Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
There are two ways to work around this:
(1) Tunnel over SSH. You literally have no idea what I'm talking about, but ChatGPT will help you out.
(2) Tailscale. Personally I think Tailscale is literally the greatest thing of all time, but the key thing is this... you can have a Raspberry Pi (or whatever) sitting at home, and you send all your traffic via your home Internet connection. It's (a) almost unblockable, and (b) fools even the most restrictive content sites that you are at home.
'Headscale' and 'Algo' are the way to go for bypassing a lot of this stuff.
Within a few moments he'll have this set up thanks to our LLM friends.
I can’t even think about Chagos because it is so obviously a terrible deal done for appallingly dim reasons that it makes me nearly weep
The polling merely confirms that most British people have an IQ well under 120 and can barely place Poland on a map let alone Mauritius, and probably think Chagos is some wooden totem pole we stole from Africa
You have an aneurism every time someone on the "left" accuses voters of being stupid for voting for Brexit etc. Do you realise how much of a hypocrite you are?
I would just say that I found out as a result of my dvt and ultra sound that I have an aneurysm and it is screened every year by my vascular surgeon
I am fortunate it was discovered and for all men at 65, NHS screening is offered and should be accepted
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
Are you at risk of getting arrested if you try to get around their various blocks?
Another shit stirring politico-media panic debunked, presumably including Lord Frosty the No Man in the Waily Mail blaming the Net Zero targets his Govt put in the law, and the lack of gas storage his Govt chose not to repair until the energy crisis:
Centrica, which owns the country's largest gas storage facility, said the UK "has less than a week of gas demand in store" due to the colder-than-usual weather.
But National Gas, which owns the UK gas network, said the UK gets its gas from "a diverse range of sources" and that storage "remains healthy". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vd57qzlqpo
Apparently energy demand hasn't been this close to capacity since 2010. If every 15 years the supply gets stressed but all demand can still be met without restriction, they have maybe planned this right.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
Poor ickle Zuk ! I'm sure he wouldn't exaggerate or distort any process like thar to win popularity and support with the new regime, too, especially as the theme he's chosen is the emotive vax one for them.
And his own decision just made to remove all content moderation must have nothing to do with the just arriving Trump administration, or technofeudalist corruption.
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
Firstly. That is entirely sensible. The Anglican Communion is now a global body of fellow Anglicans, particularly growing in Africa, not an offshoot of Empire as it was when created in the 19th century so makes sense to rotate its leadership amongst Archbishops from each province around the world. In much the same way the Prince of Wales has suggested he won't be head of the Commonwealth when he becomes King but the role should be rotated amongst Commonwealth heads of state.
It of course has sod all to do with disestablishment of the Church of England. Not least as the C of E became the English established church in the 16th century, 300 years before the Anglican Communion was even created!! I would have thought as a former historian you would at least have known that?
I remember when you were claiming on here that the C of E was the senior church in the Anglican Communion and should have supremacy over the Episcopal Church of Scotland. And, by implication, every other church in the AC.
Edit: but of course you are allowed to change your mind now and then.
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
Are you at risk of getting arrested if you try to get around their various blocks?
Apparently, yes! Certainly if you are a Myanmar citizen. VPNS VERBOTEN
Dunno what they’d do with a tourist. But I might be the only tourist in Myanmar so maybe they don’t encounter the phenomenon much
Seriously tho. So few tourists here it’s fabulous. Just none. Ok there’s a kind of civil war going on and quite a few power cuts but I did Ukraine twice and this is nothing like standing on your Odessa balcony literally watching the Russian drones overhead trying to kill you as they explode from ack ack fire. It’s a few power cuts
What will Bagan be like? Entirely empty? Like finding Angkor wat entirely empty
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
(Ireland is too complicated after 2/3 of a bottle of decent Aussie red)
No it hasn't, the Scottish Episcopal Church and Church in Wales remain part of the Anglican Communion currently still led by the Archbishop of Canterbury as indeed does the Church of Ireland
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
Poor ickle Zuk ! I'm sure he wouldn't exaggerate or distort any process like thar to win popularity and support with the new regime, too, especially as the theme he's chosen is the emotive vax one for them.
