Word-processing, old-style Quote of the Day ”One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.” John Kenneth Galbraith Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news The Rolling Stones | Start Me Up Link} One of my favourite tracks. Microsoft payed a fortune for the rights to use it on the launch of Windows 95. Which was a rather nice joke, given that you had to press ‘Start’ not only to boot up, but also in order to shut down, your Windows PC. Long Read of the Day Will our Hyper-Gilded Age Usher in Genuine Populism? Lovely essay by Paul Krugman. It’s clear that we are not experiencing a mere replay of the reign of the robber barons. We are living through something much worse. The tech bros make the “malefactors of great wealth” called out by Theodore Roosevelt look benign by comparison. Some widely used measures of inequality…
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