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@ChrisMayLA6 This self-serving mendacity of #centrists is so deeply destructive that they really anger me.
Miriam González Durántez is a particularly ugly example, given her marriage to a notorious liar who discarded a crucial electoral pledge then went off to pocket many millions from a notoriously exploitative company which actively sabotages democracy.
Her husband #NickClegg should be jailed for crimes against democracy
@ChrisMayLA6 @JugglingWithEggs So we are, in other words, royally f***ed with regard to #ISDS. Wonderful! So much for #democracy, & for people wanting to stop #datacentres. We can't do it, even if we want to, it seems.
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/117478771937006119
People of the Future will not think she is real, I mean we in the Present have trouble, so..
🎧 Ab 18 Uhr reden @chrismarquardt und @nSonic live über Polarlichter, KI-Wasserzeichen, Videoframes als Fotos, Weltraumkameras und View-Master.
Gerne weitersagen 🚀
https://twitch.tv/chrismarquardthimself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMm9qRI48qA
#hslive #fotografie #podcast #livestream #polarlicht #KI #NASA #ViewMaster #Canon
@ReggieHere That problem is particularly strong in a polity with #FPTP voting.
Under #STV, voters are free to switch to a (hopefully) less corrupted candidate with similar proclaimed values.
But under #FPTP, the alternative is usually someone who you despise.
Absolutely, @ReggieHere. But I omitted that, because arrogance is a sort of secondary vice: ppl are more willing to tolerate arrogance in someone who they otherwise approve of.
For example, #TonyBlair's arrogance was not a negative when he was flying high in 1997. Nor was #BorisJohnson's arrogance a problem for supporters when he was a rising star.
But when the shine dulls, the always-visible arrogance loses tolerability. It becomes a fatal flaw.
#Musiquinta de queijo?
Tantas opções... De R.E.M. a Concrete Blonde passando por Glen Miller... Mas tem um clássico absoluto que não pode ficar de fora.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE_Q0ohfeyE
There is someone in my head.
But It's not me.
Another day, another overnight stock market dip associated with sentiment about the reliance (or lack thereof) of the AI & related technologies 'boom'....
You can read this as a dip, or a faltering of the rally after the last dip... or more generally as the increasingly weak sentiment behind the valuation of AI-related shares, stocks and (junk) bonds.
Although 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent', the jitters are spreading....
#AI #economics #politics
h/t FT
As the Women's Budget Group point out if we are concerned with domestic abuse, we need to move beyond a model of the behaviour that focuses only on physical abuse (however important that also is), to include 'economic abuse', both via the abusers themselves & the institutions that make that economic abuse possible/plausible.
Often one compounds the other, but in the end its always about abuse....
It looks like the Tangerine Tyrant will need to sit for deposition in his case against the BBC if the is hoping for the case to continue.... many of us here have mixed feelings about the BBC, but whatever you though t about their original reporting, the BBC's legal team is playing a pretty good game against POTUS.
This could get (very) interesting!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/trump-bbc-lawsuit-deposition-discovery
My favourite paintings No. 81
Vittore Carpaccio, St. Augustine in His Studio (1502)
St. Augustine was a popular Renaissance subject, and this painting by Vittore Carpaccio is quite typical, but the detail included is intriguing (and often symbolic) but also stands out for the wonderful portrait of the sitting dog looking at St.Augustine. The composition is a guide to the sorts of objects that were typical of C16th elite lives, but is also just charming.
I see the BigTech builders of UK data centres are sufficiently concerned about the prospect of widening (local) political resistance & protests that they are seeking Govt. intervention to deliver a 'compact' to ease the local environment for construction...
Of course, given our political class' disdain for protest and people's local interest(s), we're more likely to see proscription of protest groups & repression of campaigns against data centres.
AI & its associated technologies may be stoking inflation directly & indirectly...
directly via spikes in demand for computing components; on electricity use; for construction materials for data centres.
indirectly, via increases in spending in expectation of an AI-related technological boom (even if many are sceptical).
But how significant are these pressures in the general inflationary context *and* does (as many clam) AI reduces costs to balance out these pressures?
#AI #economics
h/t FT
The mid-terms in the USA will be (another) testbed fro the proposition that you can *just* buy the result of democracy... Republicans have built up a 'archest of nearly $1bn around double what the Democrats have available to spend.
However, currently polls are favouring the Democrats, so the Q. is whether the Republicans' spend can reverse that polling advantage.
And of course there's always the chance of *actual* electoral interference from the White House.
Not sure what the implications of the decision to give the go-ahead to the Jackdaw North Sea gas field are?.... then here is a reasonable overview of the issues from @BBC Verify.
As I've said before away from the spotlight there is still good journalism happening at the BBC, just not by their high profile commentariat.
Yes, folks its (nearly) here... another slice of Trussplaining; the world according to Liz Truss.
As yet, its not entirely clear how Truss will be once again blaming everyone & anyone but herself for the Trussession that many people still think bond market traders are pricing in to the UK's public debt yields.
But for now, here'e the cover for your delectation.
