Feel bad for the Channel 4 reporter reporting live from "deep underground in the Foreign Office 24/7 Crisis Centre". He dramatically points out all the important agencies present. And on all the big screens they're tuned into the news ... from the BBC.
Phthonocracy | phthonos (Envy/Grudge) | Rule by resentment and spite Mikropsychocracy | mikros (small) + psyche (soul) | Rule by the small-souled/petty Achariocracy | Acharis (Graceless/Mean) | Rule by the mean-spirited Kakistocracy | Kakistos (Worst/Incompetent) | Rule by the least qualified.
Feels like another day for Fun With Fake Greek Terms
If you drew a venn diagram of "People who have had a subscription to x" and "People who have threatened online to cancel their subscription to x", I wonder if there would be any overlap?
The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive.
This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts.
www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How could the Nobel committee have overlooked the guy who uses armed forces to kill civilians while threatening to use armed forces to kill those who use armed forces to kill civilians, which, no doubt, will result in the killing of civilians? It's such a mystery
And we're back. Thanks
The Guardian SecureDrop onion site is briefly offline for maintenance. Will be back soon.
theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion
Is peiratocracy a word by any chance?
Has anyone ever read something about a post on Truth Social that wasn't from Twump?
Does it even have other posters?
Never heard of Chuck Redd. Buying an album now
Front page of US Department of Commerce website, advertising the Trump Gold Card (prices starting at $1 million)
www.commerce.gov website barely has space to squeeze in its mission statement of 'opportunity for all' below the massive advert for an opportunity available exclusively to millionaires.
sherlock holmes; grenadier's bearskin; plague mask; uk police 'custodian' helmet; davie crockett; crocodile dundee; santa.
You'll be amazed at who won
Likewise
DoD Laws of War 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal
Two stories; two sentences.
US Department of Defense Law of War Manual
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
I'm sure I'm not alone in having WB Yeats living rent free in my head this year.
But these charlatans aren't full of passionate intensity. Their entitlement has made them stupid and lazy.
And it's such a laughably rubbish website. Most of the widgets don't actually do anything. And none of the content actually proves the points they're trying to make. Risible.
Front page of https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/ citing The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent
This week's inaugural award for fair and accurate reporting goes to The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent.
US Department of Homeland Security post on X calling for "Remigration now."
It's going to get awfully busy in the Great Rift Valley
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.
This app is a must for journalists who receive material of dubious origin. Great stuff @micahflee.com for now making it much easier to use. (It no longer requires Docker.)
Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock reut.rs/4nF6nXs
Grokipedia is a really good advert for Wikipedia
Hale-Bopp
