@j_bettany - 23 May 2013
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Warning: Population of Content Marketing Experts Surging Out of Control
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RT @nodashforgas: No-one's going to jail! 5 defendants given conditional discharges, the rest community service. Small fines. Judge: 'motiv…
Why The Future Of Innovation Is Simulation http://t.co/Yb33F3KQYx
Rubbish Service from @sainsburys who fail to deliver. Grrrr.
@FirstBSA any updates on the x6 service to Clevedon?
This just tickled me. Religion as a Product of Psychotropic Drug Use http://t.co/KfHMHsCezK
Blimey. According to this, a pregnant woman’s marketing data is worth 15 times as much as the average person’s http://t.co/cUO8ITDe2D
@Support The widgets service at http://t.co/riSKTp3tPE seems to be down. Any idea when it'll be up again?
In May, a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm appointed an algorithm to its board of directors. http://t.co/4ZY8p2vLjM
@BBCBristol @bristol247 – Apparently it is possible to advertise on the BBC website if you know how to. http://t.co/8iXXForT1h
Founded in 1851, Glassmaker Corning spends about 8% of its sales on R&D & they have some interesting apps in dev http://t.co/FMww30tz0G
Pretty cool, but is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifter the future of launch vehicles? | Flight Animation: http://t.co/KA2AxMX8I6
Wouldn't normally punt a product but battery life on my new HTC one M8 is amazing. 36 hours still going strong. @HTC_UK
@FirstBSA any chance you can let me know status of x6 bus service from Clevedon to Bristol from now?
Blood money: UK’s £12.3bn arms sales to repressive states https://t.co/xNERPFBbEa
News appears to be that no one is going to prison today. 6 weeks suspended for 2 years + community service #Heathrow13 @planestupid
"When a company makes your feed algorithmic, it’s the moment that you’re being squeezed as an asset"
Blandly, a full-service media agency that can bury you in a colorless mush of vacuous positivity https://t.co/g13CucXGcU
Earlier this week science, law & business gathered to discuss the possibility of creating a synthetic human genome https://t.co/ip9pLegvzR
Please #StopFundingHate @johnlewisretail @waitrose it will be the best advertising decision you make all year.
1st EU VAT regulation nightmare last nite. I kid u not. Couldn't work out what 2 pay for family scuba trip due 2 cnfusion re place of supply
RT @paulmasonnews: Brit "quality" journalists: still proud to be working for Rupert Murdoch? https://t.co/NbSi16rpxe
RT @technology: Forget email, wormholes are connecting workers across the globe https://t.co/Bnm7irdgLr https://t.co/LCuP1D5vwL
Totally shocking customer service from @FirstBSA today. 100 min wait in heat with frail elderly man, obfuscation then refusal to respond. https://t.co/40pLxmDRSY
RT @TheMiliverse: Let's get more young people enthusiastic about voting. I think this will work… https://t.co/Lyd98o5B98
Idea for your next campaign Ed. @TheMiliverse https://t.co/3n3HXsG9J1
Niche Online Publishers Bank on Subscriptions Over Advertising https://t.co/7rtsKxFXi3
RT @GeorgeMonbiot: You know that "grassroots organisation" The Taxpayers Alliance (@the_tpa), which claims to represent the ordinary men an…
It terrifies me slightly that I am still buying (inferior) Feast Bars on the basis of advertising I absorbed before the age of 10! https://t.co/MCPIv1pIyH
Hedging their bets. Betfred owners make millions from company treating gambling addicts
RT @etiennelefleur: It's time to think about a freelance workers' union…
4.7 million workers in UK.
Imagine a freelance workers' union…
I think there might be a bit of an issue trying to survive as a Freelancer or consultant right now, and not feeling like you're somehow exploiting the situation. Opportunism feels quite complicated in an environment of such uncertainty.
RT @nntaleb: Explain to me why we should spent taxpayer money to bailout companies (airlines) who spent their cash buying their own stock s…
Amazon generously donates 30.84 seconds of revenue to struggling booksellers (at today's exchange rates).
This is what I've been working on in Lockdown! Small businesses, Freelancers and the self-employed, it's free to get listed! https://t.co/xkI60dW6Id
RT @j_bettany: This is what I've been working on in Lockdown! Small businesses, Freelancers and the self-employed, it's free to get listed!
