Every day we stray further from god's light

Corporate power today is scary, but not new. In WHEN COMPANIES RULE, I recount its 400-year history from the East India Company to Amazon, what motivates the oligarchs who would be kings, and what we can do about them. Out in November, pre-order now: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co...

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Blue Labour will say “better to turn Camden into a marginal in order to win Barnsley” and then get absolutely destroyed in Barnsley.

Find it absolutely insane the plan is to disembark the passengers and then immediately let them fly home to their own countries

What level of hantavirus shitposting are we at guys? I'm at sharing the "Mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me flying a hot air balloon into power lines" tweet level rn

Why am I getting Instagram ads for a forthcoming Rothko auction. How much money do these people think I have?

This really should be a cryptic crossword clue

Every time I see the name "Walk Wheel Cycle Trust" I die a little – a brand name straight out of committee, a W1A parody, a clunking clumsy mess

For every major public figure who admits to it publicly I'm willing to wager there's 99 doing this in private

Watching some (great) snooker and exasperated by the BBC commentators inability to pronounce Zhao Xintong's name correctly, or realise his family name is not Xintong. And it's not as if he's a nobody, he's the reigning world champion!

Hunter S Thompson

Absolutely wild day to have the 47th president's name muted and you have to piece together what's happening on your timeline from fragments like an archaeologist deciphering Linear A

I'd quite enjoy an explainer on why online streaming is so far delayed from the live event. I'm assuming there is a shitload of compression going on (at multiple bitrates) rather than it being latency or lag Also in my experience TNT is faster than Sky/NOW, I wonder why that is

I had to do this last year, explaining who the Krankies were to my American sister in law. Each sentence that left my mouth was worse than the last

if i said this id be getting a polite knock on my door about my posts

Seeing posts saying stuff like "AI is like a demon" is a reminder how a lot of US leftism is just evangelical Christianity clumsily recycled to focus on a different target

Seen a lot of this performative ignorance lately and it's simply not true. 1999 was literally when the entry-level price of a mobile dropped and everyone under 25 was now in the target market. We all got marketed to very hard

"Gary Neville buys Mark Goldbridge's media channels" might be my "It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, Rome must burn" trigger moment

Lazy writing this episode - as if the pub the grassing landlady runs would realistically be called The Rat Inn

next on JD Vance's world tour he will be stopping by a Spurs training session

Read this on a flight tonight, and struck by how the authors try meshing two narratives - Altman's (apparent) unreliable relationship with the truth, and OpenAI drifting out of touch with its original mission of safety - and don't really nail either

Was lucky enough to witness a total eclipse two years ago in Dallas and I still rave on about it if the topic even tangentially comes up in conversation today

Tired: Milkshake duck Wired: Crypto scam tortoise

I'm sorry but we can't be calling storms names like Dave

These people are just plain lying, both to us and themselves, and it's about time it gets called out as that rather than endless sympathetic pieces

Sadly the idea just didn't have legs

Many things make me feel irredeemably old but none more so than seeing Theo Walcott with a salt & pepper beard

This post honestly reads like a piece of epistolary science fiction, like some apocrypha from the world of mmacevedo

Eat the book, eat the book, eat the book...

The actual post announcing Anthropic's product is much more nuanced than just vibecoding. Also it's worth noting that IBM (big in the same space) also use LLMs extensively in modernising COBOL as well claude.com/blog/how-ai-...

Proper sickos.jpeg day this, absolute scenes

Davina McCall outside Mandelson's house

The aesthetics of this (not the message) are very Morris/Brooker coded, as if you had actually got Nathan Barley to slap together Nazi propaganda short-form video for you

The reaction to the removal of 4o from the ChatGPT interface is genuinely one of the strangest things I've ever seen. This community might be relatively small but there is a level of unprecedented fanatical devotion here

Evict your neighbours for cooking spicy food Free parking spaces for landlords WW2 service medals for anyone born 1946-1962 Benefits withdrawn if you are found to be a cyclist

RIP. Iconic in Falling Down, itself hugely underrated as a film

Raheem Sterling has joined Feyenoord Rotterdam. He's already played for Liverpool, so he's now 2/3 of the way to completing the cities mentioned in the Beautiful South's "Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)"

Can't think of the United Strand guy without thinking of

In my very first job, the Intranet software I was tasked with with using (Frontpage 98), helpfully named the header for the knowledge base page "knobhead.htm"

Even if this did ever get the go-ahead successive governments would pare it back until it's just a guided bus on a brand new motorway between Liverpool and Manchester

The rest of the world: Just use the letter J, it's right there Italy: No

"The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing" is such a perfect summary of Mandelson. The world's most notorious sex trafficker was a better judge of character than the current PM

Why does he look like John Torode

Gene Roddenberry: I invented Romulan Ale as a cautionary tale Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"

This is an all-time heckle, up there with Gough Whitlam's response to "I'm a Country member"

Appears this is also true for fascism.

What's wrong babe? You've barely touched your stained glass England shirt

After reading this all I could think of was this Tweet

Think part of it comes down to that Tumblr meme about the two meanings of "respect". MAGA interpreted respect for the dead as the with-reverence-and-fealty version not just with-politeness version and then tried to foist it on everyone