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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-02 at 13:06

Conversation happening right now: are hobbits woke?

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-02 at 11:15

Found my Ted talk: “Golf sale signs as the final form of late stage capitalism”

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-02 at 09:07

Sometimes I accidentally trigger Siri on my watch and it will do things like create a reminder based on what I’m saying. It can get pretty surreal.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-02 at 00:09

Corruption.

https://mas.to/@gleick/113931001430261472

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 23:14

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/01/reevess-heathrow-third-runway-report-was-commissioned-by-london-airport

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 21:32

This is why finance brings almost nothing to the economy. For every winner - in this case JPMorgan - there are losers. Finance, as John Lanchester notes, generates nothing useful to society.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-every-winner-a-loser

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 21:32

By complete coincidence, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, was singing the praises of tariffs the other day. Now it turns out JPMorgan’s about to make a tonne of money on demand for gold, driven by - you guessed it - fear of tariffs.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/01/jpmorgan-gold-bullion-trump-tariffs

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 21:32

Neither is finance an engine of growth for other businesses. Remarkably little financial activity is loans to business. Mostly, it’s banks borrowing money off each other, shuffling paper round and creating nothing valuable at all. Time for the whole thing to stop.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 15:47

What’s really astounding is Trump tried tariffs as a money raising scam last time, and it didn’t work. Yet here we are again.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/donald-trump-tariffs-what-are-they-global-trade-war-canada-china-mexico

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 15:43

How about restoring the level of central funding, which was cut in absolute terms by 40% by the Tories?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/01/council-tax-rise-bankruptcies-local-authorities-england

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 15:04

The biggest problem I have with Labour at the moment is they’re basically doing their level best to hand Reform the next election, by “proving” there isn’t any difference between them and the Tories.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 14:49

Bookmarking this one for future, bitter, laughter.

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/21/donald-trumps-america-will-not-become-a-tech-oligarchy

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 13:51

I’m watching a video from someone who switched from MacBook to Ubuntu on a ThinkPad and they have had HELL getting DaVinci to work. God bless them.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 13:24

Really interesting video from the System76 people working on COSMIC Alpha. What I didn't really understand was they are intending this to be a desktop that people can build other desktops on top of. That's really interesting.

https://youtu.be/bwrBKccfYws?si=OS92_XmaBiFvlXlC

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 10:48

If Reeves does this it will be the final piece of evidence that when she talks about “growth" she's talking about city profits rather than money for ordinary people.

https://www.ft.com/content/73e69eab-0820-49c5-a04e-a5748db93461

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 10:36

Apple to court: Please let us help Google avoid the law: https://technovia.co.uk/2025/02/01/apple-to-court-please-let.html

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 10:12

It's interesting that since Trump started throwing out tariffs left right and centre, the “UK/US mega free trade deal" Brexit mob have been very quiet.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 09:52

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that Glinner and his “gender critical” pals would be so committed to women's rights they would support (checks notes) a rapist who wants to remove abortion rights nationally.

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-02-01 at 08:48

A brief history of the Finder: https://technovia.co.uk/2025/02/01/a-brief-history-of-the.html

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Written by Ian Betteridge on 2025-01-31 at 23:22

This seems not good.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/31/donald-trump-latest-news-politics-live-canada-mexico-tariffs?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-679d4e0c8f088599f081007d#block-679d4e0c8f088599f081007d

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