And his own decision just made to remove all content moderation must have nothing to do with the just arriving Trump administration, or technofeudalist corruption.
You’re mistaken. Zuck was a corrupt manipulative woke billionaire when he was sucking up to Biden. Now he’s sucking up to Trump he’s a courageous fighter for justice and victim of the deep state. Do keep up.
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
It's the former. A vast amount has been spent convincing people of abilities that were not true, because AI was eventually one of the largest destinatioms for free money once quantitative easing got underway.
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
"TwiX is entirely blocked"
It is either going to become an Eden on Earth.
Or else Musk persuades Trump to bomb the shit out the place.
Shit wine - basic Jacob’s creek - is £15 a bott. It’s not Eden. But I did have an excellent Burmese chicken and potato curry for supper. Like a mix of Thai and Indian (perhaps unsurprisingly). So maybe demi-Eden
For walking Edith I've been paid this lovely Provence Rosé
Essex CC did the same earlier and Surrey, Hampshire, Warwickshire and Kent etc likely to follow. Indeed it looks like May could now be the smallest set of UK local elections ever, most county councils will postpone their local elections until new unitaries are formed in 2026 or later and London, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and most regional big cities like Manchester and Birmingham weren't due to hold elections anyway this Spring
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
(Ireland is too complicated after 2/3 of a bottle of decent Aussie red)
No it hasn't, the Scottish Episcopal Church and Church in Wales remain part of the Anglican Communion currently still led by the Archbishop of Canterbury as indeed does the Church of Ireland
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
I've been attending a lot of 'AI' talks over the past year or so - and I find this take really interesting - and recurring. It's like 'AI' is just ChatGPT. I'm really interested to know if you've tried it as part of a workflow/pipeline via local or API models? I'm finding the base language models hugely helpful in getting bullsh*t tasks done in 1/100th the time for 1/1000th the cost - and I'm a dimwit just scratching the surface.
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
Firstly. That is entirely sensible. The Anglican Communion is now a global body of fellow Anglicans, particularly growing in Africa, not an offshoot of Empire as it was when created in the 19th century so makes sense to rotate its leadership amongst Archbishops from each province around the world. In much the same way the Prince of Wales has suggested he won't be head of the Commonwealth when he becomes King but the role should be rotated amongst Commonwealth heads of state.
It of course has sod all to do with disestablishment of the Church of England. Not least as the C of E became the English established church in the 16th century, 300 years before the Anglican Communion was even created!! I would have thought as a former historian you would at least have known that?
I remember when you were claiming on here that the C of E was the senior church in the Anglican Communion and should have supremacy over the Episcopal Church of Scotland. And, by implication, every other church in the AC.
Edit: but of course you are allowed to change your mind now and then.
No, I never once said that. It doesn't even have supremacy now, the Archbishop of Canterbury is primus inter pares only ie first amongst equals. However the SEC is the sister church of the C of E unlike the Church of Scotland
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
Personally, I find kids are remarkably reluctant to use generative AI. Which I find spectacularly dumb.
Two possibilities for what happens next.
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
I aspire to decadent atrophy!
Darling, some of us have dedicated our entire LIVES to it
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
You think the Biden administration’s deeply sinister and criminal and anti-scientific attempt to suppress the lab leak hypothesis happened because… Mark Zuckerberg didn’t get enough sex at Harvard?
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
AFAIK there is a statue of the Leader (Archbishop) and the Head (Charles III) on the front of Canterbury Cathedral. A rotating 'leader' would be interesting. Changing statues on the hour perhaps?
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
(Ireland is too complicated after 2/3 of a bottle of decent Aussie red)
No it hasn't, the Scottish Episcopal Church and Church in Wales remain part of the Anglican Communion currently still led by the Archbishop of Canterbury as indeed does the Church of Ireland
But the SEC has not been Established since 1690.
