Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says
Recently I read:
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
A friend reminded me that Boris Johnson’s critique of working from home as being a series of inefficient wanders around the kitchen making drinks, having snacks, and getting distracted is in fact an accurate description of…office life.
Our Prime Minister is against working from home on the basis that:
…you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing.
Feels like one of those occasions whereby by making a general claim that people are doing something “wrong” you end up revealing more about your own behaviour than anyone else’s.
There should be a name for that phenomenon if there isn’t already one. Projection? Pot calling the kettle black? Hypocrisy? Nothing quite seems to perfectly encompass it.
Incredible visualisation from Our World In Data showing the flow of human existence, from birth to death. About 7% of all humans that ever existed are alive today!
Currently reading: Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones 📚.
From the preface:
…borders that are open for corporations, capital, and consumer goods but closed for workers and regulators are creating dramatic inequalities in wealth and opportunity within individual countries and at a global scale
is a sentiment I already tend to believe. I’m interested to see what evidence the authors muster up in support of it.
🎥 Watched Dune.
Let the modern incarnation of the spice battles begin.