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shien
4h
Shein Was Never a Clothes Shop...
The FT's Lex column argues that Shein should be understood as a social media company rather than a retailer — a gamified engine that keeps you scrolling and occasionally sells you a jacket, closer in spirit
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uk
1d
Burnham's Buses Are the Right Answer to a Question Nobody Wants to Pay For
Bringing buses under public control is a governance reform. What ails the bus network is a revenue problem. The two are related, but they are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how you end
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rodhull
2d
Why is Rod Hull Alive and getting paid as well....?
So one of tonight's stories involved a puppet book and my thoughts strayed back idley to Rod Hull... I in fact found myself on the phone asking questions about Rod Hull... There as a certain question I
revisesociology
runningproject
3d
Weekly-ish Running Update - End of Base!
So I've reached the final week of my base phase, and into my build phase, so my running has changed a little - I've convinced Claude to let me run the Park Run every week as a tempo run, and one Octopus
revisesociology
spt
4d
Splinterlands Slumlord Update
So it's been a while since I last looked at my SL land stack, which I think is the way to go given the slow progress! Basically plan on and dont' check too often! The region has now got a total of 442
revisesociology
uk
5d
£54.7m for the Shareholders, £31.8m for the Dead
Kenan Malik, writing in The Observer, calls Arconic's Grenfell settlements an indictment of our times. He is right, but the phrase is almost too gentle. What the numbers describe is not a moral failure
revisesociology
uk
6d
Migration: the mega-dinghy and the limits of smashing the gangs
A boat carrying 230 people arrived in Dover a few weeks ago, and the vocabulary arrived with it. Monster boat. Mega-dinghy. Crushed like sardines. Longer than a double-decker bus, with enough passengers
revisesociology
chiuna
7d
China's oil stockpile is the reason your petrol isn't £3 a litre
The Economist has an editorial on China's grip on the global oil market which treats the story as a problem: an autocracy has accumulated enough market power to move prices, conceals its intentions, and
revisesociology
life
8d
On Leak Patrol: Drones, Drought and the Thirty-Year Hosepipe Record
There is a particular genre of business journalism in which a reporter is invited to a field, handed a hard hat, and shown a drone. The company in question then explains that it is doing rather well, actually,
revisesociology
work
9d
Jargon is what insecurity sounds like
Jargon is an annoying aspect of work, but more interesting than the irritation factor is some recent research on who reaches for buzzwords... A study published in Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision
revisesociology
uk
10d
Grievance Is a Broad Church
Victim politics — that supposedly left-wing habit of organising identity around injury — is now thriving rather more vigorously on the Right than anywhere else... The traitor economy Consider the case
revisesociology
cine
11d
Bring Back the Terrifying Films — But It Won't Work
Sarah Ditum has a piece in The Times arguing that Britain should revive the public information film. Her prompt was telling off a young man for lighting a cigarette in a tinder-dry field during a summer
revisesociology
runningproject
12d
Weekly ish Running update... Slowest every Park Run
But it was deliberate, so that's OK! My last three runs: Tuesday Octopus... I headed out for 4 isk Ks easy and then 4* 300M - at 4.05 but I overdid it, according to Claude. I also did one warm up burst
revisesociology
uk
14d
Twenty-Seven Jobs and a Reputation
Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers must
revisesociology
life
15d
The Grain Bill Always Arrives Late
Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is behaving as though this
revisesociology
uk
16d
"Resilient" Is What We Say When We Can't Say "Growing"
Writing in The Times, David Smith looks at the British economy and finds it standing up rather well. The next quarterly growth figures wouldn't match the brisk 0.6% of the first quarter, he predicted,
revisesociology
hpud
17d
Happy September HPUD through 300K HP...
Evening evening and happy September HPUD to one and all. I have just Powered up another 2.5K Hive to take me through that 300K HP barrier.... Looks nice huh?!? Do you love the game...? I mean honestly
revisesociology
uk
18d
The Death Tax Panic Has Nothing To Do With Dying
Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for barely a month and has already reached for the policy that has destroyed more political careers than any other. A National Care Service. Free at the point of use.
revisesociology
runningproject
19d
Weeklyish Running Update - Intense Base!
So I put my August running stats into Claude and it came back and told me my Park Runs are too fast to be proper 'base' runs. My other runs are all fine - being mid 130s for the runs, but with the Park
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cent
20d
We Didn't Over-Educate. We Under-Employed
There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, that we
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