Employers are able to decide the limit. Think that was always the case, just very few chose to engage with it. But the demand for car-alternatives among mid-senior managers has probably accelerated the adoption of high spending caps.

Where's ColdwarSteve when you need him?

I've read 12 pages and I've already named three new characters for my imagined first novel. (The names in this are great)

Listened on my cycle to work this morning and enjoyed it. (First one of Laura's pods I've actually listened to)

In disordered discourse:

Engagement > accuracy
Performance > governance
Emotion > evidence
Identity = target

The logic of the algorithm now structures political speech. It rewards those who dramatise difference and punish deviation from the tribe.

owen-booth.com/2022/02/13/p...

Here are a couple of favourites of mine: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-wor...

<puts the Ezra Klein jingle back on repeat>

unionize!