Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
10.03.2026 21:30
👍 22680
🔁 6115
💬 198
📌 375
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
I stole this from someone who didn’t use alt text. Alt text: a polymarket tweet that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
of course it has anxiety, you’re training it on multiple generations of anxious peoples’ content
Key difference is open primaries imo. In the US, if you don't like your democratic candidate, you can stand to replace them. No such choice in the uk
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
sort of unrelated to this point, though not entirely: the fact that there's such a thing as professors of rare moths etc is one of humanity's crowning achievements to date and this is what the right wants to take away from you
Your policy is to make people from abroad litter pick for free to "earn" the right to stay in the communities they live in.
I'm hearing that the frog has never been so furious as he is with the scorpion for stinging him as he carried him across the river.
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
The argument for a wealth tax is to contain wealth inequality, not to raise revenue. Either he's not read his opponents' arguments, or he has and he's being totally disingenuous.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
Additionally, I don't understand why the professor is taking responsibility. When I was a TA ultimately the professor either backed me or (on rare occasions) agreed to revise the grade, but it was their responsibility.
The key thing is getting the grading criteria right. What was egregious from an academic point of view about the essay was that it didn't demonstrate any knowledge of psychology or cite any facts. If that had been in the criteria, she would be protected.
Yeah if you have any academic standards at all, this is a fail. At college level, you don't get to just "think" things. You have to have a reason for it. It's what makes academic work different to just "having an opinion".
“My daughter, who is autistic, does not sleep much so I am constantly exhausted. My body is in so much pain. I need to try to get some medication from the doctor to deal with this pain so that I will be able to work the extra hours.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
He was making a list,
And checking it twice.
Was gonna find out who’s naughty and full of vice.
Then President Trump had him murdered.
Remembering talking to a Chilean refugee who had finally been able to visit Chile after decades in UK. "It was nice, but it is a different country now." She had put down roots in the UK and raised a family. Her life was, and is, here. This is the human reality that Mahmood and Labour want to destroy
i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
Cutting PIP in order to increase labour supply amongst disabled people makes no sense because PIP doesn't come with work restrictions and isn't means-tested.
Either the chancellor doesn't know that (unlikely) or she doesn't want to admit that she wants to cut PIP to save money.
The case for tax rises is stronger & clearer than Reeves pretends. It's that, given our lack of productive capacity, we have an inflation problem, which means that the alternative to tax rises is either infeasible cuts in public spending or higher mortgage rates.
You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.
We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.
Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵
A scorpion wanted to cross a river but couldn’t swim. He asked a frog for a ride. The frog said, “You’ll sting me.” The scorpion replied, “If I sting you, we both drown.” The frog thought, He wouldn’t sabotage himself. So he agreed.
Once again, if you support this immigration system you do not have "family values"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A book cover that first appears to be Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged but instead it says, "ATLAS NEEDS YOU TO SPOT HIM LIKE 20 BILLION DOLLARS" At the bottom it says 1st Argentinian Edition
With alt