Edit: as a historian, you should know that.
So? That is completely irrelevant to whether the C of E should be established. Of course had James I and Charles I had their way then the SEC would indeed have been the established church in Scotland with Bishops and a Scottish Archbishop and a Book of Common Prayer, just the Presbyterians got their way and created the Calvinist Church of Scotland and via backing Cromwell in the First Civil War kept their church as the national Scottish church.
The Anglican Communion was created mainly to reflect the growth of Anglican churches with the expanding British Empire, especially in 19th century Africa
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
For someone who literally never gets sex but desperately wants it Elon musk has quite a large number of kids
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
Very interesting article in the Spectator question the urgent priority placed by Reeves on sucking up to the Chinese rather than dealing with her self made economic disaster at home:
The People’s Republic is only the UK’s fifth biggest trade partner, accounting for 5.1 per cent of trade. Ireland alone received £24 billion more of British exports than China in 2023.
Despite the fanfare (or worry, depending on your position) of Chinese investment in British infrastructure, from Heathrow Airport to Northumbrian Water, the amount held is actually relatively small. Take FDI stock, or the amount of inward investment made into the UK by another country over time. As of 2022, China’s FDI stock in the UK was just £4.3 billion, accounting for 0.2 per cent of the total. By comparison, France’s FDI stock in the UK was £91.6 billion (4.8 per cent of the total), and Germany’s £41.1 billion (2.2 per cent).
The article concludes that China isn't a great export market, or FDI partner, and its technological assistance comes with massive security issues, and that a wide range of other potential trading partners would be more fruitful targets for Reeves' outreach.
Yes, the EU would make a much better trade partner, but beggars can't be choosers.
As the quote indicates, EU countries are already big trade and investment partners. By definition that opportunity is already fairly maxed out - anglophone countries represent a bigger untapped potential than China. Behind them, South Korea etc.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
Which is why I said your take is correct. But so is my first take. Silicon Valley is leading a quite fierce fightback against woke and this started BEFORE Trump won
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
"TwiX is entirely blocked"
It is either going to become an Eden on Earth.
Or else Musk persuades Trump to bomb the shit out the place.
Shit wine - basic Jacob’s creek - is £15 a bott. It’s not Eden. But I did have an excellent Burmese chicken and potato curry for supper. Like a mix of Thai and Indian (perhaps unsurprisingly). So maybe demi-Eden
For walking Edith I've been paid this lovely Provence Rosé
It's almost as if the government does things just in order to "annoy" its political adversaries, rather than because they're the right things to do on their own terms.
Annoying people is pretty much all the Government has left really isn't it? It reminds me of the Paris commune shooting and kidnapping people as the French army drew nearer.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
Which is why I said your take is correct. But so is my first take. Silicon Valley is leading a quite fierce fightback against woke and this started BEFORE Trump won
The vibe shift is real and only just beginning
You are probably also right for some parts of the country. There was a notable difference in vibe between the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices in November 2016. The former jubilant, the latter distraught.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
I'm not sure why this is some sort of zinger. If he doesn't believe that man made global warming caused the fires, he's not going to be believe it more because the fire burned down his house is he?
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
I'm not sure why this is some sort of zinger. If he doesn't believe that man made global warming caused the fires, he's not going to be believe it more because the fire burned down his house is he?
Sure but the thing about science is that it is true whether you believe in it or not.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
For someone who literally never gets sex but desperately wants it Elon musk has quite a large number of kids
Leon I don't know whether you are being incorrectly sarcastic, but you do realise sex was not involved in the conception of most of his children?
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
I'm not sure why this is some sort of zinger. If he doesn't believe that man made global warming caused the fires, he's not going to be believe it more because the fire burned down his house is he?
Sure but the thing about science is that it is true whether you believe in it or not.
That's not really a scientific argument; it's an infantile Twitter-style 'zinger', but more than happy to take your views on this as read.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
It’s being cowed. The only other country in the network where I’ve seen similar paranoia is China.
