Baby steps.
Next: Make them pay inheritance tax!
11.03.2026 09:41
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Baby steps.
Next: Make them pay inheritance tax!
Maybe this was what we'd have paid our £50 for?!?! (Or rather… not for!)
Perhaps one aspect of this is simply time? My son had to study an order to magnitude harder through A Levels and uni than me and his mum did in our day.
People dunking on this saying "That's just the men" are somewhat telling that they don't pay much attention to women's sport either, because… the women's cricket team are actually also quite bad right now!
Perhaps a key difference with earlier waves of automation is that people needed to buy clothes and bread?
But when *all* the academics are using AI to churn out *all* the papers… who is ever going to read them? (Apart from other AIs?)
A TV showing rugby in a crowded pub
At Twickenham* for the rugby.
All the England fans applauding Italy - the first time they have ever beaten England.
(*Watching in a pub in Twickenham - the actual match is in Italy!)
I'm glad you said "slight" there, 'cos…
Taylor: Maybe this song is about Jake Gyllenhaal… maybe it's not? Who's to say?
Also Taylor: [Casts a guy who looks *exactly* like Jake Gyllenhaal in the video.]
(Don't get me wrong - I am an actual real-life Swiftie, but… c'm on Tay!!)
This is not a thought-through thought. (More of a "vibe-thought"!)
Vibe-coding feels like a tacit admission that AI isn't actually intelligent.
Like… why do you need to vibe-code an app to manage your schedule? If the AI was truly intelligent, it would just be able to do that wouldn't it?
My (adult) son started subscribing to a weekly newspaper so that he can shut it all off 6 days a week; then catch up on Saturday so he doesn’t get totally out of the loop. Think the lad has a point tbqh.
Part of the problem is that the tabloids would go mental if we paid the going rate for the expertise as civil-servant salaries; but if we pay it via corporate contracts nobody notices.
I'm English (so usually drive a RH drive on the LH side of the road) and I've driven hire-cars in Europe (LH drive on the RH side) and the main problem is remembering which side of the car to get in. Once you are in, it is fine - there is only one stick, so you use that one!
The "competitive advantage" of AI only works if you are the only one using it. If everyone is using it, it just becomes a pointless arms race that no one can win, and benefits no one*.
*Except for the AI companies, of course!
Ok, so say this guy is right - AI can produce academic papers better than a PhD. What then?
His AI publishes a thousand papers every year, but… so does everyone else's!
Who will ever even read them?
Who could possibly have predicted that trashing a trusted, 200-year-old brand would have consequences?
... a massive pain because it would require us to create a conventional constitution like the USA; and that would cause years of arguments that no one can be bothered to have.
Both parliament and the monarchy have existed side by side for the best part of 1,000 years - and over that time we’ve had a gradual process of the monarchy ceding power to parliament. Parliament is now where 99.9% of the power lies, but taking the final step of making that 100% would be…
A bag of crisps which says “Now made with 25% recycled plastic”
I knew there was plastic in everything these days, but…
A metal bench seat in the form of an excited dog outside a chippy.
The dog is pretty excited about his fish & chips!
Bottles of beer in a shop window with names like “Black Death”
Plague themed beer in Eyam.
You're not wrong - that's why I picked that spot (across the river, looking the other way from the Opera House) to ask @rafnicholson.bsky.social to marry me! (I figured… how could she say 'No' to that view?)
Slightly contrarian take incoming…
Getting into journalism isn't the issue - it is *staying* in; partly because whilst a tiny number of people earn absolutely huge salaries (👀) almost everyone else is zero-hours/ minimum wage.
I don't supposed CM is quite so keen to address *that* problem tho.
A cup of coffee with a wrecked, graffitied building in the background.
The coffee in Kingston is posher than the view 😝
Garrick’s Temple - a small white “temple” with 4 pillars and a domed roof, by the River Thames.
Garrick’s Temple by the River Thames
Whenever anyone raises concerns about Palantir's involvement with the NHS, lots of Very Important and Knowledgeable People™️ tell them to calm down because "there will be contracts" and them taking the data "would be illegal" and … well… good luck with that.
A friend of ours is getting married in the US soon. She formally invited us but told us not to come because she couldn’t bare the thought of feeling responsible if something happened. Something like this.
I see where you are coming from, but I reckon Colchester is a better bet!
(Seriously… Orwell (in 1984) was right - Colchester is going first - that's where you have the biggest single-hit on the UK's military capability!)
Has The Guardian been bought-out by Reach?
Because this is a classic of the “Article is forced to admit it’s actually quite a bit more complicated than the clickbaity headline implies” genre.
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me was the absolute highlight of Eras for me - I saw it at Paris N1 and she put her entire soul into it.
