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“Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. …more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
—Mark Carney
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

This is how a real leader speaks. Please read the speech that PM Carney gave at Davos. Could somebody please point it out to PM Albanese [PM standing for "pusillanimous mouse"]
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

#uspol
#auspol

i voted for carney as a lesser-evil, and since then my opinion of him has wavered between 'meh' and 'bleh'.

but this davos speech? this is exactly what the world needs to hear and what this country needed to say. this is our generation's 'cross of iron' speech, and we will be fools if we do not heed it.

it's here (english part only)

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.

The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.

That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”

Powerful and principled statement by Mark Carney, PM of Canada at Davos.

Well done, #Canada. #ElbowsUp and lead the coalition.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

“Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. …more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
—Mark Carney
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.

The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.

That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”

Powerful and principled statement by Mark Carney, PM of Canada at Davos.

Well done, #Canada. #ElbowsUp and lead the coalition.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

Striking that Carney didn’t mention once, not even in passing, the accelerating reality we’ve all been creating, hegemons and ‘middle countries’ alike.

Striking that a middle country with a lot of oil is able to say the things he did say whereas a country like the UK with not much is struggling to say anything at all

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

“Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. …more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
—Mark Carney
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speech at Davos. It was a good one. This is how he ended it, but it is worth watching in full, including the Q&A afterward.

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.

The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.

That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

Into the abyss

The correct response to Dachau [concentration camp] was not better training for the guards.

“It’s not that I’m trying to tell you that bad things are coming, and you have to look out for them. What I’m saying is that the camps have already taken root and are on a fast-track to get exponentially worse. We’re already deep inside the process.”

[edited for clarity]

https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

Into the abyss

The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

“It’s not that I’m trying to tell you that bad things are coming, and you have to look out for them. What I’m saying is that the camps have already taken root and are on a fast-track to get exponentially worse. We’re already deep inside the process.”

https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

From a historian of global concentration camp development:

"Nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training ... Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now."

https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

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How BYD beat Tesla
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‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

#Kagan #Cadwalladr #TheNerve #WhiteSumpremacy #Europe #Threat #USPol

@ignacyy

"Well, Trump himself is a unique phenomenon. He really is a megalomaniac in a way that we haven't seen even with our most powerful presidents, For him it's all about domination. You know, people think that he's transactional. The only transaction he's interested in is one where he dominates you and you accept that he's dominating you. And we can see that in his tariff policy.

So Trump is to some extent a remarkable character. But the forces that he has put himself in front of in the United States, and quite deliberately – when he ran first for office in 2011, his sole issue was the birther controversy about whether Barack Obama, our first black president, was actually an American. And in so doing, he signalled to a very old and very potent movement of, basically, white Christian supremacists. These were the people who ran the South in the 19th century and throughout much of, right up until the civil rights movement. They've been bitter ever since.

In the 50s, they talked about “status anxiety”. But we're basically talking about people who feel like they are the true Americans. And to them all these immigrants and brown people and people of other religions have come in. And now they have too many rights. And they basically want to restore the America that existed in the 1920s, at the height of the Second Ku Klux Klan.

And the people who are running all this, the Stephen Millers and Russell Voughts, they are true believers in what they call post-liberalism, but is really anti-liberalism. They're not just opposed to, like, the left – they're opposed to the founders, the American founders' liberal government. And some of them – the ideologists of this movement – are quite frank in saying that they want to change that government that the founders created. And that's what's happening. And the vehicle is this power-hungry Donald Trump."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

#Kagan #Cadwalladr #TheNerve #WhiteSumpremacy #Europe #Threat #USPol

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

#Kagan #Cadwalladr #TheNerve #WhiteSumpremacy #Europe #Threat #USPol

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

Below, Robert Kagen, says (to Carole Cadwalladr) something that confirms what many of us have been saying:

'it's just a faulty analysis to think that if you can flatter Trump enough & call him daddy, that means he'll leave you alone. As we see, he's not leaving anybody alone. It's really just – in fact, with him, it's an invitation to come back & demand something else & push you around. So you can't buy anything in that way'!

Keir needs to listen!

#politics #trump

https://www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-carole-cadwalladr-europe-wake-up-trump-dictatorship-russia-white-supremacy-keir-starmer

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

#ai #llm

'AI' is a dick move, redux
L: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693456
posted on 2026.01.20 at 11:09:53 (c=3, p=11)

Somebody who is capable of looking past “ICE is using LLMs as accountability sinks for waving extremists through their recruitment processes”, generated abuse, or how chatbot-mediated alienation seems to be pushing vulnerable people into psychosis-like symptoms, won’t be persuaded by a meaningful study.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

By @baldur

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

By @baldur

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

'AI' is a dick move, redux: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

'AI' is a dick move, redux: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

Somebody who is capable of looking past “ICE is using LLMs as accountability sinks for waving extremists through their recruitment processes”, generated abuse, or how chatbot-mediated alienation seems to be pushing vulnerable people into psychosis-like symptoms, won’t be persuaded by a meaningful study.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

By @baldur

“Nor do they seem to care, except in a performative way, that “AI” is designed to be an outright attack on labour and education, using the works of those being attacked – without their consent – as the tools for dismantling their own communities and industries, all done in overt collaboration with the ultra right…

Nor do they seem to care, except in a performative way, that “AI” is designed to be an outright attack on labour and education, using the works of those being attacked – without their consent – as the tools for dismantling their own communities and industries, all done in overt collaboration with the ultra right.

The software made by the software industry is getting substantially worse….

Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.

And debating dicks is pointless.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

Love idea of "after Maga" planning. We all need hope.
>After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

A lot of Extremely Online leftists would do well to read this essay. I frequently see people on here arguing against the existence of the state, any state. I don't see any of them grappling with what the state actually does. Not what it will or should look like in some hazy future: how it functions within and supports people's lives today.

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

I don't even necessarily disagree with the general idea that the left needs bureaucrats. But, I find it quite telling that the article gives "an eligibility verification specialist", to determine who gets access to "social services" like housing, as one of the few positive bureaucrat examples.

As if we didn't know the extensive problems with means testing (especially eg in the UK, which imho heavily informed Graebers points).

The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Mag

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

I don't even necessarily disagree with the general idea that the left needs bureaucrats. But, I find it quite telling that the article gives "an eligibility verification specialist", to determine who gets access to "social services" like housing, as one of the few positive bureaucrat examples.

As if we didn't know the extensive problems with means testing (especially eg in the UK, which imho heavily informed Graebers points).

The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Mag

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

A lot of Extremely Online leftists would do well to read this essay. I frequently see people on here arguing against the existence of the state, any state. I don't see any of them grappling with what the state actually does. Not what it will or should look like in some hazy future: how it functions within and supports people's lives today.

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

A lot of Extremely Online leftists would do well to read this essay. I frequently see people on here arguing against the existence of the state, any state. I don't see any of them grappling with what the state actually does. Not what it will or should look like in some hazy future: how it functions within and supports people's lives today.

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/

#BetterAdminState #DemocraticAdministration #LeftPolicyMaking #PostMAGALeft #PublicServiceModernization

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/