June 2015

June 21, 2015 by yorksranter 1 comment

The Affinities. Facebook that doesn’t suck, and the consequences

It wasn’t that long ago it struck me, watching the Twitter-war of the nanosecond: the social media killer app is just really fast ethnogenesis, the process by which a nation is created. Or was it: thank God these people haven’t got a finance ministry and can’t collect tax, or else there’d be a no kidding…

June 21, 2015 by yorksranter 7 comments

IDS and the Great Skip of Initiatives

So I was having a long talk with Declan Gaffney on Twitter about incapacity benefit and the Department for Work and Pensions. The Gaffer mentioned that when he’d been working for the Greater London Authority with John Hutton’s DWP in 2006, nobody seemed to have been aware that the IB caseload was rapidly ageing-out, and…

June 21, 2015 by yorksranter 5 comments

These 9 Government E-Mails I Just Got Disclosed Show Just What a Dick George Osborne Really Is

So I got an answer to my FOI request! On the 12th of June, National Savings and Investments disclosed some e-mail regarding the Tories’ fake government mailshot. You can get the dump at the link, and read the related meta here. My original blog posts are here and here. The upshot, as usual with these…

‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs | Drugs | The Guardian
They were calling up our finance department and demanding early payment. They’d want their commission for the whole length of stay upfront, even though people might drop out and want refunds,” he said. “And we were getting all these emails from the brokers with names of people, saying: ‘If this person writes to you, they […]
Let it go - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
I would gently suggest to the Conservative Party that relitigating an issue that helped to prompt a huge shift in public opinion away from them, contributing a great deal to the downfall of an election-winning Prime Minister and an eventual landslide defeat, is not the best use of the time of a new leader who […]
Qualcomm claims trial win in dispute with Arm over chip design licences
Qualcomm said it was pleased with the verdict. The jury had “vindicated Qualcomm’s right to innovate” and confirmed the products at issue in the case were protected by its existing contract with Arm, it said. Arm said would seek a retrial based on the fact that the jury was “unable to reach consensus across the […]
Foxconn quashes delay rumors: GB200 NVL72 server shipments set for 4Q24
industry sources confirm that Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) is maintaining its original schedule. Initial shipments are set to begin in December 2024 as planned // well they've not got long
Emmanuel Macron, une certaine idée du pouvoir
Full of quotes and petites phrases but in the end it's court gossip
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs - Ars Technica
That $50 million in alleged missing revenue looks like a relatively small amount to be fighting over, given that these are both billion-dollar companies—Arm made $3.23 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, while Qualcomm earned $39 billion in revenue. It also seems counterproductive for Arm to disrupt the business of one of its largest and […]
Former MI5 chief to lead search for new Archbishop of Canterbury
It is understood that no candidate will be able to apply for the role. Instead, they will be “invited” into the recruitment process if their name comes up for consideration.
SeekTruthFromFacts on X: "@CofESurvivor @churchofengland I totally agree that there is a massive old-school-tie/old-university-pal problem in the Church of England. But Oxford and Cambridge have Anglican chapels and chaplains that serve undergrads. Many f
Every ABC (bar Carey who was Durham) has been an oxbridge graduate for hundreds of years.
HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work | HS2 | The Guardian
“We have to acknowledge that HS2 in its core mission to control costs has failed,” he said. “We must break the cycle.” // kind of illuminating that the core mission is not to e.g. build a railway.
Légion d’honneur, mode d’emploi
Avec l’âge vient la course aux honneurs. Cela traduit aussi la peur d’être oublié