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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca

globalnews.ca · Jan 20

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ (@didgebaba) · Jan 21
🔁 @janhoglund:

“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
globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

Whiskers 🇦🇺 (@ecoscore) · Jan 21
🔁 @Wyvernsridge:

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"]
globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

#uspol
#auspol

Witchzilla (@msbw) · Jan 20
🔁 @ghorwood:

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)

globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦 (@metagrrrl) · Jan 21
🔁 @drahardja:

“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.

globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

Bill Sharpe Gadfly (@OhMrBill) · Jan 20
🔁 @janhoglund:

“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
globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Jan 20
🔁 @drahardja:

“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.

globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

No Gods , no Masters! RESIST (@palin) · Jan 21
🔁 @urlyman:

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

globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

janhoglund (@janhoglund) · Jan 21
🔁 @janhoglund:

“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
globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

Mick 🇨🇦 (@mick) · Jan 20
🔁 @chris:

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.”

globalnews.ca/news/11620877/ca

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA

Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

ikennd.ac · Jan 20

I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older softw...

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Jeff C. 🇺🇦 (@jeff) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Mario Guzmán (@marioguzman) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Peter Cohen (@flargh) · Jan 21
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Ivan Molodetskikh (@YaLTeR) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Arne Rossmann (@maccaffeine) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Josh Renaud (@kirkman) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Logging Off Enjoyer (@thomasfuchs) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Alex Pardoe (@digitalpardoe) · Jan 20
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Renaud Chaput (@renchap) · Jan 21
🔁 @ikenndac:

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

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man

Into the abyss

degenerateart.beehiiv.com · Jan 20

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

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Jes (@Jesticulated) · Jan 20
🔁 @conejoclint:

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]

degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr) · Jan 20
🔁 @conejoclint:

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.”

degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

planetscape (@planetscape) · Jan 20
🔁 @AndreaPitzer:

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.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

samiamsam (@samiamsam) · Jan 20
🔁 @AndreaPitzer:

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.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

Full Metal Archaeopteryx (@DelilahTech) · Jan 21
🔁 @AndreaPitzer:

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.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Jan 20
🔁 @meehawl:

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."

degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

Natasha 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay) · Jan 20
🔁 @AndreaPitzer:

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.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

Adam Greenfield (@adamgreenfield) · Jan 20
🔁 @AndreaPitzer:

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.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/in

"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police

doomsdayscenario.co · Jan 20

ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.

Shared by @ZhiZhu and 15 others.
Steve's Place (@steter) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Trending Bot (@trending) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

AnneTheWriter (@AnneTheWriter1) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

LGS (@LGS) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Buca Chow Chow (@bucachowchow) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 (@benroyce) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

eigentlich (@eigentlich) · Jan 21
🔁 @dangillmor:

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:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-

How BYD beat Tesla

theverge.com · Jan 20

On The Vergecast: EV wars, AI health records, and screen time debates.

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

thenerve.news · Jan 20

The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that Europe needs to wake up, fast

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m0bi ⁂ (@m0bi) · Jan 20
🔁 @m0bi:

@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."

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

Just Tom... 🐁 GM8YUG (@tompearce49) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 (@gwaldby) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

Anna Anthro (@AnnaAnthro) · Jan 21
🔁 @Wen:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

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

Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

BashStKid (@BashStKid) · Jan 20
🔁 @Wen:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

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

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (@Guillotine_Jones) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

Police State UK (@PoliceStateUK) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

Tarnport (@Tarnport) · Jan 20
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

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

thenerve.news/p/robert-kagan-c

Naked Power - Infrequently Noted

infrequently.org · Jan 20

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Shared by @exchgr and 15 others.
Evil Jim O’Donnell (@eatyourgreens) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Johan Halse (@hejsna) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Donnie (@macbraughton) · Jan 20
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

tylerhall (@tylerhall) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo) · Jan 21

"#Apple & #Google's mobile #duopoly is held together with chewing gum, twine, and moral vacuity.
The whole facade of the duopolist's power hinges on the false claim that stores create #security.
Instead of protecting us, #appstores reward platform vendors for failure and foster centralising, anti-OpenSource ecosystems. #Opensocieties cannot abide #closedplatforms that assert ownership of this much of our lives, not when claims of security are based on misrepresentations."
infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

nojhan, à gauche de Devadata (@nojhan) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Fynn Ellie Be (@mvsde) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Chris Kolbu (@nesevis) · Jan 21
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ (@brucelawson) · Jan 20
🔁 @slightlyoff:

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

infrequently.org/2026/01/naked

'AI' is a dick move, redux

baldurbjarnason.com · Jan 20

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Shared by @otfrom and 16 others.
Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Jan 21
🔁 @Khrys:

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.

baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026

By @baldur

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Jan 21
🔁 @Khrys:

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.

baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026

By @baldur

eswillwalker (@ELS) · Jan 21
🔁 @markmetz:

“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.

baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026

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The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine

dissentmagazine.org · Jan 17

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.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 (@mike) · Jan 21
🔁 @liferstate:

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.

dissentmagazine.org/article/th

tante (@tante) · Jan 21
🔁 @gedankenstuecke:

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

dissentmagazine.org/article/th

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke) · Jan 21
🔁 @gedankenstuecke:

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

dissentmagazine.org/article/th

J Miller (@JMMaok) · Jan 20
🔁 @liferstate:

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.

dissentmagazine.org/article/th

Tony, Pretty Much (@TonyStark) · Jan 20
🔁 @liferstate:

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.

dissentmagazine.org/article/th

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