My YT community has spoken:

Chat - Trump Musk clash begins. Musk will radicalise and turn on system - including Trump.

What Musk and Trump have in common is their ethically inadequate relationship to power.

CHAT: Canada's PM tells hard truth about America

The bad, the mad, and the morally ugly

If you love me, watch this film. It’s about my illness - ME - and it’s powerful. It's in Ger with Eng subs, co-directed while severely ill by my online friend, the filmmaker Sibylle Dahrendorf 💥✌️. You can rent it on Vimeo. It’s only up for a short time. vimeo.com/ondemand/chron…

From Vlad's ME Diary on YouTube: First Wheelchair Trip to Kitchen - Crash! #pwME #LongCovid

A good lesson in emotional quality control. We’ve nearly lost the ability to separate lower from higher quality emotion. Herzog would rightly find this viral quote - I assume wrongly attributed to him - tackily earnest, theatrical and kitsch.

A really important and interesting thread from Kirill Shamiev with an on-the-ground perspective on the mood in Russia

Tulsi Gabbard's creepy nuclear war video | VLAD REACTS CHAT

Trump's foreign policy is an absolute disaster. He is incompetent and weak, has zero strategy, is too busy with his personal corruption projects and unable to do anything but sow chaos.

1 month post-hospital health update. How my time breaks down - 🟢 Best 5%: Stable-ish. I can work a little from bed (but still can’t sit or stand). 🟡 Next 10%: Tolerably unwell. I can manage short chats, listen to podcasts, and be semi-present. 🟠 70%: Toxic and incapacitated.

Macron’s statement reveals how technocratic centrism has no answers to the crises we face. Effectively, Macron is making a pronouncement on the Titanic at 11:40 PM on April 12th 1912 that he is against icebergs.

Chat - Israel's 'regime change' attack on Iran

Is this an intellectually lazy left-wing meme? Yes and no. Yes - because claiming both are just “oligarchic tyranny” is childish. No - because neoliberalism has a structural risk of leading to and morphing into exclusionary authoritarianism.

Trump's parade has not the vibes of Soviet parades, but the vibes of late Soviet decline.

Trump's parade had sad late empire vibes

LATEST: Trump says "everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran"

Trump’s “everyone should evacuate Tehran immediately” line is a sadistic version of narcissistic supply - wanting drama, and specifically, drama in which others suffer mentally or physically.

Alfred Brendel has died. Alfred means more to me than I can say. I will be taping a little tribute tonight, but here is an interview about Brendel's career I did around his 91th birthday 4 years ago - #alfredbrendel