Black-eye

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous

The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer

And Epstein enabled that payday

Here’s the evidence. 🧵

This was one small criticism I had of Sentimental Value (which was beautiful), they hype up this incredible script which is so deep and explains exactly how the character feels, but the only excerpts they read are meaningless/poor

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Time for Government to stop tinkering around the edges and scrap leasehold altogether.

Yes I'm not saying he was a good doctor or correct - but in medical jargon that's what a reactive mood or reactive affect means. Being very low or distressed when you've had something bad happen to you is a normal reaction, but could still be a reason to be signed off work.

And someone could have any specific diagnosis and still have a reactive mood

I'm not saying this doctor was good, but "reactive mood" here means he thought your outward expression of mood reacts to external stimuli, so when he asks you about something sad you get sad for instance. It's a normal thing to have a reactive mood, and the opposite of that is a flat or blunted mood

There is a consistent hallucination common in people with poor eyesight called Charles Bonnet syndrome, where they see little people. I wonder if this drug also causes some transient vision problems.

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I had a phase in the late 80s when I did a load of drugs and booze. Rented a room in North London and moved all my stuff in, went on a bender, lost my paperwork and could not find the place afterwards. My car was outside too, never found that either.

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once, [s]he has to be lucky every time"

You should *only* prepare for a hypothetical, that's what preparing is. If you're already in the situation it's not preparing.

You should *only* prepare for a hypothetical, that's what preparing is

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.

Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?

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It makes me very sad that they're being built on, lovely picture

It's odd that this word is so similar in sound and definition to spatchcock though, I'm interested in how we developed two specific similar words for splitting and flattening and cooking two different animals

Elastica - Elastica

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

In his video of the incident he's heard saying "fucking bitch" after he kills her. Is that a misreading do you think?

It makes his backstory about who won when he fought The Law even more suprising

James Ball @jamesrball.com • 3m I don't support criminalising slogans, except when they're directly used to harass or intimidate. But I think it's a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn't stop using them long ago. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b... That is not, however, how everyone means them. It has never been how Hamas nor many of its regional allies mean the slogans, and it is not how some extremists, fuelled by hate, intend them either. It is also not how many Jews across the world hear them. "From the river to the sea" is heard as a call to abolish Israel, and "globalise the intifada" as a call for violence against Jews across the world. To ignore this, at a time when innocent Jewish civilians around the world are being targeted and slaughtered in terror attacks is a profound failure of solidarity from people who believe themselves above such myopia. It is as wrong to blame Jews for the actions of Israel in 2025 as it was to blame Muslims for the actions of Al Qaeda in 2001. In truth, the slogans probably contribute little to the motivations of fanatics who would kill - but they contribute to the very real atmosphere of fear.

I don’t use these phrases myself, as you’ll have noticed. But I am here to tell you that if we could impose an effective blanket ban on use of any particular phrases and symbols, then this bullshit would instantly shift to different phrases and symbols at exactly the same intensity.

Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.

Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage

I really respect you for this, however it turns out I think you should be able to sleep very well

Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"

The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB

It's the worst of all worlds in terms of fairness, it's a graduate tax only for those who don't have the capital. If you can pay at the time you avoid that tax completely.

Sounds like he should form a union and go on strike