Harmonious Bosch
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.
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"Between cost, climate, and development, it seems counterintuitive to prioritise our most complex projects, for which the Government needs new laws and regulations to even bring to the table, over things that should have been done years ago." Great article...
Refreshingly insightful and fact based as usual from @hosford.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Paul Hosford: The Government says it’s not them — it’s us. But is that really why nothing gets built?
Record NDP funding promises transformation, yet transport and housing projects continue to drift as political choices and systemic delays collide
www.irishexaminer.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Between cost, climate, and development, it seems counterintuitive to prioritise our most complex projects, for which the Government needs new laws and regulations to even bring to the table, over things that should have been done years ago." Great article...
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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Really fascinating which one of these the media has seized upon
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really fascinating which one of these the media has seized upon
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Farage has openly campaigned on racism, nativism, and xenophobia, his entire political career. Yet, to the media, he can only be said to have been "dogged by allegations" because nobody can prove he spoke slurs. This is white supremacy defining the terms so as to endlessly obfuscate the issue.
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Farage has openly campaigned on racism, nativism, and xenophobia, his entire political career. Yet, to the media, he can only be said to have been "dogged by allegations" because nobody can prove he spoke slurs. This is white supremacy defining the terms so as to endlessly obfuscate the issue.
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I will be on RTE's The Business tomorrow morning to discuss my work on the gender pay gap. Show starts at ten and I expect to be the first guest on. Per usual, they'll have folks ringing in to say I'm talking nonsense, so if you're listening, please consider dropping them a message to say I'm not :D
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I will be on RTE's The Business tomorrow morning to discuss my work on the gender pay gap. Show starts at ten and I expect to be the first guest on. Per usual, they'll have folks ringing in to say I'm talking nonsense, so if you're listening, please consider dropping them a message to say I'm not :D
I find the seemingly effortless way she smashes random stream of consciousness thoughts together with *far too online* right-wing talking points to produce weirdness like this fascinating.
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I find the seemingly effortless way she smashes random stream of consciousness thoughts together with *far too online* right-wing talking points to produce weirdness like this fascinating.
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🇨🇦 “AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
Data centres require 100+ megawatts of power & millions of litres of water annually for cooling”
Ireland take note. Is govt rush to emergency powers for housing, or for tech? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Data centres require 100+ megawatts of power & millions of litres of water annually for cooling”
Ireland take note. Is govt rush to emergency powers for housing, or for tech? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🇨🇦 “AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
Data centres require 100+ megawatts of power & millions of litres of water annually for cooling”
Ireland take note. Is govt rush to emergency powers for housing, or for tech? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Data centres require 100+ megawatts of power & millions of litres of water annually for cooling”
Ireland take note. Is govt rush to emergency powers for housing, or for tech? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
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I'm just gonna say it: you wouldn't need to ban the kids if you just made the platforms responsible for moderation in the first fucking place.
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'm just gonna say it: you wouldn't need to ban the kids if you just made the platforms responsible for moderation in the first fucking place.
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
Good luck papering over that chasm and calling it protection. ✌🏻
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"The BBC tried this after 'Final Final Version (2) - Do Not Edit (1)' failed."
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"The BBC tried this after 'Final Final Version (2) - Do Not Edit (1)' failed."
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It already happened! We already had an election won by a buffoon with a platform of very obvious lies and fraud while the entire system screamed abuse at his opponents as traitors and horked up dubious legal cases against them. Our institutions have been packed with malignant wingnuts for years!
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It already happened! We already had an election won by a buffoon with a platform of very obvious lies and fraud while the entire system screamed abuse at his opponents as traitors and horked up dubious legal cases against them. Our institutions have been packed with malignant wingnuts for years!
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The number of people migrating to the UK is down, again.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The number of people migrating to the UK is down, again.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Oh. I see. How interesting.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Oh. I see. How interesting.
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Could we please stop framing it as the "migration system"?
It's the asylum system that the rules relate to.
We need everyone to know that these new rules are being brought in so that we can be crueler to people who are already going through horrendous torment in their lives.
It's the asylum system that the rules relate to.
We need everyone to know that these new rules are being brought in so that we can be crueler to people who are already going through horrendous torment in their lives.
Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has defended changes to the migration system, rejecting criticism that the tightening of rules is disproportionally focused on asylum seekers
Minister defends proposed changes to immigration system
Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has defended changes to the migration system, rejecting criticism that the tightening of rules is disproportionally focused on asylum seekers.
