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Low demand for a product that is worse than what it replaces? Wild news.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Low demand for a product that is worse than what it replaces? Wild news.
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Sought and found asylum in the UK
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sought and found asylum in the UK
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Demand for technology has its limits but still we have bubbles and more bubbles. I thought tech was clever people? We've been through so much desperation in the past 2 decades: 3D, VR (multiple times), smart everything, robotics, AI, LLMs, crypto. All hype, no depth.
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Demand for technology has its limits but still we have bubbles and more bubbles. I thought tech was clever people? We've been through so much desperation in the past 2 decades: 3D, VR (multiple times), smart everything, robotics, AI, LLMs, crypto. All hype, no depth.
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You love to see it
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You love to see it
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Man with flowers in his hat, playing a flute. Pastoral songs of love, perchance? By Jan Miel, whose day is today.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Man with flowers in his hat, playing a flute. Pastoral songs of love, perchance? By Jan Miel, whose day is today.
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
This attitude is how you end up with light novel titles.
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
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Children’s books in particular should be weird and challenging and inappropriate. All the best ones are.
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Children’s books in particular should be weird and challenging and inappropriate. All the best ones are.
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I’m not so naïve to think that AI will go away when the AI bubble bursts (after all the Internet didn’t go away when the dot com bubble burst). But it is really sad that such an unreliable, unethical, and massively polluting technology is embraced by so many.
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m not so naïve to think that AI will go away when the AI bubble bursts (after all the Internet didn’t go away when the dot com bubble burst). But it is really sad that such an unreliable, unethical, and massively polluting technology is embraced by so many.
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Turbines are pretty actually
a girl stands in front of a wind turbine and a cloudy sky
Alt: a girl stands in front of a wind turbine and a cloudy sky
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Turbines are pretty actually
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Once more I remind people that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda and the Italians seem to survive and even thrive there.
Monty Don's reputation is indestructible (and long may that continue). On a close reading, nowhere is it specified what the invented threat to Rousham Gardens comprises. Even 'Country Life' says the bomber base is 2km away and there's an attractive village in between. It's all a bit Hackney Marshes
'One of the truly great gardens of the world' is at risk of having its vistas and tranquility blighted forever
The views from Rousham, the birthplace of the English landscape-garden movement, are at risk of development if plans for the nearby former RAF Upper Heyford Air Force base get the go-ahead.
www.countrylife.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Once more I remind people that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda and the Italians seem to survive and even thrive there.
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A beautiful opportunity here for everyone who has ever delivered a hectoring, stentorian lecture on the non-negotiable obligation to support nations that are illegally attacked by belligerent rogue states. March right out there now and do it all just the same as last time.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A beautiful opportunity here for everyone who has ever delivered a hectoring, stentorian lecture on the non-negotiable obligation to support nations that are illegally attacked by belligerent rogue states. March right out there now and do it all just the same as last time.
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On the one hand this is heinous, on the other hand under this logic an enterprising Democratic president can declare tech billionaires to be terrorists who are poisoning the American people with their products
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On the one hand this is heinous, on the other hand under this logic an enterprising Democratic president can declare tech billionaires to be terrorists who are poisoning the American people with their products
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I appreciate that it is difficult for senior political figures to acknowledge that the Israeli military routinely murders civilians for sport, but that is how it is.
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I appreciate that it is difficult for senior political figures to acknowledge that the Israeli military routinely murders civilians for sport, but that is how it is.
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The IDF blew the head off a guy in the street who had been talking to an ITV camera crew, the moment they stopped filming, very obviously just as a fuck you. Calling for them to investigate themselves is just saying Oh no, this looks bad, then doing nothing.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The IDF blew the head off a guy in the street who had been talking to an ITV camera crew, the moment they stopped filming, very obviously just as a fuck you. Calling for them to investigate themselves is just saying Oh no, this looks bad, then doing nothing.
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I fancied some beans so bought a tin for the first time in ages and I know inflation etc but a can of Heinz Beans should not in any way be £1.55!!!
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I fancied some beans so bought a tin for the first time in ages and I know inflation etc but a can of Heinz Beans should not in any way be £1.55!!!
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What I really hate about that Pixel/Gemini ad where the woman asks AI about the flowers is that she could just ask the florist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What I really hate about that Pixel/Gemini ad where the woman asks AI about the flowers is that she could just ask the florist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Possibly Ganesh's stupidest column, though it is a crowded field
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
Another big win for the yimbies as inner London housing policy continues to do what it has already been doing for getting on 20 years
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Another big win for the yimbies as inner London housing policy continues to do what it has already been doing for getting on 20 years
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we've had a mass outbreak of landlord brain in the UK comparable to ergotism in europe during the middle ages. it will be studied one day
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
we've had a mass outbreak of landlord brain in the UK comparable to ergotism in europe during the middle ages. it will be studied one day
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it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it
Thank god the logic of the market is in the direction of clean tech god knows what kind of complete catastrophe we’d be staring down if it wasn’t
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs
Price shocks force factories to dump gas for cleaner energy
Industrial energy users are starting to turn away from natural gas after a jump in prices, and as solar systems, batteries and heat pumps become cheaper.
www.smh.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thank god the logic of the market is in the direction of clean tech god knows what kind of complete catastrophe we’d be staring down if it wasn’t