We put out interesting, politically acute commentary on British, German, French, Australian politics, you name it, all the time. And so did they in the US until, well, about 3 months ago.
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
I'm not sure why this is some sort of zinger. If he doesn't believe that man made global warming caused the fires, he's not going to be believe it more because the fire burned down his house is he?
Speaking of Brits with no idea of geography, I had this conversation with my very bright older daughter over Christmas
Me: “so I’m hoping to go to Myanmar in January”
Her: “great dad. What’s that?”
Me: “it’s a country. Do you know where it is?”
Her: (after a very long pause) “… maybe Asia?”
Me: “brilliant. Do you know where in Asia? Asia is big”
Her: (shorter pause) “nope Dad. No idea. Where?”
Me: “between India and Thailand basically”
Her: “uhm….”
Me: head::desk
The startling nature of this dialogue is underlined by the fact she is now at St Andrews uni studying Classics and…. Geography
Anecdotes about young children becoming dependent on AI chatbots for everything the way people depend on calculators to do long division are quite scary.
My boss thinks that "Prompt Engineer" will be a promising career choice in the near future.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
For someone who literally never gets sex but desperately wants it Elon musk has quite a large number of kids
Leon I don't know whether you are being incorrectly sarcastic, but you do realise sex was not involved in the conception of most of his children?
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
Which is why I said your take is correct. But so is my first take. Silicon Valley is leading a quite fierce fightback against woke and this started BEFORE Trump won
The vibe shift is real and only just beginning
Generally, I think one should distrust the motives of whatever Silicon Valley does, and use whatever is useful.
If it tries a bureaucratic or neoliberal version of certain identity politics themes, the results may end up not actually being particularly economically helpful for minorities, as they haven't been .
If it tries to go along with Trumpist reactionary trumpism and imperialism, as it now is trying to, the results will be even worse.
If it makes wildly overblown claims about the abilities of AI, because of the sheer quantities of free money thrown at it, l those should probably be ignored, too.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
Is this an endorsement of the story, or are you giving as a chuckle at a Guardian columnist showing that they don't like it up 'em. "Opposition is fine but don't actually damage the Government - that' s totally unfair and unacceptable".
Jeez. Myanmar blocks all VPNs with such vigour if you even have one on your phone it’s an issue. And esims don’t work. And UK sims don’t work in Myanmar. And many wifi networks don’t actually work. Also TwiX is entirely blocked
The only way I’m getting this message out to you is coz I persuaded a nice girl on Reception to give me the password to the hotel staff wifi. Which works intermittently
I’m essentially like an RAF pilot, in an attic, in Occupied France, tapping out messages to you on some decrepit morse code machine at the risk of my very life. But with a pillow selection
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
Its hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past.
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
I never had Nick Clegg down as an Incel. Maybe that's why he was sacked moved on.
He was just the beard for the Incels. They buy what they want to destroy.
For someone who literally never gets sex but desperately wants it Elon musk has quite a large number of kids
Leon I don't know whether you are being incorrectly sarcastic, but you do realise sex was not involved in the conception of most of his children?
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
The thing that comes to my mind is this -
The version of the Old Testament God that Mel Gibson professes to believe in, is exactly the kind of God who would burn down half of LA to punish one asshole.
Archbishop of Canterbury no longer world Anglican leader in shake-up plan
There are proposals for a ‘rotating’ leadership of the global Anglican Communion, with the archbishop sharing duties with foreign church leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury will no longer be the de facto head and sole “face” of the world’s 85 million Anglicans under official proposals for a “post-colonial” shake-up.
For the first time since the formation of the Anglican Communion in 1867, as a fellowship of Anglican churches across 165 countries worldwide, its most senior figure would not automatically be the Archbishop of Canterbury, under plans deemed likely to pass, published in a report commissioned by global church leaders.
Instead, the role would be a rotating one, with Anglican archbishops and “primates” from around the globe elected to convene and preside over the communion’s most important body, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
There are 42 Anglican provinces globally and tens of millions of Anglicans in Africa, with the largest number in Nigeria.
