How is he going to make me? I'm just not going to do it. Come round my house and tell me if you want, but I still won't.

We really need a Polymarket on whether or not it will get implemented so everyone can vote No and then be financially incentivised to throw spanners in the works.

Powering up the economy by preventing British people from working in Britain. Very cool.

Very useful warning beacons.

Wow. Wow. Palantir refuses take part in digital ID programme. Its UK head says Digital ID doesn’t have a mandate (so presumably they worry it will be cancelled, so if they do it they risk wasting if it’s cancelled) He also says the technical feasibility is questionable too.

We absolutely must return to sodium lighting as a matter of urgency.

LILY  It’s this one and it’s not even close.

Clearing after Snow at Yoshida, by Kawase Hasui, 1944

"Ground Swell," by Edward Hopper, 1939.

New recursive loop just initiated.

You can come in for free but you have to pay to leave.

The modernity of Ukiyo-e master Kobayashi Kiyochika’s visual narrative (1847–1915)

This is like banning people from Googling legal and medical advice.

This is like the end of The Running Man where they air the true footage to the masses.

I'm a single issue voter, I want the warm lights back. Streetlights are too blue. Headlights are too bright. It's a crime against nature and God. We need to demand 2800K or below color balance for all outdoor lights. Some cities regulate 3000k max, that's still too damn blue.

So apparently if the BBC is compelled to stick to its Royal Charter, which is and always has been core to its existence, then it's the end of civilisation and we fall to the wolves.

We do have a name for it: artificial intelligence.

That is a very unexpected use of Champagne Supernova.