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Agreed when it comes to the City of London (for anyone not familiar, this means the financial centre). It can feel pretty grim walking there at times.
Elsewhere though, possible to plan continuous walks through greenish spaces. One starting at Victoria: Belgravia back streets, Hyde Park, Grosvenor Square, Marylebone High Street, Regents Park, Primrose Hill, Belsize Park, Hampstead Heath.
Strangely enough, you can get it cheaper (in £ at least) by signing up to a paid Revolut account and getting the FT sub for free.
Gibson also had the 'ugly t-shirt' in Zero History, designed to mess with facial recognition https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-t-shirt-block...
never stand out or make a fuss
I always enjoyed this aspect of being in Tokyo. Similar to rayiner's comment, I'd then get a huge shock on return to Europe.
But I was also struck by the flip side of this when reading Murakami's account of the sarin gas attacks (Underground). Everyone was so keen not to make a fuss that trains were sent on their way too soon, poisoning even more people.
And now the chair of the OBR has had to resign over it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/01/keir-s...
If by 'much of the info' you mean policy changes, those are deliberately leaked by the politicians, not civil servants or their family members. They do this to test reactions and frame the debate.
May be mixing-up the company change with the IDE: Posit, the company, was named a few years ago, whereas Positron, the IDE, is new.
If you sign-up for a free account you can read FT Alphaville, which is the blog-style section of the FT containing articles like this one
It's FT Alphaville, which means it's only supposed to be a blog-style comment on the HSBC report
And as it won't be obvious to everyone here: Alphaville is one of the few free parts of FT online. You need to create an account to access it, but don't need a paid subscription.
FT Alphaville is the (very good) blog-style section of the FT, so this point is meant slightly tongue-in-cheek, as Bryce hints at himself.
Yes, Borges' and Lewis Carroll's stories are playful illustrations of 'the map is not the territory'. Or you could say they show that the map cannot be the territory.
Or read anything by Will Self
Might be worth looking at groundhog, if you want a 'time machine' less likely to have a commercial motive