Dan Olner

The rest of the comments are an open expression of ethnic cleansing. They are confirmation of a war crime.

Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement, 21 July 2025 The UK and 25 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Good statement that makes clear Israel is deliberately massacring starving civilians.

"We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. "

www.gov.uk/government/n...

I think it is important to delineate between “not having elections” and “understanding how they’re going to try to steal the election” because if we understand the tactics we can do something about it.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Ranking graph showing top programming languages on GitHub by contributor count from 2014-2024. Python rises to #1, followed by JavaScript and TypeScript, with shifts in popularity of languages like Ruby, Go, and C.

Python slithers to the top of the programming language leaderboard

Elon Musk's Latest Grok Chatbot Searches For His Views Before Answering Questions Grok 4 is raising eyebrows for its unusual behavior.

This is very funny www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...

How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.

I quit Twitter before it was cool. I walked away from 3.2M followers, and absolutely nothing changed in my life, other than fewer garbage people disrupting my peace.

There was little value then, and there is even less, now. Staying on Twitter is a moral and ethical failing, disguised as business.

President Macron, "There are 300,00 French people living in the UK and 150,000 British people living in France"

"Let's work together in order to facilitate the exchange of citizens, researchers, intellectuals, artists"

"Let's allow our children to have the same opportunities we had"

AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing

imagine being an adaptation planner in the UK and you are told, "well, the most likely thing that will happen is your country will get way hotter with a sharp increase in extreme temps... BUT there's a chance the AMOC could break in which case you'll get way way colder"

So, prepare for that

Military antenna

The Council has activated the national escape clause for 15 🇪🇺member states.

This gives them greater flexibility under the fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact to support their transition to higher defence spending.

How does the national escape clause work in practice?➡️ europa.eu/!wjRc44

NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government meme.

Blimey.

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible. * "In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.

Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is Your Brain on ChatGPT Are We Measuring Minds or Missing the Point?

"The bigger risk isn't offloading thought, it's not reinvesting it. That’s a leadership problem, not a brainwave one. Cos if you think LLMs are a threat to cognition, wait til u see what badly-architected institutions can do." Also... the sample size was what?? decision.substack.com/p/this-is-yo...

Thank you for these. Daft question: why didn't SCOTUS take the opportunity to actually rule on the birthright citizenship issue? Could they have done that in this ruling? (My naive little brain wonders what they're for if not to swiftly nix such blatantly unconstitutional exec actions...)

Washing and grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk. Though he can often be idle for days on end, he will work day and night, with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do. He has no fixed times for going to sleep and waking up. He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the whole world coming and going though the room.

Ah yes, came across this old chestnut again. A Prussian police spy's report on Karl Marx's working methods when he and his family were living in poverty in squalid rooms in Dean Street, Soho.

🎉 Our Y-PERN Impact Report is now live! 🎉

After 3 years of bridging academia and policy across #YorkshireAndHumber, we're proud to share our Impact Report: lnkd.in/ee5Rq-S5

Special thanks to all our university and policy partners who made this possible! 🤝

#YorkshireResearch #PolicyImpact

Has there been any hint that the govt has an actual strategy for universities beyond "just let some fail" benign neglect? Given how vital they claim the sector is for UK growth...

Policy papers and consultations Find policy papers and consultations from government

Government's Industrial Strategy (+ lots of additional docs) is out www.gov.uk/search/polic...

couple of quick thoughts on how 'place' features. 1/n

Background reminder: there was an Iran nuclear deal but Trump withdrew from it because Obama bad.

She deserves praise no matter what happens.

She "has provided a vision of what politics can be. The world is full of doom and chaos. The very worst people behaving in the very worst way and being rewarded for it."

She "demonstrates the precise opposite: someone of decency acting in a decent way"

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

Yeah so Sheffield is lush.

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."

www.wnep.com/article/news...

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

Working at the EHRC was one of the most challenging and unpleasant jobs I have held (except for some excellent colleagues).

@iandunt.bsky.social's piece really highlights the wider implications of it's capture by the state and what it means to those it is meant to defend

😱 85% of primary energy still comes from fossil fuels!

This graph is grim.

But here's a short thread about why things are not as bad as they first seem 🧵

What about a strongly worded letter? No? *Very* strongly worded?