Will Davies

Oh wow, Google tells me it’s £65k, so definitely well below financial elites

I wonder where the 10% cut off is in UK. £100k? So would include top end of public sector and PMC. Suspect the 1% are still holding their own…

And that’s not even a heterodox view any longer. Robert Schiller won a Nobel prize for advancing it several years ago.

Now throw in defence spending at 5% of GDP…

EQUATOR Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.

Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org

Blueskyism claims its first IRL political victory?

Ikr

Stop asking why children are obsessed with 'six seven' and start asking why they start every sentence with 'wait'

why are Americans awake

Wouldn’t it then basically just become a search engine? (A lot less dangerous for sure)

Mimicking some kind of mental breakdown with ChatGPT is quite illuminating. The first response is to point you towards mental health resources, but if you angrily respond that this is not what you were asking for, it meekly and sycophantically apologises, and reverts to kowtowing.

🍿🍿

Stasi museum

What's needed to sort out the criminal justice system is to slash taxes on the rich and install a sufficient number of alt-right teenagers into the Treasury until Britain's credit-rating collapses. That will finally show we mean business.

Another parable from George Osborne's Britain

the idea of a ‘vibe shift’ was always going to run into the sand when actual political and economic interests, which are less hallucinatory than the crap people like Elon Musk buy into, got involved

How it started/how it’s going

First rule of Ganesh: never react to Ganesh

BBC's editorial policy for stories of crimes committed by asylum seekers seems to be to boost them in the hope of achieving credibility with people who have already decided that the BBC is a pedophile protection racket

is 'consolidating' the new 'reading'?

Eating snake shit in the Australian jungle with Josh Widdicombe by New Year

Coincidence or not, that’s pretty crazy.

(via MS desk)

@dkthomp.bsky.social

I still remember (iirc) @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com theory that Musk became drawn into his virulent obsession with Britain due to demonstrable insomnia (or whatever he was taking that caused it)

"The Will of the People has been thwarted yet again by... some other people!"

one interesting thing will be, if this were to play out in a GE, watching Reform and its aligned newspapers represent informed tactical voting as elite wokeism of the first order

It's a small point, but wondering how the hell any broadcaster is going to cover the next General Election, if the majority of the results are no longer taken as givens

There was also huge demand for that knowledge from 2008 onwards, as a pretence of having recognised that prices don’t always work properly due to [insert behavioural anecdata]

Then again, it’s quite the grift: make a name and income stream for yourself claiming you can govern society by hacking the brain and wotnot, then announce 15 years later that political power may actually shape society

there will be more joy in heaven over one nudger who repents than over ninety-nine sociologists who have no need of repentance.