Ending the presumption that the Archbishop of Canterbury is always the sole face of the world’s Anglicans would “fit with the identity and ideals of the Anglican Communion in a post-colonial era”, a report notes, adding: “The leadership of the Communion should look like the Communion.”
Firstly. That is entirely sensible. The Anglican Communion is now a global body of fellow Anglicans, particularly growing in Africa, not an offshoot of Empire as it was when created in the 19th century so makes sense to rotate its leadership amongst Archbishops from each province around the world. In much the same way the Prince of Wales has suggested he won't be head of the Commonwealth when he becomes King but the role should be rotated amongst Commonwealth heads of state.
It of course has sod all to do with disestablishment of the Church of England. Not least as the C of E became the English established church in the 16th century, 300 years before the Anglican Communion was even created!! I would have thought as a former historian you would at least have known that?
I remember when you were claiming on here that the C of E was the senior church in the Anglican Communion and should have supremacy over the Episcopal Church of Scotland. And, by implication, every other church in the AC.
Edit: but of course you are allowed to change your mind now and then.
No, I never once said that. It doesn't even have supremacy now, the Archbishop of Canterbury is primus inter pares only ie first amongst equals. However the SEC is the sister church of the C of E unlike the Church of Scotland
"In 2024, the National Air and Space Museum acquired General Raymond’s complete Space Force uniform. The first official USSF dress uniform ever manufactured, and the first in the Smithsonian’s collection, it is now on display in the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia."
Neither a Navy nor an Air Force type uniform, so far as I can tell.
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
I'm not sure why this is some sort of zinger. If he doesn't believe that man made global warming caused the fires, he's not going to be believe it more because the fire burned down his house is he?
Sure but the thing about science is that it is true whether you believe in it or not.
I see that the global warming had 5 cell phones on his person when he was arrested, with a blowtorch “to light a spliff”. Good old Californian cops have now let him go.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
I used to see a lot of the monks from St Bernard's Abbey in Shepshed.
They are Cistertians and while not a silent order, they do live a life of simplicity and withdrawal from the world. They also brew a quite decent beer.
It's one of the most spiritual places that I know.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
I used to see a lot of the monks from St Bernard's Abbey in Shepshed.
They are Cistertians and while not a silent order, they do live a life of simplicity and withdrawal from the world. They also brew a quite decent beer.
It's one of the most spiritual places that I know.
Nice honey too, or at least they used to. And a dairy farm, ditto.
Had a weekend there once with a fellow student (he wanted to talk to his mentor, and it was a good place for some pre-finals revision while still having a change of scene and a ramble around Charnwood Forest). Delighted I did, to get some sense of the monastic life. Brought the pre-Reformation ruins to life ever since.
Talking of international colleagues, I was talking to Canadians today. They’re all in the “wtf?” zone.
As the Fux commentators have said, how dare Canadians not want to become Americans.
Don't all foreigners aspire to become Americans?
It is a common American delusion. I used to get a lot of it in my five years in High School in Atlanta. A lot of my fellow students just couldn't handle that we were British citizens and had no intention of becoming American.
I was excused the Pledge of Aliegance to the flag, and I was excused handling the Stars and Stripes raisingwhen on student duty, though allowed to raise the Georgia State flag.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Wiped out?
Even the Liberals weren't wiped out mid century.
I do wonder if Labour is in some kind of all-or-nothing scenario
It may be in a battle to effect tangible changes in people's lives before Trump and Musk can destroy it. That may be why they've chosen Heath.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
Hey that's my entire PB posting history you're talking about.
I'm afraid I'm far too cynical for a retreat. I'd spend all the time trying to work out who was masturbating and who wasn't. Or inventing crude back stories for each inhabitant. Or anything but genuinely taking part. You'd probably need 7 months not 7 days to crack me.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Wiped out?
Even the Liberals weren't wiped out mid century.
