At the heart of everything they do is either corruption or incompetence. Sometimes it is a synergy of incompetent corruption.
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Looking (again) at X's performative minimal + non- compliance with legal duties under the Online Safety Act: to remove + prevent unlawful context. Its form allows up to 5 reports per user. It took 30 minutes to decide all 5 tweets were unlawful. They are restricted in the UK. The user carries on.
Revealed: how a UK firm is spearheading growth in trade of US fracked ethane
Revealed: how a UK firm is spearheading growth in trade of US fracked ethane
Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions “My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner at the Clean Air Council in Washington County, Pennsylvania. “My oldest son had rashes all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My youngest had terrible nosebleeds, it was so bad that he became anaemic and would almost pass out. He would wake up bleeding.” Continue reading...
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Google is removing Google Search from schools that reject the company’s AI Google celebrated this decision in a blog post entitled “Designing responsible AI for learning” blog.google/products-and... Lina Khan, a former chair of the FTC, said Google is using its “search monopoly to coerce schools”
🇺🇦 Budanov: Moscow hopes that strikes on critical infrastructure in the winter will lead to mass discontent and protests in Ukraine. However, such a scenario will not force Ukrainians to abandon their national interests.
'The only Silicon Valley value that seems to be immutable is that ideology comes second to self-interest.'
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 10h agoJennifer O'Connell: Silicon Valley’s tech bros bet everything on Trump. What will they do now?
This is the way. Trump started the war. Republicans supported the war. Democrats force an end to the war. Let Republicans in Congress choose between loyalty to Trump and Israel or ending the war. No more resolutions or symbolic votes. Defund the war.
Leaked data from #Russia State statistics agency Rosstat: 450,000+ Russians killed in full-scale invasion of #Ukraine 4th most common cause of death in Russia since Feb 2022. Toll is Russia's highest since World War II, far beyoned 13,000 Soviet troops killed in #Afghanistan #UkraineWar
Scott Lucas@scottlucas.bsky.social · 9h ago#UkraineWar, Days 1,717-1,718: #Russia 's Ballistic Missile Strikes on #Kyiv #Ukraine eaworldview.com/2026/11/ukra...
450k dead is 4th leading cause of death in Russia, and that leaked official count is lower than the outside estimate. Mobilization keeps pulling men out of villages and factories to feed it. The demographic bill lands on Russia for decades, and it was self-inflicted
A reminder that even destruction and horror passes. After WWII (in 1945) Nuremberg's St. Sebald Church was a ruin. Reconstruction of this landmark began straight after the war and the church was reconsecrated in 1957.
The UK is lagging behind other European countries in public understanding of the threat posed by Russia, the head of the British military Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton tells the FT.
UK must ‘catch up’ with Europe in opposing Russian threat, says military chief
Sir Richard Knighton promises further action to counter Moscow’s submarines in the north Atlantic
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#Cornell faculty voted 75–50 declaring no confidence in university leaders over their handling of a former student’s alleged 2024 #gang-rape. A lawsuit names 7 former fraternity members; criminal investigation reopened by #NewYork’s #attorney-general. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Cornell faculty declares ‘no confidence’ in school leaders in fallout from alleged gang-rape
Faculty senate passed resolution expressing deep discontent with school’s response to alleged fraternity rape
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Irish police and Defence Forces assessments, according to the reporting, point to Russia’s intelligence services (GRU or proxies) as responsible.
🇮🇪 The Times reports that security sources believe Putin is waging a hybrid war campaign against Ireland ahead of it hosting major EU summits during its Council of the EU presidency. There is a coordinated wave of hoax bomb threats and alerts targeting airports/flights and newsrooms.
AI is backed into a uniquely late-stage-capitalist shaped corner, where if it doesn’t build more Data Centres the bubble will burst. The debt funded, 2nd tier AI companies must move to new centres with next gen computing power or they will lose investment needed to build the centres.
The shooter killed mostly women. Six of the nine people killed were women. Men were also killed, but it is not uncommon for far-right terrorists to target women, given the influence of incel culture and the anti-women rhetoric found across extremist and terrorist groups worldwide.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h agoA far-right terrorist killed six people in Kraków, Poland, firing from a car before two heroic police officers stopped him despite both being gravely wounded. His parents and sister were later found shot dead at his home. Prosecutors are investigating the attack as terrorism.
How Elon Musk has helped to make the leader of a fringe party that he supports much the most visible politician on X.
"Now Farage is the most unpopular politician in the country by a distance, which is saying something given the general sentiment towards the UK’s governing class" writes @samfr.bsky.social in an updated TLS review on Reform's Nigel Farage problem samf.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
The fall of Farage
A version of this article originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Sorry, GOP, but you’re stuck with this loser. By the way, anyone know who this cartoonist is?
MAGA airing out their dirty laundry after the election and admitting things we said about their disgusting, toxic movement and the people in it were all true is really something to behold. They should never have influence on our politics again. Maybe get real jobs & try working.
An interesting vid on the demographics of the USA midterm election results www.instagram.com/stories/caro...
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A Kilkenny boxing event organised by a well-known British TikToker ended in chaos on Saturday night, with two men arrested and another hospitalised with serious injuries jrnl.ie/7219403
TikToker-organised boxing event descends into chaos in Kilkenny
Two men were arrested, and a third man was hospitalised following an assault.
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She is our oldest resident. Little Bridget fell off a bridge when a truck scared her and she got stuck by the river. We had a very special day of spoiling her today. She is my secret little favorite. So happy with her lot in life even as she ages and her eyes have failed her