Malaysia saw it. So will Indonesia. So will the Middle East. So will Africa. In the vacuum left by overpriced Nvidia GPUs and U.S. export controls, Huawei offers AI sovereignty on a budget. That is not “espionage.” That is demand. (6/10)

Washington cannot sanction its way out of this. Export bans only confirm that the U.S. can no longer compete on performance or price. It is not a tech advantage anymore. It is gatekeeping and grift. (8/10)

China’s new retirement age for males born in 1970/12 is 61.5, and females is 55.25. With life expectancy 81.5 🇩🇰 vs 79 🇨🇳 and China’s much longer working hours (2450 hrs vs 🇩🇰 1563), Chinese work 4600 hours for 1 year of retirement, while Danes need to work for 6500 hours.

"The UK is really just a constitutional hoax" Prof Alf Baird.

Police Scotland’s admission of failure to disaggregate data by sex is bold. In the context of male violence against women, it is dangerous. Accurate data is vital to tackling this violence - failure to provide it breaches obligations under CEDAW, Istanbul Convention, UN

For the sophist, indulging their language games, even by reversing them, is an illustration of their sufficiency and the absence of truth. Do not help them construct their word palaces.

David Frum There's not much to learn from Hayek, a morally stunted doctrinaire, whose shallow anthropology and Hobbesian dismissal of virtue and the common good gave rise to an economic and political ideology inhuman in theory and inhumane in practice.

So just "power" then?

Is everyone enjoying the liberal left using the language and tools of no longer existent social democracy to manage away opposition to neoliberal auserity.

No comment. thejc.com/life/wombs-to-…

Rehab. dailysceptic.org/2025/05/23/doc…

BREAKING: President Trump just called for a 50% tariff on all EU imports starting June 1. No exemptions. No logic. Just vibes and vengeance. What’s being sold as “economic nationalism” is really just geopolitical seppuku. (2/11)

Meanwhile, Xi Jinping opens another bottle of baijiu. The West, once united against “China’s rise,” is now in a circular firing squad. Beijing didn’t divide the West. Trump did. For free. (6/11)

What is *really* going on is the middle class are finding it harder to punish the working class for daring to speak *because* we can speak publicly, just like they can. We don't need to brown-nose or shag our way ontae the telly any more. We can say oor opinion on social media

And we do. In public. They can't just bully us, rail-road us out of the workplace, increase the price of drinks, the cost of entry to keep us and our opposing views out of their forums... like the wine bars. The public square is on our devices tae.

As access tae the new public square increases, they middle class can't punish, can't gatekeep like they have *always* done, any more. So what have they done? Jist weaponised the institutions they where they work and CONTROL. Simple.

The problem for them now is... weaponising the laws, the institutions to control speech is a tad fucking public... a tad fucking internationally fucking public. So the whole world can see their manky washin, their dirty little secret control freakery over the minions.

And globalisation doesn't cause social workers to berate an Glasgow addict pleading for proper medical care for wrong tone - the implicit fuckin threat if she dares used any word not on the Approved Menu of the Day, help will be withheld. Middle class control freakery does it