As I feared, the Westminster government has gone ahead and done the dumbest, cruelest thing possible. It seems inevitable that this will go to the courts, but it's just so depressing thinking about how we got here, how a road paved with lies, innuendo, and hatred of trans people has led to this constitutional crisis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64288757

Interesting comment on the CNET-using-AI-to-generate-SEO-bait topic:

"Once the whole thing is computers talking to computers hoping some gullible living person is watching, it becomes indistinguishable from bitcoin mining - a kind of viral, self-referential internet onanism."

When you see someone like Elon Musk embracing the far right, it's not because the far right has any kind of coherent political or intellectual worldview he agrees with. It's because the far right is the last bastion of shitty people - they will accept anyone regardless of their personal behavior.

The far right have no standards for behavior, identity or beliefs - you only need to share the raw desire to dominate others. The far right welcomes all manner of abusers, thieves, grifters, and scoundrels.

Logically therefore if you're an abuser, thief, grifter or a scoundrel you will eventually find that the only friends you have remaining are far right extremists.

As Southwest CEO Bob Jordan pretends to apologize—remember—SW got a $7B federal bailout, spent $5.6B of that on Stock Buybacks, gave their CEO a raise to $9.1M, & forced frontline workers into 16 hour shifts under threat of termination—while spending $0 updating SW software😳

Southwest’s debacle isn’t an accident. It’s the predictable result of billionaire & corporate corruption & greed—& thousands of workers & travelers are paying the price.

In a just world SW execs will face criminal charges.