These LinkedIn emails are so valuable. How else would I discover such useful professional connections?

Look after your mates. Lose yourself in the moment. Fall asleep on the sofa. Put the kettle on when everyone wakes up. Warehouse Party Politics for #makerfield @AndyBurnhamGM 💊

You spend £30 on a mediocre burger, a coffee and water. Unbusy incomprehensible men pretend to be waiters. You go to the toilet. The bathroom is a large, misshapen room with multiple cubicles catering to various identities. The toilets are dirty, because the elimination of sexes has created a tragedy of the urinary commons. People wash their hands furtively, the ritual profane, men next to women, weird, awkward. There's a tube strike. You get the bus. You would have taken the bus anyway, but the bus is crowded. People block the door, the stairs and the walkway. Your teeth hurt. You drive past empty pubs. "At least she's trying" says the young man on the phone next to you.

The King is Risen.

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

A humanoid robot tumbles while dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ and lies motionless before being dragged offstage, May 2026.

RT @cyberpionier: After visiting and evaluating (for refurbishment) at least 300 Nuclear bunkers in North-West Europe (NLD, DE and UK) in t…

A momentous day in British politics 🇬🇧

I just want to say fuck @wesstreeting. This guy is a melon faced child with crappy personal politics, who is (was) actually in one of the most important jobs in the world. But he's quit because he's gripped by his own delusions of grandeur. Not the calibre for PM. simple. Sad

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

Qualcuno ha raccolto questi rami di albero e li ha chiamati "danza della natura" ❤️

In the current climate, the #KingsSpeech is an even more pompous and turgid spectacle than usual. What a packet of twats this shower of shuffling, shambolic MPs really are. Not a competent leader among them, sorry to say

He’s presenting the final design. Add seven brand new stakeholders he’s never met

This is a great representation of what a reform government will look like. Literally pumping cash into the faces of old, white boomers in their massive houses. Hosing them down.

Banana Republic-level stuff happening in the UK.

Margaret Hodge never misses a chance to spew her bile, even when the interview is about something completely different. bought and paid for. The green party should sue her for defamation.

I still can’t believe Labour have been reduced to *two* councillors in Newcastle. Maybe it’s a long day? I misread it? Nope, they have two councillors in one of Britain’s most left wing cities.

Attenborough has no respect for crabs. Always gives them ridiculous music. They are jesters to him

Has your neighbourhood reached the 'balcony pizza rope' stage of gentrification yet? Oh, it's just Norway.