I notice that there’s always a reason why nobody can have the things their parents took for granted, and it’s always immediately urgent
My favourite Paddington is when he comes for you before you've even died. Here he is ushering Liz Truss out of number ten.
"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends. Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
Almost time to pull out Holiday Lights v2 (1995)
Today in 1974, Karen Silkwood’s white Honda Civic was apparently forced off a quiet highway in western Oklahoma where it crashed into a culvert, killing her instantly. Silkwood, 28, was employed as a technician at Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation’s plutonium fuel rod fabrication plant in Cimarron.
