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The newfound anti-Americanism in Europe risks leaving Ukraine in a very difficult position because it puts a different gloss on Putin's 25 year-long effort to resist US encroachment will make the option of nomalising trade with Russia start to look attractive, especially to Germany.

I am not sure what total 2 plus 2 has made there but it sure isn't 4.

Why look uniquely to a bankrupt Russia?

To be fair, I think for some industries, like internet trolling, Russia do pay premium rates.

My old company had a two day ‘event’ due to a cyber hack from Russia.

They have to be good at something.

Oh those Russians.

Young will suffer most when AI ‘tsunami’ hits jobs, says head of IMF

Kristalina Georgieva says research suggests 60% of jobs in advanced economies will be affected, with many entry-level roles wiped out

Artificial intelligence will be a “tsunami hitting the labour market”, with young people worst affected, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned the World Economic Forum on Friday.

Kristalina Georgieva told delegates in Davos that the IMF’s own research suggested there would be a big transformation of demand for skills, as the technology becomes increasingly widespread.

“We expect over the next years, in advanced economies, 60% of jobs to be affected by AI, either enhanced or eliminated or transformed – 40% globally,” she said. “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/23/ai-tsunami-labour-market-youth-employment-says-head-of-imf-davos

I certainly wouldn't want to be coming out of uni now looking to be a software developer, data scientist, consultancy.

Probably needs a radical rethink of the jobs market.

Also driving jobs are likely to go too. Taxi drivers, lorry drivers, van drivers. For a lorry load up at departure, unload at arrival. Self drive.

We need a forward thinking, proactive, govt to look at the numbers going to Uni and where the jobs of the future are. That’s a lot of income tax and NI to lose.

Tesla is now demonstrating FSD from coast to coast in the USA, It is happening. Driving is disappearing. I noticed also today that insurers are HALVING their premiums for drivers that agree to let the car do the driving, as they are so much less prone to accidents. This is how economics will quickly force humans away from the steering wheel. The way humans aren’t allowed to do laser eye surgery. Safety = profit

Whatever happened to @JosiasJessop? He and I used to have enjoyable arguments on this. Did he flounce? Is he banned? I was gone and now I’m back he is nowhere

Fuck him. He flounced after you called him a beta cuck 😂😂😂😂. A beta cuck being the sort of guy who sits down to pee.

He’s one of those fragile flowers who was very keen to dish it but when he got a little back he cried like a little soy bitch (TM Steve Inman).

Nice to see you back.

As for AI we shouldn’t resist the changes but adapt. There’s an air of ‘smash the spinning Jenny’ going on.

The IMF director on AI. Middle class kids are going to be squeezed.

https://x.com/marionawfal/status/2014699644681687300?s=61

Automation in the eighties and nineties did the same to working class factory workers.

Do we need 50% of our youth taking degrees.

Just as Trump delivered the election to Carney, it seems he could do the same in Denmark's election this year.
(Though a lot can happen between now and October.)

Today's Danish opinion poll from Megafon is beyond crazy. The red bloc regains a majority and the blue bloc loses 9% of the vote since last month:
🟥 Red Bloc 51.7%, 90 seats
🟦 Blue Bloc 41.9%, 73 seats
🟪 M 6.4%, 12 seats
Danish politics has completely changed in just a month.
https://x.com/Gust_2319/status/2014570635582652557

This is the same Red Bloc which has supported dismantling neighbourhoods if the percentage of ethnic minorities gets too high?

Good attempt at ignoring the effect.

You’re quite the Rejoiner, I imagine

How would you vote in a new referendum if, say, Le Pen was running France, Meloni Italy, and a Merz-Afd Coalition in Germany? Plus Orban and all the rest

Because this is really quite likely. The EU is poised to shift decisively to the hard right in the coming years, perhaps even the far right in some cases. I wonder how Roger will feel about it then