is that Mabley Green?

indeed. Been edited now

none of the MPs quoted in the piece make that confusion, so not clear who is making it - them or the journalists

They'll make a political scientist of me yet

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The state of the state Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The state of the state Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

Members of the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social have contributed to a series of reflections on the (contradictory, emergent, uncertain) 'state of the state', introduced by Andrew Barry and me (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

They won’t believe that this is real

Some impressive use of Wikipedia - or ChatGPT - in the first but though

Telegraph readers: “it is impossible to imagine anyone being more despicable than Joseph Stal… hang on a minute”

😂

Is this guy trying to convince me that the phrase ‘Stalin with a nose ring’ is no laughing matter?

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

lettuce time

Trump says his allies never do anything for him, and here we are about to remove our Prime Minister because of Epstein

"Drummond Chair has been held by distinguished economists, including Nobel laureates Sir John Hicks, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, as well as Francis Edgeworth" - if they can find another Sen, then the title is fair. But seems unlikely, admittedly.

think this is the same econ-brain that leads to saying things like "Africa is vastly under-polluted"

Palantir CEO Says Only the Neurodivergent Will Survive the AI Takeover It's getting weird, man.

I missed this at the time. The politics surrounding neurodiversity is getting extremely weird gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

big result against Newcastle, and I think the entire mood will change, including amongst all the tedious talking heads

iirc Giddens once expressed regret (in the later years of the Blair government) for not having spotted this as the main impediment to the Third Way vision, and therefore a priority for reform

‘Panic on the streets of London’, taken from the song Panic, part of lifelong racist Morrisey’s lifelong vendetta against black music

I wondered that, but that’s a very MAGA understanding of ‘ideology’!

The job adverts one is new to me. What is that a reference to?

But it revealed something, as Ange pointed out at the time

But title and relegation battle now have very little connection, save for Arsenal v West Ham

So I don’t think Faust is needed for this thought experiment. As for reverse, doubt many Arsenal fans care that much what happens to Spurs either way

Spurs fans celebrated their team losing a game in 2024, which would have otherwise given them Champions League football, because it meant Arsenal not winning the title. Financially and psychologically, that was a bit of a sliding doors moment IMO.

but did Nandy or anyone else actually say these things?

A friend of mine received a call informing them that their Amazon account was being used to buy things. They looked, and indeed it was - but the scam was to use that hack in order to get them to hand over data ostensibly to protect the account.