I do wonder if Labour is in some kind of all-or-nothing scenario
It may be in a battle to effect tangible changes in people's lives before Trump and Musk can destroy it. That may be why they've chosen Heath.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Wiped out?
Even the Liberals weren't wiped out mid century.
I do wonder if Labour is in some kind of all-or-nothing scenario
It may be in a battle to effect tangible changes in people's lives before Trump and Musk can destroy it. That may be why they've chosen Heath.
Or even Health ! Typos are getting ever more priceless with this mobile.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
They might well take control of Congress even sooner, given they've already lost one member of their caucus to defection, and Elise Stefanik's district is not that safe. If they do lose the special election, then the House will be 218-1-216.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
Impeach him for what?
Anything they want, he has plenty he has done already they could use. Republicans even impeached President Clinton for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office once they took control of Congress in the midterms
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
They might well take control of Congress even sooner, given they've already lost one member of their caucus to defection, and Elise Stefanik's district is not that safe. If they do lose the special election, then the House will be 218-1-216.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
Impeach him for what?
Anything they want, he has plenty he has done already they could use. Republicans even impeached President Clinton for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office once they took control of Congress in the midterms
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
Impeach him for what?
Anything they want, he has plenty he has done already they could use. Republicans even impeached President Clinton for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office once they took control of Congress in the midterms
Unless they have a 2/3rds majority in the Senate, it would be a pointless, and almost certainly counterproductive exercise.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
Hey that's my entire PB posting history you're talking about.
I'm afraid I'm far too cynical for a retreat. I'd spend all the time trying to work out who was masturbating and who wasn't. Or inventing crude back stories for each inhabitant. Or anything but genuinely taking part. You'd probably need 7 months not 7 days to crack me.
Well you see. We were all masturbating and we've got some bonzer back stories between us (that I know about). We aren't pretending to be holy.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
Impeach him for what?
Anything they want, he has plenty he has done already they could use. Republicans even impeached President Clinton for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office once they took control of Congress in the midterms
Unless they have a 2/3rds majority in the Senate, it would be a pointless, and almost certainly counterproductive exercise.
They almost certainly would do though, if they won majorities in both chambers in 2026 Democrats would see that as a mandate for Trump's impeachment.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
10am is a bit early to be on the sauce, but hey it is a Friday...
Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson · 11h Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government. My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
It’s a touch hyperbolic. But at the same time, under this management we seem inevitably headed for labour being third in the polls and an approval rating perhaps even reaching single digits. There is a danger that next time they shed votes to all of green, reform, snp and the Islamist party, before we gen get to direct labour-Tory switchers.
Wiped out?
Even the Liberals weren't wiped out mid century.
Wiped out in 2029 is hyperbole. But… FPTP can cause some odd outcomes, as we saw in 2024 even. I imagine one T Blair is quite alive to this risk. And it’s the reason why I think Starmer will soon have it decided for him that he wants to free up his time to help his kids with GCSE revision at Lord Ali’s kitchen table, or whatever it is he does when not wrecking our society and economy.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
They might well take control of Congress even sooner, given they've already lost one member of their caucus to defection, and Elise Stefanik's district is not that safe. If they do lose the special election, then the House will be 218-1-216.
They need the Senate too though for full control
Agreed, and that will be quite a reach for the Dems.
I think Susan Collins is toast in Maine, and North Carolina will probably be a Dem gain too. Which takes you to 51-49.
After that, it's a bit harder: Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Ohio are all possible, but all stretches.
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
Hey that's my entire PB posting history you're talking about.
I'm afraid I'm far too cynical for a retreat. I'd spend all the time trying to work out who was masturbating and who wasn't. Or inventing crude back stories for each inhabitant. Or anything but genuinely taking part. You'd probably need 7 months not 7 days to crack me.
Well you see. We were all masturbating and we've got some bonzer back stories between us (that I know about). We aren't pretending to be holy.
