You’re talking about cock…roaches, yeah?

Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.

“Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,” she added.

And that’s different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

My partner would have been haggling that vendor down to a £1.

It’s a great story.

My grandad was a captain in the British army. He took part in the invasion and push up through Italy. He told us about the nightmare of trying to take Monte Cassino. He got put in jail (for a very short time) for punching an officer who was screaming in his face in the middle of a battle insisting that he order his men into a certain death situation. He was of the opinion that if you ever met a WWII vet that hadden’t spend some time locked up for insubordination they were of low character.

It’s probably worthwhile to note that it would be foolish for the CEO of a business that derives revenue from people that are worried about their privacy to say anything that undermines that worry, regardless how self inflicted it is.

The morality of it is another matter. I don’t think the business model is evil in itself. There is a need for privacy in this world. But your shades of grey are getting darker if you are not giving clarity for fiscal purposes.

They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.

Devide

verb

Obsolete form of divide.

I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.

Got that Lord Percy from Blackadder II energy.

Private Eye

Not everyone’s cup of tea. Actually becoming aware of the amount of corruption and injustice in the UK can be accutely depressing.

Their online offering is a tiny fraction of what is covered in the hardcopy.

Kissinger, while organising the bombing of Cambodia and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, said that if he personally didn’t organise it the alternative (some other psychotic official) would be worse.

Should we give him a pass? Forgive him his crimes against humanity because someone else would be worse? Does that make the systematic murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians palatable?

Bloody Vikings

Starmer seems to disagree.

Augustus! Save some room for later.

It’s unlikely that Mr Freedman and not some LinkedIn MBA in one of the publishing houses is the true cause of this dystopian racket.

You beauty! I missed the update.

Do you not have otters?