Noémie Bouhana

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

All the devils are here.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

he’s gonna end up inventing antisemitism from first principles lmao

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Good one 😂

What a happy coincidence. I need a teaching aid for my Designing and Doing Research lecture tomorrow.

My (work) life for the next 4 weeks is a perfect storm. Nuts. CRAZY. Adjust your expectations accordingly. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

«Les assassins, les violeurs, les pedo, la République reconnaissante»

C'est avec ces mots que la tombe de Robert Badinter a été profanée hier soir. La haine qu'il a suscité persiste.
Qu'il repose enfin en paix.

I could get run out of town for liking these pictures.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

That frog has been boiling for a while.

“You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing - American Journal of Criminal Justice Purpose Detectives require analytic tools for the evaluation of deception, truth, and probability as police investigations need to assess the validity of suspect alibis, witness claims, victim…

Crime scripts are widely used to work out where best to intervene to stop crime, but this article uses several case studies to illustrate how scripts can also be used in investigations of serious crimes when there are competing theories of the crime.

Mauvaise nouvelle pour les cigarettes en chocolat.

« Papa, c'est quoi le techno-fascisme ?
- Ma fille, le techno-fascisme, c'est Laurent Alexandre qui conseille d'utiliser des IAs Génératives plutôt que de faire des études afin de mieux contrôler le savoir des générations futures par les propriétaires nazis ou presque des sociétés d'IA Gen. »

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Someone should go back to uni.

New paper out with the CoE exploring how and how quickly terrorists adopt new technologies. It identifies factors inhibiting or encouraging new tech adoption - with two case studies on virtual assets and drones - and analyses the impact of new tech on terrorism in Europe rm.coe.int/report-on-th...

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

The UCL admissions chaos will damage UK HE’s global reputation Future crises can be averted if government and universities share data and plans in a more timely and transparent fashion, says Doug Specht

"[T]his messy situation has put the whole UK sector’s collective reputation in jeopardy.

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ucl-...

Oh good! Looking forward to that project.

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

Fandom is the damnation and the salvation.

Un moment qu'on le sent venir, le front républicain renversé ; un pas de plus vers un discours assumé.

The supply of terrible humans is endless.

Dude, that UN escalator was an omen.

Civil war not good for business?

Best case, hands down.