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Using AI to 'help' write essays or research papers - AI takes in what the student is writing, uses it in responses when helping others. Thus surely plagiarism is surely going to become automatic? All sorts of nonsense will be regurgitated in a bland mix of fact and fiction.
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Using AI to 'help' write essays or research papers - AI takes in what the student is writing, uses it in responses when helping others. Thus surely plagiarism is surely going to become automatic? All sorts of nonsense will be regurgitated in a bland mix of fact and fiction.
Increasingly, the chances are that the young job applicants have been educated via use of AI at school as well as at college. The dangers of this, I think, are very real. People are not learning how to learn, how to discriminate between what is factual and what fake.
There's also a quality flip side. I hire and manage people at early career stage. And I see trends of overreliance on LLM tools to help write emails, reports, presentations.But they often aren't taking the time to understand the topic.Which I don't find out until later when they can't answer basic q
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Increasingly, the chances are that the young job applicants have been educated via use of AI at school as well as at college. The dangers of this, I think, are very real. People are not learning how to learn, how to discriminate between what is factual and what fake.
What about the ubiquitous AI chatbots, some of which are inescapable? Surely there must be a loss of online customer services Chat jobs?
The fallacy is that AI can replace jobs. It can boost the productivity of employees. But it cannot replace them (at least with current technologies).
There is an incredible gap between the perceived and actual abilities of current AI tools, driven by the Tech sector's false promises.
There is an incredible gap between the perceived and actual abilities of current AI tools, driven by the Tech sector's false promises.
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What about the ubiquitous AI chatbots, some of which are inescapable? Surely there must be a loss of online customer services Chat jobs?
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Comment | To truly read a painting, forget the present
Art historian Bendor Grosvenor argues that understanding a work’s meaning depends on seeing it in the context of its time—not through the lens of today.
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Art historian Bendor Grosvenor argues that understanding a work’s meaning depends on seeing it in the context of its time—not through the lens of today.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Comment | To truly read a painting, forget the present
Art historian Bendor Grosvenor argues that understanding a work’s meaning depends on seeing it in the context of its time—not through the lens of today.
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Art historian Bendor Grosvenor argues that understanding a work’s meaning depends on seeing it in the context of its time—not through the lens of today.
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Can't believe they're going to end trial by jury. It's one of our most fundamental rights. Literally Magna Carta stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Can't believe they're going to end trial by jury. It's one of our most fundamental rights. Literally Magna Carta stuff.
Fastest Manchester to London #trainservice, daily. But passengers are not allowed to board it. Tony Miles, an industry expert & rail writer: "It will be on the platform – people will be able to see it, touch it, watch it leave. But they won't be able to get on...."
britbrief.co.uk/business/tra...
britbrief.co.uk/business/tra...
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Fastest Manchester to London #trainservice, daily. But passengers are not allowed to board it. Tony Miles, an industry expert & rail writer: "It will be on the platform – people will be able to see it, touch it, watch it leave. But they won't be able to get on...."
britbrief.co.uk/business/tra...
britbrief.co.uk/business/tra...
Shocking #PFI profits, #UCLHLondon, article in #WestminsterExtra www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/its-...
Don't let them use PFI ever again!
Don't let them use PFI ever again!
It’s 20 years of world class hospital care (and 20 years of mega cash PFI profits)
We have lots to thank UCLH for in its first 20 years of life-saving care and innovation, but could it have achieved even more if it had not been saddled with PFI obligations? Tom Foot investigates
www.westminsterextra.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Shocking #PFI profits, #UCLHLondon, article in #WestminsterExtra www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/its-...
Don't let them use PFI ever again!
Don't let them use PFI ever again!
I agree that long-standing venues in previously resident-free localities should not have to suffer because a developer has put in residential properties. But govt. proposals are to sweep away all residents' protections in existing mixed areas, where there are both venues and residents.
"New ‘hospitality zones’ will fast-track permissions for alfresco dining, pubs, bars and street parties.
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Red tape slashed to revamp high streets with new cafes and bars
Communities and town centres across the UK are set to benefit from a wave of new cafes, bars, music venues and outdoor dining options, as the Government slashes red tape to breathe new life into the h...
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I agree that long-standing venues in previously resident-free localities should not have to suffer because a developer has put in residential properties. But govt. proposals are to sweep away all residents' protections in existing mixed areas, where there are both venues and residents.
