OK, good start?

HE BBC reports that “[a]n independent commission found that City arranged “sham contracts” with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m.”

Totally what the slop (so-called ‘AI’) so-called ‘industry’ is doing, inflating numbers by means of fraud while losing a lot of money and amassing trillions in debt. Yes, trillions.

It’s coming

HIS morning it was a horrible weather over here, but since around 11AM it has been nice and sunny, so we’ve taken full advantage. At the moment I am reading some comments about IBM layoffs, posted in reply to something I had published.

“Don’t forget,” someone pointed out, “tomorrow we’re also getting rid of all those bloody Anderon lot which, of course, isn’t a layoff, wink wink. Enjoy your last day as IBMers, lads. I can’t wait to just ghost the lot of them, give them the cold shoulder, and be done with the whole sorry bunch of rejects.” (Source)

Another one said: “I think they are going to be good but a little poking and investigating deeper into the numbers will reveal that is all bullsh-t and accounting games TO make them look good. We love to play this three-card monte with our financials.”

So it looks like the layoffs tomorrow are broader and will be hidden.

This is the state of “IT”. Hidden layoffs, silent layoffs, covert layoffs.

Can one trust air crews?

HE BBC says that one pilot attacked another in a plane – reminiscent of what happened in Germanwing when one pilot locked the other out of the cockpit (the more senior pilot blocked) to crash everyone into a mountain.

That makes one wonder what happens to some (still) missing places like the one from Malaysia.

Yes, in Europe

oday it’s above 20 degrees again (it was last night as well), so sunbathing was feasible whilst at the same time coming up with ideas for articles and snoozing in between. October is exactly half a day away and I have ideas of EPO coverage that can impact patent affairs.

Corruption in Europe needs to be spoken about, even if there is a tendency to focus on Russia, China, and the US.

Corruption is everywhere, says an old adage; that’s not an excuse for looking away or not reporting it.

his coming February marks 5 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. It (same month) also marks the time I quit all social control media ‘cold turkey’.

Why did I not do this sooner?

Simple.

I was addicted.

It’s easy to look back, recognise a mistake, then explain it.

I’m much better off without any of that nonsense.

OK only for Qatar?

rying to wrap my head around the ManCity predicament, and seeing we’re almost exactly two weeks away from the next home match (very difficult match against the two-times-in-a-row European Champions), I must wonder what the French say about PSG and how financial doping by Qatar is somehow OK. Yes, PSG is a much bigger culprit.

After what Qatar did in the EU and FIFA, as is well documented, I suppose nobody was really punished. So football is becoming increasingly toxic with double-standards and inconsistent enforcement.

He identifies the cause:

generally like Andy Burnham and some of the people he has chosen to work with him in Westminster.

Many people speak of his latest speech. His speech starts by correctly identifying a problem: Andy Burnham mentions “doomscrolling” by which he probably means Facebook, x.com, and all those other toxic and foreign sites whose purpose is to promote the political goal of masters like MElon.