Hustle culture. Gig economy. It's all just neo-feudalism. You don't have to doff your cap to your manor lord, but you do have to work yourself to death for your corporate overlords. Grow your brand or whatever, serf.

Probably dancer

"First they came for the Left, and I thought hell yeah I hate those guys"

Anyone who tells people that they just have to accept GenAI as a fact of life would have been collaborators during World War Two. It's a clear tell.

plus ça change

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️

i think we've all learned something tonight about the size of the market for events where there's a chance to see an influencer beaten to death

Every once in a while I'm reminded of Blue Zones - areas of the world where people supposedly live for extremely long times - the billions people have spent researching this idea, and the quite convincing evidence that the entire thingis just based on pension fraud www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Need to make this happen for real