A very well prepared colleague got the last laugh on those who mocked him, a few years back. ‘Leccy went out - big storm . First he knew was when the wife called him on the “funny phone” (satellite p… (View Post)

Checks and balances work As long as someone is checking and someone is balancing. What MAGA and their predecessors in the Republican Party did was methodically take over the infrastructure of governm… (View Post)

It’s a useful phrase. Like Lessons Will Be Learned. (View Post)

“It’s the economy, stupid” has long been the core truth of American national politics. The other thing is that the AI bubble is masking (rather like the derivatives bubble of 2008) the state of the e… (View Post)

And a great Charlie Stross short story - https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/ (View Post)