Miles Metcalfe

Boffin. Also at @[email protected]

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@MsAlliance The Nazis running Twitter have deep-seated fears of emasculation?

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Yes, it’s a pokeria https://t.co/h6EaiRaedE

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Brutalist Chinoiserie in Calabria: https://t.co/cvFxGCKNVI

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Bergamot soda - “green gold of Calabria” https://t.co/uKYMavnpLw

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Over the decades I’ve been taking the train south from Napoli Centrale, the station has got busier and busier. And like other European cities, the growth in the number of homeless people living around the station is shocking.

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Naples Central Station https://t.co/nYZa00uke1

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Starhotel Terminus, Naples, Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://t.co/8NTCKBaFSb

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I accidentally one-click bought some climate denialist garbage on Amazon by swiping too hard. I hesitated for a second before returning. Perhaps I should consider alternative viewpoints. I didn’t want to give the crank any money, though. Have I just cancelled?

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I’ve got superstitious over the years over the order I put the vegetables into a ciambotta.

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Mitigating the risk of extinction from an out of touch and amoral billionaire class should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

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Your occasional guide to understanding the right:

Classical Liberal = over-credentialed incel reactionary.
Free Speech Absolutist = loves sound of own voice. In a sexual way.
Contrarian = broken down boomer journalist desperate for clicks.

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A coot among the pigeons https://t.co/gnSO9WbLc5

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The bourgeois populist press coverage of inflation and interest rates is as howlingly vacuous as the national populist press coverage of immigration and “small boats”.

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The already awful Horizon scandal that saw innocent sub-postmasters gaoled because of computer system errors gets worse and worse. Shocking, depressing, it lays bare Britain’s dark side.

"Post Office Horizon inquiry used racist term for Black people, ... https://t.co/v4W0Lmepma

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I’ve noticed that elites tend to use “intelligent” as a shorthand for “narcissistic, Machiavellian, self-serving” rather than, say, “insightful, inventive, clear-thinking”. This informs elite views of “artificial intelligence” - both what it is, and how it will be used.

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@nixsight Good point - and the nub of the problem.

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The staff canteen has been replaced by a staff food-bank. You know when you’ve been Toried.

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Still wrestling with a working (and workable) definition of political centrism. My latest is “bourgeois populism”. I know it’s an oversimplification - centrism applies to the credentialed elite more so than the wider bourgeoisie - but an ... https://t.co/N6XKph6XFX

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From the media round today, it seems Keir Starmer has decloacked. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly he’s a “centrist dad” neoliberal.