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20.12.2024 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I disagree with his take as to why it's happened though, re: media

They were not ruined trying to make as much money as possible, per se

They were ruined trying to survive in an online world where the tech behemoths have sucked all the oxygen (and $$$) out of the room

Proof: most went bust

19.12.2024 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Brilliant @edzitron.com

Young people shout Boomer when I argue tech is a broken promise

They just don't know better

The obnoxious endless-scroll clickbait ads hanging off media stories like soiled toilet paper

I'm old enough to remember the first banners :(

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

19.12.2024 17:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

John Henry: I, John Henry, can beat any machine Robot: you, me, smash bros *J.H. and robot playing smash bros* Robot, thinking: sweet fuck this guy's good

21.11.2024 02:18 — 👍 30661    🔁 3753    💬 124    📌 68

Because we saw what happened last time?

In principle I agree Mark, but the tragedy of the commons looms large on social media.

21.11.2024 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have written probably more than anyone on this subject (hundreds of thousands of words) and the answer is that executives often have no idea what happens at their companies or what actual work looks like

20.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 1919    🔁 412    💬 44    📌 13

Our friends shape our memory On Monday, I mentioned that our social environment (i.e.

This clever analysis fails to explain why my friends so often fail to remember that I told them so... ;)

klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/our-friend...

20.11.2024 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Important context here:

● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's see who's angry:

● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

20.11.2024 07:36 — 👍 6655    🔁 2931    💬 214    📌 105

A bold and auspicious start. When you become President Rinicorn they will dig this one out of the archives and laugh. Nervously. Knowing about your strict capital punishment laws.

18.11.2024 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0