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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
The edit has already been made to Brendan Rodger’s Wikipedia… 😂
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
A Japanese nurse who volunteered in Gaza hospitals held a press conference after returning to Japan.
"What did the people of Gaza do wrong? Isn't the burden of life the same for everyone? This world has never been fair."
"The whole world is attacking them, and they have no rights as individuals... You occupy their land and kill them."
"Maybe these words will never reach the world, or they will be ignored... The Palestinian people are fighting for their existence."
"I will try to make the voices of the people of Gaza heard by the world..."
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
Israeli occupation forces have been using this “foul odorant,” known as skunk liquid, since 2008 against Palestinian crowds, homes, shops, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, neighbourhoods, and even funeral processions.
🚨BREAKING: A highly foul smell spread across Gaza City overnight, leaving residents searching their homes and tents for its source.
Social media platforms were flooded with complaints from Palestinians reporting the same unbearable odor across large areas, from Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj in the east to Beit Lahia in the west.
According to journalist Yousef Fares in Gaza, Israeli military aircraft dropped hundreds of bubbles carrying the foul-smelling substance across these areas, deliberately contaminating the air and spreading the odor among residential areas.
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
When the UK govt spends, households and businesses benefit. When the UK govt sells bonds, the banks and finance industry benefit, and UK investors and savers benefit.
The UK is a currency issuer, bond sales do not fund its spending, it creates £ when it spends.
No one owes squat.
£292.
That's the cost of Britain's debt interest for every household, each month.
We all pay for it.
More taxes. Worse public services. Higher interest rates.
We need tough choices. Cut welfare and wasteful spending. It’s the only way to get our public finances back on track.
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
The university has no bookshop; the library eschews physical books; the learning designers condemn lectures; the managers forbid exams; the LLMs do the writing for students. Do we really need to ask why the bell tolls for the humanities?
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Even during the 1960's height of the postwar settlement, cabinet ministers were obsessed with benefit scroungers, Judith Hart in particular. The provisions of the 1834 poor law reform act have always remained at the ideological core of British govts regardless of stripe.
Unemployment benefit in the UK is £95.55 per week for those aged 25 & over. It is 14% of average full-time earnings: the lowest in the developed world. Yet it is still too high for the Tories & right-wing vandals who would ideally live in a world where it did not exist.
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During the 1960s the British welfare state was widely characterized as austere and minimalist compared with its continental and Scandinavian neighbours, yet scrounger bashing was always at the centre of political debate. It's a mistake to assume Thatcher kick-started it.
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"you need debt crises to impose fiscal discipline"
Let me translate that into proper English: The rich need debt crises that create poverty, unemployment, pressure to lower wages and financially stressed households selling their assets cheap to enrich the rentier class.
In 2012, Draghi linked the survival of the Euro to the suppression of sovereign debt crises. It's the other way around. In a currency union without a fiscal union, you need debt crises to impose fiscal discipline. Nothing else works as the Euro zone shows.
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
114 children all with single sniper shots to the head.
Some as young as 5 years old.
Read that again.
They're "hunting" children for fun.
#StopTheGame
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This is genuinely disturbing
🦔Someone is buying Japanese used books by the ton. Not novels or comics. Philosophy, history, medical law, Edo-period cultural texts. Multiple buyer accounts all ship to one logistics center in Okayama Prefecture that won't answer questions. Export records show over 50 tons, roughly 100,000 volumes, shipped to the US since last year. No buyer has been identified.
Separately, court documents confirmed Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought millions of books in the US, cut the spines off, scanned them, and shredded the originals. An internal memo said the goal was to "destructively scan all the books in the world." Similar operations have been reported across Europe.
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Anthropic's US book operation came out in court filings earlier this year. Project Panama. Millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned, shredded. Their VP chose the codename so nobody outside the company would find out. That story broke and apparently the same operation just moved to Japan. Anonymous buyer accounts, a warehouse in Okayama that won't take questions, and 100,000 volumes of specialized academic texts that nobody buys to resell.
I don't know how you build a trillion-dollar industry on material you had to acquire in secret through middlemen because you knew the public would object. Authors spent years on those books and now they're fed through a scanner and thrown away so a chatbot can sound smarter. If the data was free to use, they wouldn't need codenames and anonymous warehouses. The lawsuits over who owns this material have barely begun and I think the copyright exposure across the whole AI industry is enormous. Anthropic's internal memo said the goal was every book in the world, which describes the foundation of the product.
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My kids went through a phase of sticking on a YouTube clip which had the SpongeBob theme in every language and trying to sing them. You would not believe the hilarity they got out of it. I'm now feeling wistful they are too old to have enjoyed the Scots Gaelic version
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
Peston doing the spadework for the oligopoly, preparing the masses for more cuts, more taxes, higher prices, less services. It’s all propaganda.
There is a lot of talk in Whitehall that the Chancellor will significantly reduce fiscal headroom in the forthcoming budget to avoid bigger tax rises. If he doesn’t knock this on the head pretty sharpish - against the backdrop of government bond prices falling across the developed world - he could find that the interest rate the government has to pay could increase in a very painful way. Not quite Truss style recklessness but not super smart
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
Ver a Alec Baldwin incorporando la entidad de Robert De Niro sin necesidad de acudir al rito umbanda me eriza los pelos del culo.
Se le transforma el rostro al hijo de remil puta.
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Eh? The ethos of conservatism, particularly its 21st Century variant, is the exclusion of mass participation in politics, culture, business & other spheres. Conservatism by its nature seeks to ring fence elite pursuit. Giving out free opera tickets is anathema to conservatism.
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Mr Demos of Pnyx retweeted
I think we are at a historiographical inflection point where there is a huge comparative advantage to reading old secondary work (like 1930s-1970s). Cultural history has become so much the norm that current students no longer are taught/no longer even engage with the historiography that cultural history emerged out of
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