on.ft.com/4rr1Xq2 Accenture dubs its 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ as it adapts to AI Now you might think consultancy world could never outdo its previous efforts at utter bullshit, but you would be wrong

Sigh apparently people do need to hear the US isn’t a signatory to the ICC and this is fantasy land.

Road at Louveciennes, Melting Snow, Sunset - 1869 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7301

on.ft.com/3XqQqJF The only way anyone could think ‘I wonder if the way JFK do this might be the thing’ would be if they’d never set foot near JFK

on.ft.com/3KpJycC How Warhammer won Just discovered one of the book series recently - having had no idea about all of this except to know it was related to games- so interesting read (Apparently the book series are a mixed bag but the one I’m reading is v well written. )

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

why is it an immutable law that any an event allowing audience Qs on any subject, 80% Qs are just ppl desperate to ramble on (and completely non self aware) at least at corporate events the pointless Qs are just ‘inept at job and must be noticed running mouth then someone also inept may like’

Has anyone checked in with the ‘well he won’t do moar wars will he’ cretins

How to short the bubbliest firms economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist Shortening syndicated loans if you can’t easily short the stock itself is interesting

The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war economist.com/internationa... from The Economist

Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith: “But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

economist.com/business/202... ‘He has described Google as “a very special case”, given that it began developing chips long before the current AI wave, and has dismissed other efforts as “super adorable and simple”. ‘ That stock should be shorted on grounds of ‘arrogant sod’ if nothing else

on.ft.com/4rtyg7N Swatch activist lambasts Omega owner’s ‘worst-in-class’ governance ‘Swatch activist’ sounds like a fun job for @jimswift.bsky.social :)

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Hamas ✅ Hezbollah ✅ Zarah Sultana ❌

I’m not sure discussing war crimes with Americans who one assumes have finished their turkey is an effective strategy for dealing with insomnia and bugger it’ll be light soon

If you’re actually in the military and commit a war crime then in theory military justice is where it’s handled, but what about a SecDef? Has there ever been an instance where one has committed a crime that’s military and there were consequences?

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

Imagine the sort of human who bought the book, read those lines and nodded along ‘hurr hurr yes damn right’. Imagine how thick you’d have to be. Millions of people voted for that and wanted it, even if they didn’t buy that book. Millions.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

on.ft.com/44sn5SY Airline travellers face disruption after Airbus warns A320 jets need software fix See this is why is best to avoid writing software for critical systems, lest one day you find yourself looking at a bug saying ‘this did not allow for solar radiation, priority Urgent’:)

www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a... Seems fine to me altho putting up prices based on inability to give a reason for visiting other than ‘wish to take selfie with one painting’ would have been my preference :)

Spindley Locusts - 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104294

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.” From a media law perspective: BS. There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

So thanksgiving wasn’t on Monday then

Last year - having spent an evening once again wondering, why do all this BBC crime dramas look like bad soap operas (I don’t own a tv so for all I knew, they do) , I managed to switch to ‘lord of the rings’ - and thought no no no no no I cannot look. And checked this setting. It was the culprit.

Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in winter - 1875 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109843

There is surely a gap in the market for coffee shops etc to display a sign saying ‘no Xmas music will be played here until Dec 24’

John Major, "Populism is no longer a fringe problem of a few outlandish politicians. It is now mainstream and professional" "We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy" "Democracy has a lot to lose" "Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"

I like these Wayne Thiebaud paintings but i should not have missed lunch before coming :)

nothing says ‘i sincerely wish to persuade people of my cause’ then obstructing traffic with giant tractors and blaring dumbass noise across central london.poor Met having to deal with.

it’s 0 and there are guys in shorts playing football. there’s the Guards barracks over the park, maybe they’re from there and don’t notice cold :)

Omfg it’s lines of code make the nonsense stop please

If I didn’t find ‘black Frid***’ irritating enough, somebody at Amazon has decided this means everything going bright orange . No I don’t want ‘bargains’ I don’t need, I just want to look at the kindle store without the ridiculous colour

Winter on the Seine, Lavacourt - 1880 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9550

I am stuck on the ‘moderately challenging’ New Yorker crossword again. And one clue I only got because I’ve seen American tv and know that if you’re a kid who wants to be an astronaut there’s like, places for that (which there are not, over here:)

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Who has Chotiner interviewed now? Can’t find a new piece on my New Yorker app

on.ft.com/3M6CrGp Dear me and they reassured people they weren’t Enron and everything

on.ft.com/3K60h4H As if encouraging people to borrow money for things you absolutely shouldn’t get into debt over wasn’t enough, now ‘crypto’ (Once saw an ad for them in Boots. Over - designer glasses. You know who ‘needs’ designer glasses? Literally nobody. Any more than anybody ‘needs’ a bmw)

Shout out to Waitrose grocery delivery, who it turns out are happy to bring the food all the way to the kitchen and unpack it, and give first time customers a gingerbread biscuit for free, which am now eating:)

on.ft.com/43S0peF Currency traders bet against sterling ahead of Budget Oh bugger my dollar short is getting clobbered I assume;)

The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.

"There's some signs of cracks, and what we're seeing in Congress is that fear of Trump is starting to turn into loathing of him." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss why Trump’s grip on the House might finally be breaking. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oX2lLf?utm_...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1