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Title page of 'Epitome Fabii Quintiliani nuper summo & ingenio & diligentia collecta' (Paris, Simon de Colines, 1536)

Drawing of a rabbit

Our intern Audrey found this lovely drawing left by a past reader. They traced one of the bunnies from the title page onto the other side. The rabbits were part of the device or emblem of 16th century Parisian printer Simon de Colines.

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

Has any anything "Tsar" EVER managed to do a good job? More Ivan the Terrible than Catherine the Great, these lads

Maybe we should appoint a this thing Lenin or a that thing Yurovsky instead.

Not necessarily. They're all corrupt otherwise they woudn't be in politics. Trump's just too thick & too arrogant to hide it effectively

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

You can't just wave a magic wand and not lift a passenger cap

If Canada treated the US with respect it deserves, it would build a 10 mile high wall emblazoned with the words "You elected a rapist racist paedo fraudster - twice! LOSERS! SAD!"

(Mexico should do the same)

Straight up blackmail

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption, amid a “worrying trend” of democratic institutions being eroded by political donations, cash for access and state targeting of campaigners and journalists. Experts and businesspeople rated 182 countries based on their perception of corruption levels in the public sector to compile a league table that was bookended by Denmark at the top with the lowest levels of corruption and South Sudan at the bottom. Continue reading...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

"I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths."
-*Fahrenheit 451*

Poor poor Wossie, he will be forever un-Googleable. Mind you after that time he & Russell Brand "prank" called Andrew Sachs, that might be a relief. Still, better a creep than a murderer, eh, Wossie?

Even more reality: Elon is prepared to destroy the Earth (the only place we can thrive) so he can build his slave state in space

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Apparently Trump has started ANOTHER round of demanding the Nobel Peace Prize, & his ambassador is having shit fits because the Speaker of the Sejm said Trump doesn't deserve it. Trump DOESN'T deserve it, & if he ever gets it, the Nobel Institute should pack up its bongos & go to hell

It's not just property investors, although they are certainly part of it. CEOs are broadly speaking much more likely to be socio/psychopaths than the general population. They're about power & CONTROL. They can't stand the thought of people not being under their eye every second of every day

Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too.

But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing.

He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him.

www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/bl...

Grocery inflation in Ireland rises to almost 7% In the four weeks to 25 January, shoppers spent more than €1.2 billion on groceries.

Grocery inflation in Ireland has risen by close to 7% when compared with this time last year.

Meanwhile, take-home grocery sales in Ireland rose by 5% in the four-week period to 25 January, with shoppers spending €1.2 billion over this timeframe.
jrnl.ie/6951924

Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn China, India and EU countries were among the signatories of a report that criticized the prevailing measures of economic success.

More than 150 countries including China, India and European Union members have signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity.

The Chinese Factory That Opened in the U.S. and Clobbered Its Rivals President Trump has pressured trading partners for investment in U.S. manufacturing plants. What if local industries can’t compete?

This WSJ story about a Chinese auto-glass plant in Ohio is interesting less as a China story than as a window into the challenges of U.S. industrial policy going forward. 1/

www.wsj.com/business/tar...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

Omg. The greatest grifter ever has pivoted from Mars to the moon.
Laughing.
Buy my IPO!

TL;DR: NO it is NOT

What it is doing (shudders!) is preventing the Confederate government & its enablers from corrupting European values, ideas, & discourse.

Vance says the EU isn't doing enough for European values. Yankkks don't even know what European values are. Value Numero Uno: Trump sux

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but … if you were an evil cabal trying to turn people into easily manipulable fucking idiots then aggressively pushing Gen AI would be a good place to start.

All this crap being foisted on us because tech creeps can't admit they fucked up & inVESTors can't be made to lose money.

No one asked for this, no one wants it & no one needs it. All people need is food, shelter, clean water, a means of heating, a flock of attack geese... You get the gist.

Friendly reminder:

NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres

EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet

Of course they're not. Poutine can't afford to admit he's had his gelatinous white arse kicked. He fully intends to seize Ukraine, & if he can't manage it himself, he'll get his Yankkk asset to arrange it. Anything short of that, he's toast!

Stuck in the past: Ireland’s remote working policies are built for a world that doesn't exist As housing, transport and climate pressures mount, Government remote working policy is dragging employees backwards, writes Labour’s George Lawlor.

As housing, transport and climate pressures mount, the government's remote working policy is dragging the workforce backwards, writes Labour's George Lawlor

jrnl.ie/6948406

Space X focusing on human settlement on the Moon instead of Mars, Musk says The move puts Musk in alignment with US President Donald Trump’s shift away from sending Americans to Mars.

Pathetic. All he does is talk & talk & talk, & interfere with people more able in such a way as to cause chaos
www.thejournal.ie/space-x-focu...

Reported, investigated - and then dropped: the sexual violence cases that never end up in court “I have such a rage in me,” said one woman. “I accepted a jury might not convict, but to not even get a trial?”

You could be forgiven for thinking this is a cop problem, but it's a DPP problem, & a government problem, & a society problem. Everyone is to blame for enabling rapists & abusers
www.thejournal.ie/sexual-viole...