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Technofascists keep reinventing public transit, but with themselves as the rent-seeking middlemen

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No matter where you are, remember: Turnout wins elections. #VOTE

Shocked that Brexit was a Putin Plan? Four years we document confirmation of this by the US Army who saw it as as the “First Step in a Russian Information Blitzkrieg on the West” @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/02/t...

Student List has existed as a movement lass than a year-and-a-half and as a party six weeks. Six. Weeks. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Evergreen message from the Financial Times to its readers www.ft.com/content/88c8...

“The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young.” Nobody born this century voted for Brexit AND more leavers have changed their minds. archive.ph/2025.12.09-1...

What's nice (and I realise he's a politician) is that this is a positive message. It's quite rare nowadays that positivity gets heard through the din of negativity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

people are trying to fit lula and melenchon and mamdani and other libs-n-lefts into a kind of "left-nationalism against americanized right-wing fascist internationalism" but it's more accurate to say this tendency is a kind of urban cosmopolitanism against a brotherhood of nations under us hegemony

my sources say forcefemming, in camps, being considered for all men im pro-man and take no pleasure in reporting this

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

The worst part about democrats bailing on trans rights is that cis people don't understand these aren't new things we're asking for it's shit we already had. We're being robbed of rights we've had for decades.

We must not allow anyone to forget the history of trans people living peacefully in the world alongside others.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

Handling probate for an estate? Could do without that too.

What I would give to sleep like a little cat who cannot even fit the concept of university administration in her head

Super excited to see this article in print in the APSR: 📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service” - with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

A war on walking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. The #UrbanTruth is that #CarDependency is still the norm in far too many cities, and the #RoadLobby will do everything they can to keep it going. Don’t buy the lie. #WarOnWalking

kevin mitnick spent 5 years in prison for building programs that did this

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

11. But the economics are clear, allowing people to continue to suffer without treatment and support is expensive and unconscionable. According to NHS England, not treating ADHD costs the UK economy ~£17 billion in lost tax, benefits, unemployment, health/social care/justice costs

9. Neurodivergent people who hack the gates and succeed differently, undermine the authority of those who guard orthodox ways of learning and succeeding. “How dare you challenge our house now we’ve let you in.”

7. Here's what makes certain people uneasy: To accept reality of ADHD is to accept the system itself is disabling, which means the structures must change, & that threatens those who benefit most from them. Easier to deny ADHD than to accept structural change

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.

any time i see the “ai model escapes containment” headlines i think “they should lose their engineering licenses, that shit’s out of spec”

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow

This whole issue is framed wrongly. As I've written: "Worrying that some migrants won’t pay their way is a displacement activity - an attempt to blame migrants for the failings of British capitalism." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-the-fis...

As a professional computer toucher and as someone that knows the field, it is crimes as marketing.

This this this!

As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.

Which means 6 in 7 do not and many of them are more progressive than previous generations. Also, “white nationalism” might be a “phase” for some/many in this generation in the sense that “skinhead” was in a previous generation. Obviously, 1 in 7 is a concern. But it is no reason for moral panic.

The more you insist that cars equal “freedom,” the more likely it is that you live in car dependency, which is the opposite of freedom.

My main two general takeaways as a GDR historian on this election (which will probably be painfully familiar to anyone who has followed me for a while) 1. Equating the AfD with a residual mass authoritarian personality is an oversimplification that obscures effects of post-89 social collapse...

On the argument that Britain doing anything about climate change is futile because we're so small.