Stockport Viaduct, by Arthur Delaney, 1927-87 (private collection).

The Inflation Reduction Act turns two this week. Here's what we know: - Clean investment is up 71% ($493bn); - Clean investment = *more than half* of total private investment growth - Private investment is 5-6x public investment Not bad for a toddler. cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/tallyi…

"'We should be very careful about assessing disruption as bad for China.' When the…pandemic wreaked havoc…Chinese firms…grabbed business from slower rivals…'China prefers stability, but when there is chaos they think opportunistically.'" David Rennie economist.com/china/2024/08/…

adieu Tancrède

Adrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler, pictured with his father, a coal miner (1974)

Consider how often you have to confirm your identity or enter your information. The amount of data entry phones and computers require is something else. Slowly getting worse over time. Information technology was supposed to liberate us from paperwork, yet it multiplies it.

[Chief]: I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off.

New York with Moon, 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart

The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology is recruiting 8 new members. A brilliant opportunity to shape science and technology policy at the highest level! …for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8395

Just started Neil Price's "The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings". Immediately struck by this section. What a great way to open the book! This is the great joy of history. Occupying the minds of those who saw the world so differently from you.

Getting visited by hordes of demonic pigs was an occupational hazard in the Middle Ages (BnF, Français 50, f. 256v, Vincent of Beauvais' Le Mirouer historial)