Steven Curtis

What I love most about this video is that they used regular images of Hegseth, Rubio and Trump, but selected the fat-faced meme of Vance for the bassist

I would have been so tempted to flick a Churchillian v-sign at the press as they yelled about Trump's latest outburst

Trump berates the leader of the free world

“You’re going to start World War III … and that’s my job”

Diplomacy Simulations - The National Museum of American Diplomacy Immerse students in the world of American Diplomacy NMAD’s diplomacy simulations immerse middle school, high school, and college students in

Somehow Rubio has missed the educational materials on the State Department's website. Download them while you can, before the page is deleted for being woke #simulations
diplomacy.state.gov/education/di...

Makes In The Loop look like a seminar in competent government

When you're a star, they let you do it.

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

Warfare beyond “the speed of thought” #GI5073 #derderian

Now international law is woke, I suppose

‘Sixty seconds, that’s all it took’: the clinical Israeli-US operation to kill Ali Khamenei Mission that took just 60 seconds to carry out was decades in making, but experts say it could be major strategic error

The clinical Israeli-US operation to kill Ali Khamenei
#intelligence #GI5051 #GI7037

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, bu...

The teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school #propaganda
#GI7100 #Russia

Love Post-AI warfare. All the fake stuff looks real at a glance, all the real stuff seems a little fake. I have no idea who's actually alive or dead. Hopefully, an emissary of the king will ride through town to give us word from the front.

Seeing as we're getting upset the Ayotallah was killed, and seeing as we are the self declared successor state, let's look at some of the heads of state USSR & Russia have killed.

We'll ignore that we tried to kill Zelensky. That just highlights our incompetence. 🧵

Right, right, but Putin meant that as a compliment...

Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo Syaban Shadikillah told to get new driver’s licence after being issued one using photo of him with colander on his head

“I am the rigatoni and the linguine. Anyone who believes in me will bloat, even after straining”

The news story doesn’t say what is behind the wearing of those glasses

Pakistan’s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban Military reckoned ‘good’ Afghan insurgents were separate from ‘bad’ Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurred

Kamran Bokhari: “This is blowback, big time.” Pakistan’s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban
#GI4059 #SouthAsia

Bernstein conducts Milhaud

Well, this is great fun and a lovely way to begin the weekend

Melania Trump to lead UN security council session, White House says First lady to preside over meeting on ‘children, technology and education in conflict’ in New York next month

Will Putin's mistress represent Russia?

“China is stealing our technology”, bleat the billionaires who stole the intellectual property of authors to ‘train’ their bullshit machines

Charles Kushner when he should have been at the Foreign Ministry

Sounds like he commissioned it.

In that case, our film tonight is going to have to be La Lectrice

I’m developing an AI. My aim? Make knowledge workers redundant while I become a billionaire. It’s important I pay no tax so there should be no welfare for the newly redundant. Also I need to be able to steal all the knowledge generations of workers have created. Oh and destroy the environment too.

Thinking Allowed - The go-along research method - BBC Sounds Laurie Taylor explores the value of research done in informal settings and on the move.

The go-along research method in the study of Parliament (begins at 14:40) #GI5077

It would slot quite easily into an episode of Chris Morris’s Jam

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

I love the way Colbert mistakes the word flowers for roses, perhaps confusing it with ‘deeper than all roses’ in another poem. It suggests he dragged it up from memory, rather than being fed it by a researcher

I guess some wanker out there is prompting ChatGPT to spit out a poem in the style of e e cummings

I think it was probably more like this

Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules Ruling is blow to Trump’s bold assertions of authority and topples key pillar of aggressive economic agenda

Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules
#GI5052 #tradediplomacy

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
#GI4055 #GI5051 #GI7037