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Practise what you preach @londonunderground.bsky.social and clean the bloody notice
May 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Practise what you preach @londonunderground.bsky.social and clean the bloody notice
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Will England’s forgotten seaside towns be heard? My piece on Coastal Labour and what it wants. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Will Labour’s “Sea Wall” be swept away?
Under threat from Reform, coastal MPs are demanding a new strategy from Keir Starmer.
www.newstatesman.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Will England’s forgotten seaside towns be heard? My piece on Coastal Labour and what it wants. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
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Created by Piero Tosi, a visionary costume design and lots of beads worn by Maria Callas in her role as Medea in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film adaptation of the Euripides play
#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #MariaCallas #PieroTosi #Medea
#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #MariaCallas #PieroTosi #Medea
April 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Created by Piero Tosi, a visionary costume design and lots of beads worn by Maria Callas in her role as Medea in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film adaptation of the Euripides play
#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #MariaCallas #PieroTosi #Medea
#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #MariaCallas #PieroTosi #Medea
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Local news classic:
"I left the cinema with lettuce down me and they were really rude about female characters"
Local news classic:
"I left the cinema with lettuce down me and they were really rude about female characters"
Sevenoaks cinema ejects group from A Minecraft Movie screening
The Stag Theatre says some viewers are being disruptive during the film due to a TikTok trend.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Local news classic:
"I left the cinema with lettuce down me and they were really rude about female characters"
Local news classic:
"I left the cinema with lettuce down me and they were really rude about female characters"
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All those papers and books on resurgent English identity went poof in a puff of smoke
Incredible stat in @duncanrobinson.bsky.social 's ode to lubing up the union jack www.economist.com/britain/2025...
April 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
All those papers and books on resurgent English identity went poof in a puff of smoke
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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This is a fantastic article by @adamposen.bsky.social explaining with great clarity why the conventional wisdom that the US has the upper hand in a bilateral trade war with China is dead wrong.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose
Beijing has escalation dominance in the U.S.-Chinese tariff fight.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is a fantastic article by @adamposen.bsky.social explaining with great clarity why the conventional wisdom that the US has the upper hand in a bilateral trade war with China is dead wrong.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant.
The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions.
This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions.
This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
April 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant.
The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions.
This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions.
This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
The Canadian High Commissioner to the UK called US policy "foolish" and said "We are under attack and we will defend ourselves".
The world's axis has shifted.
#r4today
The world's axis has shifted.
#r4today
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Canadian High Commissioner to the UK called US policy "foolish" and said "We are under attack and we will defend ourselves".
The world's axis has shifted.
#r4today
The world's axis has shifted.
#r4today
The security concerns about Canada and Greenland are just a figleaf for their desire to grab northern land while they let the world burn
good line of questioning here from Heinrich underlining how despite Trump's rhetoric, Canada isn't mentioned a single time in the intelligence community's threats assessment
March 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The security concerns about Canada and Greenland are just a figleaf for their desire to grab northern land while they let the world burn
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The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
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Elon Musk is not a genius #232. Interesting analysis by @lockettwill.bsky.social
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Elon Musk is not a genius #232. Interesting analysis by @lockettwill.bsky.social
Canada and Mexico should start calling it the United States of Central North America
March 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Canada and Mexico should start calling it the United States of Central North America
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Not only is this crass, it is highly significant.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
March 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Not only is this crass, it is highly significant.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
1970 - 1990: Nineteen Eighty-Four
1990 - 2020: Brave New World
2020 - ???: Nineteen Eighty-Four again
1990 - 2020: Brave New World
2020 - ???: Nineteen Eighty-Four again
March 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1970 - 1990: Nineteen Eighty-Four
1990 - 2020: Brave New World
2020 - ???: Nineteen Eighty-Four again
1990 - 2020: Brave New World
2020 - ???: Nineteen Eighty-Four again
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How easy would it be to snatch power and flood the zone in the UK? Easier than you might think. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK
Without a constitution for protection, British politics is vulnerable to its own version of extremism
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
How easy would it be to snatch power and flood the zone in the UK? Easier than you might think. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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An interesting bit of 'the Internet eating itself' is that increasingly the fastest way to find a piece of research is to ask ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude/DeepSeek/whatever a question, thank it and ask it for its sources, and there's the research that you couldn't find for love nor money yourself.
January 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
An interesting bit of 'the Internet eating itself' is that increasingly the fastest way to find a piece of research is to ask ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude/DeepSeek/whatever a question, thank it and ask it for its sources, and there's the research that you couldn't find for love nor money yourself.
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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion…
dlvr.it
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
I love how "Fabergé" looks like "Fatberg"
January 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I love how "Fabergé" looks like "Fatberg"
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Never in the history of calming down has the suggestion to take a chill pill worked.
January 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Never in the history of calming down has the suggestion to take a chill pill worked.
Nothing in the article justifies the choice of "fleeing" in the headline
BBC News - Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK
More Vietnamese attempted small-boat crossings in early 2024 than any other nationality - what makes them risk this dangerous journey?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Nothing in the article justifies the choice of "fleeing" in the headline
BBC News - Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A well-deserved happy Christmas to whoever did the lawyering on this piece.
Awesome work.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Awesome work.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:50 PM
A well-deserved happy Christmas to whoever did the lawyering on this piece.
Awesome work.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Awesome work.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
