That's Doctor Foreigner to you @alsothings@mastodon.social

Otherwise, if there isn't time for context and pushback, talk to an expert on corruption, or US archive law, or FBI search warrant not a Trump apologist

At some point media needed to realise that no one in Trump's orbit ever operates in good faith. That doesn't mean you never speak to them, but you have to assume what they're saying is bullshit so maybe way more context and pushback?

compare this https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0019z3z (at 2:44:00) versus the @today_explained@twitter.com episode on it that I also listened to just after, where they spoke with a host of Trump Inc and properly explained the legal basis of the whole thing https://megaphone.link/VMP1888461258

listened to @BBCr4today@twitter.com this morning during the nursery run, was somewhere between disappointed and horrified at the package on the FBI search warrant that was enacted at Mar-a-lago yesterday. They had a former Trump staffer on who just assert Trump's frame and that was it.

same as it ever was, just a bit more stark this year

Remember! Everytime you hear a Tory (and it's always, always a Tory) say that we can't shield the country from external factors causing a decrease in the standard of living they mean they are unwilling to give the rich a haircut so everyone else can both eat and heat.

love that "don't be evil" has degraded to begging for competent competitors that just aren't creepy

I just want a search engine that can interpret my vague string of words correctly without hoarding all my data and stalking me around the internet. Alas, this is a massive ask

really want to use duckduckgo or other not-google, but their search just continue to not be great if it's in any way complicated. eg 'lyrics sell our guitars to buy turntable' returns a bunch of random sellers of decks/guitars on DDG but google 1st hit is https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-losing-my-edge-lyrics

so much desperation in the music industry; so much predatory behaviour in crypto

you know there was a time when I didn't have feelings about Muse's thoughts on NFTs, I miss that time

It's funny how often the answer to things is actually just tax the rich

harebrained ideas

ah good, yes, all we need to do to fix the NHS is make it not the NHS https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/24/charge-patients-for-hospital-stays-to-help-fund-nhs-says-report

Sigh, 'being'. Need more coffee

Follow up: read 'On Bullshit' and think about how it applies to your technical work

never trust a data professional who thinks data is the same thing as evidence

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