Matt &quot;Winter is here&quot;

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@carnage4life.bsky.social

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The sheer brass neck of these guys is astonishing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Joey Arrington over a graphic showing diesel at $6.35: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that's willing to do things that aren't in his political interest"

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Dare Obasanjo

$72B of Anthropic’s $80B loss is a weird accounting issue and not actual dollars lost. They got an investment from Amazon but instead of getting the stock right away, Amazon will get it at IPO. Since then Anthropic is now valued at $1.5T to $2T and the value of stock they “owe” Amazon rose by $72B

escapedexplorer.bsky.social

The tech bros are up to their necks in the same corruption as Trump is.

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@escapedexplorer.bsky.social

10h

Replying to @escapedexplorer.bsky.social

No you know what I'm still mad about this, fuck you, you utter plague of rancid fats, I'm gonna learn MORE about this to tell you to go fuck yourself with an electron microscope let's learn about some Arabic contributors to science that won THE EXACT AWARDS he mentioned

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Adam Rutherford

@adamrutherford.bsky.social

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

@theserfstv.bsky.social

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

23h

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Punchy

substack.comHow much could the UK actually raise from higher taxes?The uncomfortable numbers behind Britain’s largest tax levers.

Very timely review of the numbers on tax and spend from @hannahritchie.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Kori Schake 🎃

@kschake.bsky.social

"When asked where this agreement had come from, Trump admitted that he had made it up. It was entirely in his head, which is where so many of his great diplomatic triumphs appear to occur." @ldfreedman.bsky.social

Lawrence Freedman@ldfreedman.bsky.social

My latest post attempts to make sense of a difficult time in US-Ukraine relations, in which the dysfunctions of the Trump administration were on full display. Trump’s claims that Putin was ready to make concessions was shown again to be make-believe. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/ukraine-wi...?

samf.substack.comUkraine: With or Without TrumpIt would be so much better if we could address the challenge of defending Ukraine against Russian aggression without also having to deal with Donald Trump and the psychodramas surrounding him.

bit.lyPolls suggest a sweeping Democrat victory. History suggests cautionPredictable polling errors might reduce the size of the midterms margin

Expect worse news than expected...

The Economist@economist.com

We studied our archive of congressional polls and found that the more a state leans towards one party, the more the polls have underestimated it. Register for free to explore our data

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Citizen Paul Templeman

@paultempleman.bsky.social

Replying to @davidnice.bsky.social

There’s a very interesting take on this decision from Dale Vince, whose opinions I respect, suggesting that this is not as harmful as it may first appear. 🤔 lnkd.in/p/ekzKY4yQ

lnkd.inToday’s Guardian article about the go ahead for Jackdaw is packed with angry reactions from environment campaigners of one flavour or another. On the whole I find them illogical. Tessa Khan of… | Da...Today’s Guardian article about the go ahead for Jackdaw is packed with angry reactions from environment campaigners of one flavour or another. On the whole I find them illogical. Tessa Khan of Uplif...

thetimes.comAndy Burnham is open to adopting EU free movementThe PM calls for an honest conversation, saying pre-Brexit migration was not ‘as difficult’ as it is now

Good. Because we need to have this conversation, and because he's right

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

nytimes.comAlpha School Claims to Teach Kids Twice as Fast. Many Don’t Make It. (Gift Article)Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students’ test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn’t live up to the hype.

Worth reading this thread in full, and the article on Alpha schools. It's a clarion call for those that believe tech (and maybe even metrics and accountability) don't work and are degrading education

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporting on the boot camp too. But...

