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Absolutely brilliant work, and genuinely surprising to see such a reasonable and critical piece on AI in The Conversation

Superb analysis of AI prose: how it works and how it feels silentroom.media/the-craft/br...

This is excellent. Great presentation, eye opening, and makes you think. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.

Here I join others to discuss central bank 'independence... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi” Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

"Rather than merely wanting to hold fascism at bay, Weber wants to marshal a whole-of-society effort to stamp out the conditions that enable it in the first place." 📚A thoughtful review of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis in The Sling.

The far right is winning because people are scared for the future. The left has to combat this fear head on by showing that decline is not inevitable. Another world is possible - but only if we can take on the power of capital. Me for @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/opinion/econ...

"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bitcoin has an accounting problem which suggests it isn’t money www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...

Martin Wolf: a threat to democracy in FT clothing www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...

Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.

In the U.K. some of the most coherent political points are being made by a bin whilst our PM still seems to have his microphone muted.

The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich

UK govts don't lack resources to improve the quality of life. Even if it does not embrace modern monetary theory, borrow, or hike taxes, it can harvest billions by eliminating tax, legal and fiscal policy anomalies. Some suggestions are in the linked article. Poverty is a political choice.

He invites someone from the Mail to come out and talk and generously offers that they can stand behind the police officers so that they feel safe. Is he admitting that his gang of thugs are threatening?

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Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.

Here @stephenkb.bsky.social seeks to remind the Labour government, old & new, that the point + purpose of recognising "legitimate concerns" about immigration was to understand how to differentiate these from *illegitimate concerns* rooted in intimidation + xenophobia www.ft.com/content/2279...

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

In which I name the guilty men & their determination to use 'blackshirts' & the far right to destroy democratic demands for wealth taxes and other forms of financial regulation. annpettifor.substack.com/p/the-guilty...

Absolute perfection from @cathywilcox.bsky.social #Auspol

Do you and our economy have what is needed to survive the next crash? I wrote this infographic. I used AI to create the final image.

ICYMI- My #climate cartoon for @thepointau.bsky.social

An alien's take on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Happy birthday to Gerard Love. Here are Teenage Fanclub performing Sparky's Dream at T in the Park 30 years ago. The full recording is on Scottish TeeVee's Youtube playlist of classic Fannies footage at youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a force of nature #videos #srv #stevierayvaughan #blues #music

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

“This year’s El Niño climate event is likely to be historic. That’s not a good thing. But taken in conjunction with a planet overheated by climate change the results could be devastating.”

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

Mr John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social is saying some very clear words today in “The Reckoning”. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...

Say what you want about Trump but his disruption of oil supplies goes far far far beyond the wildest dreams of Extinction Rebellion.

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

New Substack post: ‘Edge Case Wars’ - Have the Culture Wars Been Misnamed? rolandmcs.substack.com/p/edge-case-...

Racism has had at least 500 years to prove its case and in 2026 there are assholes crying that we arent giving it a fair shake 😂. We wrote books, experimented in labs, built goverments, argued in court, enslaved people, tried to exterminate a few million more. Its been fully explored at this point.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

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Not ‘adults’ but the ruling class - a tiny minority whose unchecked pathological greed sees them hoarding wealth. Buying into manufactured generational conflict keeps you angry at the wrong people.

You really want to know why kids are depressed and isolated? It's not social media. Or phones. Adults have created a world with fuck all future. No job security. No owning your own home. No real action on climate. Adults need to take responsibility for what they have done.

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10