Just curious, did you apply for it?

Side character supporting the field agents from a van parked outside the Vienna ballroom the usb drive is being recovered from?

Beautiful covers!

I rather unreasonably expected half of the list to be by Hans Zimmer

Rearrange the order and it kind of works as a review for Nosferatu

Would be nice if they brought this aesthetic back for an EV.

True. A good excuse for another increase in profits!

This was tongue-in-cheek folks :)
Obviously the direct cost increase is 25% but that doesn't reflect the total cost of sales or the margin so it is likely to be significantly less in percentage terms of the price.

25%

Yeah it's an interesting situation isn't it. Social Media grew because it was useful but is now mostly toxic. I guess it does mean there's always space for new things like this and other sites to establish or revive themselves

Most of meta is kind of shit these days anyway isnt it? Facebook is just crammed with ads and threads has never been much good imo. Bit torn on Instagram

The Argentinian one is very similar to some aboriginal art in the cathedral cave in Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland.
I guess the similarities shouldn't be surprising but it is fascinating.

Schmidt's friend-enemy concept as a way of framing disagreements does work for heightening engagement in both politics and social media. Sad but effective. I find recognising it as a tactic does help avoid getting sucked in most of the time.

Heard of most of them but Index is new to me 🥁

New year resolution - No Joep Beving on my wrapped

One of the interesting things about this for me is it's not a new trend. There are patterns of incumbent vs challenger election cycles that suggest a couple of things -
1. Election campaigns are not decisive.
2. Governments cannot control the things that will get them re-elected.

Pretty sure he'd be a good Judge Caligula but also surprised that Musk didn't call him the Harkonnen America needs

The media is unlikely to provide good analysis because their business model is clickbait rather than accuracy.

Meanwhile, globally governments left and right have had large swings against them, often based on incumbent supporters not turning up.

Labour in the UK won a landslide on a low turnout.

I once went for lunch with a colleague who asked for a ham and cheese sandwich and was told they had ham sandwiches and cheese sandwiches but not ham and cheese. To avoid embarrassment he claimed he wanted two sandwiches, one ham, one cheese. He then grumpily eat both. A very British problem.