Be more creative, go make hospitality zones where there are no residents. Put in sleeping pods, lots of public toilets, & transport links. Residents are sick of the constant erosion of their right to a decent living environment, homes where families can relax late evenings & sleep at night.
"New ‘hospitality zones’ will fast-track permissions for alfresco dining, pubs, bars and street parties.
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Red tape slashed to revamp high streets with new cafes and bars
Communities and town centres across the UK are set to benefit from a wave of new cafes, bars, music venues and outdoor dining options, as the Government slashes red tape to breathe new life into the h...
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Be more creative, go make hospitality zones where there are no residents. Put in sleeping pods, lots of public toilets, & transport links. Residents are sick of the constant erosion of their right to a decent living environment, homes where families can relax late evenings & sleep at night.
Thousands live in those hospitality zones, most have been mixed for decades or even hundreds of years. Businesses moving into mixed areas must accept that people live around them, and accept the minimal protection license conditions gives them. Residents must be allowed good quality sleep at night.
"New ‘hospitality zones’ will fast-track permissions for alfresco dining, pubs, bars and street parties.
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Red tape slashed to revamp high streets with new cafes and bars
Communities and town centres across the UK are set to benefit from a wave of new cafes, bars, music venues and outdoor dining options, as the Government slashes red tape to breathe new life into the h...
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thousands live in those hospitality zones, most have been mixed for decades or even hundreds of years. Businesses moving into mixed areas must accept that people live around them, and accept the minimal protection license conditions gives them. Residents must be allowed good quality sleep at night.
An abomination that will to make thousands of homes unfit for living in. Already licensing law is unbalanced, gives more power to the businesses than to residents. It is now, in areas with licensed premises, impossible to get the 8 hours of good quality sleep that adults need for reasonable health.
"New ‘hospitality zones’ will fast-track permissions for alfresco dining, pubs, bars and street parties.
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Reforms will also protect long-standing venues from noise complaints by new developments."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Any suggestions for new hospitality quarters where you live?
Red tape slashed to revamp high streets with new cafes and bars
Communities and town centres across the UK are set to benefit from a wave of new cafes, bars, music venues and outdoor dining options, as the Government slashes red tape to breathe new life into the h...
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
An abomination that will to make thousands of homes unfit for living in. Already licensing law is unbalanced, gives more power to the businesses than to residents. It is now, in areas with licensed premises, impossible to get the 8 hours of good quality sleep that adults need for reasonable health.
If there is a rates review, I am sure it will end up increasing the rates for social housing residents who live in areas with a lot of wealthy properties. The rich have long wanted to get rid of social housing from anywhere near their homes, whether they use them much or not.
Yup. They haven't chased me away like Mayfair Witches did. Sigh.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If there is a rates review, I am sure it will end up increasing the rates for social housing residents who live in areas with a lot of wealthy properties. The rich have long wanted to get rid of social housing from anywhere near their homes, whether they use them much or not.
Licensing protections threat by UK Govt Review
#licensinglaw review, Dept Trade & Industry. Call for evidence closed today midday. Local democratic say & residents' right to sleep at night are at risk.
Read about it here, then lobby your local amenity society and your MP!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
#licensinglaw review, Dept Trade & Industry. Call for evidence closed today midday. Local democratic say & residents' right to sleep at night are at risk.
Read about it here, then lobby your local amenity society and your MP!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Reforming the licensing system
Seeking views and evidence to develop a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system under the Licensing Act 2003.
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Licensing protections threat by UK Govt Review
#licensinglaw review, Dept Trade & Industry. Call for evidence closed today midday. Local democratic say & residents' right to sleep at night are at risk.
Read about it here, then lobby your local amenity society and your MP!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
#licensinglaw review, Dept Trade & Industry. Call for evidence closed today midday. Local democratic say & residents' right to sleep at night are at risk.
Read about it here, then lobby your local amenity society and your MP!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Made a late afternoon visit to Waddesdon. Many fine pictures of course, but also some superb historic toilet action. Including an all-Delft bathroom, and this commode chair (which I think you sat on backwards, so to speak).
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Made a late afternoon visit to Waddesdon. Many fine pictures of course, but also some superb historic toilet action. Including an all-Delft bathroom, and this commode chair (which I think you sat on backwards, so to speak).
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A real life art adventure for Waldy and Bendy today, ably guided by Producer Thea, at the National Gallery’s new Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition. Podcast out on Thursday.
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A real life art adventure for Waldy and Bendy today, ably guided by Producer Thea, at the National Gallery’s new Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition. Podcast out on Thursday.
