➰ Last Chance Rodeo
Have we got to the stage yet where the parasites shuck off their Tory and begin to seek out a Labour host?
Sunak would not have given his climate speech if the Tories didn’t think us fools.
Tories vs ruinous Brexit: “Get it done!”
Tories vs existential climate crisis: “Let’s just slow things down for a culture wars poll bounce”. Not before shuttling over to the US to ensure UK banks get IRA bonanza dibs.
Sunak planning to drop net zero policies in pre-election challenge to Labour
I’m pretty sure everyone who booked Russell Brand knew what kind of person he was. Still, they went ahead and booked him.
Crazy how these credentialed white men reacted with a fantasy projection when an algorithm got as good at passing the tests they took as tokens of their entitled intelligence. “It’s a really clever machine and it will get cleverer and cleverer and, and, and turn you into paperclips! So there!”
What a steaming pile of crap Resy is. Truly awful user experience that must take some experience to have so enshittened.
It’s curious just how many boomer and gen-x academic and academic-adjacent types who spoke of the need for the young to develop critical thinking skills in the face of nascent Web 2.0 are now covid-denying antivaxxers railing against being imprisoned in 15 minute neighbourhoods.
Currently reading: The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel. Thoughtful and articulate on how meritocracy has metastatised in neoliberal societies 📚
Neoliberal meritocracy doesn’t stand up to even the lightest scrutiny. I thought that its credentialed elite advocates championed it for self-congratulatory or self-serving reasons. That they do it out of ignorance and incuriosity seems now both more likely and considerably more depressing.
Oxford university, Britain’s educational Mordor, spewed out hordes of neoliberal PPE graduates who laid waste to public life and brought a Britain they had broken to its knees. Now its dank courtyards nurture the neofascist Longtermist death cult.