It truely is a mystery.

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Abramovich had a reputation for managerial turnover:

Ranieri/Tuchel - inherited
Mourinho/Potter
Grant/Lampard - interim
Scolari/Poch
interim
Ancelotti/Maresca
AVB/Rosenior
RDM/ ?

9 years/4 years

The year we were sanctioned we finished 3rd. The year after we finished 12th.

These are not very bright people and things have got out of hand.

They bought the club with a squad and a manager that had won the Champions League and have spent 2 billion pounds on some very good players and have never finished higher than 4th.

Part of me is smug that despite some promising signs last summer I still thought BlueCo were nasty morons who forced good staff and players out of the club.

The other part of me remembers that I support Chelsea FC and the likely outcome of them being donuts is insolvency.

i would want to drill it into blueco's heads that half of transfers fail. a guy you *know* is pretty good and has settled (madueke) is nicer to have than a guy you suspect might be good (gittens).

Can we sack whoever is making these managerial appointments next please?

Circus continues.

Aye, looking at the frontier model developers I don't really understand how they stack up as long term businesses when it seems very clear that running models locally seems to be much more desirable and there are hundreds of very capable models being released for free.

I think a lot of the question of why don't Brits invest very much comes down to Brits have learned to see their economic future as tied to their house price which unlike stocks and shares they simply refuse to believe can go down

Anthropic tests reaction to yanking Claude Code from Pro : Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

The thing I've come to understand is that AI is as much tied to cheap compute and energy costs as it is to technical development currently.

I suspect that the current spike in energy prices are going to pose serious problems for adoption.

www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/a...

I’m resigned to the farce, we are at least very funny.

Thats 2 out of 3.

Love that our footballing genius overlords have managed to Graham Potter our season for the second time in 3 years.

Sorry what?

I always thought the pig thing was a riff on the LBJ anecdote about slandering your opponent as a pig fucker to make him have to deny it.

Glad I'm not the only one.

But I do also think it's a big problem that GTA6 has taken an estimated 7 years and counting when GTA5 took 3. 007 First light has taken longer than 5 years.

It's makes the cost of failing extremely high and I think that's part of the story of this recent crisis in the industry.

Yeah it's obviously complicated and live service games are a big factor in this along with the fact that the industry is just much more mature now and we have games that are 20+ years old that are just as enjoyable as the latest titles.

I know I play titles regularly that are 30+ years old.

Everything about this vetting story just seems like total rubbish.

The vetting didn't flag Mandelson's historic Epstein links as an issue which is what he was sacked for so it's not clear that if Starmer had been informed it would have affected his appointment.

I think it'll vary, Video Game Development is one area where there's a significant crisis already at the top end where big projects are taking 5+ years to release which is longer than current hardware cycles are taking.

Movies and TV I don't know so much about.

Particularly difficult for a social democratic government though as realistically you need to reduce demand to keep a lid on inflation and that probably means less public spending.

I find the whole “no one could last a whole term as PM now” argument so tiresome. I do think the information environment encourages impatience in supporters, but I think not lasting a full term after winning 411 seats would ultimately be on him

pint?

Sorry they refer to top officials in the Foreign Office as mandarins? The tiny oranges? And we’re supposed to take this seriously?

Increasing the total amount of work you can get done in a day doesn't mean there's no more work to do, it's just coming at you at unfathomable speeds.

Never heard of it so I've just learned something new and interesting.

It's very obvious working in software though, there's a huge amount of talk that this technology that already is leading to massive productivity improvements will lead to job losses and brother have you seen our work backlogs?

The history of revolutionary shifts in productivity has involved widespread economic displacement but I severely doubt that massively increasing humanities capacity to get stuff done is going to lead to mass unemployment.