➰ Last Chance Rodeo

Paula Vennells sure was paid an awful lot of money for not having a clue what was going on during her tenure as CEO of the Post Office.

Paula Vennells breaks down as she tells Post Office inquiry she was misled

In 10 years time who will deliver the lattes once AI has made human labour obsolete?

I love economists. Always so cute in their naïve, incelish smugness, and always so reliably wrong.

You’d think that if the UK government really wanted to “stop the boats”, they’d stop the City laundering the proceeds of the ticket sales.

It’s almost as if everything that politicians back is a bad idea. This is your cognitive elite in action.

Also, and incidentally, does anyone know why construction sites in China are always fenced in blue?

Small modular reactors don’t add up as a viable energy source

A glitch in the Matrix

Have I got this straight? A lawyer who is defending Trump for the money is using an attack line of accusing a porn actress of doing it for the money.

Here’s where we’re at in Britain. The Tories are high on their own supply, but they don’t know how fucked-up they are because their friends in the propaganda wing (that is what is often called, without irony, “the media”) keep offering them another toke from the bong.

TIL that “May the 4th” for English speakers doesn’t generally refer to the 五四运动, but some sort of lame Star Wars joke. I feel stupid.

Great day for London. Nasty, divisive culture-wars politics comprehensively rejected. And the swifts are back.