Small to large offices to let

Prickly pear cactus in the Botanic Garden in Copenhagen

Late capitalism - it didn’t take a nuclear war

A page from the calendar

Of all the second languages Tower Hamlets Council would include in notices, German is most unexpected: only 2.1% of its population was born in Germany.

The magic went away

Morning sky over Hackney Central station

No train on the tracks

Crispy bagged salad

Fire prevention

In the well-being corner of Canary Wharf, the over-monied can pay to be locked in a freezer

East End sakura

This tree is in Vallance Road Gardens, Whitechapel, in London’s East End. The last V2 to strike London during WW2 hit on the north side of this park, destroying a social housing block there, killing 132.

Pigeons enjoy a characteristic East End meal

Windy afternoon for the coots on Telehouse Pond

Ageism. It’s the last acceptable prejudice, isn’t it? The prejudice you can have and still be woke.

Do you see the moorhen, serene on her nest, amongst all the trash?

The beginnings of foliage

Chicken bucket

Forgotten card

Spring flowers at the Trinity Community Centre in Canning Town

Toy duck at Cody Dock

Say AGI isn’t hype to dazzle customers and bamboozle regulators, but something the AI bros believe in and are working towards. They are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create the enslaved digital entities they plan rent out to do the world’s bullshit jobs. They could invest the money in real jobs to tackle the climate crisis. The problem here is that real workers expect to get paid.

Interesting Owen Jones piece in the Guardian today. Worth a look.

The line-up of British politics right now is right-nationalist/cod-right-nationalist/right-libertarian (Reform/Conservative Party), and conservative/centre-right (Labour).

The Tories’ chance of winning is infinitesimally small. What matters now is whether anyone who wants to redistribute wealth and power is denied a voice in Starmer’s administration […] When inevitable disillusionment with a government rooted in deceit and lacking any solutions to Britain’s woes seeps in, it will be the radical right that stands to benefit.

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What does Altman mean by “very subtle societal misalignments”? Valley gibberish, or does he have something in mind?

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