Checks and balances work As long as someone is checking and someone is balancing. What MAGA and their predecessors in the Republican Party did was methodically take over the infrastructure of governm… (View Post)

It’s a useful phrase. Like Lessons Will Be Learned. (View Post)

“It’s the economy, stupid” has long been the core truth of American national politics. The other thing is that the AI bubble is masking (rather like the derivatives bubble of 2008) the state of the e… (View Post)

And a great Charlie Stross short story - https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/ (View Post)

The Americans used a PGM to accidentally accident* some rather interesting electronic equipment that the Chinese Embassy had at the bottom of their very large garden. This was so accidental and meani… (View Post)