How can I make money out of there being an AI financial crash before the end of 2027 Q1?

I am exonerated!

(But you could have got me on - The Lord of the Rings isn’t a book, it’s a trilogy)

‘What we do…

Lord of the pull rings

That’s changing a word, not adding one.

Wisden 1984

In India the leaders of the Cockroach youth movement have been arrested, along with more than 1,000 protesters, opposition politicians, journalists, student union leaders & lawyers; New Delhi is in lockdown. The police have prevented mass protests against the country’s election chief taking place.

Aaaahhh, so …

very sorry to see this. As an ordinary general reader, I thought the inheritance of Rome was wonderful.

The old curse, may all your best posts have typos.

This is a brilliant thread. While there was a lot of violence in the Middle Ages, it is crucial to acknowledge that our contemporary attitudes - in their myriad varieties - are all born out of our own historical context. The abhorrent ones are not relict medieval sentiments, but equally modern.

Beginning to wonder whether drinking brandy with a daim bar is the best way of keeping awake while I just finish this one thing …

Yes, if you add the other left candidates up, it’s more or less what the Green’s got.

Did Basil Faulty thrashing his car make it a bit more likely that he’d thrash a person? I suppose …

I don’t understand this. I suppose I can just about see a case that being cruel to something you can’t be cruel to is bad insofar as it might make you crueler to someone you can be cruel to, is that it?

Well, they’ve hoovered up all the left of Labour votes from last time, but not improved on that.

I really, really dislike em dashes.

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.