Phil Free

America Doesn’t Make Oppenheimers Like We Used To What business did Dario Amodei think he was getting into when Anthropic signed on as a Pentagon contractor?

America Doesn’t Make Oppenheimers Like We Used To
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The Eyes of Silwan As settlers evict families from their homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, a community art project called I Witness Silwan ensures that they are…

The Eyes of Silwan
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The Four Ways Trump Plans to Delegitimize this Fall’s Elections His goal here isn’t necessarily victory on the merits. It may be delay, uncertainty, and public doubt—especially in close races.

The Four Ways Trump Plans to Delegitimize this Fall’s Elections
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Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For
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Christian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—and Vice Versa A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute shows how support for the president correlates significantly with Christian nationalist views.

Christian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—& Vice Versa
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What’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”? They’re acknowledging now that the people who called Trump a “fascist” were right. But somehow we’re still not to be trusted.

Welcome to the world of the left: being right too soon for centrists.

What’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”?
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Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War
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Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.

Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
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What We Call Progress Can we still imagine change for the better? Critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi tries in her new book.

What We Call Progress
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Changes to energy bill discount scheme will discriminate against many disabled people, campaigners warn Campaigners have warned a minister that the decision to change how the Warm Home Discount Scheme is funded will discriminate against disabled people with high energy needs. Ministers decided last m…

Changes to energy bill discount scheme will discriminate against many disabled people, campaigners warn - @johnpring.bsky.social
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New official figures disprove claims that social security spending is ‘spiralling out of control’ New official figures published alongside this week’s spring statement have again disproved claims that spending on “welfare” is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OB…

New official figures disprove claims that social security spending is ‘spiralling out of control’ - @johnpring.bsky.social
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Scores of DWP failings linked to deaths were kept from MPs voting on benefit cuts, secret reports reveal Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of 2025…

Scores of DWP failings linked to deaths were kept from MPs voting on benefit cuts, secret reports reveal - @johnpring.bsky.social
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The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It? Storm argues the AI data-centre investment boom is creating a bubble that will be socially and financially expensive when it pops.

The US Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
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Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go” Israel issued a sweeping displacement order for the entire region south of Litani River as it escalated its bombing campaign across Lebanon.

Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go”
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Defending Aid Why and end to aid is a terrible thing.

Defending Aid
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Bahrain: Behind the News Removing the mask from the home of the U.S. 5th Fleet

“Around 30yrs after their violent takeover, the Alkhalifas struck a deal with the British to become a protectorate (to protect them from the Indigenous population).”

Bahrain: Behind the News - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Chartbook 434 Back to the 1970s (again) - Trump and the balance of payments. Trump loses in the Supreme Court.

“In the fevered minds of MAGA, the USA may be no more than one step away from third-world status.”

Back to the 1970s (again) - Trump & the balance of payments - @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land. - Inside Climate News The tech giant is attempting to skirt Linn County’s environmental and economic zoning requirements by redrawing a nearby city’s boundaries.

Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land
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Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Ti...

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide & Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund
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Supply-side employment services models fail & promote sociopaths
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Planetary financial policy and the riskification of nature This article puts forward a new account of the promise and potential pitfalls of recent prudential policies pertaining to climate change, biodiversity loss, and broader planetary boundaries. We des...

Planetary financial policy & the riskification of nature
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Strolls in Dialectical Fairyland Walter Benjamin's Surrealism and T.J. Clark's critique

Strolls in Dialectical Fairyland - @pure-culture.bsky.social
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Israeli ‘liberal’ opposition leader agrees with Mike Huckabee that the bible gives Israel the right to land from Egypt to Iraq Mike Huckabee made headlines when he said Israel has a biblical right to land from Iraq to Egypt in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Israel supporters tried to dismiss the idea as nonsense, but Israe...

Israeli ‘liberal’ opposition leader agrees with Mike Huckabee that the bible gives Israel the right to land from Egypt to Iraq
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Millions at risk of displacement as Israel bombards Lebanon After 15 months of a fragile ceasefire, Lebanon woke up on March 2 to the familiar sounds of Israeli bombs. As the violence escalates and tens of thousands are displaced, Lebanon’s social divisions th...

Millions at risk of displacement as Israel bombards Lebanon
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Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads The Orinoco Basin is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. It’s also rich in oil, gold and critical minerals crucial to modern technology.

Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil & critical minerals & illegal gold mining spreads
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England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.

England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution
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The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.

The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read
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To my surprise, the campaign also offered lessons in love. I gave a quote to a newspaper about my blossoming relationship with Eilidh Hargreaves, features director at Tatler, and how (unfortunately for her) we spent our first Valentine’s Day canvassing. The quote led to us trending on X thanks to some incel lefties who run an account called ‘Reform UK Exposed’. ‘The “Family, Community, Country” campaigner divorced only last month,’ it raged. Really? Eilidh and I met more than three years after my separation – at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards no less. In any case, the attempted hit-job backfired as politicians and journalists rushed to our defence. ‘Ha ha!’ remarked one shrewd commentator. ‘Having an attractive and successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity, you complete spanners.’ Indeed. I’ve tried and failed to forget another comment: ‘Goodwin is clearly punching

After reading Matt Goodwin’s diary in The Spectator, I am more convinced than ever that he has a humiliation fetish.

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices & farming
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Utility theory — explaining everything and nothing from Lars Syll The methodological structure of mainstream economics often relies on axioms and theorems that are tautological by design, which severely limits their informational content. A prime e…

Utility theory - explaining everything & nothing
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