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pureronin.bsky.social
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I simply could not tell you what McSweeney believes in. I know what he doesn’t believe. But I have literally no idea what he wants to do with the power he so accurately and purposefully sought. My response to Get In.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

absolutely crazy that BigTech CEOs will look at something they acquired when it was a startup built by 8 employees in a dorm room and go "that's our moat, that's our too big to fail, nobody could do without that or replace it, we have our throat on Europe's windpipe and all we need to do is squeeze"

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

[new draft post] Segmentation fault drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/12/31/s...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

Do you have work stress dreams after a long stretch off? Well last night I dreamt the company summer picnic was attacked by feral hogs.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

On my way to IWM Duxford. Going to get in fights about V-Force bombers. Valiant is the only one that did its job on time and budget and was retired before it became a drag on the RAF. Victor is a crap tanker aircraft and Vulcan is a waste of money to put a hole in some South American tarmac.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

the site cannot just ignore him and assume the problem will go away because his entire thing rests on being the problem he is not going to clean up his act, he’s going to keep doing more shit like this until either he’s banned or a bunch of the site’s core userbase leaves

submitted 75 days ago • 25 comments

Here's my submission to the #NewTownsTaskforce call for evidence: 27,000 homes around rural stations in south Cambridgeshire with the potential to house more than 100,000 people. russellcurtis.co.uk/2024/11/10/g...

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

an excerpt from "The Unaccountability Machine", in which I try to outline a theory of the sort of thing that keeps happening open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments

In 2010-11 Hampshire County Council spent £381 million on social care - equivalent to 53 per cent of its budget. In 2024, it estimates it'll spend £809 million - equivalent to 83 per cent of its budget. That's unsustainable. From the FT:

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

New book by @mikerampton.bsky.social arrived today. My son likes the pictures and I like the text so we’re both happy.

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

In amongst all the trivia and nonsense about freebiegate, Labour really do need to get their political 'story' together. /1

submitted 128 days ago • 14 comments

I’ve been on a Revolutions of 1848 reading kick the last month or two and I’m fascinated by the intense military campaigns, especially in Germany and Italy. They mostly involve citizen soldiers, with some professionals, and were all kinds of messy. So naturally, it got me thinking of the Civil War

submitted 129 days ago • 10 comments

1/6 Daren Acemoglu notes that demographic changes and the rise of AI and automation will result in profound changes in the US and global economies that could either benefit or hurt Americans. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/o...

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War. Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

submitted 139 days ago • 49 comments