Dylan

I've no interest in your little authoritarian day dream, or you for that matter.

I'm not claiming anything, I'm observing that your default is to defer to and side with authority. As I said, ironic in a nation so vocal about independence and 'liberty'.

The concession to the letter of the law without any personal moral judgement or engagement. Like I said, servile.

Your first reaction to seeing a cop massively (and incompetently) abuse their authority is to justify it and brush away the possibility of legal accountability.

For a country so obsessed with liberty and 'don't tread on me' stuff a lot of you are amazingly servile.

Sounds like Google has the one that knows how to think like a PhD.

Labour have already shown massive enthusiasm for handing over data, art and public services to US tech. That ship has sailed.

Tbf given the state of LLMs it's fairly likely to come out as Bernard Manning (reference may not translate...)

My new kitten. Any name suggestions?

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Have gotten a fair few books following BlueSky mentions, almost all academic though, so may be a bias in there.

So, anyone care to defend Starmer and Labour's nonsensical (non)commitment on recognising Palestine then?

but still something and notably less policy based than what Corbyn (had to) present for his core.

So notoriety helps but he's a long way from being personality driven. Would even make a similar comparison with Starmer, he barely got any votes for his policies (certainly when it became obvious he'd renege on them all), he won by not being a Tory (officially), not much of a personality trait

His followers are solely there for the vague aura of right wing rebellion, for years he had no policy at all beyond Brexit and they loved him. Corbyn could never have done the same whatever personality he may have, the Left had and has clearer policy demands.

Compare him to Farage, also seen as anti establishment, whose policy base really is irrelevant compared to his nonsense 'rebel' image. To the point where beyond vibes based bigotry he's scrabbling to create one now and seemingly failing.

tied to Corbyn. Labour too have just broken so much trust, so completely that any project with any profile was going to draw interest.

He's a figurehead certainly, but Sultana is increasingly one as well. Plus after the last elections faith in the potential of independents and 'outsider' parties is way up in general. The Right has Reform but the Greens did well vote if not seat wise. I don't think that confidence can be entirely

They haven't done anything yet except for committing to democratic structures for policy building. If they stand to that then I'd be surprised if membership doesn't push for a strong position on trans rights.

and communities. May be that Sultana takes the lead instead, or someone else entirely.

He was the one who got in, the Labour Right would never have let anyone else slip through, they certainly didn't expect him to win the leadership either. This new party also hasn't selected a leader yet, they don't even have a name and they're promising a proper consultative structure with members

Excellent piece with some lovely examples of everyday resistance. As always it's the casualness and unconsidered routine of finding spaces of agency and negation that inspires.

Curious, what people have they attacked?

Imagine he's more delighted at Labour's complete inability to not be hated by their most obvious core constituencies, never mind retain their support.

It really isn't.

Kudos for the passive aggressive 'sigh' though, very laughing crying emoji.

I said the Labour Right and I don't want Corbyn to lead either Labour or a new party. Again, your confident assumption is just... daft. And very, very predictable.

It is a bit retro to slip back into the loud declarations from the Labour Right that any opposition to them has nothing to do with policies, politics or material interests and is all really just mad contrarianism. Beyond self comfort never could see what purpose that fantasy served.

It's always been odd how the Labour Right have spent so long defining opposition from the Left purely by their own fantasies. Just zero curiosity or awareness of why people might not support them.

Man making trillions off his fraud and theft and lying machine warns of people using his fraud and theft and lying machine to commit fraud