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Bifurcation. Planned system failure

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/16/legal-aid-cuts-britain-housing-crisis-county-court-tenants-homes-lawyers

I’m utterly disgusted with this government.

I could explain my title, but I don’t wanna.

If you really want to know what my title means, you can ask me ..

and I’ll wibble on about autopoietic wossname and emergent thingy and complex adaptive doobries

Seriously, anyone reading this article and my words, gets one free question to the acclaimed author of the 1999 bestseller Navigating Complexity, that’s moi, btw.

Merry Christmas.

This is the best statement I have ever read, in print or online, since 1998, about the duties of government and state, including the local state, AKA the public sector, AKA, the bloody council haven’t emptied the bins again!

And for that reason, I’m awarding it the annual PleXity Prize for “Outstanding Telling It Like It Is In Public Discourse”

And it’s written by a lady, who doesn’t work at the revered Institute for Local Government Studies at the University of Brum!

She is just a technology journo at the stupidly named i paper.

Nature porn for Waitrose landowners… God Is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith review | Science and nature books | The Guardian

What a pile of entitled posho selfpitying wank.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/god-is-an-octopus-by-ben-goldsmith-review-the-consolations-of-nature

Even less time to focus and even more shite meetings: I’m not surprised… | ITPro

https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-people-care-more-about-ais-benefits-than-their-job-security