Just spent the last 10 days travelling across and between various education conferences, all focused on AI in education. It was fascinating and I learned a huge amount

Nonetheless, navigating between those who believe 'super-intelligence' is just around the corner and will 'completely revolutionise education' and 'tech is evil' is incredibly wasteful of time and energy

Worth reading this thread in full, and the article on Alpha schools. It's a clarion call for those that believe tech (and maybe even metrics and accountability) don't work and are degrading education

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

...at best they have reductionist metrics that their system is designed to maximise. 9) However, we know that metrics and accountability do work in education and that using them wisely and productively is a key management task (as in every other field)

10) As a result, the 'debate' is pretty sterile, between 'reactionaries' and 'evil capitalists'. Worse, the US is - as in every field - exporting its political and culture wars to everyone else. (East Asia looks at AI very differently. It also looks at student wellbeing differently too)

Worth reading this thread in full, and the article on Alpha schools. It's a clarion call for those that believe tech (and maybe even metrics and accountability) don't work and are degrading education

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

6) There is no reason to believe that the way we currently educate our children is optimal. Change is good (with evidence). +/- every other field of human endeavour has been improved with tech (which is more than 'ipads with software'. Education has been relatively very resistant

7) Most people resisting tech in education don't know very much about it at all. Can't describe what an LLM actually is. Don't know case examples from inside or outside education 8) Most of the tech-evangelists have very little understanding of pedagogy and developmental psychology....

Worth reading this thread in full, and the article on Alpha schools. It's a clarion call for those that believe tech (and maybe even metrics and accountability) don't work and are degrading education

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

3) A lot of education is manipulating symbols: language, maths, coding, etc. AI will eventually get to the point where it can do a great job of providing 1-1 tuition on this 4) A lot of education isn't about manipulating symbols. And AI is either largely irrelevant or actively harmful...

...for example, we know judgment, critical and creative thinking decline sharply among heavy/naive AI users. 5) Furthermore, citizenship, teamwork, healthy interpersonal relationships are essential outcomes of education. AI is largely peripheral at best and deskilling the heavily online at worst

Worth reading this thread in full, and the article on Alpha schools. It's a clarion call for those that believe tech (and maybe even metrics and accountability) don't work and are degrading education

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

I agree with a lot of this, and I disagree with a lot of this. All the following statements can be true (and I think probably are) 1) Gen AI ('AI') is a phenomenal productivity tool and isn't going away. Students and workers will need to use it 2) AI is very good at manipulating symbols

Imagine if that was the level of your campaign appeals. Imagine receiving this from a political party and thinking: "Yeah, this is a fight against.... furries" Welcome to the US. The Land of the Free-from-thought

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This. 100% this. (I'd also add for the benefit of Mr Musk that Ukraine does have some corruption, and it would be far easier to address this corruption if it wasn't in the middle of an existential fight against a genocidal neighbour)

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

While we're on this fucking subject, who know where there's a GIAAAAAAAAAANT gap between "the elites making millions" and "the common people dying in the trenches". Russia! There's exactly one elite who wants this war. One. Even the oligarchs over there hate it. Why not yell at him a bit?

Another country that 'benefits' from Russian intervention

The Analyst@militaryanalyst.bsky.social

BELARUS BEING DRAGGED TOWARDS WAR BY PUTIN Lukashenko does his best to keep the Russian dictator both as friend and enemy. Sharply aware of the Russian 2023 plan to fully incorporate Belarus by the end of the decade, the economic reliance on Russia is one lever while Lukashenko tries to act

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Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it

substack.comNatalia-Battalia (@nataliabattalia)The moment captured here shows a Ukrainian woman Yana whose first thought, as she and her husband, Anton, were pulled alive from the debris of their apartment building after a Russian airstrike last w...

Grotesque substack.com/@nataliabatt...

bit.lyIgnore the doomsayers. American democracy is in good shapeIts resilience rests not on politicians’ restraint but on the robustness of institutional arrangements, writes Frances Lee

Recklessly naive. If this is typical of elites defending US democracy, then it’s in much worse shape then we think E.g. The blithe tolerance of gerrymandering is gobsmacking

The Economist@economist.com

Despite some anxiety, America is “a resilient democracy”, argues Frances Lee, a professor of politics, in a guest essay. “That resilience rests not on politicians’ restraint but on institutional arrangements that are difficult to manipulate”

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Mike Rothschild

@rothschildmd.bsky.social

Extorting Marines with cancer to own the libs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune settlements: "If the Republicans don't do well, I'd say maybe they won't get their money"

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The Economist

@economist.com

One American government source says that Donald Trump is panicked by terrible polling ahead of the midterms. And that Volodymyr Zelensky is a convenient scapegoat

bit.lyThe America-Ukraine link grows even spottierThe Starlink cut-offs were a test, and worse may follow

substack.comKristen Kroll (@kristenkroll)These guys are quiet, nerdy heroes in my book! Thanks for saving and providing access to this essential data— “The government deleted 15 years of public records. Just... gone. NOAA's climate portal ...

