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For “supporting a proscribed organization”. Aka. Hamas. The arrests are by counter-terrorism police.

Sarah Wilkinson’s arrest:

The police came to her house just before 7.30am. 12 of them in total, some of them in plain clothes from the counter terrorism police. They said she was under arrest for “content that she has posted online.” Her house is being raided & they have seized all her electronic devices.

Others who have been arrested include Richard Barnard, Richard Medhurst and Craig Murray.

This is the law they are being charged under:

Mainstream macroeconomics is stuck with crazy models. That goes for ‘New Keynesian’ macroeconomics and DSGE models too. Let me just give one example. A lot of mainstream economists out there still think that price and wage rigidities are the prime movers behind unemployment. What is even worse — I’m totally gobsmacked every time I come […]

Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.

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New evidence suggests it was slower than we thought.

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Let The Brotherhood Of The Damned be your tour guide Kamala HQ flagged this clip of tech bro “thought leader” Curtis Yarvin advocating an American Caesar as the next step for America. This is the guy incels and billionaire tech autocrats like Peter Thiel (J.D. Vance’s mentor) look to for envisioning a future with them running the world and getting laid, like, anytime they want. Gaze upon Yarvin, all ye who dream big. TPM’s Josh Marshall quipped, “Amazing that this college sophomore level thinker is a major force in Silicon Valley.” I’m reminded of the formulaic pap The Sphinx (Wes Studi) spouted as wisdom in Mystery Men (1999). Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) gazes on in wonderment (or is it befuddlement?) and remarks, “It’s cool, isn’t it? It goes right up to the point of being, like, confusing.” Shallow and stupid or not, don’t think they won’t attempt something like this. Marcy Wheeler predicts they’ll try. Violently, preferably. https://mstdn.social/@lolgop@journa.host/113068278494067131 Vote like you mean it. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● It’s Labor Day.

Social media algorithms show violent content to boys but that's just the start of the problem according to a leading investigative journalist

The Clown Prince of Grievance Every time one thinks Donald Trump cannot possibly get more demented, he surprises. It’s as if Mark Levin were interviewing The Joker. Except The Joker sports a wide, lipstick-red smile. Trump: “Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it.” Who ever heard you get indicted for embezzling billions from the U.S. Treasury when (immunized by “conservatives” on the U.S. Supreme Court) you “have every right to do it”? Think “the short-fingered vulgarian” won’t plunge his stubby mitts into the national cookie jar if reelected? That is, if he hopes to impress Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and get richer doing it? No one more sentient than mold slime doesn’t know that’s exactly what Trump will do. Maybe even before sending troops into the streets to apprehend and throw into concentration camps anyone brown and migranty-looking . For context, Trump was commenting on the superseding indictment filed last week by special counsel Jack Smith in the stolen documents case.

Nobel laureates join chorus of 1,000+ scientists urging Parliament to prioritise far-reaching Climate and Nature Bill as environmental tipping points loom

The Government has announced it will include dynamic pricing in a consultation into ticket resale websites after hundreds of complaints over Oasis ticket sales. But that's just the start

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  28th August 2024 There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much […]

Denis Zakharov has been monitoring the changing attitudes of Russians to the war in Ukraine on social media. They've only got worse

Members of a Japanese religious movement carve out happy lives in small-town Colorado in this short documentary

- by Aeon Video

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For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks

- by Justin Garson

Read at Aeon

Cutting-edge research in the field of neuroarchitecture is revealing the public health implications of building design

- by Cleo Valentine & Heather Mitcheltree

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We are not going to get out of the economic doldrums as long as we continue to be obsessed with the unreasoned ideological goal of reducing the so-called deficit. The ‘deficit’ is not an economic sin but an economic necessity […] The administration is trying to bring the Titanic into harbor with a canoe paddle, […]

I haven’t much time today and I am trying to work out how I am going to get home (a 1,100 km journey) amidst travel chaos wrought by extreme weather conditions in South East Australia over the last few days. The weather disruptions to travel are becoming more common in Australia and the associated property…

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I remember it well. Sadly it’s just as relevant today as it was then:

Zach Beauchamp at Vox wrote this sometime back: On November 21, 1922, the New York Times published its very first article about Adolf Hitler. It’s an incredible read — especially its assertion that “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded.” This attitude was, apparently, widespread among Germans at the time; many of them saw Hitler’s anti-Semitism as a ploy for votes among the German masses. Times correspondent Cyril Brown spends most of the piece documenting the factors behind Hitler’s early rise in Bavaria, Germany, including his oratorical skills. For example: “He exerts an uncanny control over audiences, possessing the remarkable ability to not only rouse his hearers to a fighting pitch of fury, but at will turn right around and reduce the same audience to docile coolness.” But the really extraordinary part of the article is the three paragraphs on anti-Semitism.

This study showing that US academic faculty members are 25 times more likely than Americans in general to have a parent with a PhD or Masters degree has attracted a lot of attention, and comments suggesting that this is unusual and unsatisfactory. But is it? For various reasons, I’ve interacted quite a bit with farmers, […]

The federal Department of Health will soon finish a “health check” of private hospital finances. Warnings of an emerging crisis sparked the review, with private hospital closures, claims that more hospitals are on the brink of collapse, and high-profile disputes between private hospital companies and health insurers. About 70 private hospitals have closed since 2019, Continue reading »