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Born in Canada, schooled in the UK, living in Berlin. Mobility impaired following my treatment for brain cancer. I try to use my Mathstodon account for mathematics, computer science and chemistry and this account for everything else.
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Could you create an RSS/Atom feed for your journal? Many people, myself included, prefer them for seeing updates.
Funniest response: bsky.app/profile/mari...
Reminds me of the Trump-I days…
The profile says that account isn’t the governor of Maryland.
> They lie on a permanent basis, and the truth will catch them out eventually. The truth will matter for what history makes of them, but unfortunately lying doesn’t seem much of a barrier to gaining power.
> Can the press ask them how Brexit is going? The answer, I fear, would be something like: Brexit would have gone great except for this, that and the other betrayal.
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The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.
BREAKING: Holiday weekend legal showdown over an aggressive Trump admin immigration move. In 4 AM order Sunday, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in DC halts mass deportation of 600 unaccompanied children to Guatemala. Hearing this afternoon. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Additionally, the failure of Brexit is an effective talking point against Reform.
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
Cf. bsky.app/profile/terr...
Linked to by talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-labor...
Scientists breathe new life into #climate website after shutdown under Trump death cult. Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s efforts here are illegal. bsky.app/profile/josh...
“Having a pluralistic media landscape matters immensely to democratic health, especially at election time. In 2022, every [Hungarian] broadcasting outlet and almost all print media regularly repeated government campaign slogans.”
An old post, but it has good details about what the Trump admin can do to interfere in elections and how state officials can fight back. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
More at talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
I like paper books too. Easy to get new ones, but there aren’t so many second-hand bookstores now. A shame.
New in PN: @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump's teetering economy "The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness. Nobody knows what the tariff rates will be in six months. That means a lot of cash sits on the sidelines."
Oh, what a rabbit hole linktr.ee/alteredimages is…
IDS=Ian Duncan Smith?
There’s a free exhibition of Blondie pictures from 1978 in the Barbican library.
Source?
Seen it in Berlin…
Not a business though…
And the second time a black woman has been targetted.
That’s the third time the Trump admin has targetted dems with mortgage fraud allegations. Cf. morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/how-the-ne...
Excellent! Worth reading the Granta article for anyone wanting to understand why Germany is as it is.
Understood. And it’s an example of resistance.
Trump's claims about mail in voter fraud and millions of phony ballots is nonsense. I asked Grok to explain why in terms simple enough for a MAGA to understand, so please share this thread with anyone you know that doesn't understand how voting works: 1/x
The Trump regime only cares about the money of the wealthy and the Trump-aligned.
“Even if charges never come, this is a classic example of political corruption — and of authoritarian capture of the independence of federal prosecutors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
An example of corruption
Another is who took part in the inauguration. “[It’s been valuable] for the left to have this inauguration where Trump is onstage next to the five biggest tech CEOs—it presented an image of an establishment colossus to rebel against, which is useful and clarifying.” www.thenation.com/article/cult...
While folks are generally focussed on things like DOGE, cuts, tariffs, and the interference with democracy, all of which were presaged in the campaign, there are a number of things from the inauguration and immediately after that establish themes that are important today. This is one.
An estimated 38% of the total corporate cash savings created by Trump and Republicans’ budget bill will flow to just four Big Tech companies: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet. Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. Talk about a return on investment.
Another constitutional violation. It’s hard to separate from the assault on democracy.
https://ghost.org/6/ Ghost makes biggest update ever, at perfect time when many want to leave Substack.
Context engineering is something to do with prompting gen AI?
“This new one would violate the Constitution by only counting citizens and legal residents. It would then…try to reapportion Congress using the numbers produced by this unconstitutional Census in time for the…election…That’s quite literally how you rig an election.”
“One of the biggest challenges for the Trump opposition is imagining what comes next. For some, maybe nothing comes next. Maybe this is it. Maybe Trump has already won.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
I can’t, not having the USA vote, but perhaps you can…
Hopefully this update will silence those Apple fans still in denial…
Ah, from your birth certificate, I see we’re close in age. I was born in May 1970.
I’ve had a look over that site. Are there any entries you can cite that show the potential for the wiki hosting Telekommunist content?
“What about the point of principle? If I were in the positions of the Governors of California or New York I would say if Texas desists or undoes its redistricting and stets it back to the previous maps, their states will do the same.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-re...
An argument which I agree with, that Columbia’s researchers shouldn’t be punished for Columbia’s caving. bsky.app/profile/alex...
“when” seems to me a bit overconfident that the Ghislaine Maxwell will be pardoned.
I don’t find Snope’s case completely watertight, since no evidence being presented in court doesn’t entail the falseness of the claim, but unless I either hear of new claims or an explanation of Katie Johnson’s failure to follow up, I’m going to class this as unsubstantiated.
