Elaine Stead

*cemetery

Watching Down Cemetary Road with the fabulous Emma Thompson and I remember how amazing it is that she, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry were all from the same class at Cambridge

Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.

Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.

Have they found Megan yet?

Brb just deleting the eleventy millionth Black Friday text

Same

you know what? good advice.

Tomorrow is the eightieth anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials. Opening statement for the prosecution by Associate US Supreme Court Justice and chief US prosecutor Robert H Jackson, November 21, 1945:
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Quiet, Piggy Quiet, Piggy It is saying something about the discourse of politics today, not to mention the standard being set for the workplace, that the President of the United States, telling a woman journalist ...

medium.com/@ElaineStead...

There’s a TV series in that plot line

completely agree. Actually in a talk this week, was asked about whether this need goes away with AI and I said I thought it would be the opposite

It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres

absolute filth

www.news.com.au/technology/s...

How about this headline, eh? More of this, please.

The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.

Pass it on.

HAYES: “2 female reporters asking obviously totally newsworthy Q’s — one gets called ‘PIGGY’ the other gets called ‘INSUBORDINATE’ because she didn’t bow and scrape to the Saudi King.”

Olivia Nuzzi is an Embarrassment to Journalism She seamlessly landed a plum role at Vanity Fair and got a sweetheart book deal after breaking a fundamental journalistic ethics rule. When my co-host Christine Grimaldi and I recorded our October 20...

For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...

Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?

just out of frame: a bone saw

In case anyone here is wondering what they're missing over on Elon's site...

Wrote about @zamosta.bsky.social's wonderful op-ed in the NY Times regarding how the biggest tech companies actually did, in the past, push back against gov't overreach, but almost all of which have decided to capitulate and see what they can get for themselves now...

Yes! I had read the back story when I watched it… so good

How good is the series tho

Genuinely delightful and funny 🙏🏻

Shall I try it?

The actor and creator of Mr Inbetween is sitting in front of me on the plane. One of the greatest Australian series of the last 10 years.

The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital This article focuses on the Network State movement as embodying the venture capital (VC) logic of exit. Exit constitutes both a strategy for lucrative returns and an ideology seeking out new territor....

Just gonna shamelessly share my academic article on Balaji and The Network State
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There are seven British business men who have surrounded me at the airport gate who are talking loudly think they have invented a word “comfortability”… do I tell them? They also refused to move for someone in a wheelchair disembarking from the plane

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random: