Starhotel Terminus, Naples, Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I accidentally one-click bought some climate denialist garbage on Amazon by swiping too hard. I hesitated for a second before returning. Perhaps I should consider alternative viewpoints. I didn’t want to give the crank any money, though. Have I just cancelled?
I’ve got superstitious over the years over the order I put the vegetables into a ciambotta.
Mitigating the risk of extinction from an out of touch and amoral billionaire class should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Your occasional guide to understanding the right:
- Classical Liberal = over-credentialed incel reactionary.
- Free Speech Absolutist = loves sound of own voice. In a sexual way.
- Contrarian = broken down boomer journalist desperate for clicks.
A coot among the pigeons
The bourgeois populist press coverage of inflation and interest rates is as howlingly vacuous as the national populist press coverage of immigration and “small boats”.
The already awful Horizon scandal that saw innocent sub-postmasters gaoled because of computer system errors gets worse and worse. Shocking, depressing, it lays bare Britain’s dark side.
Post Office Horizon inquiry used racist term for Black people, documents show
I’ve noticed that elites tend to use “intelligent” as a shorthand for “narcissistic, Machiavellian, self-serving” rather than, say, “insightful, inventive, clear-thinking”. This informs elite views of “artificial intelligence” - both what it is, and how it will be used.
The staff canteen has been replaced by a staff food-bank. You know when you’ve been Toried.