Janguv

Views are not my own. Someone else's. All retweets are de facto endorsements.

[Janguv @janguv]

That's the co-hosting World Cup spirit!

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

What an ignoramus

[kramerica industries @hepimp]

convinced there’s not actually a single person that can honestly be arsed with opening ceremonies.

[Janguv @janguv]

@bortinez_ Hundreds of replies 😭 They fall for it so, so easily.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

🚨Breaking news that could be huge, and enormously bad for GenAI, if other countries make similar decisions.

https://t.co/SL4adzwHeA

[Janguv @janguv]

@Tom_Gann That's fair. I wonder if being a "front man" (or the urge to step into that role in the first place) plays a role in that susceptibility. Others at the org are often a lot better. I also wonder what they think of these takes and how it reflects on them by association.

[Janguv @janguv]

Spot on.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Janguv @janguv]

it's amazing the original is still up. Balls of a lion!

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

Too easy. Proper thick twat

[Janguv @janguv]

Late to this but must watch.

[ste @chai_ste]

is this real?

[Janguv @janguv]

@Tom_Gann He actively cultivates this image (he's called himself this too lol) of a "fair broker". I mean, he clearly enjoys being someone that the right-wing reply guys sometimes say "he's the only leftist I listen to". Wrongly believes this is some epistemic marker of reliability.

[Janguv @janguv]

@Tom_Gann It's an interesting point. Could be right. I do lean more towards the cynicism... I think what you say would be 100% spot on e.g. for Walker, though he was never enmeshed in a very left-wing milieu to start with. It can definitely be both though.

[Janguv @janguv]

@PaddyAgius @bat020 you get to keep Britpop though /s

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Janguv @janguv]

@paulewart23 @labourlewis @DEHEdgerton And like, I don't care at this point if it's just positioning for his Makerfield Reform winnables... this is just vile. Who has his ear the most and what are his red lines? This kind of stuff can just get in the bin. https://t.co/wYpbAy9XWj

[Janguv @janguv]

@paulewart23 @labourlewis @DEHEdgerton I mean that's it with Burnham, right? Nobody should be looking at his political leanings here as something to place trust in. Rather, as something to forcibly influence. But the reach and range of that influence is in question (e.g. on Israel-Palestine? yeah that's not happening)

[Janguv @janguv]

@novaramedia Holden was good last night, again injecting sanity into a discussion that could have gone to a darker place due to what looks (again) like a strategic ambiguity in how Aaron addresses points of interest to a nascent right-wing following. https://t.co/Wk0K9XcGC7

[Janguv @janguv]

It was amazing to watch Holden realise in real-time the Bastani right-wing pandering on last night's NM Live. In the discussion of the first segment here, Aaron talks about how people are "entitled to feel angry" about the attack. https://t.co/uOVKCq8DIf 1/

[Janguv @janguv]

@Tom_Gann Here he goes again... https://t.co/Wk0K9XcGC7

[Janguv @janguv]

It was amazing to watch Holden realise in real-time the Bastani right-wing pandering on last night's NM Live. In the discussion of the first segment here, Aaron talks about how people are "entitled to feel angry" about the attack. https://t.co/uOVKCq8DIf 1/

[Janguv @janguv]

@Arbeitologist A regrettable update: https://t.co/Wk0K9XcGC7

[Janguv @janguv]

It was amazing to watch Holden realise in real-time the Bastani right-wing pandering on last night's NM Live. In the discussion of the first segment here, Aaron talks about how people are "entitled to feel angry" about the attack. https://t.co/uOVKCq8DIf 1/

[Janguv @janguv]

@Arbeitologist "Can I just shock you...?" https://t.co/jSnEHVaKVY

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

It’s hard to fathom how crazy the system is after £100k. There is effectively a *60%* rate on £100-125k (because you lose tax allowance) as well as losing taxing free childcare, free child hours.

Should obviously be rectified.

[Janguv @janguv]

i.e., no consideration of the fact that if some exceptional violence from refugees is plausibly related to trauma and mental ill health, Britain likely has a causal and moral responsibility to take ownership of that. And not only through (lack of) current state provisions./end

[Janguv @janguv]

It was amazing to watch Holden realise in real-time the Bastani right-wing pandering on last night's NM Live. In the discussion of the first segment here, Aaron talks about how people are "entitled to feel angry" about the attack. https://t.co/uOVKCq8DIf 1/

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Protests against immigration spilled over into rioting in Belfast on Tuesday night.

The violence broke out after a 30-year-old Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder — which led Elon Musk and Restore's Rupert Lowe to call for the deportation of "millions".

On Novara Live, Paul Holden addresses the central lie pushed by such figures on the far-right.

[Janguv @janguv]

Worth noting neither of them discussed (I think Holden could go there, but Aaron doesn't have this analysis in his back pocket) the colonial relationship Britain/its allies have had & continue to have with nations that people flee from and in turn responsibility for refugees. 5/