Michael Walker
@michaeljswalker
Host Novara Live Mon, Wed, Fri at 6pm @novaramedia / Podcast at http://patreon.com/crashcoursepod
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Great comment on our segment about that racist GB News documentary.
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
👸🏻: “Shame on the state of Israel for what they’re doing to the Palestinian people at the moment” 👮🏻♂️: “Are you gonna stand up for the search?” 👸🏻: “No, I’m bloody not!” Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear jeans and raincoats 🔥🙏
‘I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.’ Yesterday Metropolitan police made dozens of arrests of non-violent protestors for holding up placards outside Parliament…
You’ve plastered this video all over your social media channels, taking advantage of my autistic older brother for views and to push your weird anti-black narrative. As a news company that *should* be responsible, this shouldn’t have been posted but oh well🙏🏾
'What do you think are British values?' @StevenEdginton finds out from South London locals what it means to be British.
Also, does anyone seriously think there's no hierarchy between the racism Diane Abbott and Robert Peston may have faced?
Peston admits Diane didn’t say there’s a hierarchy of racism, but claims that was the “implication”. So her actual words don’t matter, only how Robert Peston chooses to interpret them. Now THAT is a hierarchy of racism.
"What we've learned is there aren't actually any easy cuts to make." 💬 @michaeljswalker suggests repeated failures to cut state spending are an argument for higher taxes. 💬 @linmeitalks: "In 2024, we saw an exodus of 10,000 millionaires." @Nick_Hewer | #StormHuntley
On the 29th July @AyoCaesar will be speaking to @DalrympleWill for @novaramedia I’ll be talking to the amazing Josephine Quinn just before! Tickets here: dice.fm/event/92dq5d-d…
Tonight on #NovaraLIVE @michaeljswalker speaks to cognitive scientist and generative AI’s most prominent sceptic @GaryMarcus Tune in from 6pm UK time - link in reply.
Google's CEO says there's a high risk that the technology Google is trying to build will cause human extinction, but he's optimistic that humanity will rise up and do something about this
I joined @michaeljswalker on @novaramedia today for an interesting discussion on the post-ceasefire geopolitical landscape in the Middle East, Trump’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program is indeed destroyed, and implications for Israel’s genocide in Gaza youtu.be/jlcDCN2aThI?si…
I'll be on with @novaramedia again tonight (briefly!), talking about benefits cuts and the Labour MP rebellion against the bill.
Disability justice activist @annalandre on Labour’s shoddy backtracking of pledges and how much harder they’re making it for disabled people to work.
Wow @ZohranKMamdani’s responses to Colbert on Israel Palestine.
Best thing he’s ever said
President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."
But we're supposed to believe the same regime can't wait to commit national suicide by initiating a nuclear exchange? Come the fuck on.
"It's clearly against the law..." "It's not terrorism..." @michaeljswalker argues that Palestine Action's Brize Norton protest against the government's "disgraceful" support for Israel is criminal damage, not terrorism. Ann Widdecombe | @RobbieRinder | #JeremyVine
Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To…