Hahahaha. Good one. This is advanced unaccountability

I have noted several finance firms I cover already talking about “digital employees” or worse “digital teammates”. It feels like the anthropomorphising is there to pre-bind human employees’ reactions to human employees losing tasks, jobs and power to the software.

Oh fine then I can just ignore this entire story as an irrelevance. Thanks.

The Blairites did at least have a theory of growth from which their ideas on increasing human capital descended. As I think you’ve said often what is the theory here at all, or where did securonomics go?

Turns out they are believers in industrial strategy and reform in the same way some Melanesians were believers in cargo.

Thank god this wasn't a thing in the 90s or 00s, eh?!

This blistering (and quite odd) attack on Mick Jagger might get you in the mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYa...

thanks!

It's the first of his I've picked up (my son left it lying around) but I'll definitely read more.

By coincidence I'm reading "on giving up" right now! It delivered some consoling words for Rachel Reeves this morning by chance
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Calls to mind one of my favourite Raymond Carver poems>

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

The lady is for turning.

I’m loving the idea in the US Visa/Mastercard settlement that the shoppers with the most elite credit cards will be either be turned away or charged a premium so that the merchant doesn’t have to pay for their rewards. That’s definitely going to please everyone.

Just like for Sonny, utterly unjustified!