Alastair Meeks
Lawyer, writer, Zedra
- This piece is bonkers and you should read it. It's by @bryce.lol obv
- Some good olive oil tips in here! Also, “Backers are asked to believe that OpenAI is the most responsible guardian of The Dangerous Majick, while also understanding that the urgency of AI’s arms race frees it from all obligation to act responsibly.” www.ft.com/content/b180...
- I've just made a note to never let a journalist see my flat.
- On housing in London: 1) there's no solution that doesn't involve a lot of building. 2) the continuing determination to avoid the third dimension is close to freakish.
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View full threadI wondered but thought perhaps I was missing some obscure new proposal. In Wokingham we get a few luxury flats in the town for the young and loaded. More generally people buying 500k plus houses don't want high rise. And the market doesn't build anything cheaper
- You don't even need to go that high. A lot of Europe works around courtyard apartments in blocks of say 6 storeys.
- The third dimension?
- Up. London makes little use of higher rise buildings, especially when compared with other cities around the world.
- The happiest people are rarely the most successful. The most successful people are rarely the happiest. The core of happiness is satisfaction, a sense of having enough. That sense is the enemy of the highest achievement. So choose which is more important to you and pursue it.
- Best bit of FT weekend: the property listings in house and home. A 27-bedroom country estate with its own cricket pitch for £18m. Yes please!
- I've never understood the desire to own so much property, with all the responsibility that goes with it.
- Others have commented on the detail of the article but, once again, I wonder which new readers The Times thinks it will attract with such chum. The cohort of professionals eager to gobble down far right talking points has to be tiny. And the existing readership is ageing fast.
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View full threadI'm baffled by the plethora of listicles. "Your favourite toothbrush colours ranked" - that sort of garbage. Are people flocking to find out by reading The Times? Really?
- I suppose they’re cheap.
- Same again. Just who are the professionals that The Times thinks want to read this laundering of nativism? Where are their new readers coming from when the old ones die off? bsky.app/profile/sian...
- Why are so many American cartoons so poor? This is a very tired joke, dully executed.
- From the dayjob, my thoughts on a Pensions Commission (on p127): www.pensionsage.com/pages/Digita...