Nah, not fleeing. The 'supercars' are keeping Mayfair and nearby residents awake all night as usual. Revving, back firing all down the roads. Day, evening, night. Still here.
Apparently, it’s all gone wrong... luxury car dealers in Mayfair are going bust, Waitrose is empty, the last jet to Dubai overloaded with fleeing billionaires. According to someone who compiled a report based on LinkedIn, seriously…. Data from the FT gives the lie to all of that.
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August 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nah, not fleeing. The 'supercars' are keeping Mayfair and nearby residents awake all night as usual. Revving, back firing all down the roads. Day, evening, night. Still here.
Great. But don't make the mistake of thinking Khan's power takeover of Oxford Street will have similar pleasant results. He is not after nice green communal areas. More likely 24-hour city with traffic pollution pushed into side streets of residential homes.
Initiated by Westminster City Council in August 2020 in response to sudden demand for communal areas during the pandemic, the three-year, £22-million project is the result of an extensive co-design process with over 70 stakeholders, including King’s College London, Northbank BID, and Somerset House.
August 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Great. But don't make the mistake of thinking Khan's power takeover of Oxford Street will have similar pleasant results. He is not after nice green communal areas. More likely 24-hour city with traffic pollution pushed into side streets of residential homes.
They always want to busk, full volume, where the most residents & workers will be exposed to the noise. For decades they have selfishly refused to play more quietly. After years of unwanted exposure to hours & hours of noise pollution in their homes people have some protection from busking.
🤘 Back your buskers!
Buskers are campaigning for new pitches in Westminster to replace those lost in Leicester Square
It follows a court ruling that described busking as a “statutory nuisance” and compared it to “psychological torture techniques” - effectively banning busking in the area
Buskers are campaigning for new pitches in Westminster to replace those lost in Leicester Square
It follows a court ruling that described busking as a “statutory nuisance” and compared it to “psychological torture techniques” - effectively banning busking in the area
August 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They always want to busk, full volume, where the most residents & workers will be exposed to the noise. For decades they have selfishly refused to play more quietly. After years of unwanted exposure to hours & hours of noise pollution in their homes people have some protection from busking.
It is not joy for all those who are forced to have buskers' music in their homes or workplaces, or both, day and evening, all year round. Noise pollution makes people ill.
August 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is not joy for all those who are forced to have buskers' music in their homes or workplaces, or both, day and evening, all year round. Noise pollution makes people ill.
At least TfL gave out some information. Recently, down in the Brighton area, passengers were left sitting on trains that did not move for a long time with no information at all about what was or was not happening. Someone eventually found out that neither drivers nor crew had turned up for work.
Am I the only one confused by how TfL can say "Minor Delays due to train cancellations"?? Like yeah, you cancelled some trains, and so there are delays, but why?
August 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
At least TfL gave out some information. Recently, down in the Brighton area, passengers were left sitting on trains that did not move for a long time with no information at all about what was or was not happening. Someone eventually found out that neither drivers nor crew had turned up for work.
NIMBY? As in hundreds of residents, many with children, who need to get some sleep at night, and don't like it when their children step straight into lakes of pee when they open their front doors?
Absolutely. The difference is that Soho is under the hold of one of London's most notorious NIMBY clubs, the Soho Society.
August 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NIMBY? As in hundreds of residents, many with children, who need to get some sleep at night, and don't like it when their children step straight into lakes of pee when they open their front doors?
I used to have one of these in my sitting room. The scent was overwhelming and sadly in the centre of the city there were no suitable pollinators around.
The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.
August 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I used to have one of these in my sitting room. The scent was overwhelming and sadly in the centre of the city there were no suitable pollinators around.
Coverted to imagery originally by Jim Blinn??
August 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Coverted to imagery originally by Jim Blinn??
Posting on my allotment group says Angela Rayner is targeting allotments for building on. Allotments are lifesavers for so many people, especially for urban flat-dwellers. Health-giving in many ways and provide good quality fresh food. A Tory govt a few years ago defined them as Brownfield sites.
August 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting on my allotment group says Angela Rayner is targeting allotments for building on. Allotments are lifesavers for so many people, especially for urban flat-dwellers. Health-giving in many ways and provide good quality fresh food. A Tory govt a few years ago defined them as Brownfield sites.
Isn't it an African crow? Or am I missing something.
A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.
August 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Isn't it an African crow? Or am I missing something.