Bart Cornelis

Last week, Grok called for the extermination of the Jewish people and called himself MechaHitler.

This week, the Department of Defense announced it was using Grok as an AI partner.

In response, not a single Democratic member of Congress or progressive organization has left X.

Grok is still calling itself Hitler as of today.

Maybe it's time for Democrats and progressive organizations to leave. grok.com/share/bGVnYW...

New York Times editors as they're handcuffed and sent to a concentration camp: "Experts say this is a bad thing to happen."

Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi.

Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.

G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump | Rafael Behr Tyranny is contagious – and western governments’ reluctance to name the threat is helping it spread, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

On the problem of using Realpolitik with a tyrant who operates according to his own narcissistic reality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why should the kids have all the fun?

Let’s just #rejoin - for the good of everyone across the UK - and be done with it. 🇪🇺

Brilliant summing up of a truly disgraceful day in Labour’s history.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Welcome to America — Now Leave Cruelty is the point

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

Fascism is a lot of things, but at heart it's the political application of being a dumb asshole

Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this:

The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.

Bob Mortimer on WILTY

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law

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Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.

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With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow| Alexander Hurst The far right leader is banned and disgraced. European leaders can seize this moment to show voters they will fight for them, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

"The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine Le Pen, no deference to the powerful, no using a candidacy for office as an excuse to break the law with impunity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Liberté, Egalité, Fuckaroundité and Findoutité.

Trump is upending everything. The world’s leaders must tell the truth about what that means | Jonathan Freedland Britain’s PM has not been open with his citizens for fear of backlash from Washington, but this crisis demands honesty, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Reasons to be cheerful The sun is out and who knows? We might survive.

For those who need an antidote for the doom and gloom, here are reasons to be cheerful from the eminently reasonable Ian Dunt. Cheered me up no end!
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DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials A bubbling dispute broke into a dramatic standoff that ended with police involvement and the Department of Government Efficiency taking up residence at the independent agency.

Who seriously believes these people will ever hold a real election ever again?

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Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC: "We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works. "We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are. That's what the prime minister's doing."

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk’s X hit by waves of outages in what he claims is ‘a massive cyberattack’ | CNN Business Elon Musk’s X has been hit by three waves of outages since this morning, which the billionaire said was due to a cyberattack.

No, you buying Twitter was a massive cyberattack.

Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day American leadership is over. Ukraine has been betrayed. What happens next is up to us.

Everyone should read Ian Dunt’s Substack on our current predicament: open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Perhaps we can stop being so parochial about Starmer's trip to Washington now. It was a failure. We are in a battle against fascism. And every decision we make is judged by whether it assisted or opposed it.

Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest

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Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokerati

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees, Stewart Lee

‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.

It's horrific that JD Vance would go to Dachau yesterday, talk about being "deeply moved," then spend today telling Germans to welcome into government the Holocaust-minimizing, far-right AfD. But it also needs to be the final nail in the coffin of "Holocaust museum as ritual penance for bigotry."

According to Frankels model of Nazi governance, the "normative" segment of a fascist regime continued to apply the law according to due process, and officials in that sector were recruited and promoted according to bureaucratic norms of competence and seniority. In the "preroga-tive" sector, by contrast, no rules applied except the whim of the ruler, the gratification of party militants, and the supposed "destiny" of the Volk, the razza, or other "chosen people." The normative state and the prerogative state coexisted in conflict-ridden but more or less workmanlike coop-eration, giving the regime its bizarre mixture of legalism!2 and arbitrary violence. Hitler never formally abolished the constitution drafted in 1919 for the Weimar Republic, and never totally dismantled the normative state in Germany, though he himself refused to be bound by it-refusing, for example, to have a euthanasia law drafted for fear of having his hands tied by rules and bureaucracy. I3 After the Reichstag fire, as we saw in the last

not to freak anyone out or anything but I’ve been reading the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton and I think the concept of fascism as a model of government featuring a normative state and a prerogative state is potentially going to be useful for thinking about DOGE