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Good points here. The Russians have been trying to re-create a zone of weak states around their W border since the end of the Cold War. Demilitarisation, no stationing of ‘foreign’ forces etc. All designed to weaken NATO and enable Moscow to interfere at will.
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As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.
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Jaron Lanier in the @nytimes on the machine-god cult:
"we need to be honest with ourselves. There is nothing wrong with a new religion, but there is everything wrong with an imposed new religion."
nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opini…
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Will @andyburnham be Starmer 2.0?
Unless he takes back Thames Water, "public control" means absolutely NOTHING
Shareholders need zero compensation, slash and refinance the debt, stop ripping off households, no new low standard on sewage
lbc.co.uk/article/andy-burnh…
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I'd be happier if they concentrated on fixing the deep psychosis and extreme sociopathy exhibited by AI CEOs first.
We'll never fix those other things until those nutjobs learn to think like actual humans...
Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"
“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."
"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."
"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."
"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”
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Every time you listen to an AI bro claim that their technology will "cure cancer" or any other illness, you are being exposed to the most disgusting form of emotional blackmail.
Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"
“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."
"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."
"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."
"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”
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If you do not see this man, and his peers, as cult leaders, you are a fool. They are playing all angles simultaneously—doomsday cult, healing miracles cult, secret knowledge cult, messianic cult—and it’s been effective.
Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"
“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."
"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."
"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."
"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”
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This obviously stinks.
I expect a bunch of market fanatics will claim, "well both Watson and Dick are perfectly employable for the job because they know their stuff".
The problem isn't their CVs, the problem is the steady outsourcing of the state.
Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.
What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.
This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.
Read more here: thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
@TBIJ
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That shoddy deal belongs in the bin.
It’s barely changed from the deal ministers already rejected: creditors pay £1bn to dodge sewage and leakage fines until 2030, then cash out on the stock market.
Nothing screams ‘neoliberalism’ like privatised water. Thames Water is the key to ending it and bringing water back into public ownership.
Don’t fudge this.
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Thames Water asks creditors for more time to help repay £20bn debt pile.
Govt dither and delay to public ownership increasing debt, interest payments and customer bills.
Must enforce all laws, revoke TW licence to operate, bankrupt it, buy at low price.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Thames Water thrown another lifeline. 🚨
Thames Water’s creditors have offered another £2.4 billion in emergency loans and a plan to push its debts back a year. It’s not a rescue. It’s not a fix. It’s another year on life support, and another year of sewage in our rivers.
Their price? Thames Water gets let off penalties for missing environmental targets until 2030, and then they cash out.
We can’t keep repeating the same mistakes and expect a different result. The government doesn’t have to wait for the money to run out. It can put Thames Water into special administration now, for failing our rivers.
Tell the Prime Minister to place Thames Water into special administration today 👉 riveractionuk.com/email-andy…
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Utterly scandalous that this isn't getting wider traction and outrage.
A clear national asset & treasure, a repository for knowledge that is of national & global renown, as significant a living monument as any damn slave trader statue--and not a peep from the heritage brigade.
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Thames Water is in £20 billion of debt.
Right now, it’s only surviving because it just had ANOTHER expensive bailout. Now it wants to delay its debt repayments.
This is NOT a financially viable company. Any normal org with finances this bad would have collapsed into insolvency a long time ago.
Stop propping up the abysmal Thames Water. @andyburnham it’s time to intervene on behalf of the public. Bring Thames Water into special administration. vist.ly/5ryda
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The challenges posed by #ArtificialIntelligence and unregulated automation can put countless jobs at risk and become a real threat to proper integral human development. Technology must always be subject to ethics; an algorithm cannot replace human discernment or a worker's value. Access to work for all must be a high priority for public policies and economic processes, serving as a criterion for evaluating the human quality of any development model. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina
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Thank you, Mr. Kushner. Those five principles are important. However, Moscow subscribed to these principles in documents signed in 1975 (Helsinki Final Act) and 1990 (Charter of Paris).
The problem isn't agreeing to principles, but Moscow's failure to abide by them. 🧵 /1
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
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Surely they should stop this. Harold Macmillan complained - rightly - about selling off the family silver. This is worse: selling off the family library. What pitiful barbarism we have descended to.
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Believing this while building more capable models is insane. Believing it while pushing legislation that would make it even harder for the government to stop you is unconscionable.
In resurfaced footage of Dario Amodei being interviewed, the Anthropic CEO says there will be AIs so powerful that if they want to destroy humanity, “we have basically no ability to stop it.”
“There will be powerful models. They will be agentic. We’re getting towards them.”
“If such a model wanted to wreak havoc and destroy humanity or whatever, I think we have basically no ability to stop it.”
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Privatising the historic British Library is no one's definition of "ending 40 years of neoliberalism"
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As a writer I have what my agent kindly calls ‘a modest platform’. Those with a hugely immodest one now need to stand up against the privatisation of @britishlibrary We need a very loud and persistent voice against it. Think what the French would do.
This can not stand.