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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-24 at 09:26

The British Government is naïve about Trump and any influence they might have over him, especially given that one of his apostles has suggested that America could impose regime change in the UK.

"Trump told not to put massive tariffs on UK"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8k2jknn8zo

"The move comes after President Trump doubled down on his threat to impose big tariffs on countries wanting to sell products in the US."

[#]USpol #UKpol #politics #USA #UK #Trump #DonaldTrump #trade

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-21 at 18:24

'Anyone seeking crumbs of comfort from the deeply grim opening day of Donald Trump’s second presidency can find it in Nigel Farage’s reaction to seeing Boris Johnson granted a seat at the inauguration while he had to watch it on TV.'

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/farages-bitter-whine-about-that-inauguration-snub

'But it would teke a heart of stone not to laugh at Farage as he complained that, unlike him, Johnson was not a true friend of Trump.'

[#]uspol #ukpol #politics #DonaldTrump #NigelFarage #Farage #Trump #Johnson #BorisJohson #BJ #UK #USA

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-21 at 17:16

'Will Elon Musk scrap his plan to invest in a gigafactory in Mexico?'

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/16/will-elon-musk-scrap-his-plan-to-invest-in-a-gigafactory-in-mexico

'Tesla is now betting its future on Robotaxis rather than the Model 2, a cheaper mass-market ev that would undoubtedly have occupied a factory with capacity to make perhaps 1m cars a year.'

[#]Trump #DonaldTrump #Musk #ElonMusk #evs #ElectricVehicles #cars #manufacturing #technology #industry #politics #uspol

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-19 at 00:36

I forgot that Midge Ure was in Thin Lizzy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pearl_(song)

[#]music #MidgeUre #ThinLizzy #TopOfThePops #totp

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-17 at 11:44

'President-elect Donald Trump has announced the appointment of actors Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as ambassadors to help make Hollywood "bigger, better and stronger".'

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/01/17/donald-trump-appoints-mel-gibson-sylvester-stallone-and-jon-voight-as-special-envoys-to-ho

[#]Trump #DonaldTrump #Hollywood #movies #MelGibson #SylvesterStallone #JonVoight #USA #uspol #politics #entertainment

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-17 at 09:40

'Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks'

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/12/russia-is-being-set-aflame-by-hundreds-of-arson-attacks

'Russia is blaming Ukraine for the unusual campaign, citing both motive and means. On the latter point, Ukraine is somewhat of a world-leader in the phone scamming industry, with hundreds of murky call-centres operating from cities such as Kyiv and Dnipro.'

[#]Russia #crime #Ukraine

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-17 at 09:12

'India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening'

'The gamble behind $17bn of fresh deals with the Kremlin on oil and arms'

https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/01/13/indias-faustian-pact-with-russia-is-strengthening

'In 2021 just 2% of India’s oil imports came from Russia. Between April and October 2024 nearly 40% did'

[#]India #Russia #war #military #oil #FossilFuels #Ukraine

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-15 at 17:13

'Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Russia on Wednesday of orchestrating global acts of sabotage, including "acts of air terror" targeting airlines.'

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/15/polands-tusk-accuses-russia-of-plotting-acts-of-terror-against-airlines

'Western security officials, however, suspect Russian intelligence of plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes bound for North America after one such package caught fire in Germany and another ignited a warehouse in the UK last year.'

[#]Russia #Poland #terrorism #sabotage #AirTravel #aviation

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-15 at 11:26

' #Tory Net Zero Chief Calls for Climate Deniers to Vet UK #Energy Policies'

https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/14/tory-net-zero-chief-claire-coutinho-calls-for-climate-deniers-net-zero-watch-to-vet-uk-energy-policies/

'In a post on X.com on 12 January, the Conservative Party’s energy and #netzero lead urged Labour to “bring in” a group of well-known opponents of climate action to “red team” its analysis of renewable energy costs.'

'...#Conservatives had received £7.2 million from funders or directors of the #GWPF over the past two decades. '

[#]Climate #ClimateChange #denial #UK #politics #environment #ukpol

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-13 at 19:30

'The Treasury will be “ruthless” over public spending cuts to help meet the government’s fiscal rules at this summer’s spending review, Keir Starmer has said, despite previous promises over austerity.'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/13/keir-starmer-says-treasury-will-be-ruthless-on-public-spending-cuts

'He suggested that public service reform was the “lever that hasn’t been pulled enough”, suggesting this needed to be pulled “hard and quickly” by his government.'

