Couldn’t get a micro.blog window to show up on the app until I delete the cache. Odd.
Anyway, seem to have too many Mastodon accounts. Maybe micro.blog only is the way?
Enjoying The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video. One thing puzzles me, though. Why are the inhabitants of future London so theatrical, given there is, like, nobody left? Does future London represent the triumph of the Ted Talkers?
Theory: the people elect politicians to regulate the markets
Practice: the markets pay off politicians to screw over the people
There’s a distinction between riches and the return to riches. Redistribution isn’t taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it’s lowering the return to riches. Austerity is the opposite: it precisely intends to increase the benefits of being rich.
With only weeks to Christmas, the value destruction leaderboard looks like this:
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- Elon Must
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- Liz Truss
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- Vladimir Putin
Will nation states destroy the most value? The billionaire class is valiantly fighting back. As we enter the festive season, there’s everything to lose!
The cowardly state beholden to “the markets” is back.
Don’t people like Elon Musk cause real problems for meritocracy’s true believers?
Leafing through dismal opinion polls this morning, three words characterise Tory supporters: ignorant, complacent, unpleasant.
“Smart Home” technology would be a lot better if it actually worked.
All they have got, the TINA neoliberals, the handmaidens to the rentier class, is racist dogwhistles. That’s it. Nothing else.