that good at this

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The industry/media human centipede spun the lie that BP was underperforming because it went too green too soon. That has since proven to be the transparent lie that it was. Even after "resetting" to full bore oil and gas the company is still rotten apple www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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People were overwhelmingly calm and respectful, and did not feel the need (at least in my network, community and local area) to seriously speculate or seek to blame a given faction before the facts. The far right constantly seeks to paint us as less civilised than we are.

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as both someone with over 10 years of education and finishing my phd in AI this is so much bullshit lmfao of course when you create content fit for learners it takes time; even at scale AI cannot even process contextual information properly. and that is essential in language and learning!!

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So a few things from the #apagon from someone who was actually in Spain when it happened: - This was NOT due to renewable power - This was NOT a cyber attack - This was an infrastructure failure and clearer proof than ever that we need to future proof power grids

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Yeah this is decidedly NOT the takeaway, and evidence that a little knowledge is dangerous. If, as appears likely, this was down to temperature variations then stuff like this will become more common precisely due to fossil fuels. More oil and gas = more temperature extremes = more blackouts

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Let's take a wild guess at what this is

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We had a once in a generation chance to get our interaction with the only world we have right. And we were just so desperate to go back to “normal” that politicians campaigned on it. I have to assume you’re ok with this www.ft.com/content/3d9b...

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The linguistic choices in this are fascinating, and would not be used to describe any other country on Earth. “A problem of individuals rather than a nation” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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