No need to travel to France. I found horse meat baby food in an Italian store in Cambridge.

Being a political satirist on digital platforms with partisan owners is as big a minefield as network tv. The guy on this platform curb stomped my engagement, now the owners of YT are playing censorship games. I will continue to speak funny truths to power however I can.

And you thought correctly:)

Those two PiS guys. Yeah, hopefully.

Thousands of desperate people
on abysmal UK benefits
died during austerity
But Nigel Farage wants
to cut them even more

"The UK does not have a welfare problem.
It's got a corrupt politician and corrupt political elite problem.
It's got a billionaire problem.
Tax the rich."
via Frogface Farage

Chelated with bricks

“Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. (“Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside….”) Karp didn’t just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family’s dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn’t: he was hired and ended up running Palantir’s UK business. (A few years after the interview, Karp was in London, where he met with Mosley and a retired British military officer who was consulting for Palantir. Karp asked this person if he was aware of Mosley’s background. He said that he was[…]” Excerpt From The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger

In the Alex Karp biography, the author relates that, when Karp interviewed Mosley for the Palantir job, he dramatically declaimed one of Oswald Mosley's fascist speeches to him before dismissing him. Mosley was surprised to learn this meant he got the job.

Well, I’ve been posting a few negative comments from time to time on LI but it can feel awkward, even though my snarky remarks get „likes” hardly anyone replies

Straight from the soviet playbook. At least he isn’t (yet) sectioning people in secure mental institutions, with a made-up diagnosis of symptomless or sluggish schizophrenia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggis...

It’s all true but how is it related to the claim that neoliberalism leads to fascism? To me, it proves that weak leadership and allowing for erosion of separation of powers, rule of law etc (which are not defining features of neoliberalism) may lead to fascism.

a black and white photo of a man playing a guitar on stage . ALT: a black and white photo of a man playing a guitar on stage .

Maybe he was just… dancing

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AFAIK something like: the "initial" output of the LLM (which could be half-BS) is cross-referenced with a data source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriev...

How about LLMs with RAG, which give you quotes from and links to the source material? This reduces the risk of "hallucinations". Do you think they may be useful as a type of search engine?

Looks a bit like Al Crowley

Et tu, Brutaliste

I have no intention to defend US-based order outside of the ”inner sphere” (eg Europe).

I was there and can tell you it was the opposite! Quality of life in 1980s in PL was crap and it started improving rapidly in mid-1990s. All post-soviet countries which joined nato and/or eu have been doing well after the fall of ussr.

Of course it did (and still does) happen elsewhere. But the scale and severity was completely different! Guess why millions of ppl in the Soviet block dreamt of escaping to the West and risked their lives doing so? The difference in quality of life, for most, was staggering.

When did I say I was their fan? I’m an European.

Gulag

Nope, it was close but ussr had slightly lower life expectancy. However, usa’s healthcare outcomes are an outlier among democracies

Vietnam is only nominally communist, it has a de facto capitalist economy

USSR was an aggressor trying to "export the revolution" (i.e. conquer as much as they can). No less imperialist as other colonial powers.

I’d rather try wealth taxes, mass building of social housing, etc. (i.e. Greens)

Whenever the US overthrows a regime, they make matters worse. That said, some communist regimes had enough time to test their hypotheses out…

Border with, not if…

Haha! I was actually on vacation with my parents in Bieszczady mountain range (close to the border if then-Ukrainian SSR) when Chernobyl blew up

True, they did. They didn’t invade but they did agree to this. You are absolutely correct.