Radiohead @ the O2, amazing as always

Don’t often post work stuff but it’s nice to be top of this: www.which.co.uk/money/bankin...

“It’s actually about non-biased AI” Is the new “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”

If an equalities watchdog gives guidance that discriminates against people for the way they look is it an equalities watchdog any more? Can I take it to trading standards? Surely there’s some kind of charter for it that says this is exactly the kind of thing it’s supposed to stop, not help?

The Morning Show remains unchallengeable as good bad TV, but has a maybe terminal case of the “I don’t care about the two main characters” syndrome. Maybe Alex & Bradley can both end up in a gulag next time? Leave Mia to run things and Corey to get into the kind of trouble only Corey can get into.

Capitalism asks the question: Chat, should we just keep people ill so we can make money out of them? www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

You last saved meme is your moral philosophy

“Cut loose in a post-modern present, with no centre, no truth and no direc-tion, we have not become independent-minded, responsible, democratic citizens in a human republic. We have become slaves to the power of money, and worshippers of the self.” Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine

Reading Bryan Johnson’s mushroom trip report, he gets so close, walks right up to the Bardo and then forgets what he was doing and wanders off. It was right there in front of you dude! Thousands of years of “you can’t cheat death” literature and people are still going for it.

How do you do fellow gamers

Maximum Horse in the Hospital vibes currently

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

We do people on the train having annoyingly loud and endless conversations have such unbelievably solid mobile connections? Another tick in the “There is no God” column.

Need a T-shirt with “The web wasn’t supposed to suck” on it stat. Will make my own if I have to.

Zed has built in collaboration tools now, pretty slick, if you could run the collab server on-prem this would be amazing zed.dev/blog/zed-is-...

Another great Plur1bus episode, one theme definitely seems to be “all the work you cannot see” not just for the rich but the middle classes, a subversive idea for current TV that the working class exist but we’ve airbrushed them out of existence

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

This is excellent, put it on the curriculum

Behold, the Lisan al-Gabe brought into being the true Year of Linux on the Desktop, 2026! www.theverge.com/tech/818111/...

Randomly remembered one of the foundational books of web development, Phil and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing, it’s here of you want a trip to the past: philip.greenspun.com/panda/

James Bond had a son (not unlikely!) and his names is also James. That’ll take about 2 mins to set up. Then get on with it.

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

When I was a boy performative reading was rocking a bit of Camus, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Kerouac or Pynchon, not (checks notes) reading absolute normcore mainstream books, try harder lads.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Labour will probably raise taxes, and the electorate will turn to Reform, the people who got us into the situation where they have to raise taxes. How much of the 21st century are we going to spend punching ourselves in the face?

It does have a Transformers shop though???

Overall I’d sum up Battersea Power Station as the kind of place you’d visit to remind yourself the revolution can’t come soon enough.

Yeah, that’s enough of that. A vibe that maybe can be summarised as late-capitalist cheugy, or gated-community-as-shopping centre. The kind of place where you can buy a £250 bottle of wine at the “local shop”.

Got a day off so went into London, thought I’d see what the Battersea Power Station revamp is like. It’s giving airport shopping mall.

The slow death of the BBC is painful to watch, especially as all this hand wringing is just a front for the corporate forces that have been trying to destroy it for decades. They’ve managed to twist things so well that both the left and right think it’s the enemy.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Saying Plur1bus is a show where everyone is happy except the main character seems way off the mark, can maybe understand why they’ve sold it like that but it’s waaaay more nuanced.

Predator: Badlands was fun, totally different tone to the previous ones from Trachtenburg, more like an 80/90s buddy film, but totally works. At least we’ve got one functioning franchise these days.

After this is all over America needs to erect a statue in recognition of all the people who shouted “You a lil’ bitch!” etc. at ICE. Make it a big one as well.

“I’ve got a great marketing plan, we’ll get the dumbest motherfucker in our industry, one that just nobody respects, and we’ll have him say the most asinine thing possible and that will be our pull quote, it’s surefire

2nd episode of Plur1bus the best hour of TV I’ve seen in quite a while

Lovely interaction with a cyclist going through a small passage in London nearly knocking people over, started with a “slow down a bit mate” from me, ended with a “I’ll smash your fucking face in” from him. Looked like a finance bro obviously.

Plur1bus: onboard all the way from that first episode

All the win is making me worried what they’re going to cook up to take over the news cycle this time

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

FORCE MAJEURE (2014): Dir. Ruben Ostlund

Legend

Now that was a good a Traitors final!

Uh oh

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Nice

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Generally a real vote no to Trump night in all the elections in the US yesterday, you love to see it

Nice work!