#politics #LizTruss #delusions
h/t FT
Witness the raw charisma of JD Vance.
https://newrepublic.com/post/216955/jd-vance-humiliated-nfl-bengals-snub
860 review – Billy Crystal’s charisma powers rambling one-man play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/21/860-review-billy-crystal-one-man-play #Broadway #Stage #BillyCrystal #Culture #Theatre #UsTheater #Film #Comedy #ComedyFilms
860 review – Billy Crystal’s charisma powers rambling one-man play
By Juan A Ramírez
Imperial Theatre, New York CityThe veteran actor charms with stories about his colorful life and losing his home in the LA fires while taking jabs at Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/21/860-review-billy-crystal-one-man-play
#Broadway #Stage #BillyCrystal #Culture #Theatre #UStheater #Film #Comedy #Comedyfilms #TheGuardian #JuanARamrez
Macron condemns racism after one killed in terrorist shooting near Paris
By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Gunman opens fire from car in Trappes and Verrière, killing one and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl
#France #Europe #Worldnews #MarineLePen #Paris #TheGuardian #AngeliqueChrisafisinParis
[P] It diesn't matter. I mean, thick doesn't know better than thick. A hiverarchian isn't going to fact-check cretinous Kemi, they'll just be sucked up by her sleazy Dark Triad charisma. The only thing that can counter that kind of charisma is media sensationalism attacking it. See; The media stings attacking Farage. Unless Channel 4 and ITV go after the Tories next with a sting (doubtful)? Kemi's fine.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #uk #england #hiveraechiansaredumb #dumb #dumb
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⚡️English speakers have Mana too, under a hundred different working names. Charisma. Aura. Gravitas. Authority. Energy. Charge. Different words, same underlying observation.
Listen to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4VPGeGpKtYVmxDaVnd5kZL
Hokusai on high, Bruges goes Bosch and Tate’s Turbine Hall has a blast – the week in art | Art and design
Exhibition of the week Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Perhaps the most celebrated and charismatic body of work in the history of Japanese art is shown in its entirety. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, …
#Japan #JP #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #news #富士山
https://www.alojapan.com/1556865/hokusai-on-high-bruges-goes-bosch-and-tates-turbine-hall-has-a-blast-the-week-in-art-art-and-design/
Years ago, I read this and that by and about Feynman, so I know he can write. I have never heard and seen him speak, though, so this was new for me.
What a speaker! The sheer force, and the focus! He never looks away from the camera for a moment. And what a charisma! I am impressed, very impressed. All the time, there is this twinkle in his eyes, as if he finds it all really funny. He must have been a fascinating person to meet. Also with a great potential to be really annoying with his energy and focus.
Also, having heard this, I now kind of share Elon's dream — I want it to become true for him to go to Mars. And so he is not alone there, I wish he can take all his billionaire buddies with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0g0CaqofQ&feature=youtu.be
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Pěkné ráno, dovolil jsem si připravit další, v pořadí 67. pokračování #rockforcoffee 😁🎸🥁
Výročí rockových a metalových desek ❤️💙🤟
#narozeniny slavných rockových alb 365/67(šedesát sedm)
23. října vyšla kromě jiných tato čtyři alba 👇
📕Genesis - Trespass (1970)
💙My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
🎸Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead (2007)
🔊Armored Saint - Punching the Sky (2020)
Anketa může za to, že si dnes povíme o skupině Genesis a jejich albu “Trespass” (1970)
Příběh alba začíná po debutu “From Genesis to Revelation” z roku 1969. Ten ještě zněl poměrně komorně a měl blízko k tehdejšímu britskému popu. Mladí Genesis však chtěli skládat delší skladby, rozvíjet hudební motivy a vytvářet vlastní zvukové světy…
V roce 1970 se intenzivně věnovali zkoušení a koncertování. Důležitým krokem bylo jejich spojení s manažerem Tonym Stratton-Smithem a vydavatelstvím Charisma Records. Album “Trespass” pak nahráli v londýnských Trident Studios v červnu a červenci 1970 s producentem Johnem Anthonym…
Výsledkem byla deska, na které se začal formovat charakteristický zvuk raných Genesis, akustické dvanáctistrunné kytary, majestátní varhany a mellotron, dramatický zpěv Petera Gabriela a skladby, které se postupně proměňují jako jednotlivé kapitoly příběhu…
Obal vytvořil výtvarník Paul Whitehead. Jeho obraz s nožem proříznutým výjevem odpovídá názvu Trespass, tedy neoprávněnému vstupu či překročení hranice. Je to výstižný symbol hudby, která se snaží překročit hranice běžné rockové písně…
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Legendary New York Rangers forward Ron Duguay passes away at 69! ⚽️📺🏒 Broadcasting an absolute wave of grief across the hockey landscape, the former first-round selection concluded his brave battle with colon cancer. Renowned for his high-yield left-wing production and pre-helmet era charisma, Duguay's passing drew formal statements of condolence from coach Mike Sullivan ahead of tonight's Maple Leafs clash. Full historical and biographical tracking inside. #NHL #NewYorkRangers #Blueshirts…
