The troubles

Your reminder that 99% of what we do it ephemeral, even the stuff that feels massive You've got to be kidding me *really good* to survive past three generations, and even then it's a bit hit-and-miss

When do they start kissing???

Out on a Sunday morning, confidently placing myself in the top decile for "looking where I am going"

Exc: Mark Carney to visit Keir Starmer as he looks to lobby the PM about a 'World Bank for defence' Last week a Canadian delegation came to p'ment to press the case for the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank Understand invitations to join charter negotiations observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.

That's a good point. By bringing back Grammar Schools, you also bring back Not Grammar Schools.

The number of clips in this that are the *baddie*….I mean, I know thick blokes misunderstand the message of Breaking Bad and think Walter White is the hero, but Kylo Ren in his murder phase….?

OMG. These people are living in a video game. They are all demented.

The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

🇫🇷 Incredible acapella Marseillaise after Macron's nuclear speech at Île Longue. Almost makes you want to join the French Foreign Legion.

The most spectacularly disingenuous display

Exciting to hear about the work @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social and @nickhanauer.bsky.social are doing are to build a new paradigm for how we think about economics. Some really relevant thinking for the work I’m engaged in. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

Every so often I'm inspired by real life events to finally take it down off the "to read shelf" and open something like Catch-22

Uh oh

I once got a day off work for being noticeably bigger than General Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf.

What is wrong with people?!

It's just deranged, the best coders I know are rebuilding whole apps that people on this site are using on a day-to-day basis using Claude. They haven't written a line of code since last year and are doing weeks of work in a day.

Look who didn’t understand that it’s all a system

The FT coverage of Dubai right now is snarky comedy gold

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

Strong recommend. Also puts Trump's whinging about Starmer in some (unconscious no doubt) historical context - we've long had very difficult relations with the Americans when it comes to the Middle East.

Definitely worth a read. At my firm, we're coding with an LLM and a couple of developers. They love it because they are able to move at four-five times the speed. We love it because it cheaper. I know it's not great for employment, but that's technology for ever not just because of LLMs.

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

This is like the Rogoff-Reinhart Excel SNAFU only worse in that it must have been a deliberate choice rather than a screw up

Astonishing chart from @chrisgiles.ft.com showing what happens to the path of UK govt debt if income tax thresholds rise with prices rather than wages. I've been following UK econ forever, but seem I've not been paying attn, as this was news to me. www.ft.com/content/0b2b...

Other bonkersness aside, it is objectively untrue that the richest people in the world live in Dubai. None of the 10 richest live in the UAE. The UAE is 41st in the world for number of billionaires, tied with Romania. The Dubai marketing machine is a crock of shit.

Can only end well

And this goes even further back - the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther caused all sorts of moral panic

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Latest in ‘London is shit’ news. Ian Bostridge doing a Dowland recital later. Awful times

He can take pride in getting there eventually…by destroying the economy Looking forward to Julia leaning in to that

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Toby Young

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

It's funny (i.e. not funny) how Hussein is treated as an insult

See also: all pronouncements of the current US government

I wasn't expecting us to get to the position where the Prussians would be regarded as woke, but here we are

Jfc. Name names FT. We need to know which people to avoid.

Here it is. The distillation of LinkedIn (and Dubai Brits)

"Each year Americans bring about 100,000 wrongful-death lawsuits." www.economist.com/united-state... America's roads are insanely dangerous. Four times the fatality rate of the UK

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This is a really good point about authenticity by Sadiq Khan

Nice to remember Threads on a day like today…a film where nuclear war is triggered by regime collapse in Iran

Weird lot of blocking activity going on this evening according to Listifications…

Hey, all you folks who voted third party or not at all to protest Biden/Harris Mideast policies, good job!