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Guy Herbert
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First described (2004) #databasestate. ex-GenSec @NO2ID. MD @MarjacqScripts. @FIPR_infopol board. Cassandra. Memorious. Irony in the soul. Purity-test failure.
London W1 mostly Katılım Eylül 2011
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Someone seems to have confiscated Steve Bray's ghetto blaster. Thank fuck for that.
Hastings, England 🇬🇧 English
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So well said. “I just want to exist without a digital leash.” A brief interaction with an operator shouldn’t be followed by a survey to evaluate that interaction along six dimensions.
S★@xxyllinn
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
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Abject nonsense. UK household wealth is £15 trillion or so. The billionaires own £670 billion. That's 4.5%.
Jezza's confused GDP - which is annual income - with wealth. Which is not a good look for someone trying to tell us about economics.
Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn
150 billionaires own a quarter of this nation’s wealth. That is totally and utterly obscene.
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“Inside reclusive
Ann Widdecombe murder suspect's council house - news clippings of Nigel Farage pinned to the walls
The discovery and a forensic search of the suspect's devices led terror cops to take full charge of the investigation”
@TheSun
Will the rest of the press cover this? Horrendous
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Peter Magyar nominates chess legend Judit Polgar as Hungary's interim president.
bgnes.com/politics/peter…
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"Sing to me of the man, Muse,
the man of twists and turns"
The opening line tells you Odysseus is a sneaky, lying dude, and you expect historically accurate? The Odyssey itself is miles from historically accurate! It has Gods and a cyclops!
Illiterates commenting on Homer.
Metatron@pureMetatron
Bro Christopher Nolan had ONE job. To make a historically accurate Odyssey and he failed!
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Is this his version of 'tread more lightly'?
BBC News - Burnham to promise 'more breathing room' in first speech as PM
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@AndrewOrlowski Or maybe never learned enough there to know school was sometimes wrong or simplifying. Once you pile up enough actual knowledge, it all seems pretty uncertain.
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Thinking you know everything when you know nothing isn’t some superpower, it’s trapping oneself in a state of permanently arrested development.
Some people just didn’t have their heads flushed down the toilet enough at school, I suppose.
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Teaser for today’s column, on one of the world’s weirdest CEOs.
Last week Stripe was reportedly putting together a bid to buy out the competition, PayPal, removing choice for businesses and consumers. More friction and cost for enterprises. 📉
To distract us, its CEO creates Panglossian influence campaigns that hype a nonexistent AI boom - one that exists entirely in his head. Maybe he should just stick to the knitting?
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Somehow decreasing demand will reduce home prices, but increasing supply won’t.
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@worstall It's got to the several boxes stage. So I may have a problem.
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@guy_herbert I have a large box of etc collected over the decades. Whoooo, the joy when I was able to present the Wifey - who complains bitterly about the presence of the box - with exactly the cable she required.
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When you find yourself wondering: "WilI I ever need a SCART cable again," and you have 4. That.
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@cthulhupotamus ARe you coming back to Britain to bask in the Soft Left renaissance under T-shirt Andy?
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@guy_herbert I am a few days from moving house and all I can say is my life consists of dealing with this kind of dilemma
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Nailed it
“By the end, the problem is larger than ever, yet institutional confidence has recovered completely.”
Polemic Paine@PolemicTMM
Today's brief post. The Instutional Response Curve polemicpaine.substack.com/p/the-instutio… After years of reading official reports, press releases, public inquiries, corporate statements and media briefings, I have finally managed to compress the entire modern policy response to problems into a single Kűbler-Ross style diagram.
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Not looking forward to Burnham moving on to the swimsuit round.
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@MerrynSW Sad to say it mostly sounds like the "industrial strategy" people. The really difficult bit is less government doing less.
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@juliahobsbawm It's an affliction I can sympathise with, but not share.
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I can't help it. This morning I feel it. A bubble of political optimism.
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@residentadviser Well politics is always about the least worst option. I beg leave to doubt if that's it.
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@guy_herbert I’ve spent over a decade thinking Lawson was a bit ridiculous. Funny thing is I now think (and this depends on Reform and failure of McSweeney) he’s got a coherent and rational case on strategy for the Labour Party. But again. Direction and trade-offs.
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Can be a success. Can be a disaster. But vibes and pluralism as an objective in and of itself won’t do it. Trade-offs. Choices. Decisions. Means saying “no” to someone. Direction means choosing a path. Which also means saying “no”. And means disappointing someone.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
“To not appoint Ed Miliband to be your chancellor, to do the specific job you're telling the country you want to do, will be a bad element of the first day in the job." Miliband is the only person “who has a clue” how to help Andy Burnham, says director of Compass Neal Lawson.
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The BFI 70mm IMAX is sold out till September 10th. The Science Museum's(!), too. Hint that that film may be a commercial success.
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@wallaceme That would be very popular with football non-fans too.
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To make up for all the hydration breaks and halftime shows in this World Cup, the next World Cup should have no breaks at all. Just kick off for the first group match, then play straight through all the way to the final, job done in six and a half thrilling if quite confusing days.
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