Wittgenstein's Slab

I tweet snarky incantations about politics, economics, video games, chess, Korea, boxing, Star Wars and some other things of considerably lesser importance.

[Wittgenstein's Slab @frolix22]

Please stop calling algorithms and computer programs "AI". It's ridiculous.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Goes without saying, John Mann is a lifetime headbanger for Israel and any of his "recommendations" should go straight in the bin, along with his fake job gifted to him by the Tories as payment for services rendered firebombing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.

[The Justin Horton Show @ejhchess]

It's quite clear that for the Freemans and Riches it doesn't matter how many tens of thousands are murdered, the only important thing is to pretend that every effort to stop or seek justice for it should be spoken of as if it were a scheme of Hitler. These are genocidal people.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Just so: absolutely everything he says is said in bad faith and every stunt he pulls is calculatedly vexatious. There’s no argument to be had with him or his supporters and nothing to discuss, because none of them give a fuck what is real or made up.

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi @mqudsi]

Hey, @MerriamWebster, they’ve invented a new way to avoid saying “many” or “multiple” over here!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Why are you repeating their nonsense justifications for SHOOTING A BABY?

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

At the request of the illegal “Havat Maon” settlers, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children, aged 8–12, for gathering wild vegetables and flowers near the settlement.

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Britain's core economic problem is not immigration, welfare or people "not trying hard enough".

It is a 25-year pay failure across huge parts of the economy.

Millions are not living beyond their means. Their means have been crushed below the cost of living.

[Wittgenstein's Slab @frolix22]

Burnham doing an absolutely incredible job of saying he will be basically the same as Starmer. Way to excite people, Andy!

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇱🇧 Since the April 17 “ceasefire,” Israeli forces have killed at least 1,232 people and wounded 3,189 others in Lebanon.

According to Cradle Media’s running tally, Israeli attacks on Thursday alone included:
▪️ 30 drone strikes
▪️ 43 airstrikes
▪️ 7 instances of artillery shelling

The overall toll since the war resumed on March 2 has now risen to more than 3,526 killed and 10,733 wounded.

Despite the scale of the bombardment, Kaja Kallas the European Union’s top diplomat and foreign policy chief, describes the violence as “skirmishes” and warn only against a “return to full-scale hostilities.”

Jeremy Scahill told Sky News yesterday that a “ceasefire” announcement simply gives Israel’s PM Netanyahu an international stamp of legitimacy on his ongoing war of annihilation – which continues regardless of any announcement.

[Wittgenstein's Slab @frolix22]

In the entire history of the world, nothing did not happen more than this did not happen.

[Adam Cherry @_adamcherry_]

Typing this from a cafe in Makerfield.

The Burnham gag has made an impression here. Genuine exchange from the next table:

“A Blairite, Brownite, Corbynite and Starmerite walk into a bar and the barman says: ‘What can I get you, Andy?’”

“Do you get it? True, isn’t it?”

“Yep.”

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

An unelected Lord, appointed “antisemitism adviser”, now feels entitled or even qualified to explain antisemitism to a Jewish national party leader.

To add to all this - he's not Jewish.

Truly rabbit hole stuff.

[Chłoddy @OfSymbols]

We subsidies low pay by £110 billion each year, £40 billion goes to landlords as housing benefit. Another £14 billion on job training.

Neoliberalism has never ever been a “small state”. It’s always been co-opting the state to socialise the cost of the private sector.

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

I know we should just ignore him but I find his ignorance and idiocy almost physically painful

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

BREAKING: Four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage are applying to remove the judge in their case on the grounds of bias. Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is expected to sentence them as terrorists – despite being convicted of an ordinary criminal offence – in a move kept secret from the jury

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

A certain group of people are treating the Nowak case as if DEI training caused a one-off failure. It wasn't a one-off. This is a pattern of officers not following basic duty of care, and it has nothing to do with diversity training.

Case 1: Stephen Reardon, July 2023. Arrested in St Austell, collapsed minutes into a police van journey. CCTV showed him having seizures and visibly trembling. The officer watching through the Perspex divide said he was "playing games". His name was called 63 times. No response. He spent 22 minutes on the van floor. Neither officer stopped to check on him despite both being first-aid trained. Found dead at the station. Both officers dismissed for gross misconduct.

Case 2: Jerome Cowan, December 2022. Found slumped in a Coventry library toilet, intoxicated, unable to stand or stay awake. Officers removed him from the cubicle and placed him on the floor. He stopped breathing. Died in hospital. The inquest found missed opportunities in the level of care that may have contributed to his death. The IOPC found failures to provide first aid and to treat him with dignity. Three constables and a PCSO now face gross misconduct proceedings.

Case 3: Man in St Erth, November 2022. Found drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station at 1am on a cold autumn night. Officers called an ambulance but left before it arrived. Didn't move him to shelter. Didn't cover him. Drove past at 2:20am without stopping. Returned at 5am to find him rain-soaked, then sat in their car rather than providing aid. His condition deteriorated. He died in hospital. Both officers dismissed.

Same failure every time. A person in distress needs help. Officers dismiss it, delay, or walk away. No first aid. No urgency. No basic human response. Not a single one of these cases involved DEI training as a factor.

The problem isn't a diversity course. The problem is a culture where officers treat vulnerable people in their care as an inconvenience. DEI is the scapegoat. The conduct is the issue.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

We investigated to see who in Britain is terrifyingly racist, and, wow! It turns out it’s the NHS, students and academics, trades unions, teachers, Palestinian solidarity and the left as a broad bloc. What’s that? Oh yes, it turns out the Mail and the Sun were 100% correct.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

Just so everyone is clear, the gripe here is that China is destroying the profits of the western bourgeoisie, because they are forced to make their products cheaper to compete with Chinese competitors.

This is the central argument of 100% of all western economic analysis of China. The more affordable China's products, the more it destroys their monopolies and their profit margins.

As always, the purpose of such propagandists, as well as their "elected" governments, is to make the interests of the bourgeoisie appear like the national interests of their respective countries. It's the first rule of bourgeois economics: What's good for the bourgeoisie is good for the proletariat.

[DOJA CAT @DojaCat]

hey elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here. Thanks, u frog build looking bitch. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.

[P.G. Chodehouse @mynnoj]

cops having a good laugh at “uh, we were afraid of looking racist” working for the second time in under a decade following a complete failure to do their jobs