We have to accept that left wing radicalisation is and has been a thing online. The second you say "this person has oppressive, harmful beliefs, and therefore it's OK to celebrate killing them", you're in much more harmful territory yourself than those you disagree with.

Always a lovely away day when Arsenal win!

Anyway, Beatles ranked by artistic merit:

1. Paul McCartney
2. George Harrison
3. John Lennon
4. Ringo Starr

Social media tools and platforms are ultimately what we make of them. While there certainly can be toxic elements, there's also immense value in being able to "listen in" on experts discussing their fields and sharing learning paths they wish they'd had when starting out.

Giulia’s French has hit a new level. We’re in Paris, she’ll speak French and they’ll respond and not get annoyed. I’m in awe. With me they then respond in English (fair)

From what I can gather, this kind of platform is more liked at FOSDEM than Twitter, so I want to take the time to say that the Low-Level AI, as well as the Robotics and Simulation devroom were top class yesterday

Tierney goes down as one of my favourite Arsenal players ever. Huge respect to him for choosing to go back home to Celtic instead of going to Juventus for his future. Just wish he could win some silverware in London before he leaves...

www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Might have to give this place another try. Can't really abide by Nazi salutes.

I loved twitter for three things - football (has been one of the best places to talk about football maybe ever), tech (the AI stuff is insanely good), UK politics (kept me up to date well).

Sorry to be that nerd but Arsenal's results are mostly being unlucky. Last two PL games were 1-1 and 0-0:

Fulham 0.15 - 2.43 Arsenal
Arsenal 1.42 - 0.17 Everton

That’s 1 goal from 3.85 xG
and 1 goal conceded from 0.32 xG

Another day you could win both of those 2-0

It’s extremely lame to be in a self soothing bubble where you think all that matters are books and individual statements of resistance. The singularity is coming, computers are about to overtake humans, you’re focusing on the wrong (self centred, selfish) problems

Changed my mind about this place. It rocks. Where else can you tell thick nerds they’re stupid and be right without mods deleting your posts anymore

It is a bit ironic that in self confining your liberal, left-wing views to an echo chamber like this where the vast majority already agree with you, you can paradoxically *decrease* polarisation - people seemingly get polarised when they read views they are opposed to:

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

that is the crux of the issue - one man's "hate speech" is another man's "censorship". It's a slippery slope that can itself lead to well intentioned authoritarianism

My Dad wrote something, but it’s too long for here so he put it on substack. (Thats me in his profile picture!)

The San Siro for away fans sucks; it’s unsafe and the police treat you without care. It’s a disaster waiting to happen unless they fix it (they are knocking it down soon).

Have a read:

Interesting that there were no abstentions. 16 votes for, 4 against

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Thanks, very cool!

Thanks for following. Massive thank you to @magic-hat.bsky.social for including me on that list!

Who am I: a 28 year old who was born in Islington, went to school in Enfield, then St Albans, then did a law degree in Lancaster, moved back to London, and now have a flat in Brussels

My Dad took me to Arsenal games as early as possible. He has been a season ticket holder since they started; I have had one since I was 5. The birthplace as listed in my passport is Islington.

Trossard off with injury...

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