Ivan Zinchenko

Centre-right parties should not shift further to the right to capture far-right voters. Evidence from the 2025 German federal election shows that the CDU shifting further to the right to capture AfD voters would not only have left the CDU worse off, but politics would be pulled further to the right.

The good news is humans will be long gone by then anyway.

The US is cooked.

Morons. Utter morons.

💯 this.

Watched a France24 piece about how millions of Egyptians live in Cairo slums. Cramped poorly made concrete mazes where multi generational families share tiny filthy living spaces without clean running water. And middle class Germans will vote far-right over some vague sense of middle class malaise.

Deportee reception/incarceration as a tradeable service is the globalization of deglobalization.

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Well, I've heard that it's a war about European security, freedom and democracy, so a better question would be: why should Ukrainians be the only ones fighting this war and being forced to do so against their will?

Unsurprisingly, eugenics and "I reduce all women to a ten point scale" tend to go together

Very few things piss me off more than this inane obsession humans have formed around national borders. Humans have been roaming the planet for thousands of years, but now we've invented magical lines that can turn you less than human if you cross them in the "wrong" way.

I watched the whole, wretched thing and I can honestly say that the least historically accurate moment is when Calypso hand feeds Odysseus a single potato chip. YOU CAN'T EAT JUST ONE, GROK. Hopefully they'll correct this to a more accurate feasting on a 13oz bag in the final version.

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

I'm pleased to share this new paper, "The myth of 'catch-up' development". The paper assesses trends in core-periphery inequality since 1960, and draws several main conclusions: 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2659076

Unpopular opinion: assisted dying should be available to everyone.

I'm sure all the Westerners cheering this on are doing so from the front line, having volunteered to fight.

I wish there was a way to banish all mention of the World Cup, or football in general, from my life.

Никогда такого не было, и вот опять.

'ooOOooh our AI systems are so good they're scary' is an advertisement designed to keep the hype up. it is entirely untrue. no large language model is any more conscious than a calculator, and they will never get any closer

While I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, these people are not mistaken about anything. They know exactly what they're doing.

The EU Deportation Act will not appease the far right. On the contrary. If you feed the monster it will not be satisfied, it will just grow stronger. Calls for remigration will be next. Read my blog sophieintveld.substack.com/p/the-deport...

Europe creates its own ICE, including home raids, deportations and indefinite detention in far away countries. There will be gross and large scale human rights violations. This is pure far right policy and anyone endorsing it does so knowingly. Don’t let anyone ever pretend they did not know.

The "AI" bros are stupid beyond belief. Otherwise, they would understand that their analogy is completely backwards. Dark matter and dark energy are phenomena that we have measured but cannot explain. They are not something that we cannot measure but desperately want to believe exists.

Ekonomikas jautājumos sabiedrība ir kreisa - vēlas lielu valsti, kas parūpējas un aizsargā. Dažādu partiju vēlētāju vidū tikpat kā nav atšķirību. NA un LPV vēlētāji, piemēram, atbalsta progresīvos nodokļus tikpat cik PRO vēlētāji 😅 Nedaudz vairāk: youtu.be/CvKZPo0t0kM?...

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"How dare these filthy migrants abuse OUR women? It's our job to abuse them!"

Two weeks ago it was unearthed that Germany frequently invites Taliban officials to government premises to check Afghan deportees and facilitate their return. This happens in secret for obvious reasons. This scandalous activity has created almost no media response or public outcry.

“Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of the agency—could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Actual AI researchers: 'Hallucinations' are inherent to LLMs. Strictly speaking, all their output is hallucinations; it just isn't obvious most of the time. Me, a genius: Have you guys tried putting 'do not hallucinate' in your prompts?

This is dark, but I think there's a darker twist to this: Schools, Foucault tells us, are always about making the kind of people that capital and state have uses for. In his days, that meant a disciplinary schooling system. One that got kids used to rigidly timed days, synchronous movements, etc. 1/

Imagine being the dumbest MFer alive and calling someone a low IQ person. A friendly reminder: only total losers care about IQ.

Germany is increasingly adopting a Fouchet approach to EU politics. Will the smaller member states realise that this is clearly not in their interests and defend supranational integration, as they did in 1961/62?

Tough decisions but where there is hope there is life. Would love your feedback ❤️ niallharbison.substack.com/p/the-rocky-...

So far, AI is having limited effects on employment. 95% of AI-using companies report that AI isn't changing their headcount, with equally small shares reporting AI-driven increases and decreases.

At least this is easy proof that the stock market is dumb as fuck, and if you think it isn't, you're also dumb as fuck.

Here's an idea for Herr Minister: how about no Palantirs in Europe?

Trump could really teach the Pope a lesson by taxing churches.

No, it does not.

It would be helpful if someone could finally define what "leading in AI" even means, because at the moment it sounds like "leading in eating shit".

My concept is throw out citizenship. One world one people. Free movement of ppl and goods.