This is a hugely cheering story on multiple levels substack.com/@kristenkrol...

This is really big news: not that the Trump administration is corrupt (but more evidence for this is now in), but also just how amateurish they are. Putin is pretty much reading their texts.

Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social

Just marvellous that Jared is doing the hard sell for Russia who, predictably, is collecting blackmailable material illicitly from his iPhone, showing he’s as corrupt as fuck. Then he’s stung by Dutch Intelligence. It’s a thing of beauty. vanityfair.com/story/jared-ku...

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

More targeted voter suppression in the US

CNN@cnn.com

The Supreme Court ruled that New Hampshire can limit the use of student IDs for voting, siding with Republicans who argued that a lower court ruling that blocked enforcement of the policy came too close to Election Day. https://cnn.it/4ecI7dt

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The Halfway Post

@halfwaypost.bsky.social

BREAKING: A GOP senator asked for anonymity to reveal that "everyone in Congress knows Trump's second term is a disaster," but 1/3 of Republicans are grifting his supporters, 1/3 are afraid of Trump ending their careers, and 1/3 are afraid his cult is a danger to their families.

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Joe Walsh

As someone who publicly came out against Trump 8yrs ago, and ended my career as a Republican by doing so, and have endured hate & threats from the MAGA base these past 8yrs, I have zero sympathy for, and utter disdain for, all 3 of these groups of cowardly former Republican colleagues of mine.👇

The Halfway Post@halfwaypost.bsky.social

@bentleyallan.bsky.social

Charts showing recent ICE 'reforms' are indeed killing people.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com

Fiscal year 2026 just ended. It was the deadliest year for ICE detention. Ever. And the first death of FY 2027 was announced yesterday. There must be accountability. austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-first-...

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

TRUMP: We gave nothing in exchange for Stephen. We never give anything in exchange for hostages. TRUMP LITERALLY MOMENTS LATER: If I implemented sanctions on Russia, Steven wouldn't be coming out right now.

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Bentley Allan

A fun International Relations theory exam question might be, what does this graph mean for the past, present, and future of US-China relations?

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Michael Clemens

@mclem.org

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

A slowdown in Ukraine’s military version of Starlink ordered by Elon Musk is hurting Kyiv’s ability to stop Russian attacks. on.wsj.com/4k8mazM

on.wsj.comElon Musk’s Starlink Speed Cap Has Scrambled Ukraine’s DefensesA slowdown in Ukraine’s military version of Starlink ordered by Musk is hurting Kyiv’s ability to stop Russian attacks.

theguardian.comFormer Tory election candidate suspended over contract killing claimsJack Ross was filmed allegedly discussing with an undercover reporter violent options to deal with enemies

The banality of evil...

Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social

Remigration in action:

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Henry Dyer

@direthoughts.com

Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point UK and a former Conservative election candidate, has been suspended from the party in the wake of undercover sting by Al Jazeera reportedly showing him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers. Story from @benquinn75.bsky.social and me

Graphic & crude, but literally the truth here.

Kungahuset@kungahuset.bsky.social

youtube.comIs JD Vance suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE?YouTube video by The Daily Show

The Daily Show continues to show that some Americans are cultured, witty and aware of the world outside the US www.youtube.com/shorts/BH5wX...

youtube.comShadowmen: Russian operatives who say they're sabotaging Putin’s war – BBC World Service DocsYouTube video by BBC World Service

Absolutely fascinating video from the BBC on how Russian 'loyalists' are supporting Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Eb...