Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

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.

I'll be co-presenting a paper at VUB in Brussels on Friday on the materiality of AI and democratic systems, trying to bring together political epistemology with infrastructure studies. More info here:

Demographically, Green and Reform voters could not be more different. But they do share a nihilism that expresses in different ways

Reform voters believe things were better in the past.

For the Greens, things were never good to begin with.

2/2

Column:

www.thetimes.com/article/d6f7...

A certain car company once asked me to help them develop their voice assistant. They asked me how to get people to trust the voice assistant. I told them the problem is how to get people to *not* trust voice assistants. They then told me that wasn't *their* problem...
#NihilismAndTechnology

Kemi Badenoch Defends Shadow Minister Who Called London Muslim Celebrations an ‘Act of Domination’ The Conservative leader's spokesman told Byline Times that she stands by the Shadow Lord Chancellor Nick Timothy, who said that the annual event was "not welcome" in the UK

Sadiq Khan: "It's Muslims today, who will it be tomorrow? Jewish people? Who the day after, Hindu people? This sort of mono-ethnic, mono-nationalistic view is a carbon copy of President Trump. These guys are pound shop President Trumps, they should be ashamed of themselves."

Marc Andreessen on Why He Has No Introspection YouTube video by David Senra

Here's Marc Andreesen (venture capitalist & neoreactionary Trumpist) expressing his hostility to introspection (and getting history very wrong indeed in the process). Arendt readers will recognise this as a rejection of thinking with all that that entails for her (& so also for us).

Digital Public Sphere colloquium Maastricht May 2026.pdf SURFdrive - A service by SURF

Happy to promote this excellent event, organised by the excellent John Parkinson, Janosch Prinz, and @joelitobarski.bsky.social & featuring @profafinlayson.bsky.social. Of interest to: @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social Still spaces left I gather: surfdrive.surf.nl/s/JbN2r236E9...

Palantir are problematic in lots of ways - and now their chief exec is promoting idea technology will inevitably pit groups against each other for power. That’s not technology- that’s an outcome we can disrupt with political will.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

Telling juxtaposition on two pages of the FT. One story about how amazing the US's new AI military tech is and the other about planners/politicians entirely failed to realise what Iran would do to fight back.

Humans still matter...

GB News Under Fire After Airing ‘White Genocide’ Conspiracy Theory From Former Boris Johnson Aide Ofcom is under pressure to investigate after the channel promoted his claims that white Britons face demographic "genocide" by ethnic minorities who will "turn on" them

Trumpism didn't happen overnight. It took decades of lies and hate all over the airwaves to make it seem even vaguely normal or mainstream. We still have time to nip that process in the bud here in the UK. We won't.
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/12/g...

very cool! Eun-Joo will be talking partly ab/ this in a panel at the @aseh.bsky.social meeting on March 27 on "Proving Technology and Improving the Land: High-Tech Experiments in the 20th Century US West." also presenting, myself, @kansananthropocene.bsky.social & Gaetano Di Tommaso. please stop by!

Digitised Archive Expertise in digitised and digitized records from The National Archives, British Library, Oxford and The London Archives. On-demand archival retrieval and research.

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Are there any #historians going to the UK National Archives at Kew soon who could photograph a short file for me?

#histsky

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...

Here’s something I’m curious about…

Historians, do you put an explicit methodology section in your journal articles?

📚CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2028. The submission deadline is 1 May 2026. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

"We've failed to terminate the Rwanda treaty by mistake"

Quote by Steven Everts in De Standaard: "This is not just about Trump. He is both a symptom and an accelerator of an America that is fundamentally changing anyway. [...] The ancestral ties with Europe grow weaker with every generation."

💬 For Trump, the transatlantic relationship is no longer one between allies, but a US-dominated order based on coercion rather than consultation and rules.

@sbeverts.bsky.social in @standaard.be on why Europe must detach from a worldview that no longer exists. www.standaard.be/economie/ste...

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

NPR has obtained the new experimental nuclear reactor safety rules from DOE -- revised in secret, a pretty abnormal process not likely to help buy-in. I defer to nuke experts on the details, but apparently they are greately relaxed

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

“Board of Peace” Trademark Filings Reveal Its Murky Legal Status The "Board of Peace" trademarks are not owned by the organization itself, but by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, marking an unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect rights...

🚨SCOOP: Trump's Board of Peace trademarks are being held by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an apparently unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect the interests of a murkily defined supranational organization.
america2.news/board-of-pea...

The biggest “what if” in the history of the EU? On 22 January 1972, Norway signed the Accession Treaty to join the European Economic Community (alongside Denmark, Ireland and the UK)

Unlike the others, Norway never joined.

I wrote a short text about it here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...

Now that's a prayer.

That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Christmas is coming. So too the strange, nightmare ghosts On a lonely Christmas Eve drive through the Norfolk Broads, ghosts stir and refuse to stay buried...

A Christmas ghost story for those who know the Broads after dark – where water waits, roads vanish, and folklore remembers.

The past doesn’t rest quietly in Norfolk.

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.

As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

There’s one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech The path to a post-American internet.

I was thinking mostly of "big five" tech companies, but also more generally about Cory Doctorow's "post-American Internet" where open-source, owner-controlled is the norm:

doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...