Can confirm that the single most entitled and self-important boss I’ve ever had used to write barely comprehensible emails. Capitals, punctuation, spelling and grammar and getting the recipient’s name right all completely optional when you’re that rich I guess. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What I’m taking from this is that someone else pays for your flights
This kinda makes sense to me. Of all of the boats waiting to cross the Strait, they're probably the least likely to be targeted.
"Passport bro" feels like a very gentle term for this kind of behaviour.
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Mostly India and China but there are a few others sprinkled in there
This is fascinating. I've never seen AIS details changed to message "don't hit us we're X country" on a scale like this before.
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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That's why asking the 51% of the sample who don't have good access to PT whether making PT free incentivised them to use the PT they don't have was kind of a waste of everyone's time. Of course the policy didn't change behaviour when there was no realistic option to change to.
All the questions around equity and access are important in the longer term, I agree, but actually all that matters in this specific context is numbers. A litre saved is a litre saved.
The goal of this policy isn't to increase PT ridership in the long term, it's immediate behaviour change to reduce fuel consumption by incentivising people not to drive. It's a different question than the standard argument and the options available in the timeframe of a single month are different
It's free, people aren't tapping on or off!
Start with a relevant sample of people for whom PT is a realistic option and you’d probably get a more relevant finding
This article feels a little misleading in that it finds only a small increase in PT use in response to free fares- but waits until halfway through to mention that half of their sample don’t have ACCESS to convenient PT. Anecdotally in central Melb PT seems much busier than usual
"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."
We could also be doing this
Happy Wednesday
Timely. Are we talking about making sure our spending is effective and value for money? No, only about spending more to hit assorted arbitrary benchmarks.
The metric has become the measure and it is fundamentally not a good way of measuring what we're (presumably) trying to achieve.
The misaligned incentives in defence spending (globally, not just in the UK) are so clear in the way that everyone fixates on the amount spent rather than results achieved.
We should be trying to spend smarter and better, rather than just focus on spending more for the sake of it.
Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says
I have had this specific battle with multiple non-Australians who didn't believe we invented Milo. Milo is our gift to the world, as an apology for Vegemite. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...
I've seen probably dozens of stories like "why are Iran's Lego propaganda videos so successful?" and a really really obvious part of the answer is because they're getting free global publicity from international media who are just tickled by the Lego angle. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Celebratory dance in Hungary
for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
NEW: The US Navy is attempting to prevent Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels from entering and exiting the Strait, while Iran prevents all other vessels from entering and exiting the Strait. The only vessels moving through the Strait at this time are Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels. (1/5)
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Now that’s what they call a deus ex machina.
This is pretty much where I am too. Intriguing but far from case closed.
