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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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What would a trauma-informed analysis of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting look like? I think it would pay attention to body language. It would consider what was happening biologically. Here's my THREAD tracking changes over the 50 mins. Here's the link I'm working with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOv...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

How exactly? He invaded Ukraine with a side order of horrific war crimes. No of course he's not going to act in good faith you tit. But if it takes a month to hoodwink you, I'm sure he could manage that.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

submitted 14 hours ago • 94 comments

Would love to know what's happening with demand for Teslas in the UK at the moment. It surely can't be that tempting to get a car that comes with a chorus of "naziwagon!" wherever you go?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

A reminder: life expectancy in the EU is 81.5 years, in the US 77.4. Apart from Lithuania (2.21) the homicide rate in the EU is below 2, for 16 countries including Italy, Spain and Germany below 1. It is above 6 in the US.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Crucial point that Crisis Group’s senior Ukraine analyst also made. Zelensky spoke almost no English when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 & has learned extremely fast. But yesterday was a nightmare, especially in a foreign language. A second point that I want to make is this: 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Nice to feel like just maybe our voices might have helped lift his spirits in some tiny way. Big deal for my son, too. Didn't expect him to be so keen to hang around in the crowd and cold for a fleeting glimpse and the chance to applaud... But he insisted.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

And by this I mean, we happened to be in London today at the right time and it only seemed polite to head to Whitehall.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The hype around AI is that it's thinking, or approaching thought...when it's more like an averaging machine for predictive text and images. Trying to understand context is not what these things do.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Well. Just saw Zelensky arriving at Downing Street.

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As an aside, the government trying to mandate encryption backdoors into fkin everything is an even more stupid plan given the MO of famed knobhead hacker state Russia.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

time to reconfigure IKEA as a defence manufacturer

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

We can still show we stand with Ukraine stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Jfc in this environment please stop breaking news on Substack of all places

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The word you’re looking for is “stolen”, not ‘given away’

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Bang on. If you want to power the economy, bring people in. If the proud indigenous white English people who fought at Agincourt don't like it they're welcome to fuck entirely off to somewhere more British, like the Falkland Islands. Moan at the fucking penguins.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

This is what happens when our glorious leaders don’t understand the difference between technology and magic. Is there any way of getting through to them on this?!

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

submitted 9 days ago • 203 comments

I know by that same eye there’s some good news.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

Today, in York Minster, I saw a book that is OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Oh York, it's been too long. Hadn't realised how much I still miss the old place. It's nice to be back, even just for a short visit.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

submitted 14 days ago • 173 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 17 days ago • 437 comments

Again: democracy is not just voting. Respect for fundamental human rights is essential to democracy. Don't believe me? OK, say you're in a room in a tall building with 9 others, and 6 people vote to throw you out the window. Happy with that? It was voted on, right? See what's missing?

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

...after Trump's betrayal of Ukraine.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Oh so Trump's a chickenshit who's scared of Putin? I bet he loves hearing that.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Labour should seriously consider the possibility that quite a lot of the electorate - especially the bit that might vote for them - think Farage is a dickhead and his agenda is reprehensible. Trying to win people over by emulating him didn't go well for the Tories. It won't go well for Labour.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 140 comments