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TRUMP AND MAMDANI SITTIN' IN A TREE
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I watched the presser and came away reasonably sure it was incompetence mixed with Saudi lawlessness.

“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

Not in favour of dismemberment. Obvs.

More fuel for @stephenkb.bsky.social’s theory that post-AI jobs will include bank teller - and now also door-to-door opinion pollster.

Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ It’s not just that Isaacson was wrong about *something*; it’s that he was wrong about the most important thing in Jobs’s career. There’s a decades-long story arc about the software system started at N...

It’s a good read but it’s more wrong that right about who Steve was.

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It’s been a long time coming but it’s great to see the IOC protecting women. The IOC is moving to remove men from women's sport.

Men who identify as the opposite sex are still allowed to compete, they just have to do so with the men.

The ‘sheer relief’ is doing a lot of work here. Relief from what-having to consider that maybe politicians across the spectrum reacted quickly because there are legitimate questions about consistency and proportionality? He doesn’t actually answer those questions, he just assumes they’re bad faith.

I don’t find it repulsive at all. It’s capitalism working.

If you want change put together a party that’s worth voting for. If it comes down to voting for someone preachy or someone crazy then people choose crazy, at least crazy listens to them.

Please make “shoot it with lasers” one of your options.

John Lewis Christmas 2025 advert about a kid giving his son flashbacks

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.

Worth reading in full.

Parse the duchy, and he’s left outside.

Encore.

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled on.ft.com/47FBigb

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

This is a super fab piece of interactive journalism on Saudi's Neom project from the FT visuals team.

Keep scrolling....

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She wrote an honest book. That’s all. It’s not racist to do that.

Pan Macmillan apologises to Kate Clanchy three years after controversy

Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇

Virginia Roberts Guiffre takes the crown: Nobody’s Girl takes top spot

Following intense press coverage and ongoing developments within the Royal Family, Nobody’s Girl, the posthumous memoir by Virginia Roberts Guiffre has seen a 49.4% boost in sales and has ascended to the top of the Official UK Top 50 👇 #BookSky

I think it unlikely, The Bookseller whitewashed all the shenanigans at the @rsliterature.bsky.social, when they ignored the criteria for fellows, brought their mates in, and threw Kate Clanchy under a bus. Then told a whole pack of lies about it.
I expect the publisher to be utterly spineless.

I see nothing wrong. It’s honest reporting.

Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy - Trending Books Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy

Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy

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Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy by Bookandaglassofwine

Hate crime. Blocked and reported.

Hate crime. Blocked and reported.

I do not understand why people think this will help transgender folk.

It’s literally why people hate Democrats.

I found the racist report, look at the horrific racism on p19

Unbelievable. Lets cancel the authors.

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YouTube video by Flashback FM Where's Francis? | Deadpool

Please go back to your comedy articles or humanity TV, I miss them. You're approaching Blocked and Reported levels of intellectual dishonesty (I bet you defended black Ariel or Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn). In fact you're Deadpool.

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A perfect epistemic trap: data exists and was published by progressive institutions but anyone who references it is motivated by racial animus. This doesn't protect minorities - it protects corporations doing performative representation from scrutiny while making empirical discussion impossible.
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When corporations overrepresent minorities (per their own metrics), it's progressive. When people discuss corporations overrepresenting minorities (per their own metrics), it's "being mad at the sight of" minorities. One of these moves is intellectual, one is emotional blackmail. Do better!
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Here's the actual question that can't be asked: Should commercial advertising aim for demographic accuracy or is representation purely an aesthetic/marketing choice? No one can discuss this because "noticing the data = you hate seeing minorities" is the mandatory interpretation.
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The study wasn't commissioned by "two white men on the radio." It was commissioned by Channel 4 itself as part of their diversity audit. They measured it. They published it. An MP cited their own numbers. The PM called her racist. This is the discourse we're trapped in.
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Sigh am annoyed.

"Being mad at the sight of Black people on TV" is doing heavy rhetorical work here. Let me translate: Channel 4 published data showing Black people appear in 51% of UK ads while being 4% of the population. Discussing this = "being mad at the sight of Black people".

p19! exists
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You can say the same thing when asking about using thin models in advertising, its an aesthetic choice which reveals a lot about the speaker, taboos and all that. Tells you where peoples fears are.

Clearly you have not been on fat people Tumblr.