Arieh Kovler

You know what, maybe we were all too mean about the Ed Stone

please help… my son…

Yes it's the Mail etc etc, but this does seem to add to the picture of someone who tends to exaggerate their past, even for things it's very distasteful to lie about .

I guarantee someone in the Trump adminsitration is considering nationalising part of Paramount to help out the Ellisons and secure an interest in CBS and CNN.

And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS

seen on my porch this morning

That's no moon....

At this point I would honestly prefer that the UK authorities said nothing on this than they kept dribbling out cryptic clues like it's a murder mystery evening. "What if I told you one of them rang 999 himself?" "We've bailed them, but it's still Iran, what might that mean?" Not. Helpful.

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

ICE bought four robot dogs because they're massively overfunded and thought it'd be cool to have robot dogs.

Hard to imagine what that would be like

Ten years ago today, the first episode of Britain's Lost Masterpieces* was on BBC4. Here's a thread of all the pictures we featured, with the new attributions and before & after photos. (*internationally, Amazon Prime etc, as 'The Art Detectives')

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

"The whole internet hates Dilkshake Muck, a loathesome bigot who loves misogyny. *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you Dilkshake Muck is assistant general counsel of the General Services Administration"

Let's wildly speculate about WTAF went on in Fairford - I'm going with niche OnlyFans gay porn content request goes wrong

who do I petition to get someone to launch a Tate Morden, to confuse the tourists

I think that is a JFK Jr saying

My wife: did you ever play that game "Eat, murder, fuck"? Me: I don't think that's how it goes.

My wife: did you ever play that game "Eat, murder, fuck"? Me: I don't think that's how it goes.

The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying.

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

An OpenAI 'enhanced' version of image on the left, supposedly of the Fairford suspects, is circulating online. In the original blurry pic, the guy on the left and the fourth guy appear white, though it's hard to be sure due to the blurriness and lighting. The "enhanced" version has made them black.

re Fairford: I like hot food and hot takes, so I don't serve either one until it's ready.

And it made the king cross!

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Huh. The Daily Wire is reporting something that would be *enormous* if true, as since July the majority of all ICE arrests are people with no criminal record. I am deeply skeptical of such a massive operational change, given how the White House/DHS keep bragging about setting arrest records.

Sen. John Fetterman says he's a "lifelong Republican" before Major Garrett has to correct him

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

I've been sceptical about this but the stars are aligned. The Catholic right oppose contraception for preventing pregnancy, and the Evangelical right say it leads to premarital sex. But now the now the techbro right wants more native-born babies and the racist right wants more white babies.

Thinking about cases like Churchill's second term and Adenauer (unsure about, say, Kekkonen, president into his eighties), easier then from a communications and party management perspective, easier now from a healthcare perspective.

It's easier to hide age related or health issues in the modern world for a number of reasons, including but not restricted to - information overload, information silos, no trusted authorities, and pure disinformation. Scandals that would have brought down previous leaders often don't cut through

Is it easier or harder to be a world leader now than it was a generation or two ago? Have the demands of the job increased or have the support structures and capabilities made it easier than ever to run a country? Would an 80-year-old find it easier to be prime minister in, say, 1975 or today?

There's something wonderful about this exchange, like it symbolises so many online conversations: "Frodo's wound never healed because it symbolises PTSD after trauma" ⤷"No, actually it's because the morgul blades are cursed."