Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.

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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.

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I always dreamed of a #MachineTranslation app that asks for clarifications – until I built one myself. https://www.fairslator.com/

"Alexa, but with empathy." 🙄
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68165762

Meanwhile, somewhere the data centre that hosts this nonsense is guzzling up precious water and energy that could be used for much better purposes.

Why are humans so incredibly dumb..?

A close look at the law and policy of holding a Northern Ireland border poll

How the law carefully shapes what will be an essentially political decision

New detailed post by me

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-the-law-and-policy

Why have young people turned away from the #Tories?

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) suggests (not implausibly) that two factors loom large:

1. the #housingcrsis & the increased difficulty the young have owning their own home;

2. #Brexit

which also goes some way to explaining while the abandonment of the right by the young is more extreme in the Uk than elsewhere (even it is a broad global trend).

the right-wing gerontocracy may have gone too far & taken too much?

Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.

#FailureFriday

I just would like to point out that
none of the accounts I was forced to create for job applications so far had any options for multi-factor authentication or for deleting the account.

And all of the accounts I was forced
to create for job applications so far required to enter very sensitive information that was completely unnecessary to require.

Don’t. Do. This.
Please. Stop.

#JobSearch #Recruiters #Privacy

Today I'd like to discuss the Biden administration rigging the Super Bowl in favor of a midwestern team with a racist name whose owner has given tens of thousands of dollars to Trump Republicans who deny Biden won the 2020 election https://skepchick.org/2024/02/a-word-about-the-taylor-swift-super-bowl-conspiracy-theory/

Republicans believe they don’t have to accept difference and compromise, regarding it as their prerogative to shape the nation in their image, to define the boundaries of “real America.”
 
If they don’t get to rule, they might as well ruin what they no longer regard as “America.”
 
New piece:
 
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/domination-or-dissolution-rule-or

There is no question that Republicans will institute a nation-wide abortion ban the minute they get the chance. And the idea that they would restrict their crusade against trans people, who they have demonized as an acute threat to the “natural” order, to just red states is preposterous.
 
More here:
 
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/domination-or-dissolution-rule-or

The planet’s got 99 problems, but exponential growth isn’t one

If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should we really have bought all that soon-to-be-landfill for each other? The answer, as I have written a dozen times, is . . . probably not.

Thankfully, people have stopped sending me emails decla

https://timharford.com/2024/02/the-planets-got-99-problems-but-exponential-growth-isnt-one/

#UndercoverEconomist

Not content with the raft of Orwellian laws it’s already enacted, the Government is now expanding its anti-democratic crackdown to further attack the right to peaceful protest. This is a Government hellbent on the erosion of our most fundamental civil liberties.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1755516157908418956#m

[2024-02-08 08:57 UTC]

There are multiple American journalists imprisoned in Russia for carrying out the real job of being a journalist. And while they are wrongfully detained on decades long prison sentences, Tucker Carlson offers The Kremlin to interview Vladimir Putin, ask the questions Putin wants to hear, and branding this as “journalism” to the American people.

And Elon Musk is hosting it, trying to make money on Putin’s propaganda.

I really hope these two shameless grifters experience a serious case of karma.