The OpenAI game of thrones reminds us that in the broösphere you will be replaced by AI, not them.

Interesting that OpenAI’s backers and funders are keen to hang on to insubstantial TED-talker Sam Altman: it suggests that OpenAI in fact have nothing.

I wonder what causes the painful broken glass in the ears treble that I hear when listening to digital music. Is it my ageing ears, crap equipment, or the wrong settings? Or have people got used to sharp but lifeless, shallow and un-nuanced highs in pursuit of thumping bass?

A tugboat pulls a large float advertising pesto (of all things) past the O2.

A float advertising pesto is being pulled up the Thames by a tugboat past the O2 dome on the Greenwich Peninsula as the sun sets.

Tories to ban themselves under new extremism proposals.

Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

Britain’s elite institutions appear to be spectacularly incapable of producing a governing class able to run a modern country. Perhaps this explains the dominant reactionary thread that is woven through an establishment that aspires to rule the past.

Okta, the new way to spell disingenuous cowboys. Joking apart - whole governments trust identities to these muppets.

Working from home? Here’s a tip. Get yourself a cuckoo clock. Muji sell nice modern-style ones.

The Covid Inquiry so far - journalism and Oxbridge need a long period of sober reflection.

I was at a good Newham community event today on their People Powered Places strand. It got me thinking about transformative people. I had a (sad, ageing GenXer behind the curve) epiphany: I’ve been privileged to know some transformative people, and 9 out of 10 - I say again: 9 out of 10 - are women.