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
What a whiny little bitch he is. Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
It’s all a bit like the Death of Stalin. Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
Alternatively, social media and Silicon Valley really was precociously and ferociously tyrannised by wokeness - remember the Google engineers email, remember the Gemini image debacle - and they are therefore the first to eagerly throw it off. PLUS they are grovelling to Trump
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
Seriously, people are cowed. They keep blocking or demanding to rewrite anything I want to put out for clients on the new administration, because they “don’t want to be seen as negative on Trump”.
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
That’s being professional, not being cowed. The difference between now and 2016 is that the Democrats have genuinely conceded instead of fighting a rearguard action to delegitimise Trump.
Well they don't have much choice, this time Trump won the popular vote as well as the EC and GOP control of Congress.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
They might well take control of Congress even sooner, given they've already lost one member of their caucus to defection, and Elise Stefanik's district is not that safe. If they do lose the special election, then the House will be 218-1-216.
They need the Senate too though for full control
Agreed, and that will be quite a reach for the Dems.
I think Susan Collins is toast in Maine, and North Carolina will probably be a Dem gain too. Which takes you to 51-49.
After that, it's a bit harder: Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Ohio are all possible, but all stretches.
Though if Trump's and the GOP's approval ratings are very low by then all could fall
OT. I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back. There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons. I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of birth is death. Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week. Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet. Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks. And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work. My back aches. In fact every bit of me does. Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry. Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
Sounds great. There's a reason that silence is a part of so many spiritual disciplines.
Yeah. You kinda want to fill the space with noise to distract from being with your mind. Or think your speech is vital, amusing, essential or important. 99% of it is superfluous.
Hey that's my entire PB posting history you're talking about.
I'm afraid I'm far too cynical for a retreat. I'd spend all the time trying to work out who was masturbating and who wasn't. Or inventing crude back stories for each inhabitant. Or anything but genuinely taking part. You'd probably need 7 months not 7 days to crack me.
Well you see. We were all masturbating and we've got some bonzer back stories between us (that I know about). We aren't pretending to be holy.
Arf. What I can't get over is having back pain and not caring. Now that I envy.
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https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877785122314875330
Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
Within a few moments he'll have this set up thanks to our LLM friends.
I am fortunate it was discovered and for all men at 65, NHS screening is offered and should be accepted
Mustn't be complacent of course.
one for them.
And his own decision just made to remove all content moderation must have nothing to do with the just arriving Trump administration, or technofeudalist corruption.
Edit: but of course you are allowed to change your mind now and then.
Dunno what they’d do with a tourist. But I might be the only tourist in Myanmar so maybe they don’t encounter the phenomenon much
Seriously tho. So few tourists here it’s fabulous. Just none. Ok there’s a kind of civil war going on and quite a few power cuts but I did Ukraine twice and this is nothing like standing on your Odessa balcony literally watching the Russian drones overhead trying to kill you as they explode from ack ack fire. It’s a few power cuts
What will Bagan be like? Entirely empty? Like finding Angkor wat entirely empty
One is that generative AI never quite makes it out of "high speed convincing bullshitter" mode. In which case, human skills still need to be developed.
The other is that generative AI really is about to put us all out of work. In which case, the artefacts that humans create will have zero value, but the process of creating them, even if we don't need to, is the only thing that will stand between us and decadent atrophy.
(Ireland is too complicated after 2/3 of a bottle of decent Aussie red)
https://talkingwines.co.uk/products/chateau-paquette-rose-cotes-de-provence
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv4pn2pm8lo
Edit: as a historian, you should know that.
Wasn’t the banning of Trump from FB by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention, or is he now saying he was bullied into it by his own thought police?
This is what happens when you put Incels in charge of the world.
Incredible how cowed everyone over there is. I’ve seen it in my working environment.
The Anglican Communion was created mainly to reflect the growth of Anglican churches with the expanding British Empire, especially in 19th century Africa
These two things can be true at once. Indeed they are
But what I’m writing is factual. Simply writing things like “trade war” or “protectionist policy” or even “deficit” gets the censors going.
I had to pull a newspaper article at the behest of my American colleagues and write something else. We’re talking dry uncontroversial stuff in the business press.
https://bsky.app/profile/miriambo.bsky.social/post/3lff7fwires2z
Pity there's so much collateral damage from the Jewish Space Lasers.
