Rather the opposite I feel; she’s full of thoughts and most likely, just like our inner reflections

But, what if, yet again, we are all being invited to look in the wrong direction. It would be a very different movie if it involved sex trafficking/ kompromat operations from the inside; from their very inception decades ago. The vacuity of what is shown is the invisibility cloak/ magic trick reveal

Unless he’s rehearsing a stand up routine? There was an Englishman, a Scots…

Majority of Reflux voters will suppose that ‘net zero’ isn’t enough, or perhaps it’s an EU fishing restriction

Never fear! There’ll be a film outfit there soon, shooting a car commercial

As a man does

Another dead heat

Blizzard Eddies

Too like Blackbooks

Musk will need strong lotions for that journey

Maths question: what time did the team commence observations ?

Banquo’s Roast

Don’t forget the work put into putting sound studio floors on every planet

Manstaining

There’s definitely a Flood and there is an Ark; but Tech and Media and whoever controls it hold the key

Vexation without Representation

The Olympics is festooned with flags; it’s so 1908 with all its questionable nationalism, and yet, a significant
number of athletes have chosen to compete for a country of their choice, through grand-parentage, or dual, or ‘Olympic’ citizenship or other esoteric methods. Perhaps time to reframe it

The Cloaca Maxima was probably a romantic piece of engineering in its day (and still in use!). Love Drains Eternal

So, you believe in miracles

The area of contention appears to be who decides a militia is well-regulated?

The shift is away from the rule of law, to rule by law. It stems from gross asymmetries of wealth and power combined with new technologies of media and surveillance. The scales are tipped and can’t be balanced right now

But did you see Hamnet?

Wasn’t it awful? Vv and I went tonight and quite properly expected a stark depiction of codependency and obsession against a backdrop of cruel class conflict; instead we got soft porn in a cliched Barbie in period costume. Ah well, each generation has to find their own angle I guess

What’s at the heart of the problem is tech’s capacity to amplify or choke via algorithmic systems; when scaling is monetised all but corporations or wealthiest are effectively disenfranchised

Overton Window drift is extremely difficult to counter in the face of hybrid warfare. The ‘Trotsky Icepick’ threat nudges centrist commentators to equivocate even in the face of outrages; “If ‘they’ win I can blend in, if ‘they’ lose centrists won’t execute me’ Don’t tell them Pike.

Regrettably, all Social Media and AI platforms are now infrastructure : governed less by entrepreneurial independence — more by Orwellian principles of propaganda and surveillance. The key is scaling. Who controls what is scaled by Tech, and what is not.

Darkly illuminating

A prescient glimpse of the bleak prospects for humanity, when capitalism and its scaling technologies keep driving climate collapse

On the basis of hybrid warfare reverse logic, I’d be interested to learn whether Robby Tomlinson is being paid by ISIS’s paymasters as well as the usual enemies. What a rich mosaic of shite late capitalism is, in the face of catastrophic climate change

The gross asymmetries of wealth and power have turned the legislature into a theatre of powerlessness. Instead of representing their constituents a great many serve to instruct them about this new political reality.