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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2h

Have you ever come across the French medieval epic the song of Roland. That’s all battles and is the most fight-y written thing from that period I can think of (early 12th c).

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2h

Some big bloke shouting SHIELD WALL

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2h

And a very good afternoon to you!

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3h

We should *really* fund / promote university courses based on their lack of obvious vocational relevance. What’s the point in teaching everyone basic accountancy vs alternatively evidential analysis skills from (say) medieval history?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3h

I used to do lots of graduate recruiting and if anything we steered away from people with finance / accountancy degrees because we could teach them that stuff. We were way more interested in how people thought, impression of natural aptitude etc etc.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3h

I am just guessing that there aren’t going to be a lot of PE rope climbing out performers on this part of the platform.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

Everything is downstream of the economy - except, very curiously, economic policy.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 6h

There’s this magnificent insight from @pfrazee.com from a while ago that all tech dev progress ends up in fervent discussions about wording.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 6h

I guess we can notionally divide the big guys into two different businesses - other business (ie non AI) and AI business and I am guessing that the latter is (on a stand alone basis) unprofitable but driving much of the valuation. A sort of internal bubble.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 6h

Totally understand

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 6h

The bubble truth sayers (i) want to divert investment away from smaller players (II) (somehow) don’t think they’re in ‘that’ bubble

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 6h

We’re now at this surreal point where literally everyone thinks we’re in a bubble (including prominent bubble inhabitants) and yet…

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 7h

The energy sector (big oil companies) provides decades of precedent etc re trading arrangements between governments and companies

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 7h

It was really awful - and frightening. Because you wonder if you’ll ever get better.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 7h

I had long covid as well - for about a year. Really killed my fitness. Fortunately all fine now.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

FRANCE 🤝 UK

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10h

Think an underpriced 2029 scenario is "ungovernable mess".

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

It’s incredibly curious that people don’t realise the obvious ridiculousness of their own proposition.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

This is very true. One of the curiously unfair things about more than exercise (a good thing) is that initial gains are small (because you’re not ‘fit’ etc).

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

1. Under pressure
2. Struggling
3. Beleaguered
4. Floundering
5. Desperate

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

Yes I deliberately didn’t use it in my skeet text. Relatedly, it’s noteworthy how the Cons change of course rightward has resulted in their abandoning Boris. Curiously, this creates an opportunity for him.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

Everything is downstream of the economy - except, very curiously, economic policy.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 9h

From today’s Playbook - I find it curious that none of these political geniuses ever seem to consider how UK GDP growth might have looked in the few years post Brexit (a time of acute focus on relative economic performance) w/out immigration.

From today’s politico playbook:

Exhibit A: "The Boriswave — and we should call it that - has f*cked us. Our record on everything in the last government, prisons, immigration, economy, is sh*t," one Tory figure lamented last night. "There's naivety at the top about just how much time they need to be spending doing surgery and showing we're learning our lessons from the last government, and the whole 'we'll look like the grown-ups eventually' thing isn't going to work."

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 19h

Great example. Or de Gaulle.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 19h

It’s also weirdly post modernist. Everything is surface - a series of intersecting planes that can be easily moved / altered etc. Put in a different way, it’s pure presentation (referentiality is largely irrelevant) - but not in a good way.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 20h

It's Potemkin politics. All front with nothing behind it. And because it's all front, they can change it at a whim and do not need to show any philosophical underpinning. Truly the Ratner of political parties.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 20h

I have this entirely unsubstantiated view that people form their political consciousness at around 15. So its contemporary culture then plus influence of parents and grandparents.

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