Trump won
The vibe shift is real and only just beginning
No way Musky will let that stand.
I've finished my week long retreat. 5 days silent. With no eye contact. A couple of PBers asked me to report back.
There were 21 of us. Only 17 made it through, although 2 were for emergency reasons.
I can only say I bloody loved it. Wish it was six months. Felt like I'd only just found a comfortable cushion position, and had just hit my meditation rhythm when it was all over.
The end of rising is falling.
The end of meeting is parting.
The end of collection is dispersion.
The end of birth is death.
Was seriously tempted to cross the country for another week.
Never once wanted to check my phone or read a book, or use t'Internet.
Did a lot of staring at snow. And pottering in snow. And doing tasks.
And sleeping. Six hours a day tantric practice is hard work.
My back aches. In fact every bit of me does.
Except my anxiety. Which has gone with my stress and worry.
Back to Samsara. It's shit but that's just the way it is.
4 captured, but out of how many?
We put out interesting, politically acute commentary on British, German, French, Australian politics, you name it, all the time. And so did they in the US until, well, about 3 months ago.
If it tries a bureaucratic or neoliberal version of certain identity politics themes, the results may end up not actually being particularly economically helpful for minorities, as they haven't been .
If it tries to go along with Trumpist reactionary trumpism and imperialism, as it now is trying to, the results will be even worse.
If it makes wildly overblown claims about the abilities of AI, because of the sheer quantities of free money
thrown at it, l those should probably be ignored, too.
99% of it is superfluous.
And with someone Elon truly loves and respects.
The version of the Old Testament God that Mel Gibson professes to believe in, is exactly the kind of God who would burn down half of LA to punish one asshole.
Mel Gibson, say.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/new-look-new-military-service-general-raymond?utm_medium=email&utm_source=WhatsUp&utm_campaign=newsletter_2024&utm_term=ussfuni
"In 2024, the National Air and Space Museum acquired General Raymond’s complete Space Force uniform. The first official USSF dress uniform ever manufactured, and the first in the Smithsonian’s collection, it is now on display in the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia."
Neither a Navy nor an Air Force type uniform, so far as I can tell.
Don't all foreigners aspire to become Americans?
They are Cistertians and while not a silent order, they do live a life of simplicity and withdrawal from the world. They also brew a quite decent beer.
It's one of the most spiritual places that I know.
Had a weekend there once with a fellow student (he wanted to talk to his mentor, and it was a good place for some pre-finals revision while still having a change of scene and a ramble around Charnwood Forest). Delighted I did, to get some sense of the monastic life. Brought the pre-Reformation ruins to life ever since.
Man6 British people were probably the same from about 1850 to 1950.
I was excused the Pledge of Aliegance to the flag, and I was excused handling the Stars and Stripes raisingwhen on student duty, though allowed to raise the Georgia State flag.
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Truly we have never been led by more stupid people than this Labour government.
My prediction: Labour is wiped out at the 2029 election and ceases to exist.
https://x.com/AllisonPearson/status/1877661641145213297
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdnx2xj8ggo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8k2z731e3o
Even the Liberals weren't wiped out mid century.
However the midterms are now just under 2 years away and if Trump's tariffs are increasing cost of living the Democrats will hope to retake Congress and if they do will almost certainly push to impeach him
It may be in a battle to effect tangible changes in people's lives before Trump and Musk can destroy it. That may be why they've chosen Heath.
I'm afraid I'm far too cynical for a retreat. I'd spend all the time trying to work out who was masturbating and who wasn't. Or inventing crude back stories for each inhabitant. Or anything but genuinely taking part. You'd probably need 7 months not 7 days to crack me.
We aren't pretending to be holy.
I think Susan Collins is toast in Maine, and North Carolina will probably be a Dem gain too. Which takes you to 51-49.
After that, it's a bit harder: Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Ohio are all possible, but all stretches.