John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969)

I don't agree with this, but if we let the public design the banknotes this is what they would look like:

This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video: How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes? "Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful

Happy Solar Pessimism Chart Update Day to all who celebrate

5/ Maslow’s hierarchy was designed as a model of individual motivation, but it maps onto collective political behaviour with uncomfortable precision. A society that has secured abundant energy, industrial production, and physical safety creates the conditions in which political

An absolute marmalade-dropper of an interview with Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. This is magnificent.

I've been working on a long article about British elites and the role classics played in their education. I am an edu-trad and believe in the best that has been known & thought. But you can have too much of a good thing, and in the 19th C I think Britain overdosed on Classics!

This is the essence of Silicon Valley brain

No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit

Watching AllBirds stock be +430% after announcing a pivot from being a shoe company to a GPU as a service AI company

Brian Cox explaining why he doesn’t have a home in SNP-run Scotland: “I find Dundee difficult. The poverty is very difficult to take. To see the heroin addiction, to see where it’s got to…”

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

Tweed if invented by nerds in California would be heralded as a miracle fabric. I would have chosen a sexier picture (see below) but your point still stands.

Find this selective (and possibly sectarian) Puritanism quite funny when her party wants to legalise heroin

This is partly because many Americans still like to believe that journalists are a kind of priestly caste, with a higher calling; in Britain they have traditionally been seen as disfunctional larrikins; mischievous, shit-stirring chancers, somewhat beneath the salt. Depictions is

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

Americans will come here and be like “I can’t find a coworking open at 7AM on a Sunday”

European reaction to the "economic output"