Who'd've thunk it? Private healthcare company fails the #NHS
RT @an_artnews: An emergency response led by disabled people for disabled people working across the UK’s creative industries has launched -…
RT @VICEUK: Listen to a cleaning company boss suggest they may only provide potentially life-saving PPE if workers disaffiliate from their…
RT @mutablejoe: rebrand children as a management consultancy called "Evervescent" or some shit and let's hire them as a private sector solu…
I wonder if the Sunk Cost fallacy applies outside business to beliefs in general? We invest emotionally into ideas which sometimes prove to be false/damaging & end up elaborately rationalising to sustain the belief. What happens when the cycle ends? https://t.co/0EDmC0vm7R
@virginmedia Broadband down for 2 hours now. Run service check. No issues there. Do I really need to wait 5 days for an engineer? Green light flashing on Hub. Any clues?
RT @BusinessSchools: Quant School: Department of Mathematics – UCL – MSc Financial Mathematics – https://t.co/wH5efpyqKE – @MathematicsUCL…
Blimey. Nothing gives you a sense of the value of your own time quite like contract work or freelancing.
Makes you wonder if they just bake the fines into the business model. Share price barely flickered. https://t.co/V7sdsO9AnQ
RT @DrAaronB: Therapy means to do well, but like any intervention, it can actually harm. Too many clients are often too disempowered to kno…
RT @AlanRMacLeod: They've come up with a new word for desperately working multiple jobs just to be able to afford rent. https://t.co/VRUJfq…
"Homeopathy is a multibillion-dollar global industry with hundreds of tincture and globule makers, led by France’s Boiron SA, which reported sales topping $600 million in 2020."
@bbcrb it's not just cost, it's availability, and discrimination against people on benefits. My brother is fully employed but struggled last year. Jene doesn't have his advantages and the system is really working against them.
RT @GT270913: Under new management.
Deleted a tweet about NASAs Space Launch System costing $4.1bn per launch because it's actually the first 4 launches that cost that. I assume that takes decade + long dev costs into account, but isn't it oddly arbitrary to spread them among 4 launches? https://t.co/VeexUGah8v
Cutting 20% of the civil service gets you £3.5bn less £X in unintended consequences due to lost services, false economies and 60k additional unemployed.
Estimated loss to fraud and error across all Covid-19 response measures. £15bn
@MikeWel61647760 All of them? Even if it were true, the civil service implements policy set by government, so I'm not sure you can blame them directly.
This is pretty crazy – Anatomy of a Threat Group – Cyber-threats-as-a-service
RT @marcusleroux: Earlier this month I did a bit of digging into two offshore businesses linked to Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor. One was B…
their busses were actually going to turn up. It's not the drivers' fault; they're a stretched workforce & there are sensible legal requirements that limit the number of hours they can work, but the lack of live or reliable info about services (especially late at night) means 2/n
Investors on the one hand and on the other report depleted resources and unprofitable routes to local users. This isn't illegal – and no doubt some people would approve of it as sound business practice – but I think you can question the ethics and legitimately ask 4/n
RT @IMLPO: There's still time to register for The Institute Annual Conference:
"Innovation and Technology for AML and Financial Crime Prev…
RT @greybrow53: I get asked occasionally, why I care so much about Companies House reform.
Today, for the second time in a month, a 92-yea…
Losing so much history because it's in the hands of a private company is a real problem.
Looking on the brightside, though, it might just tip the scales when the aliens are deciding. 👾
It seems like an appropriate time to highlight the extensive body of work on corporate #psychopaths
Lots of info at https://t.co/K2LCfuwN8i
Suella never picked fruit. I lasted 2 days on strawberries at 16. The problem isn't training, it's graft, aching limbs, sunburn, employment insecurity & poor pay. You could force people to do it I suppose but that seems a bit… you know… Authoritarian. #NationalConservatism
"the key to love is to treat it not as a noun – a state to be found and possessed – but as a verb – a practice to be mastered. The difficult work is the mastering… 'the work for which all other work is but preparation'"
Beyond authenticity –
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves.
RT @DaleVince: Turns out the millionaire exodus was a complete work of fiction…. built on dodgy data from a company flogging golden passp…
RT @AssaadRazzouk: The math behind the Hinkley Point C disaster is infuriating: EDF just pushed, again, the start-up to 2030 and the cost e…
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