Justin Souter
@justingsouter.bsky.social
From NE England. I like mtb'ing, sailing, golf & the open countryside! I do my best to keep bees. Set up my first social media account in 2007.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Seen this morning. I wonder which bits of Lenin / Leninism they are defending...? 🤔
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Seen this morning. I wonder which bits of Lenin / Leninism they are defending...? 🤔
The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honourable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians.”
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 1 Ch 2
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 1 Ch 2
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honourable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians.”
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 1 Ch 2
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol 1 Ch 2
Hi @shashj.bsky.social to the points in your article, I've been reading this by Steve Blank.
open.substack.com/pub/stevebla...
Seems to be a blueprint for reform (quite possibly you're already aware 😊)
open.substack.com/pub/stevebla...
Seems to be a blueprint for reform (quite possibly you're already aware 😊)
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hi @shashj.bsky.social to the points in your article, I've been reading this by Steve Blank.
open.substack.com/pub/stevebla...
Seems to be a blueprint for reform (quite possibly you're already aware 😊)
open.substack.com/pub/stevebla...
Seems to be a blueprint for reform (quite possibly you're already aware 😊)
"Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A New Framework for Tackling Epistemic Collapse and Renewing Democracy'
bsky.app/profile/elio...
/10 #disordereddiscourse
bsky.app/profile/elio...
/10 #disordereddiscourse
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A New Framework for Tackling Epistemic Collapse and Renewing Democracy'
bsky.app/profile/elio...
/10 #disordereddiscourse
bsky.app/profile/elio...
/10 #disordereddiscourse
The talk was at Schumacher College, which seems to be going through a renaissance :) bsky.app/profile/jayt...
Schumacher College is alive and coming back. Join one of our 'World Wild' courses this summer. More details, here: www.schumacherwild.org/courses
Register for a course and/or please offer a bursary for a young person to join a course. And please share widely! Thanks!
Register for a course and/or please offer a bursary for a young person to join a course. And please share widely! Thanks!
October 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The talk was at Schumacher College, which seems to be going through a renaissance :) bsky.app/profile/jayt...
Link to the book itself www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
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October 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Link to the book itself www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
All good Helen, it's nice to spread the apine vibe 🤗 Catch-up early Nov is defo a possibility. I'm on leave for the first week, and might be away for a couple of days... 😊
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
All good Helen, it's nice to spread the apine vibe 🤗 Catch-up early Nov is defo a possibility. I'm on leave for the first week, and might be away for a couple of days... 😊