Well it’s not like there are any glaring examples on the world stage of exactly how this combo can cause your country to plummet very rapidly into misery and violence from which it won’t recover.

They’ll get a surprise when they realize they just made every server in the UK illegal and stopped the economy. But perhaps “relevant devices” are only those owned by the plebs.

Some of them are frog-faced loudmouth wankers.

Who knew that real-life Big Brother would turn out to be as dreary and limp as Keir Starmer?

Tor gets better the more people run nodes. The main danger with Tor is that someone can control enough nodes to analyze traffic back to its source. The best insurance against that is loads of independently run nodes. I2p is less convenient than Tor but actually a little more secure against that kind of traffic analysis I believe.

You can also set up local AI alerts (AI here is mostly used for facial recognition) e.g. to alert you if your MIL comes around uninvited, or if your kids sneak out at 2am, and so on.

That sounds awful. I’d rather just not, and avoid that mindset altogether.

Yes, grab your meshtastic (or similar) gear now before you can’t any more.

Don’t buy anything from Amazon.

OK. Here’s another:

Israeli fire kills 11, including journalists and children, Gaza medics say

The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.

It’s because they’re privileged people who only notice government when it inconveniences them. Liberty for them means “I can do whatever I want and I am under no obligations to my country or anyone else.” Underneath the rhetoric, the motives are the same as for “small government” conservatives. They care only about what directly inconveniences them, not about principles or other people. Small government or freedom from government just means “don’t ask anything of me.”

He’s dangerous because he’s sponsored by the forces of international fascism.

More fascism. That’s a plus for “former” Hitler fan Nigel.

Yeah. I just wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my name to a slice of that dreary blandness.

As a long-time user of the em-dash I’m pissed off that my usual writing style now makes people think I used AI. I have to second-guess my own punctuation and paraphrase.

I’ve been programming professionally for 25 years. Lately we’re all getting these messages from management that don’t give requirements but instead give us a heap of AI-generated code and say “just put this in.” We can see where this is going: management are convincing themselves that our jobs can be reduced to copy-pasting code generated by a machine, and the next step will be to eliminate programmers and just have these clueless managers. I think AI is robbing management of skills as well as developers. They can no longer express what they want (not that they were ever great at it): we now have to reverse-engineer the requirements from their crappy AI code.

I am not a fan of his but that was a good speech, and the main point of “it’s time to stop competing with one another to pander to the USA and start working together on other arrangements” needs to be heeded. And yes, he did admit that the “rules-based order” was mainly marketing for something much less noble.

Edit: an overview of some of the criticisms people have made of his speech:

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/01/21/762667/‘Eulogy-for-globalist-hypocrisy’--Netizens-react-to-Canada-PM’s-speech-on-end-of-‘rules-based-order’

Michael Scott would make a better President than the orange fascist buffoon.

It’s not clear how long Canada can fend off the far right, both internally and from the USA. I hope we can survive but there are too many damn Conservatives around.

Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies. If you have investments, pull them out of the USA.