This is not good.
06.03.2026 13:40
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the crisis-leverage-payout business model is perfect for a chaos agent but not really for a big consumer economy so yeah the crisis-payout and the perception management are crashing into each other, the moral high ground fake supremacy looking like the total rip off that it is, upper class dreck
This was something I unfortunately rather forcefully pointed out to a war studies lecturer who had spent the entirety of a talk this week about NATO wanging on about out of touch woke British elites. If they were in touch we'd be rejoining.
very few in the US have descriptive language to talk about the hegemonic class war underneath all of it and where membership preempts everything else
very few in the US have descriptive language to talk about the hegemonic class war underneath all of it and where membership preempts everything else
This scathing article in New Lines is a pretty good summation of McGurk and his rotten legacy. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”
intellectual academic types always being indirect and too polite to draw a picture of braying cowboys shooting up the middle east like they were going to be thoughtful and considered in their approach
“This is American commercial immorality on steroids. Once events that involve good and evil simply become a financial product, I don’t know how right and wrong matters any longer." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
old yota automatic, intermittent starter failure, mechanic showed me, hold the shifter back just a nudge, starts fine
exactly what extractive rent seeking non productive late capital needs is even more
“I Hate You Too” , the first single from HATE ISLAND is out now on Bandcamp at tellerbanks.bandcamp.com
Pre orders for digital, vinyl and Director’s Cut edition CDs are up as well.
blowback has a quaint historical impression like something that spans decades and continents, takes a book to unpack, then another word yet for adjacent immediate derisking of an adjacent wealth portfolio by complete write down
And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
It’s my 🎁
Can I get an RP?!
🧵Living in the Wild Wild West:
America Alone Has a Propaganda Problem open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
"The horses became alot more free!" Honey, the horses became glue.
Not to panic, friends. Off-balance-sheet liabilities only ever impact firm balance sheets during crises, such as those triggered by systematically mispriced valuations, faulty risk models, and opaque cross-exposures, so we'll probably be fine.
New issue of the @lrb.co.uk has my piece on “Thought Control”—Trump’s censorial effort to deport pro-Palestinian protesters, disinformation researchers, fact-checkers, and anyone whom Marco Rubio thinks has a “hostile attitude” towards the United States. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Some may be saying, “yes, we knew this”, but we don’t really know know until we see data like these.
And something we may not have known that this paper shows is that once a person gets into the right wing silo, we’ve lost them. Changing to the chronological feed does not bring them back.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
“The Thought of Holding Thousands of Families in Massive Warehouses Should Challenge the Conscience of Every American,” Says Bishop Cahill
https://ow.ly/HzJN50Yj12e
The era of social media has revealed the great surplus of people who are very good at getting attention and that's all they can do.
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
Last week I argued that Trump is failing in media streams most pundits (myself included) don't follow closely.
I feel like the reverse is going on here: the people who MIGHT pressure Trump aren't seeing how rabidly Fox News is pushing war.
emptywheel.net/if-magat-pol...
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
Us map showing slaveholders in 1860
https://prri.org/research/mapping-christian-nationalism-across-the-50-states-insights-from-prris-2025-american-values-atlas/
Figure 12 shows that three states have majorities of white, non-Hispanic residents who support Christian nationalism: Arkansas (59%), Mississippi (54%), West Virginia (53%).
Louisiana (49%), Oklahoma (49%), Missouri (45%) also qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents
prri.org/research/map...
She’s so lovely 🤩
3/This is part of a broader shift in international politics. Kings collude to enrich their courts. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
the algorithm can be set by it's owner to accelerate any type of bias