[#]Austerity #Labour #UK #politics #economy #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-13 at 12:12

'Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy'

https://futurism.com/dad-daughter-ai-toy

Psychiatrist: '"I think because it takes away control from the child," she wrote. "Play is how children work through emotions, impulses and conflicts [as] well as try out new behaviors. I would think [it] would be super irritating to have the toy shape and control your play — like a totally dominating playmate!"'

[#]AI #technology

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-13 at 11:51

infighting amongst #MAGA fans

"Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

'Arguing that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire” and calling him a proponent of “techno-feudalism on a global scale”, Bannon said. “His aggregation of wealth, and then – through wealth – power: that’s what he’s focused on.”'

[#]Musk #ElonMusk #Bannon #StephenBannon #USA #America #uspol #politics #Trump #DonaldTrump #technology #racism

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-13 at 11:37

'Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for "Does Corn Get Digested"'

https://futurism.com/google-image-corn-ai-slop

'Take the top-ranked image for the query, which is linked to a clearly AI-generated blog post titled "Do Humans Digest Corn?" The graphic appears to suggest that human-consumed corn piles up in the human body outside of our intestines, and may even sprout a vine that could, per the allegedly scientific graphic, wrap around our internal organs.'

[#]AI #technology #google #biology

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-08 at 16:45

Given the way things are going, I think we should all listen to "Under The God" by Tin Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpi5EN8-1Y

"Racism back in rule

White trash picking up Nazi flags

While you was gone, there was war

This is the West, get used to it

They put a swastika over the door"

https://genius.com/Tin-machine-under-the-god-lyrics

https://www.bowiebible.com/songs/under-the-god/

[#]DavidBowie #TinMachine #racism #fascism #nazi #hate #music #AlternativeRock #AlternativeMusic

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-03 at 16:53

'Musk plans discussion with German far-right leader on X

The live chat with the AfD’s chancellor candidate is proposed as Germany’s political leaders accuse the tech billionaire of election interference.'

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-discussion-german-far-right-leader-alice-weidel-x/

[#]Germany #Twitter #ElonMusk #Musk #FarRight #AfD #election #politics

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-02 at 12:03

"Elon Musk demands release of UK far-right ringleader Tommy Robinson"

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-demands-release-uk-far-right-ringleader-tommy-robinson/

"Robinson is one of the most high-profile far-right figures in the U.K. His demonstrations in London often attract thousands of supporters. Robinson is a former member of the British National Party, and unsuccessfully stood for the European Parliament in 2019."

[#]FarRight #TommyRobinson #ElonMusk #Musk #UK #politics #BNP #racism

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-02 at 11:11

"UK was named unhappiest country for children in 2024"

https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/12/24/uk-named-the-unhappiest-country-for-children-whats-behind-europes-decline-in-youth-well-be

Possible causes mentioned include wealth inequality, skipping meals, not being able to afford holidays, inflation, and social media.

[#]UK #Europe #happiness #poverty #SocialMedia #inflation #economy

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2025-01-01 at 20:17

'Modern medicine has saved the lives of countless children. But anti-science sentiments could set us back.'

https://www.inverse.com/health/victorian-child-mortality-rate-vaccines

'In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5. While overall child mortality was somewhat lower in the U.K., the rate remained near 50% through the early 20th century for children living in the poorest slums.'

[#]health #children #vaccine #vaccines #USA #UK #science

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2024-12-31 at 19:19

"New research reveals a stark reality: between 2010 and 2023, Greenland lost a staggering 563 cubic miles (2,347 cubic kilometers) of ice. That’s enough water to fill Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake."

https://interestingengineering.com/science/563-cubic-miles-of-ice-vanishing-from-greenland

[#]GlobalWarming #Greenland #environment

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Written by Jon PENNYCOOK on 2024-12-21 at 22:25

"Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors"

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/12/12/amid-russian-bombing-ukraine-is-planning-more-nuclear-reactors

'Initial construction has begun. At Khmelnitsky, a plant in western Ukraine with two existing reactors, connections are being built to a “shovel ready” area where four more reactors are planned, says Elias Gedeon of Westinghouse, an American partner on the project.'

[#]Ukraine #energy #electricity #NuclearPower #nuclear

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