David Collier
@davidacollier.bsky.social
Human genetics, neuroscience, big data, public health. Radical leftist scum. Low value human capital. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Abdul El-Sayed is inviting everyone into the same fight: getting corporate money out of politics & deliver a healthcare system that actually covers everyone! That’s a movement worth showing up for. #BlueWaveIn90Days
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.
I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
theguardian.com
Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Heart of Darkness 'critique', Fierceland
Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize
Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.
abc.net.au
Again, it is just unbearably stupid and chauvinist of British politicians to keep insisting they've come up with the One Weird Trick that will force the EU to let in our trade while we exclude their people.
Not reading any more viable in its full version demos.co.uk/research/bey...
Imagine how many solar panels you could install, how many homes you could insulate, how many reservoirs you could build for $93 billion. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
Polymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
My latest on Substack (free). How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
russincheshire.substack.com
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
www.facebook.com/share/1Hb8KM... Select Specialty Hospital – Tucson East closed its doors and laid off 99 employees two months ahead of its planned September closure, following federal Medicaid funding reductions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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