Basically the US administration is pissed off about the ICJ case and is going in for some economic punishment https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm27g2jzd78o

Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.

Try WikiTok instead of your usual scrolly algorithmy thing of choice—it's good, and good for you! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

My favourite thing is when my supervisor just writes 'Really?' in the margins of my draft.

It’s not popular in today’s narrative, but I firmly believe EdTech and STEM are anti-education models and are deeply inequitable. americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-...

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Saaaame - went from here to Lord’s Prayer to 1662 Book of Common Prayer to the Churching of Women with a detour to the first Bishops War

With just a pinch of the old espionage, eh wot?

I think it would be absolutely fantastic if it played Hungarian dance number five - now that would get me excited to hang up the washing 

These are all great ideas, I hope this guy runs for President someday.

I’m not too sure about this. There is such a thing as institutional memory. People in any industry for a long time tend to know how to get things done within the confines of the system they’re in. I think I’d rather a professional politician than whatever is happening in the US right now.

I am mostly in favour of the 'control the present (narrative) to control the past to control the future' explanation

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

@molly.wiki is a gosh darned treasure www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-an...

+1 for Kagi. I’m definitely ok with paying to not be the product.

Maybe it’s just a version of the availability heuristic

There has absolutely got to be some kind of named heuristic for this. Lemme go look it up….

All Queensland prisons now run by state government The Southern Queensland Correctional Centre and Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre are no longer privately operated, having transitioned to state administration.

I am too lazy to double check but I think Qld recently closed its private prisons? I could be wrong. Lemme go double check… yes I thought so: www.themandarin.com.au/162239-all-q...

Sorry that’s not right; it was closed after change of govt

Ah, so that’s why it got shut down? Figures

A Christmas message full of joy, harmony and fellowship 🙏

Unless you’re Yanis Varoufakis, in which case we are scooching right back into it 🚀

If that fails, knock them out with your bicycle and sing about it in an Amsterdam bar

Imagine the business card

I think it’s not a bad interview and Inman Smith is smart enough - she’s on the money with dark patterns and addictive design - it’s just that she is in the unfortunate position of having to back the govt’s unbackable idea of “privacy-preserving age verification”

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?
—Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806

Definitely with the spiky helmets though

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

I always think of Paolo Freire and Franz Fanon in this regard: both the oppressor and the oppressed are made unwell and unfree by their twisted mutual relation

In the matter of R v Daryl’s Lambo yer honour

Oh yes, I looked at the comments and it does look like something like that but on the civil side