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Please God get rid of Netanyahu. I know the alternative isn't great but it's better than more of him with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

scheduled post Henua Stabile Moorea, French Polynesia "This morning, during our sharing tour, we found around 15 whales along the reef alone🙏🏽 Grateful for what we got to experience today. 🤍 "

Jack Smith emerges as a surprise witness who could expose evidence in Trump’s lawsuit. The BBC subpoenaed Smith for a deposition as part of its defense, according to court documents filed today. The BBC knows how to fight. www.newsweek.com/bbc-wants-ja...

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

This week’s column: if we’re ditching 40 years of neoliberalism can we *please* stop wanging on about red tape?! hhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/25/cutting-red-tape-is-nothing-but-a-red-herring-and-arguably-counterproductive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. Gas prices skyrocketing. Trump says, "Pretend I'm on the ballot." Please do.

Cathy Young, at @thebulwark.com, on the opportunistic use of the French riots by some U.S. conservatives

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Krugman👍🏻on this: "Yes America has a market economy & we need to respect property rights. But we are...a democracy:the rights of private property don't include the right to act against the nation’s interest...Elected reps...not business owners, should decide...Capitalism is not an excuse for treason"

CONSIDER THIS A CROWING

That's what I love to see!!

I agree. I think AI has huge potential, but LLMs are essentially plausibility generators not truth generators -- and there are limited applications where accuracy is not important. If that means humans have to check everything, the productivity gains could be extremely modest.

Yes. In the case of AI, “training” and “inference” are separate. In other words, once an AI network is trained - which may take months - it is fixed. It is not updated by interaction with a user. By contrast, the brain learns from/updates itself from every engagement with the exterior world.

A reminder: the human brain, which exhibits “general” intelligence, something AI has not achieved, uses a mere 20 watts, less than the power of a lightbulb. AI is using 100s of data centers, each needing megawatts to gigawatts, to achieve only artificial “narrow” intelligence

Important from @crampell.bsky.social: "That Trump would now choose to try to discredit a child sex-crime victim is unsurprising. He was a close friend of Epstein...He has no qualms about throwing abuse survivors under the bus if doing so helps him politically." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-crue...

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage, of a constant belief that life is a zero-sum game. But nothing flourishes in that world." — @snipy.bsky.social

This would sound like a reasoned assessment of how the US could play a leading role on the world stage - IF the whole proposal wasn't predicated on Trump NOT being the demented, incompetent, malignant narcissistic moral lacuna that, in fact, he is www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"Higher wages can entice men to apply for a job, but they cannot suddenly turn people into high-functioning adults." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

I'm being sued for $795m. By a fugitive fraudster. In Wyoming. Using an anti-Mafia law. 🧵

Golly @matt-forde.bsky.social why did you not crow your accession to the MCU from the rooftops? Fantastic!

Wait’ll thomas and alito say the ag, who does whatever the president says, is entitled to decide which states’ elections count, and that this is just what the founders intended bsky.app/profile/newr...

In September, the AI company Anthropic claimed its models were approaching “superhuman capabilities for geolocating outdoor photos”. Bellingcat put that claim to the test by benchmarking the performance of Anthropic and other LLMs. Here’s what we found: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

"Humanitarian"

extremely good @emorwee.bsky.social / @rebleber.bsky.social piece here, on the REALLY REALLY WILD number of ppl who think that gas is a "clean" fuel - that didn't just happen, the industry made it happen! heated.world/p/why-smart-...

Presumably, if Hitler were alive today, Witkoff would be telling him “You are a saintly soul, sir.” How much further up Putin’s backside can America crawl? It’s not only shameful and dangerous, it’s reallyembarrassing.

at a minimum, a worldview has to be connected to reality before you can appease it

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Matilda Borgström.

Good explainer as to why Ukrainian electronic warfare efforts can't thwart Russia's jet-powered drones. (From the @kyivindependent.com) kyivindependent.com/very-difficu...

"The gas would still be needed. It will just be imported from somewhere else." Casuistic claptrap. As both as both Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch know, whatever is extracted from the Jackdaw gasfield will be sold, like all gas, by private companies on the open market. #pmqs #politicslive