Dan

In less than 50 years, unfettered capitalism has extracted over $80 trillion from the middle class and transferred it to the richest 0.01%.

As productivity exploded, the profits went to management and shareholders, not the workers. We must bring back Roosevelt’s New Deal measures. Tax billionaires!

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

On fire tonight Joe

this is brilliant: it has made me realise that I am taking the same approach to LLMs that I take to alcohol (the advantages of using them are not sufficient to offset the risks; I only find myself wanting to try when I'm really stressed out; and I know myself enough to know it would be addictive)

Heat, next…

The worst Conservatives as well.

A big problem with The End of History is it’s far too long and has far too much Hegel so most people know the title but not the book and missed the crucial and prophetic caveat at the end. This book should have remained an essay

This is very good. Depressing as shit but very good.

To you, maybe..! But I have a hunch that the UK will follow the US and vote in right wing populists at the next available opportunity. Against all reason/evidence that points to the fact that it will be a terrible mistake.

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

EXCL: Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to officials in his push for UK to consider following Australia’s landmark ban - @kiranstacey.bsky.social reports

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Now I want to go to the pub… quiz soon?!

4 hours???? Somebody need they ass beat for this

This secret traitor stuff is nonsense

Just found my old collection of return tickets. They took me back.

I loved it. Thank you Rian!

Might be UK-centric this… but reminds me of Peter Baynham telling Richard Herring (as he was returning from his grandfathers funeral) ‘I’m delighted that your Grandad is dead’, which made him cry and laugh at the same time. Great use of the word ‘delighted’.

I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

🎯

Breaking: The Darkness Returns WASHINGTON—With deep unease and outright horror haunting millions of Americans as a great shroud enveloped the land, late-breaking reports confirmed Monday that the darkness had returned. Bystanders f...

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

Nearly the weekend, lads.

100% agree that it’s a not a film that a proper writer would have wrote. Story is thin + you don’t care about anyone really. But it works like a big theme park ride, but with the dynamic force being… time.

US one sheet: The Thing

US one sheet: Back to the Future

US one sheet: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

US one sheet: Return of the Jedi

RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.

I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

This house has a great porch and gets plenty of natural light, but if you’re going to spend 12 hours a day on Reddit, it doesn’t really matter. Reference #57893

Real Estate: As Good A Place To Become Embroiled In Conspiracy Theories As Any