Stephen Bush

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Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

What's the most stupid movie reference you have to stop yourself saying regularly? Mine is not replying to "Can I be frank?" with "Okay, Frank. Can I be Bullwinkle".

The core problem for Starmer is that what made him Labour leader and prime minister was his ability to judge what the audience in front of him wanted to hear - to work out which narrative would get him to the next step on the board. But you can't run a country on storytelling.

It’s a (fantastic) genre of piece that only exists because of streaming in my view, because it’s brought a type of programming that writer-parents generally disapprove of in via the same route they get Succession or Severance.

This is really good news and a welcome break from Labour’s usual “all commerce is suspect, other than slot machines, which are unimpeachable” blindspot.

I, uh, suspect that one or two of my followers may be interested in this. 😳

There’s a whole set of words that Brits of A Certain Age wrongly think are Americanisms, and my pet theory is that what unites these words is they are easier for British actors to say in an American accent.

Meta hoovers up all the information they can find about you. Is it to make their AI good? No. Is it to improve the reccomended posts you see? No. The adverts? No. But do they use it to make sure their products aren’t harmful? Also no.

Enjoying Joshua Cohen’s “The Netayanhus” even more on a re-read.

In Fnac (French HMV). Seeing Halo being for sale on the PlayStation is just unnatural, like seeing a dog working at the till.

Fascinating yarn this:

Fantastic stuff by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social: come for the fascinating history of publishing’s fabulist memoirs, stay for the (rightly) dismissive asides about some of the commentary on the issue:

Despite - or perhaps, because of - their curious habit of saying their goodbyes *on board the train*, over two decades of European rail travel I have come to the conclusion that Italians are simply better passengers than the rest of us.