I'd put it the other way: mainstream politicians don't understand basic economic principles: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/politics-v...

Any video available?

Michael Prescott, who refused to answer all media questions until his DCMS appearance, spent 90 minutes in front of the committee – and wasn't asked *once* about his own report misquoting Donald Trump. What a farce.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

There’s a great Clapping Music app in the AppStore. apps.apple.com/gb/app/steve...

If the government broke news on literally any other platform, more people would move onto those platforms, and that would change the ambient assumptions of what is and isn't worthwhile.

If you're not in Cyber – basically the position is there is now nothing companies should be exposing to the Internet they run themselves. Hell not even a VPN if you can afford a proper cloud-proxied one. Hacking is way too advanced and companies don't have competency, nothing is really safe.

A trillion dollars of capex in five years. The viable products so far are: galaxy-brain autocompletes that poison the well of human knowledge; rote generators that fill up any available space like expanding foam; and machines that put tits on squirrels.

American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.

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