Proper Bangalore wines at Grover Zampa.

I’m normally that “Apple know what they’re doing, get used to it” guy, but now I know the Truth About Alan Dye, I am reverting liberally.

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

This also surely makes it impossible to maintain the “not a visa, and so compatible with our visa-waiver agreements” line that underlies ESTAs (along with ETAs and ETIASes). The EU might actually care about that. Though the US might not care that the EU cares.

First trip on the Queen for a while

Using my new Clair Obscur-trained reflexes to select the search item I want in the half-second before the system replaces it with something else.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Tragic moments in the life of a father. “Hey Dad, I’ve just seen that that Hitchhiker’s Guide thing you keep talking about, there’s a movie version! Can I download it?”

“High earners and [successful] entrepreneurs” is a set of people defined by how much they take, Kier mate.

Things Rowling is pretending to believe here: 1) that trans women, who she wants to be kept out of women’s spaces to stop them taking over, erasing and assaulting women, won’t do any of those things if there’s a sign.

Sometimes I wonder if the real purpose of those ludicrous junior-doctor schedules isn’t to instil contempt for laypeople, who haven’t had to go through it.

Britain has found its RFK Jr www.ft.com/content/b481...

I am just a simple country tax lawyer, but the Equality Act claim seems to be that trans-inclusive women’s groups are (a) discriminating by sex, so they need the exemption for single-sex associations; but also (b) *not* discriminating by sex, so they don’t get it. Which is it then?

Farage et al do not care about *net* migration. Their problem is not *actually* that Britain is getting full.

Fewer people coming (by 30% in a year!), more people leaving. How to reduce net migration by making your country shit. on.ft.com/4p1MuLr

Geneva airport determined to help everyone get their steps in. At least, I assume that’s why they put bus gates at the far end of a long pier with no travelators…

Blink twice if you've been kidnapped by robots, Nouriel www.ft.com/content/3af6...

A movie that takes place where you’re from letterboxd.com/film/what-we...

newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/20/k... Mast year incoming: so many Kākāpō chicks expected scientists will have to let their parents look after them.

Fnac.ch having a laugh here:

Time to bust out those old “Goodbye Pork Pie” t-shirts?

Borders should delineate legal sovereignty but should not be barriers to movement.

People should just be able to move countries if they want to. “But what about the criminals” do whatever you do to locally sourced criminals. Restricting *foreigners* does exactly nothing to keep your country criminal-free.

Excellent. Now do the dollar bill!

German budget lunatics shocked to find out that money is fungible. on.ft.com/4qUndnM

Heartening take from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

More delay for the Wings of Winter.

All that murder, and he won’t even be a trillionaire. If those things vest I’ll eat a Tesla.

See also: managed exchange rates are libertarianism, socialism is when you let people exchange things at market prices

“Forrester's analysis found that using AI for financially driven layoffs can backfire: 55 percent of employers regret laying off workers because of AI. More people in charge of AI investment expect it to increase headcount (57 percent) than to decrease it (15 percent) over the next year.”

Caught the extra innings again this morning. Apparently the rest of the game was exciting as well?

Holy crap “They coldbloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards,” a spokesperson for the Sudan Doctors Network said, adding that the RSF had transformed hospitals “into human slaughterhouses”.

I thought this was just an abstract paradox.

Pas de subventions pour les commerces de la #ruedecarouge qui font ceci :

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

This is right, of course, but the results do offer a corrective to anyone who thinks (or would like customers to think) that humanlike reasoning somehow emerges from all the associative inference. In particular, “chain of thought” promoting makes no exception.

in the first part of Luttwak's Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, he challenges armchair generals to organize a moderately large trip to the beach. After walking through all of the ways it goes wrong, he then drops "now imagine people are shooting at you"

I’m going to charitably assume this is all a Saint-Ronald-would-never gotcha, and not people getting negatively polarised by Trump’s (absurdly high and chaotic) tariffs into stanning neoliberal globalisation.

Only thing missing from this is a Greens surge. Otherwise, (4th) Tory implosion, (3rd) you can’t beat the right by tacking right, (2nd) racists losing, (1) I’m a cel-tic nation, get me out of here.

Way to grab disaffected US scientists, Kier love. www.ft.com/content/7144...

Fortunately it won’t happen! I don’t know if the bubble will burst this year, or next, but by 2035 these things will be vast and trunkless legs of stone.

Gandria, lake Lugano

No mention in this of *why* central banks had to engage in massive, asset-bubble-inflating bond purchases: because interest rates were at zero and governments were responding to recession with austerity instead of stimulus. This, too, is on Osborne’s head. on.ft.com/4mRUnBm

“But without all the excitement around AI, the US economy might be stalling out, given the multiple threats.” Only might? What’s the other bet? Tariffs and labour shortages might be good? on.ft.com/4pTQ3US

A common confusion I'm seeing is people mixing levels of analysis wrt neural nets: we understand the implementation level well and the algorithmic level somewhat but not the computational level of "how does it internally compute things."

People will always make all the errors, some will be too enthusiastic and some too sceptical of new tech. But in the current situation, of planet-gobbling construction, circular investment schemes and 9-figure salaries, is there one error we should be more worried about?

‘“Knowing exactly how internal combustion engines work” is an obvious superset of “describe the trajectory of a particular butane molecule”.’ Why that’s false is a surprisingly deep metaphysical question, but if it’s not false then no one understands how *anything* works. #panpsychism

Upper Cam, Darwin and Queens’, the morning after

Venue looking good

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” on.ft.com/3Kio9Sg