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What can I read to understand this 21st c. economy where companies that produce little or nothing run for years registering massive apparent losses, while still making millions (billions) for their creators?

Just found this, (Ivins, "On the rationalisation of sight"), and may have found a soul mate!

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

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

#FreeSpeech News Hollywood Reporter reporting that YouTube, TikTok and Meta platforms are refusing to take even paid ads for Alex Gibney's documentary which takes a, let's say, sceptical and questioning view of Elon Musk's career, personality and alleged achievements. "Musk" opens on 9 October.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

"I already boycott The New York Times/don't have a subscription, what can I do?" A lot! You can: * Share our call for boycott. Tell others about the NYT's role in trans genocide * Stop sharing NYT links, even to dunk on them * Pressure the pension/retirement funds invested in the NYT to divest

On my way, Clacton.

@plashingvole.bsky.social Mr Vole. Could you also let your many devoted followers know our bluesky address? Then we might actually get round to putting some content out on it.

That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

@hagenilda.bsky.social thought you should see this.

This doesn't happen often. Double woo hoos this morning. Time to up my sub to goodlawproject.org and find out if Huda Ammori has a crowd funder!!

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Amazing work form the cairo geniza team - all of us not involved are jealous that you are having so much fun! Brilliant example of how minutiae are what make history. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.

Canada’s PM Mark Carney's now legendary Davos speech. Worth listening to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4... - (speech is 17 min long)

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ -- Matthew 25:40

We are so happy for all of them! 🎉 This great news is what we fight for and work hard for each and every day, and we couldn't do it without you. 💜 Here's to more great news to come! 2/2

a blue whale’s anus can stretch up to over 3 feet making it the 2nd largest asshole in the world behind jd vance

Five years ago.

And another link bsky.app/profile/bret...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

This message hits hard.

Palaeographic suggestions? This boxed letter is found in a late-12th c Aristotelian MS. Did someone see a similar use? I have an idea about its meaning, but I cannot remember anything of the kind (MS Avranches, BM, 221, f. 13r)

Feverishly working on this

Our first talk of 2026 is on 17 January 2.30pm by Dr John Price - Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community, exploring stories of the children who attended. Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place! @jpaprice.bsky.social

If we must do a comparison of which American president did a better job securing the release of Israeli hostages, the answer is Joe Biden.

oh that reminds me, is @royalsociety.org still gonna twiddle their thumbs while their Fellow, Elon Musk, is championing the alt-right in the UK? At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?

BTW Karen Attiah is teaching a course this fall on Race, Media and International Affairs. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Because of course

Nationalism— the idea that there is a natural unity among an ethnoracial people speaking a single language— is young but thoroughly taken for granted today. It is tied directly to the idea that the national unity creates an inherent right to a bounded territory claimed by the state. It must go.