Hi David! I'm writing a piece about BBC radio for The Economist and would love to ask you a few questions if you'd be up for it - please could you follow me back so I can DM you? Thanks!
Huge W for bluesky this
This is real ‘mad king’ stuff. “It was not immediately clear how or where the federal government intends to transport the water.”
www.latimes.com/environment/...
These are truly insane times
Insane thing for a White House Press Secretary to say
Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement sorry not sorry
Authoritarians have always understood the power of information better than democrats
I wonder how much Trump/Musk social media strategy is informed by Russia successes (& otherwise) in the information war
Hard to see Musk (and X) these days as anything other than MAGA’s chief information warrior
Anne simply doesn’t miss
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
He’s like an AI programmed to deliver the worst footballing opinions possible
On American Oligarchy and the threat thereof - I stumbled across an insane example of how wealth inequality has accelerated
Just 10 years ago, you needed 50 oligarchs to equal the wealth of bottom half of the United States.
Today you only need two - Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
It’s classic Trump - not a direct threat of violence, but an obvious willingness to accept violence against his political opponents (the Jan 6th pardons being the most brazen example)
say it quietly but i think having trillionaires itself is probably a *bad thing*
The saddest thing about watching Musk’s self-radicalisation, that Harris touches on here, is the opportunity cost. The soon-to-be worlds first trillionaire is almost certainly going to put those resources towards some abject nonsense
God I’ve been waiting for Sam Harris to spill the tea on his beef with Elon and it does not disappoint
open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
was great having you in as ever - come back soon !
Best nugget of info Bluesky has given me yet
Fascinated by this train wreck of a column. Wrong, but wrong in myriad ways. A worldview that despises Britain, revels in its supposed failures, fantasises about completely implausible US sanctions on Britain & has no coherent view of geopolitics. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Baller
Doing the lord’s work 🙏
This is bad - the West continues to lose the information war (in part) because we have managed to polarise the topic of disinformation itself
Peak times
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
I know nothing about poetry but I’m obsessed with the Kipling poem in the 28 Years Later trailer
It’s about the maddening effect of endless marching on soldiers in the Boer war
The recording is over 100 years old and its so haunting I literally can’t stop listening to it
youtu.be/s9RYG-iMdx0?...
Anyway if anyone wants to pay me to define the perfect pub for the 21st century I am literally right here and talented xx
He does have this weird idea that beer is better in a China mug?
Haven’t tried, probably won’t, sounds weird
Can’t get it all right
…in more ways the one
Orwell definitely split the G
Particularly interested in this part where he talks about pubs as community places and not just crack dens for alcohol
Also note his recognition that excluding children, in practice, means excluding women
With loneliness etc through the roof, he kinda nails it
Ahead of his time…
We were talking about the joys of the old man boozer on R2 today and I was reminded of George Orwell’s incredible essay on the qualities of a great pub
a genuinely hilarious and insightful read on what seems like a trivial topic from the 🐐
Seen people dunking on this and though idk about dictators themselves being doctors, cognitively/emotionally speaking, authoritarianism is 100% associated with feelings of disgust (and therefore purification) that are rooted in an evolutionary aversion to disease etc
Soooo kind of a based take?
That makes so much sense for some reason I read it an act of charity to the women of Waterloo 🤡
Free for women
If you are the social media manager for a massive international organisation plz just don’t post this i am now on a prepping website buying essentials for my bugout bag
