There is a quiet tax now, and it does not arrive in the mail. No government votes on it. No minister announces it. No one even has the honesty to call it what it is. It is the tax on being alone.
Not solitude in the poetic sense. Not the noble retreat of monks, writers, or the occasional sane person hiding from the species. I mean ordinary modern singleness: paying … Read the rest
People ask which jobs are safe from AI the way passengers on a sinking ship ask which deck is safest. It is the wrong unit of analysis. “Job” is a legal and HR container; “work” is a bundle of tasks; “tasks” are what automation eats. Generative AI does not need to “replace your profession” to destroy your job. It only needs to replace the parts of your week that justify … Read the rest
The phone box was parked in open space the way a confident cat parks itself on your keyboard: with total disregard for physics, your calendar, and your dignity.
From the outside, it was an ordinary public phone box, the sort you would ignore on a wet street in Manchester. From the inside, it was a lounge, a studio, a parliamentary bar, and—if you looked too closely at one corner—possibly a … Read the rest
Content advisory 14+ The Internet is one of the best things that ever happened to us. I’ll tell you why. We are living in days where there are arguments everywhere of whether having an open and unrestricted internet is important or not, due to the harm it may cause, opportunities to the crime it can bring. For me, the freedom of the internet matters – and I’m going to tell … Read the rest
