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interesting thread, I'd like to add: the UK Right has become less 'Murdoch-centric' and is a unleashed, so the 90s Labour Right gambit of 'well, the left are all weirdos, no one cares' is one that now has purchase against the 'blob' ie Labour Right too (frankly w/good cause, as Petie demonstrates)

I think the fact he won the leadership with an extremely bogus set of promises has cursed the whole enterprise. It has seeped and dripped into public consciousness even amongst those who care little for the leftists who were purged/lied to

JR article by UK liberal Timothy Garton-Ash- v poor & demonstrates what a limp & inert grasp most older commentators have. The fact: in West, South & North Europe, the left exists. We might not always like it, but it exists. not true of Eastern Europe with the exception of fmr YU

a chart showing amazon's rising emissions

a chart showing amazon's rising emissions

a chart showing amazon's rising emissions

a chart showing amazon's rising emissions

Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :)

Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!!

ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/

#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao

Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...

well, maybe it's not important that 'NER' ie the HU govt, owns the single big converged ISP before next years critical election. Maybe!

part of the issue with YourParty is that what's needed in the UK is /massive/ rebuilding effort on many different levels, especially in everyday life, and it isn't clear that the resources are anything like enough.

she's fine, the people do not need princesses

Someone called Zarah Sultana 'the people's princess' on Instagram, which she then shared. Please no

Krasznahorkai is a sort of modern gothic author, ultimately maybe a fancy Lovecraft with a big debt to Kafka. Whether you like that rolling in at you, for a long time, well

So Slovakia is always the bad boy of CEE politics which neglects the way that Czechia is *incredibly* right-wing, almost without pause. Non stop Rightism

I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate

It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

and finally, perhaps most controversially, surely what we really want, honestly, are more 'Zarah Sultana' examples, eg Anglo-Pakistanis, Welsh-Jamaicans, etc etc. With a fluid understanding of their parents/grandparents culture in a UK (and in this case English) context

this is an old story now - the girl in the Union Jack dress - but I really have a problem with how the school set this up, really. Firstly, culture is always 'made', there is no 'fixed' culture in countries. Secondly, it emphasises differences which might not be good.

2010: here's a fun app and it shows all your friends pictures and

2025: here's an app that tells you when your family members are taking a shit and when they have pornthoughts and

really rate you and a lot of the Greens, but, but, as a recovering labourist I have to say it is a different political tradition - not better, not unproblematic in itself, but different... trade unions are key

it needs stating that the nu/alt-right is predicated on 'Low Taxes' (ie taxes levied regressively) and therefore cannot *help* but have neoliberal-type outcomes (even tho maybe it isnt neoliberalism as such)

the Data (Use and Access) Bill is *equally bad* and ill-thought, but only one LibDem MP has bothered to challenge it. I don't know what other rubbish they are ramming through!

are/were we that different? no

Adam Curtis doc: there was a path through, perhaps, to a post-Wilsonite left modernisation for the UK, of which the AES was an initial potshot; which appears in things like the GLC economic strategy, but it was a thin path, and almost nobody else (scandinavia? a bit?) did it

In economic terms, Labour's default is & was extremely basic. The first 6 years of the Blair govt had big jobs announcements by *Tescos* *Sainsburys* and *Asda*. They're trying to reproduce this with AI. It's that basic! (and yes, those out-of-town malls killed your High St ofc)

this is excellent but I suspect impact of gen AI on jobs is already being felt @emilymbender.bsky.social - not necessarily straight swaps, but using AI as ram to enable outsourcing to other countries (as jobs are deskilled)

Major Partigaz from Andor 🤝 the Philip Gould New Labourite from The Project (2002)

agreed, and another main line of attack is 'immigrants [different ethnic groups] are claiming all the goodies' which is preliminary to cutting social spending, and frankly that is already progressing without pushback

existing DETR-run franchises have done OK, better than the norm & certainly better than eg Virgin. Medium term i agree -The question of GBR might be mostly technocratic - but gains should be evident eventually by having actual policy which joins up, not much sign atm

it isn't clear that being a slightly socdem leader with more openness to the left would have saved her (or New Zealand). It feels like the oxygen isn't there. populism vs her approach probably more viable but I doubt if it can be more robust. White Right currently aggrandising, devouring grievance

some thoughts on the Viner Guardian Jacinda Ardern interview:

- she's *likeable enough* and *nice*
- she rode a (odd) wave of popularity
- her own politics have always been early-stage Blairite
- this was always going to be inadequate to any of the challenges esp health, housing

hehe

one for the 'alternate universe' of a 1978 GE, RM boxes with CP/M being dominant & even the odd software developer being a union member