Jan Stette

Yikes. There are some commands it really should be blocked from ever doing.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Deputy party leader Richard Tice, who was announced as the unit's new head on Wednesday, told the Financial Times that Doge is "a philosophy of saving money". He did not deny that the unit itself had carried out no audit work in councils to date.

"UK Doge is more of a vibe."

Just spent half an hour trying to check in with @flysas.com . Complete amateur hour. Remind me to never fly with them again.

Herregud

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BREAKING: British Green Party membership passes 123000 and approaches 124000; so that is >more than the Conservative Party<!
Completely unprecedented.
Do spread the word…

Farfar holdt en jødisk kvinne unna tyskerne ved å ha henne innlagt på Tønsberg sykehus i tre år under en fiktiv diagnose. Han overbeviste dem om at hun ville dø uten kontinuerlig medisinsk tilsyn, og de lot henne bli.
Bare nevner det.

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired “I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

Nature -- Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired

by @maxkozlov.bsky.social

go.nature.com/4o3vaVD

Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."

Woman admits UK bitcoin fraud charges after ‘world’s largest’ crypto seizure Zhimin Qian pleads guilty after wallets with 61,000 bitcoins, currently worth over £5bn, seized from north London home

Looking forward to the Netflix serialisation of this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What? Utterly ridiculous.

Quote from the article saying "Labour says some foreign nationals could earn earlier settlement, based on their contribution or skills."

Complete with loophole for rich people.

Luckily we have AI now /s

If only there was some way to figure this out

Me too. I wonder if it's just due my age...

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Mare Street, Hackney

@martinpeck.bsky.social Walked past this and thought of you! 😄

🎯

Goebbels Ends the Careers of Five Comedians Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime.

NYTimes article. February 4 1939.

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Jeg var også skeptisk til uniform men ungene mine går på skole i London og uniform fungerer helt utmerket, de trives bra med det.

Etter min erfaring er ingen mer opptatt av den slags status enn i småbyene.

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.

David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.

British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

Neat

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.

This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

"Free speech for me, not for thee" I guess.

And for the first commenter he didn't like - tagging the CEO of his company in his response, suggesting that he shouldn't be employed. Classy.

&quot;The three essential characteristics of Blueskyism: Smalltentism, Credentialism, and Catastrophism.&quot; - Nate Silver Unsurprisingly those are some of the same characteristics that permeate (a... "The three essential characteristics of Blueskyism: Smalltentism, Credentialism, and Catastrophism." - Nate Silver Unsurprisingly those are some of the same characteristics that permeate (and plague)...

It's quite hilarious: right wing American VC guy espousing free speech on Twitter, and accusing Bluesky of "smalltentism", then systematically deleting every comment on the post that he doesn't agree with. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

If SHRINK is so great, why don’t we do it?



A lot of it is IP / legal hell.

It *sorta* happened with Intel’s X86S proposal, but even that died after industry pushback in late 2024.



Plus, a lot of the cool kids moved on to other ISAs (ARM, RISC-V).