Alex

Tesco walked away from talks to take on supermarket duopoly, documents show Aldi and Lidl also declined to engage, leaving the supermarket duopoly intact.

So Willis' RFI to sound out potential competition in the supermarket industry was as much of a flop as the much touted Investment Summit

NOBODY bothered to even meet with her or participate in the RFI

Tesco, Aldi (who operate across the ditch) and Lidl all said no🤣🤣
#nzpol

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The original motto of Bsky

"it's a matter of national security"

right now NVIDIA is allowed to sell their most advanced AI chips directly to China but not to Anthropic lol

What's funny about this type of guy is that the two things that trigger this type of guy are women reading traditionally feminine coded things and women reading traditionally masculine coded things.

Old man won't take off his jeans

It's so hilarious he heard how we were laughing that he wouldn't take off his jeans because he skipped leg days, so now he's performativing leg day in those fuckin' jeans. I can nae breathe!

Dudes rock

Trump about to announce he's creating The Supremest Court, which you can join as an associate justice by buying $11 million of his shitcoin and agreeing to adopt Eric.

“That’s Sasquatch, you’re describing Sasquatch“

Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

I just cannot with these people, honestly. I just fucking can't.

AP Headline: Fintech company Block lays off 4,000 of its 10,000 staff, citing gains from AI.

Shot: AI drives massive layoffs but Dorsey says he's not inhumane; people will have until Thursday to say goodbye before losing their slack and email.

They're going the "we gotta get more racist" route, incredible.

America Doesn’t Make Oppenheimers Like We Used To What business did Dario Amodei think he was getting into when Anthropic signed on as a Pentagon contractor?

There will be many dumb takes presenting Anthropic heroically bc it clashed with Trump. But the time to worry about everything concerning Anthropic was BEFORE signing the contract that it didn't wish to abandon. America is in such steep decline that we don't even make Oppenheimers like we used to.

America Doesn’t Make Oppenheimers Like We Used To What business did Dario Amodei think he was getting into when Anthropic signed on as a Pentagon contractor?

"Bro," asks @attackerman.bsky.social, "did you not see Oppenheimer?"

While I love the concept of the "Sloppy Joe", the name is far too overfamiliar for my prudish British ears. I prefer to call it by its more formal name, Slopular Joseph.

Mary Walsh, a name almost no one outside journalism knows, is one of the most significant and righteous truthfighters out there! Her departure is a five alarm fire.

Why is this kind of thing so often the liberal go-to about media issues? Your media habits are not mass media habits. The mainstream media is continually influential. The president of the United States is a former game show host! Come on.

This stuff matters a lot.

sorry, the contention is that *stanford* is not sufficiently aligned with the american military-industrial complex? are... are there multiple stanfords?

The US seems to be having some sort of like, top down revolution in its, idk, culture.

Well, colour me shocked.

Countries are having very stupid politics happening more & more intensely & it's tempting to think it's all the same stupid but each country has its own stupid with it's stupid nuances & when stupid pols import some foreign stupid that worked overseas it's - like possums or cane toads

If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.

If someone in his coterie would just tell him that “trade deficit” means we end up with more goods than the other countries, that *we* are ripping the other countries off by taking all their stuff, so much good could happen.

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

This is hilarious, and it's exactly how most companies make decisions about what tech they use. Some CEO sees an ad or reads a tweet, and suddenly Legal is trying to renegotiate contracts they spent a year working on while IT is slow rolling changes so they don't have to do anything until 2029

It's cool how the POTUS has no idea about how anything works

Yeah I suspect there's more swing voters who get convinced by things they hear a party say, than by parties telling who-they-imagine-swing-voters-all-to-be that 'hey we agree with you, akshully, and we are not like our base who are loons"

I made this point in class the other day. Until Congress changes the name, it's the Department of Defense. It's not hard.

Pete Hegseth can call it whatever he wants. Uncle Drunky's Funtown or the He-Man Warfighters Secret Clubhouse or whatever. No one else should feel the need to follow him.

Epstein himself comes across as, essentially, a standard edgelord reactionary internet dork, throwing himself down a fascist online rabbit hole that ponders to his misogynistic grudges and neuroses... but with loads of money bc he was a social/investment fixer for the scum oligarchs and plutocrats.

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