The US may not be feeling the effects of Trump’s war yet but in other places …

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d ago

PAKISTAN IN CRISIS MODE: MARKETS TO SHUT BY 9 PM, FUEL USE SLASHED 50%, FOREIGN TRAVEL RESTRICTED

In every photo Mitch McConnell looks like he’s just seen what’s up ahead for him on the road, and it’s totally terrifying

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.

Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) revisits the artistic response to 9/11 and the surveillance apparatus that emerged in the aftermath of the attacks. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Stargazing, by Hari Kunzru

Art and censorship after 9/11

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I once screened Passport to Pimlico at the Lincoln Center as a way of talking about Brexit…

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 5d ago

As with other areas who vote to leave the UK my view is we should let them, and give them independence good and hard. Should be easy to set up border posts and tariffs

Things are getting really weird at the FBI

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."

A major sabotage attack has hit the Netherlands railway network at more than 20 locations. Two-metre metal pipes were attached to tracks to trick the network’s warning system into registering that the tracks were blocked.

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

I am so done with low effort autofiction. Just because it happened to you doesnt make it interesting.

25 Jahre nach 9/11 blickt der Autor Hari Kunzru auf die Brutstätten des heutigen Autokratismus. Im Interview analysiert er die radikalisierende Dynamik der Onlinekultur, den eugenischen Wahn der Techbosse und die Beeinflussung von Regierungen durch das Silicon Valley.

Hari Kunzru: «Verschwörung ist heute eine Regierungsform»

9/11 wirkt bis heute nach: Der britische Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru über die Brutstätten des rechten Backlash – und die kleinen Freuden der Popkultur.

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Ich habe den Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru in Berlin besucht und mit ihm über KI, Verschwörungstheorien, Ufos und Popmusik gesprochen: www.woz.ch/2637/hari-ku...

Hari Kunzru: «Verschwörung ist heute eine Regierungsform»

9/11 wirkt bis heute nach: Der britische Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru über die Brutstätten des rechten Backlash – und die kleinen Freuden der Popkultur.

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Two billionaires give Reform £36m each. UK politics is cheap, compared to the US. The Tories have been given £10m so far in 2026, Labour £7m. This is the will of two men being imposed on an entire country donation.watch/en/unitedkin...

Party donations United Kingdom | DonationWatch

DonationWatch gives clear insights into donors and parties, facilitating the understanding of political financing by explaining complex data in a simple manner

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The President of the United States bluntly asks his followers to cheat in an election.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

Amid the media noise about train-themed aspiring paramilitaries Patriot Platform, @trillingual.bsky.social has the good analysis www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Daniel Trilling | Masks Off

One of the main differences between today’s far right and the fascism of the mid-20th century is the absence of a...

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breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science

Update your priors

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

If your mental model of "AI" is still spicy autocomplete, this account of the Hugging Face hack will be a challenge. Wildest for Bluesky AI haters is that it's all totally compatible with the most hardcore stochastic parrots understanding of their capabilities www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...

Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022

Small mercies here in Deutschland that the AfD and their motorbike riding salesman leader didn’t get an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt, but the spectacle of the distant losers trying to form a coalition to keep them from governing is going to be messy

Your hostile 1990s teen around Magdeburg willing to beat the crap out of any outsider while listening to Radio SAW is in the 2020s your respectable looking Bürger voting AfD so that the cops can beat the crap out of any outsider while listening to Radio SAW

Given that we’re currently in a situation where any use of AI in published writing workflow risks severe reputational damage (inadvertent plagiarism is more or less baked in) this seems, uh, not well thought through.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.”

This is a good example of old journalistic norms doing a disservice to the public under authoritarianism. “Critics have raised questions” is a formulation designed to preserve the outlet’s stance of objectivity. However this is not a matter of opinion. It is illegal and it should be stated bluntly

Reuters@reuters.com · 2w ago

The U.S. Mint releases video showing the manufacturing process for $1 coins featuring President Trump, issued to mark the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026. Critics have raised questions about the design's legality.

A rumor is circulating that a problem associated with the Navier Stokes equations (motion of viscous fluids) has been solved by Anthropic, while Terence Tao is warning that such a solution could actually be *damaging* for mathematics mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172078...

This is the party that just announced it would declare a “national state of emergency” and force MP’s to work 7 days a week until some unspecified goals were met.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reform UK Conference schedule is extraordinary, esp for a party that keeps banging on about work-shy shirkers and people's participation. Only 40 mins total for motions. Midday start. 5 1/2 hrs of speeches OVER TWO DAYS - of which almost half goes to Farage. Broken each day by a two-hour lunch!

Fun fact: Nick Robinson was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and then led the National Young Conservatives

Rippers@ripley123.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today programme had an expert saying it could be a serious criminal offence, to which Nick Robinson replied “some people listening might say, ‘Does it really matter?’”

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

Corrupt cabal of racist freaks says what now?

Andrew Sparrow@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reform UK says it would declare 'national emergency' on day one in power, not letting judges or officials 'get in our way' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jeffries has never given the slightest indication that he understands what has happened to the US. NPC behavior

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3w ago

What @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social told me the House agenda will be next year if Democrats win —Reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts —Extend expired ACA tax credits —Restore Congress’s authority on tariffs —“Decisively” end the Iran war Beyond that: “We’ve established five working groups on affordability”

It is outrageous that any international funding is given to this genocidal project but Ben Gvir in particular is an enthusiastic human rights abuser and should be under arrest.

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.