The moment a chancellor says “trickle down” we know:
1 they’ve been captured
2 they need firing
3 they’ve learned nothing from the past about what the finance sector does if left to its own devices: stuff its own pockets, crash world economies, demand bailouts.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/15/rachel-reeves-to-say-cuts-to-city-red-tape-will-bring-trickle-down-benefits?CMP=share_btn_url

Imagine if we had investments like this into clean energy, infrastructure like fast trains or into healthcare.

Instead it’s all set on fire for bullshit autocomplete.

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

I know satire and parody died a long time ago but #Trump stealing the FIFA trophy Chelsea won yesterday still had me checking sources repeatedly.

#mastodonfc

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-gold-club-world-cup-trophy-for-himself-so-fifa-had-to-give-the-winners-a-replica/

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI have all been granted contracts worth up to $200M
by the U.S. Department of Defense to accelerate its adoption of “advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.”

It seems your AI calling itself “MechaHitler” isn’t a dealbreaker for defense contracts.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-granted-up-to-200-million-from-dod.html