No Context Brits

Of all the characters in the George Smiley books (unreformed Nazis, Stalinist sociopaths, London gangsters, etc, there really aren’t any who make my skin crawl quite as much as the public schoolmasters and their ilk from A Call for the Dead.

Trying to make sense of intermittent banging, surrounded by emptiness and nothingness, pondering the futility of your existence and shitting in a ziplock bag....Glastonbury is on us again

Rachel Nuwer's 'I Feel Love' begins with some remarkable anecdotes about research/use of MDMA, and will hopefully point some people towards therapy; but it quickly becomes a stereotype of a science text written by a good-hearted American liberal with poor scientific literacy.

The cage fight between Musk and Zuckerberg is essentially a battle between ADHD and autism.

Children being groomed is a dreadful problem, but the UK's Online Safety Bill is simply the latest incarnation of Francis Walsingham's desire to read everyone's mail. There are other ways to address child sexual abuse than breaking all digital privacy, and probably security too.

When do I get to find out that LK100 isn't superconducting?

Perhaps Elon is on a quest to dispel antisemitic tropes. Sure he's trying to sue the ADL out of existence, but he's demonstrated by example that the most avaricious man in the world and the grey eminence behind a European information war isn't a member of the Rothschild family.

My hope for AI in 2024 is that the median time to author a script which removes tedious world building from novels falls below the level of effort I traditionally expend ignoring it. Final entries in long series published after the creator's death might become tractable again.

It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. #JordanPeterson

#TheWire

Anyone want to help pitch Holmes Under the Hammer, a dark mystery thriller where the famous detective is beaten to death by the State Research Bureau after investing the 1971 coup d'etat against Milton Obote?

Jason Statham should play Eben Upton in a dramatisation of the Raspberry Pi shortage. Eb Uptios falls out of a helicopter to discover the controller for his artificial heart has been replaced by a Pi, but it's only a 1B and the stroke volume is too low to work his wanking arm.

Twitter just needs one or two people to subscribe at the new $3.1 billion per year membership 'Interested Subscriber' tier and for it to comfortably wither away like a real social network rather than causing an immediate diplomatic incident with Mohammed bin Salman.

It landed foul on the grass #thebyrds

I can only assume that Elon's early pitches for VC funding were something along the lines of "Chevvy Volt bra! With rockets."