I would have guessed ProofMode and CameraV (from guardianproject) were worth mentioning.

The Onion is getting quite sophisticated.

NATO’s Leader Is Totally Lost What does Mark Rutte think he’s doing?

What Walt says here has more than a ring to it.

foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/n...

I like you so much now than when you were a Dubya neocon! Live and learn. I must still correct you: third world was not an ordinal ranking, but a categorical differentiation, first world being advanced industrial capitalism, second world being the socialist block, third world being non-alignment.

Roflmao

Indec: Es tarde para Milei, la sospecha de manipulación ya se enquistó como Libra/Andis La salida de Lavagna del Indec y la medición de inflación instalaron otra grave sospecha en el gobierno de Milei que se suma a la de corrupción por Libra/Andis.

English rules this network. Apologies, please use a translation bot. The now gone statistics tzar wasn't a technical expert: he was a lobbyist selected (because of that) by the prior and this administration to run Argentine statistics. So far, so bad. It will get worse.
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Opinion | What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump

Very good read.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

Uruguay, really?

Indeed. They reject climate change, human rights (as per the UN charter) and constitutional rights (as per the US constitution and its amendments), among other things. But they don't just reject.

I'm not sure they are the "winners," yet. The dice are rolling. Till they settle, to assume Europe is Latin America is just a gamble.

They don't reject reality. They (try to) shape it, with totalitarian (which is not to say authoritarian) intent.

Come si dice... What a fucking moron, I believe it is.

Today the game has changed and goes through the engineering field. So, I wonder: What could all that energy do, refocused to transform excess capacity into a laboratory of Chinese local-rural innovation?. A source of exportable and transplantable products, mind you.

With all its faults, the international development industry, the different sub-fields of comparative political economy, whatever good (appropriate) development of physical and social infrastructure is in place in the Global South, were outgrowths of this non-domineering approach.

The problems of plenty. In the XXth century this was solved via architectural agency on part of the hegemon of an eternal dominance game.

Standing up to Trump’s Imperial Blackmail on Greenland If the European Union wants to stop the imperial ambitions of the man in the White House, it will have to do more than protest. It will have to innovate—and that means targeting America’s oligarchs.

"In 1910... 0.00001 percent of Americans owned wealth equivalent to 4 percent of U.S. national income. Today, that number has risen to 12 percent." Dahl showed the process through which oligarchy opened up to competition , and then the extension into poliarchy. Clearly, this is long gone now.

Trump’s Petrostate Dilemma in Venezuela Terry Lynn Karl explains why the US intervention could put its goal – control of vast oil reserves – out of reach.

In fact, while sold as a takeover, the only thing achieved has been the successful kidnapping of a big mouth but (more) ineffective (than his kidnapper) strongman in (to put it in Linz's terms) a weak post-sultanistic (far less than totalitarian) regime.

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As We May Think “Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is ...

"For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. But ... [for] essentially repetitive thought are very different things... there... may be... powerful mechanical aids." Base repetitive thought is now the rule, at the service of an obscene wizard of Oz.
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The whole thing really belongs to a kind of Orwell/Huxley synergetic dystopia.

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

US poverty line is kinda news. Yet it has not been properly updated since Orshansky. It's high time to use post-1960s ROW methods to see where it stands. Data is plenty. Methods (prior to the 2+ USD PPP and similar attempts to arrest/disguise M/SDG measurement) available. The will to use them, nil.

Tax the crap out of them. Forget Reagan, forget Clinton, bring back revolutionary Nixon negative income tax back (if you might). That's how crazy this world is today. It's not just the economy, stupid.

It is science, you know...

Stupid is as stupid does.

Quirno se olvidó de las Malvinas y la Antártida en el nuevo logo de Cancillería El logo de Cancillería solo duró unos minutos y debió ser reemplazado tras los insultos en redes. El sello tapa a Europa y África, pero no a China.

In mini-me-land, an attempt to erase Argentine claims over Malvinas-Falklands-Antartic territories (and then, trying to correct that "error", Africa and Europe, mind you) goes puff in a few minutes.

For the times they keep-are-a-changin.

www.lapoliticaonline.com/politica/qui...

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri ...

laf

www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

Contradiction is one way to see it. Back in the early 1990s, I worked in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Back then, allegedly, Colombian "shrimp-boats" were known to cruise Mosquitian villages exchanging dollars for lobster and shrimp (at prime prices). Their harvest was sold in Florida.

Zelensky: 'Avanti con il piano di pace'. Trump: 'L'accordo è vicino' Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Guerra Ucraina Russia, Zelensky: 'Avanti con piano di pace'. Trump: 'Accordo vicino'

Probably smoke. But it feels like early Sunday morning: I smell Donbass here, Caribbean there.

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.