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Could we please stop framing it as the "migration system"?
It's the asylum system that the rules relate to.
We need everyone to know that these new rules are being brought in so that we can be crueler to people who are already going through horrendous torment in their lives.
It's the asylum system that the rules relate to.
We need everyone to know that these new rules are being brought in so that we can be crueler to people who are already going through horrendous torment in their lives.
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reminder: keir starmer made a deal with murdoch so there would be no press reform during his government.
he did that purely so a bunch of labour dorks could run around screaming 'WE GOT THE SUN ENDORSEMENT!' during the election bcos they all genuinely think it's 1995.
he did that purely so a bunch of labour dorks could run around screaming 'WE GOT THE SUN ENDORSEMENT!' during the election bcos they all genuinely think it's 1995.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
reminder: keir starmer made a deal with murdoch so there would be no press reform during his government.
he did that purely so a bunch of labour dorks could run around screaming 'WE GOT THE SUN ENDORSEMENT!' during the election bcos they all genuinely think it's 1995.
he did that purely so a bunch of labour dorks could run around screaming 'WE GOT THE SUN ENDORSEMENT!' during the election bcos they all genuinely think it's 1995.
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There hasn't been a big financial crash in a while, let's scrap regulation. After the next big financial crash: why didn't we have effective regulation? And so the pendulum swings, because when regulation works, we regularly forget why we need it.
A “shift to looser regulation is ‘likely to reduce the resilience of the banking sector to systemic market shocks.’”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
This seems like an important story.
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
There hasn't been a big financial crash in a while, let's scrap regulation. After the next big financial crash: why didn't we have effective regulation? And so the pendulum swings, because when regulation works, we regularly forget why we need it.
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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Sir.
if you can tell me how to easily disable AI on every device I have, I'd love to hear how
The fact that it's in almost everything *and* also a nightmare to disable is not coincidence.
and I'm tired of being gaslighted about that fact
if you can tell me how to easily disable AI on every device I have, I'd love to hear how
The fact that it's in almost everything *and* also a nightmare to disable is not coincidence.
and I'm tired of being gaslighted about that fact
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sir.
if you can tell me how to easily disable AI on every device I have, I'd love to hear how
The fact that it's in almost everything *and* also a nightmare to disable is not coincidence.
and I'm tired of being gaslighted about that fact
if you can tell me how to easily disable AI on every device I have, I'd love to hear how
The fact that it's in almost everything *and* also a nightmare to disable is not coincidence.
and I'm tired of being gaslighted about that fact
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"We need to have a debate about neutrality"
We're constantly having this debate and you keep losing it
We're constantly having this debate and you keep losing it
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"We need to have a debate about neutrality"
We're constantly having this debate and you keep losing it
We're constantly having this debate and you keep losing it
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this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
Last year this non-existent phenomenon was described as landlords "fleeing the market". Credit where credit's due, someone went to the trouble of flipping through a thesaurus to land on stampeding for the latest version rather than sticking with the tried and tested.
Headline “Stringent new tenancy rules spark ‘stampede’ of landlords from market as fears for renters grow”
Fact “landlords with registered private tenancies increased by 0.24% annually to 104,072 in Q2 2025”-RTB
..landlords sell to other landlords or homeowners www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
Fact “landlords with registered private tenancies increased by 0.24% annually to 104,072 in Q2 2025”-RTB
..landlords sell to other landlords or homeowners www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
Stringent new tenancy rules spark ‘stampede’ of landlords from market as fears for renters grow
THE number of landlords leaving the market is accelerating ahead of new tenancy rules, estate agents across the country have told the Sunday Independent.
www.independent.ie
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Last year this non-existent phenomenon was described as landlords "fleeing the market". Credit where credit's due, someone went to the trouble of flipping through a thesaurus to land on stampeding for the latest version rather than sticking with the tried and tested.
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I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
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Beyond disgusting, and the Indo itself has helped to create the environment where this kid of behaviour is now deemed acceptable. That poor girl - my heart breaks for her. I hope with all my heart that she is well supported and that she stays playing sport.
Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
m.independent.ie
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Beyond disgusting, and the Indo itself has helped to create the environment where this kid of behaviour is now deemed acceptable. That poor girl - my heart breaks for her. I hope with all my heart that she is well supported and that she stays playing sport.