“A woman using the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" has twice filed a civil lawsuit accusing Trump and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein of having sexually abused her…in 1994, when she was just 13 years old. However…no evidence has ever been offered in court to support Johnson's allegations”
I’m checking out www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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For folk in (or interested in) Germany
“Of course there was some great art associated with the [woke era] too. I picked a header image from Moonlight for good reason, it's a truly wonderful film that exemplifies the artistic concerns of the woke era realised extremely well.”
Cf. bsky.app/profile/alex...
“[T]he idea is that a new set of social norms arose primarily in spaces associated with the professional-managerial-class. These had some distinctive policy implications..but were primarily connected to the implementation of various institutional reforms and changes in etiquette.”
I’m guessing that the ideas of yours from the Telekommunism website have had a lasting impact. Perhaps a Telekommunist Wiki is a good idea?
It doesn’t sound like it’s connected to sciencetheory.net/improbabilis...
Gen AI is clearly a relevant trend, and this is for sure a reason that people are considering Saleor. Open Source and GraphQL improve the effectiveness of AI Agents You can use a simple MCP server to help agents to write queries for our API docs.saleor.io/devel...
Cf. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-i...
“Mike Flynn is a spy” I wonder if posts on X are still called tweets…
Five cases to look into.
Cf. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-i...
This, by the way, is the post where I got the quote. It’s worth reading, especially if you’re following the Epstein story. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
Josh Marshall later said of this post that it’s one instance of important stories that are “absurd in their substance but real in their consequence”: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hulk-...
Reshared because I’m interested in such a book.
I too would like to read such a book. There are two sorts of people in the MAGAverse: followers of Trump, and corrupt types who believe that MAGA is useful to them.
Cf. bsky.app/profile/sand...
Well said!
Thanks!
Donating to Dem candidates who have more than enough money to win is a waste of money. I wonder how best to make donations count? Ping @joshtpm.bsky.social
Good look at the predictable consequences of the immunity ruling, on the occasion on its first anniversary.
First step: make the DOJ follow the constitution and not the president.
I’m sure some Republican congressioners will, but the price is high: bsky.app/profile/chal...
That spreadsheet could leak… I hope it does.
Für Leute im Deutschland: Campact hat einen Kampagne gegen des Benutzung den Polizei eine Palantir Technologie: aktion.campact.de/s/Palantir-2...
@raskin.house.gov: "They'd conscripted 1000 FBI agents to be working around the clock 24 hours going through 100,000 Epstein documents and told them to flag any mentions of Donald Trump... This might be one of the most massive cover-ups in the history of the United States unfolding before our eyes."
New in PN: Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein
Why Trump’s order of the release of Grand Jury Testimony is a desperate and hopeless strategy.
Via bsky.app/profile/davi...
An excellent response to a consequence of DOJ corruption
NADLER: Are you aware that major crimes on MTA are down 3% since last year and down 8% since 2019? DUFFY: No, that's wrong. The assaults we've seen are up 60% NADLER: Why do you continue to lie about this? DUFFY: Why do you continue to lie about people being lit on fire on subways?
The issue is how well key people can handle this kind of intimidation. I hope the registrar’s office doesn’t bend, especially if it’s as good as you say.
Succinct!
The article is well worth reading.
USA-based freelancers: check out editor-mom.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
I agree that the midterms will be of crucial importance. They’ll be held by the individual states. There’s signs that the Trump admin aims to interfere in these elections. The most valuable thing would be if there was quick information about attempts to steal the vote.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
“The Miller-Trumpites are not interested only in rounding up undocumented immigrants. They will step up using ICE and DOJ enforcements use to harass Democrats, citizen critics, and subvert future elections if they can.”
A positive take on the Democrats and the criticism of Party leadership. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-d...
I've taught classes on the Great Exhibition of 1851, but knew almost none of the technical magic revealed here. A *hugely* enjoyable episode of History Hit on the making of the Crystal Palace, with Steven Brindle and @thehistoryguy.bsky.social. shows.acast.com/dansnowshist...
Is this the same Xiangyu Deng who’s one of the authors of: bsky.app/profile/arxi...?
You seem knowledgeable about stats. I’ll see if there are any starter packs on applied statistics that would accept you.
I’d class “counting on the Senate Parliamentarian” as hope, but it seems quite concrete, unlike the kind of hopes I’d been thinking of.
Is this amendment part of the BBB?
FWIW, @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social is on Bluesky.
I don’t like it, but it’s kinda hard to oppose while Trump has a trifecta. I hope no dems support the bill with this amendment. But really, that’s all folk opposed to the Trump-2 admin can do: lobby Dem lawmakers and hope.
You know, that gives me an idea: a mass boycott of Grok.
A good read ⬇️ “There are more people who want healthcare…education…a livable planet…and civil liberties than those who want to burn it all down. We just have to organize better. Communicate louder. Show up stronger. Win not just once—but repeatedly. Like it’s life or death. Because it is.”