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Amazing things happen when you even slightly zoom out on a graph to get actual context.

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

I love that in a lot of ways Death is more idealistic than most of the actual people on the Disc, and it shines through in Hogfather he doesn’t understand why the rich get better gifts, he doesn’t understand why the world is unfair, he doesn’t understood why the stories are just stories

As I say, all consultations are fake. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b...

Yet another reason that tennis is brilliant(!) is that its main events (the four Slams) have men's & women's matches in the same days, same pitches, same stadiums, same audiences, and - despite Novak Djovokic's whining - same prize money 👍🏻

I really need to make it clear to folks that AI-generated code closely resembles AI-generated text, by which I mean it is syntactically correct, easy to produce, and can approach what a human can make, but very clearly lacks the forethought and holistic nature of when a skilled human makes it.

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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now The AI, called Ataraxos, beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 games to one, with four draws. And it took just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars to train it.

regardless of whether you think the polls are right, the polls are wrong in favor of republicans, the polls are wrong in favor of democrats, or you just want all of us to shut up about polls, I hope we can all agree on one thing show up and vote to put these dipshits in an electoral dumpster

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

Not exactly charging on to the stage here. Looking somewhat embarrassed

I just looked at what AI has to "say" about my specialist area of archaeology (malt, ale, mashing, beer brewing in prehistory) and there's sensible stuff and also quite a lot of not so sensible stuff. I can tell the difference but most folk probably can't. True for all aspects of archaeology.

Fellow archaeologists out there can we have a conversation about the use of AI in the materials we produce for the public. I know that a lot of us are increasingly frustrated by the use of AI in media and all the awful stereotypes that we have spent decades trying to challenge creeping back in

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Absolutely crazy

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

I don’t know folks, it seems to me that the kids might have been right about their ruling class being full of deeply racist, misogynist sex offenders. Perhaps that whole Cancel Culture panic was badly wrong, and apologies are in order? Not least because it was obviously vexatious *at the time*.

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Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

This is Monday's #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 180. December 1994

we should all go through life more like Nanny Ogg, the world would be a much more enjoyable place

correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Another way that America seems broken and confusing is all of this "Yes on number, no on number" stuff. Like, I understand that you need to number for bureaucracy. But how do you campaign on arbitrary numbers? Or remember which is which at voting time?!

This handy chart explains what side the billionaires are on.

the number of “yes on 42, no on 40” ads I’m seeing here in LA is depressing remember: yes on the billionaire tax (40), no on the ones canceling the billionaire tax (41 and 42)

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

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