The SAVE act failed, in case you needed reminding that none of this is inevitable.

@whstancil.bsky.social this is the point

Arrest the President

Gross AI slop

Dude is still praying to Jesus but you can't expect the plagiarism computer to understand your joke

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

There should be a better mechanism for getting rid of a dangerous, traitorous president, before it’s too late.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

He might as well answer in Russian.

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

The people with the capital should decide how to allocate it:

We are literally at the point in history where the Pope is battling the Antichrist. 🍿

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

If we accept the meaning of "capitalism" as "the belief that those with capital should decide how it gets allocated" then no I really don't think you are a capitalist and that's okay.

It cannot be semantics when "capitalism" literally means "the people with the capital should decide how to allocate it"

You could, for example, call yourself a democratic socialist, and that would give you all the room you like to permit freedom of exchange and wealth accumulation, without claiming that such accumulation is ideal and to be maximized.

Try this:

The allocation of private wealth is inevitable in a sufficiently free society. Whether we adopt "capitalism" and accept this inevitability as optimal is a choice.

We can agree freedom should be maximized while not being capitalist.

Again the second half challenges the first.

The capitalist response to "hundreds of billions of dollars in private wealth allocation" is "that is optimal"

I personally think you're using the wrong word here.

It's okay to decide you aren't actually a "capitalist."

to wit: achieve the second half, and you will also achieve the first half, to the degree possible

oddly, the second half refutes the first half

Senior NHS officials warned staff over criticising rollout of Palantir platform Ethical objections and uneven adoption have made the tech group’s contract a divisive issue within English health service

“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.”

Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.

www.ft.com/content/ff70...

I think this is far more true than anyone cares to admit.

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

Interesting stats via a new CBS-YouGov poll.

Note the use of “very badly” not just “badly.”

59% of American adults say the Iran war is going very/somewhat badly

62% say Trump does not have a clear plan for the war

66% say the Trump admin has not clearly explained U.S. goals with the war

This is a welcome if long overdue development

A scientist I know has been laughing at artists for being upset about Ai stealing our work & our livelihoods ... Now she is (rightly) PISSED that someone (not Ai) plagiarized her scientific paper & I am like ... it sucks to have your work stolen, doesn't it?

chat, is this unethical

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Orban's loss has financial and organizational consequences for the far right worldwide.