Tomorrow PM will instruct his MPs to block an investigation into whether he lied to the Commons. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system which allows the PM to mislead the commons deliberately and then block them investigating it. Elected dictatorship.

This is why Boris Johnson has to go. Conservatives

Toxic.

The Law of Zoom: Every time you are in a rush to start the meeting, you are inexplicably signed out of your account, and need to jump through ten hoops to get back in.

“No one told me NFTs were bad!!” Dude all of Twitter was screaming about how bad they were from the start. We said it was a pyramid scheme. You smugly replied “nah you just don’t get it. It’s the future. To the moon!” You decided to play in a decentralized market and got played.

Another “gate” for you ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-…

Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16

Even the Murdoch press is now waking up to the truth: Brexit was an act of self-harm | Michael Heseltine | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Now Rishi Sunak Just fuck off Johnson. You’re done.

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

Liz Truss will say or do absolutely anything to get to Number 10, whatever damage it does to the country. I just can’t imagine having such an unprincipled, self-serving narcissist as Prime Minister.

This puts into words something that's been brewing with me for a while - the way that the desire for frictionless technology disempowers and infantalises us. newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6…

So david hieatt - I took your advice and have been swimming in the cold water almost every day this year. Now, all my 34 inch waist hiut's are falling down and i'm going to have to replace them. Thanks a lot mate. Don't think I don't see through your evil plan.

This is not contentious for actual serious scientists. Hundreds of peer reviewed papers show we can reach 100% energy from renewables (so no fossil fuel or nuclear) at competitive costs. See my pinned thread.

Innovation is overrated. Yesterday I was speaking to a university class and, as it usually does, a question about innovation came up. "How do you stay innovative? How do you encourage innovative thinking at work?" My answer: You don't. Read on: world.hey.com/jason/innovati…

Meanwhile, right now, I'm at the Glastonbury Festival, which is an oasis of astonishing organisation - a temporary city the size of Bath! With it's own hospital, bio-degradable crisp-packets and pioneering buildings made of fungus! - and that currently rare thing: joy.

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