Gabriel

Me, two weeks ago
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A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting.

Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
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Me in March, me in August. Nobody bothered to see if CoreWeave even has the capacity to serve its OpenAI deal, or cared that Core Scientific, who had never built AI data centers, didn't seem to have the capacity either
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Trump with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria

Has anybody asked the dickheads who spent years squealing idiot abuse at anyone who said the War On Terror was dumb and murderous bullshit what they make of western leaders queuing up to shake hands with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria? I want to hear them blame this one on post-modernism.

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign: BBC statements in full Director general says "mistakes have been made" but "allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong".

This is really scary: even former Tory Davie, the disproportionate coverage of Reform and relentless attention to right wing anti-immigrant talking points have not been enough. Right wing networks want complete capture.

Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.

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YouTube video by Dim Sum Distortion of Truth by Association

When I was growing up my dad was in the ad business and had this movie on VHS, which was weird for an American, but this scene imprinted on me permanently. youtu.be/6iAecAtJVdE?...

Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

Why do you think they’ve laid waste to the postwar international system? They’ve done it because if it still had any force, then the most important leaders in numerous white person countries would soon be serving decades in jail for knowingly abetting war crimes.

✨corruption💫

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS

Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them

I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources

Oh wow. Instant pre-order, even tho' publication date August of next year.

Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation

Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World

À paraître en août chez Allen Lane

This guy is a blowhard? GASP!

Ordinary American workers do not share the financial and media elites’ euphoria over the Trump economy.

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month

It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...

Medicare for All is baseline government health insurance — and we already pay for it. But right now, that money pads CEO bonuses instead of covering hearing, vision, and dental.

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for.

@wsj.com

I explained that unfortunately it doesn't work that way.

"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"

Can't emphasize enough how central Andreessen is to so much that is going wrong right now.

Here's the book length treatment fintechdystopia.com

Here are academic article versions illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-20...

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Also, why is his head cropped?

man

This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.

I have to say, what an incredible cunt this man is, when he gave Patrick and Gabriel a massive spiel in about 2020 explaining how he personally concocted the Labour Whistleblowers out of nothing into a massive national scandal with John Ware at the BBC. And now denies it all. What a cunt this man is