it is genuinely fascinating, if not bleak, to watch happen in real time to basically every Anglosphere user still on X
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it is genuinely fascinating, if not bleak, to watch happen in real time to basically every Anglosphere user still on X
39 seconds of "excellent chemistry" with the Brazilian president seems to have been enough to set Trump on a more positive trajectory regarding the US-Brazil relationship. I think we all need lessons from Lula.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Bluesky is absolutely unmatched for people who seem to agree with you but do it in such a bizarrely aggressive way you've gotta block anyway
this sort of gives the game away. the whole point of the LA deployment is relitigating the dispute (both political and cultural) that the right feels it lost in 2020
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
SCOOP: Slack went down at 23.30 the other day - nightmare
President of the United States shakes the hand of a former Al Qaeda member. Well I never. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
indian news graphics are going to give me a stroke
This very much feels like we're waiting to find out who will pull out of Thursday's peace talks first: Ukraine or Russia
- Putin stands to lose plenty by even recognizing Zelenskyy
- Zelenskyy highly unlikely to get the ceasefire he put as a precondition
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
The whole of the southern hemisphere for starters
FT editorial board speaks on Israel's actions on Gaza, and the West's complicity.
www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
Is Britain ok?
Banning of trans women from grassroots/amateur sport is incredibly mean spirited. What a horrible move by the FA.
This is a very good read on how the Biden administration time and time again came out to bat for Israel during its assault on Gaza, and never put its foot down despite Netanyahu repeatedly torpedoing ceasefire deals.
www.timesofisrael.com/top-biden-ai...
Pope Francis has died. What happens now?
We explain the process, which has been refined over centuries and hundreds of dead pontiffs 👇
Live, laugh love. Follow your heart.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid
I don't think Trump's tariffs are going away any time soon.
Even Netanyahu*, who had Trump eating out of his hand during his last visit to Washington, couldn't get a concession today
*wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
1. We contacted the 100 largest American companies and asked a simple question:
Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2?
These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value
NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION
That, it presents a huge opportunity for someone on the left or centre, too
Bardella might be a stronger candidate anyway, so I don't think this is the hammer blow to the far right many will see it as www.politico.eu/article/fran...
🇬🇱 Trump says “officials” in Greenland invited an American delegation, including Second Lady Usha Vance, to visit the island this Thursday.
But a Greenlandic MP told POLITICO that’s “not true” — and said a protest is planned for Vance’s arrival 👇 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.
Five years since the covid lockdowns. Coming up on three years of long covid for me.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On the front page of Reddit today, which I think is a first for me: www.politico.eu/article/stat...
Europe: We must stick to all of these fiscal rules we wrote for ourselves! Stagnation, crumbling public services and declining living standards are a price worth paying for fiscal stability 😇
USA: Let's just stop counting the debt
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Seen, given medicine, and out within 90 minutes. No prescription charge 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
First doctor's appointment in Brazil. Turned up at 11, given an appointment with an ear specialist for 2.30 the same day. Free at the point of use including for foreigners.
This is what is possible, even in a poor country of 280 million people, when the government wants it to happen.
