ellinst.bsky.social
Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times),
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
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this counter estimates USAID cancellation impact at about 190k deaths to date
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"It's starting to look like the 1930s" - wow. That's the kind of insight that's made him a billionaire. Something that's been blindingly obvious to some of us since watching the first season of Babylon Berlin.
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Technophobe here. Yep - interface more intuitive and understandable for those baffled by code.
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Clarification: NHS England's data.
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That would be the Palantir put in charge of handling NHS England's data www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/technol...
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Oh, whaddya know? It's funded by anti-Green extraction industry money. www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/n...
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Do you mean the Fairness Doctrine?
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And A Confederacy of Dunces to boot.
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We're not "on a path toward," we are here.
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Like Trump, he is good at one thing, but that one thing he is very good at --- a grifter supreme.
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*Why* is Britain so averse to US-style school buses that operate like the Oxford Tube (scheduled stops along a route to pick up passengers and take them to the destination)?
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Though the result still shows up on Google, when you follow the link, it just goes to a page that says the Justice Department is "currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance." (2)
nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
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Everything? Slapstick comedy? Irony? Subversion?
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So many canaries; so many coalmines.
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It is terrific. So perceptive!
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You know, English-speaking British universities could really benefit from this if the whole sector hadn't been defunded by successive governments and left shells of their former selves.
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yep - them too.
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I only know because I live abroad!
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And especially nationalise water.
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Or if it opens up selling off parts of the NHS or NHS patient data to US healthcare companies.
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Over a decade ago I was sitting on my patio watching bees. Suddenly they just started dropping off flowers, dead. I called Va. Tech Extension service and they asked if any neighbors were spraying their yards for mosquitoes; all were except maybe 3 of us. I saw the future that day and it sucked.
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Do we know why? Pesticides? Habitat loss? What?
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Also, bird flu can be transmitted to cats so at the moment it's to the cats' benefit as well to keep them in. Catios and balconies are fine.
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Er, "pregnant".
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I wonder if they'll have some sort of exemption - like you can register at your base or something.
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The chips are what we should be manufacturing here. That was the one component we could compete with the rest of the world on. That's the whole reason Biden invested money in chip manufacturing and trump makes it futile. Everything he touches turns to shit
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Er, it DID happen in Europe, bigtime. But hopefully the memory is still vivid enough to prevent it happening again, AfD, Orban, and Le Pen notwithstanding.
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For voting purposes, your home state is your last address in the US. You can vote in Senate and Congressional races, and in primaries, for that state.