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We’ve had some great feedback on our report on Progressive Activists and are keen to work with orgs that want to get the best from progressive workforces. Though I’ve seen a handful of people have interpreted what we’re saying as progressives need to be more centrist and wanted to respond to that. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

submitted 12 days ago • 109 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 23 days ago • 364 comments

Trump is a One-Dimensional Negotiator I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.

submitted 47 days ago • 29 comments

DeepSeek jailbreak

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

This is absolutely awful news and yet another example of rugby blasting itself in the foot. I return to my idea of having a nationalised BBC Sport channel with rights to the crown jewels of sport by statute. Its a key part of our culture and should be available to all.

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments

amazing that they’ve now had years to come up with a compelling “in your wildest dreams” use case and this is what they’ve gone with. this is psychopath shit; nobody wants this. but it IS the pitch for microsoft copilot!

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

Far from being culturally specific, the data quoted in @stephenkb.bsky.social newsletter today, suggests that child sexual exploitation is depressingly widespread/in proportion to population ethnicities. Two caveats.... on.ft.com/3DDlpLS

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

What I think is interesting about Gregg Wallace is not, in fact, Gregg Wallace at all. It’s the way that, as someone who watched Masterchef since it was called Masterchef Goes Large… how many female contestants start out brilliant and then over several eps their performance collapses.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

Trump win revealing that a lot of people’s commitment to evidence is pretty flimsy when it conflicts with their values and/or stereotypes about their political enemies.

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

🧵There's a line of thought that Trump's victory means progressive causes are doomed in the court of public opinion. I don't think that's true, but I do think it shows more thought needs to be given to what ought to be a tautology but infact often isn't - inclusive progressivism.

submitted 105 days ago • 30 comments

There's gonna a big behind the scenes fight between "use the government to advance right wing causes" and "what government?" and how the next 4 years or more goes depends on who wins.

submitted 110 days ago • 8 comments

Botswana finally passes the Przeworski test!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Something for the ESG reports of PWC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG to note, given their various advisory roles on the Neom projects

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

The biggest problem with coverage of the US election is that almost nobody covering American politics has ever had to cover a pure patronage system, and very few people understand how autocratic pseudo-democracies do genuinely manage to get people to vote for them over and over again

submitted 140 days ago • 5 comments

One thing I’m consistently astonished by in the endless attempts to reform British Government is the absence of any consideration of why the departmental structure is so embedded & why so called ‘silos’ exist. There’s a long (boring) book in this for someone to write but for now a short 🧵1/

submitted 184 days ago • 12 comments