Douglas Adams envisaged the "Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser", a device of incredible analytical and production capabilities, though no-one knew why because it always dispensed the same revolting liquid. Evolution gave us the human brain that seems to work on much the same principle.

I've just promised an AI that I'll summarise something for it to look at tomorrow. Something may be very wrong in this relationship...

The attendees at Trump’s parade did an amazing job of social distancing

A common trope in post-WWII British comedy was "The Man from the Ministry". Such characters were figures of an authority that understood that certain things must be done, but was entirely disconnected from the realities how things could or should be done. There was a reason for these caricatures.

With the numbers of GP partners falling significantly, and relatively few early career GPs aspiring to the role, our new briefing from @becksfisher.bsky.social looks at whether it’s time to change the GP partnership model. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...

Room full of satire writers will struggle to find a funnier line that the BBC Newsreader just now saying “The Chinese approached Prince Andrew in the hope of finding intelligence’”

One of my - many - personality defects, is a tendency to look at individual arguments on their own merits, rather than the rightness of the cause they are advanced in favour of, considering less what people believe, and more their ability to be consistent and coherent in their defence of it.

If you go to the zoo, and visit the primate enclosure, it is quite possible that the inhabitants will express their feelings by throwing objects, including their own faeces towards you. The fact that they will continue to do so whatever you say does not constitute a requirement to respond in kind.

Another election? Mr Caine is taking the Michael | David Mitchell

America. We in the UK appreciate the work you're putting into restoring your country to its 1775 state next year, ruled over by a cognitively-impaired tyrant with silly hair and an unhealthy obsession with tariffs. But we're still not taking you back.

"...stretching off to infinity, were the hosts of Heaven and Hell, wingtip to wingtip. If you looked really closely, and had been specially trained, you could tell the difference."

I'm sure that setting my .com domain registration on automatic 10 year renewal made perfect sense a decade ago. It would have been quite nice though if I'd remembered doing that _before_ the latest renewal fee hit my bank account...