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Trump ospita i giganti della tecnologia a cena alla Casa bianca, ma Elon Musk manca all’appello
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/09/05/news/trump_ospita_i_giganti_della_tecnologia_a_cena_alla_casa_bianca_ma_elon_musk_manca_all_appello-15296229/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Where does the UK stand in the world?

Well, one answer is to look at how the DG of the WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala sees the UK....

She places the UK as an important 'middle power' along with Singapore, Switzerland, Uruguay, Australia, the UAE & New Zealand, all of whom she sees as important to the future of the World Trade Organisation in a political environment patterned by US hostility to multilateralism.

Accepting that designation may be key to the UK's diplomatic future?

#politics
h/t FT

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If we'd accepted our reduced standing back in 1945, things would've been a lot better. So many things would be better. No Suez nonsense, no crashing out of the ERM, no brexit, quite possibly no involvement in the invasion of Iraq either.

People alive at the time could've all simply accepted that we'd had a good run and it was time to slip back into the quiet diplomatic middle classes.

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@RolloTreadway

Completely agree & used to say so to my students when I was teaching International Relations introductory courses

in reply to RolloTreadway

@RolloTreadway unfortunately though, we'd just been on the winning side in a major war and were full of our own self importance. So that was never going to happen.
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@capnthommo @RolloTreadway and we've never, ever recovered from that

mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/11507…


working on a thesis that 21st Century Britain can be explained by the teaching of multiple generations of schoolchildren that "Britain beat Germany in 1945, no, there's no further nuance or context required. The Empire was good, though"

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There are only two economic superpowers, the USA and China. Everyone else is medium or small.


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#taz ‪@taz.de‬ am 4. September 2025 um 17:13:
Die Wirtschaftsministerin beruft einen Beraterkreis. Er besteht aus #neoliberal en Ökonom:innen, die sich für weniger Sozialstaat ausgesprochen haben.
#Reiche
taz.de/!6108075

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I like to think of myself as the illegitimate love child of Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg. Then I realize I'm still at work and 3 hours have gone by.


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To all who assert that the fighting will end if Hamas surrenders, that's probably true(ish). Israel will complete its genocide more quickly. Peace will reign. The peace of death.
@palestine

#Israel
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genocide



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Republicans are secretly deleting all references to themselves and their pals in Epstein's files. ALL of them know it. Even Susie Collins.

They're going release the "information" and use it as an excuse to purge Democrats from the House and Senate, arrest other Democrats, after they've inserted Democratic names in place of their own.

Aren't they.

#Trump #pedo #incest #abuse
#GOPliars #RepublicansSuck
#traitors #frauds #assholes



Britain’s universities feel the heat of its migration culture war
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-international-student-university-tuition-education/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into POLITICO Europe @politico-europe-POLITICOEurope



🎉 There's a new beta version of Signal!

Signal for Android v7.56

Check out the Signal Community thread for more info: community.signalusers.org/t/be…

#signal #signalapp #signalupdates



pro tip: do not come into my mentions apologizing for nazi edgelords if you do not want your single-user instance to be defederated


Akademy 2025 - Keynote Speaker Alexande Rosenthal


Alexander Rosenthal is the project leader at DigitalHub.SH in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.

In this interview Alexander talks about how he started out becoming interested in computing, how Schleswig-Holstein's migration to Free Software is going, and the hopes the proponents have for the future.

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"Not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, it's warmth.

Positivity tells a sad person there is no reason to be sad. Warmth asks the sad person if they want to get some ice cream."

#MentalHealth

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One of my secret writing hacks is watching NFL.

The games have so many breaks between plays, between turnovers and between quarters and halves. I can usually write 1-2 blog posts per game on Sunday nights.

#blogging #writing





One Beat (2002) by Sleater-Kinney on CD.

Another powerhouse release where they double down on riot grrrl punk, but slip in just a hint of blues. Every riff and drum hit feels locked in—tight, fierce, and deliberate.

My only gripe is the mastering. The CD pushes so hard that it loses some breathing room, which makes it fatiguing after a while. A record this good deserves more dynamic range.

@recordpics