If you are a Councillor, please watch this.
It happened nearly 50 years ago in the Netherlands. The arguments against restricting traffic were the same as those made today and were proven to be wrong.
Many cities would greatly benefit from a circulation plan.
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Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.
We're fighting to stop a filter being removed from one of Exeter's key strategic cycle routes, the E9 at Dryden Road. Removing the filter would allow nearly 4,000 cars a day back onto the route, with just paint for protection. Our Chair James explains the issues in these short videos👇🎥.
You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling.
“I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth
From @irishtimes.com
The natural environment, including the climate, has an enormous impact on what a military can, and cannot, do. As well as the importance of weather in the short term, climate change is also reshaping the operational environments of the future
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A reminder of why the weather (and climate) can be much more important and impactful than the decision to have a barbeque or not.
As well as providing the famous D-Day forecast over 80 years ago, more recently the Met Office provided advice to the producers of this film
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Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu
No idea if that account uses the same approach, but there is a sure pet care integration for home assistant that knows about individual cats. Means I can get my smart speakers to greet our cats by name when they come in. Source code is on GitHub
www.home-assistant.io/integrations...
As someone who has hit middle age and mid career, meaning I'm not coding day to day, I feel the same about vibe coding. But it only works because of my 20 years of experience hacking together mediocre scripts. I'm not sure what it means for the skills development for junior staff with no experience
Really great thread thanks.
As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:
More stats please.
Ratio of approved Vs rejected
Fastest, slowest, and average decision time etc.
You can totally start giving yourself some sort of score per session which you then attempt to beat
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
And, as we were all told, many, many times during our childhood, "two wrongs don't make a right"
Wrote this in 2023 (reposted in 2024), and still think it one of the most prescient things I've ever written.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/todays-emp...
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Interesting, I think Exeter is probably stuck somewhere between steps 3 and 4 on this list...
Just ordered one. Will make a good activity for the limbo days between Xmas and new year
In the civil service there is a cliff edge at £56k for pension contributions. They are not tapered (i.e. the rate applies to your whole income, not just the bit over the threshold)
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Going from £56000 to £56001 costs a worker 2% of their pay, or £1120
Terrific piece this: very through going over the issues.
It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
Was in the West end last weekend and attempting to walk around was just horrific / impossible with the volumes of pedestrians squeezed onto tiny pavements while cars and pedicycles happily trundled around on the road. Can't come soon enough.
This is just nonsense. If you accept climate change is happening and a problem (as Kemi supposedly does) then net zero (i.e. stopping adding more anthropogenic GHG into the atmosphere) is the only way to stop it. The alternative is denying well over 100 years of established physics
Great post. I think their plagiarism is lazier then you make out. Doubt they're sitting there with a thesaurus. Tell any LLM "Rewrite this: " and then paste text. And you'll get the almost the same, but a few words and sentences swapped or moved output that is their MO. It's just lazy AI.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to work from home. (Although the coffee is better here)
Never thought I'd say this. It's
gonna be harsh and might
give you angry feelings when
you see it. I've come
up with one simple life rule:
Never ever (I know you're
gonna, but please don't)
let yourself feel stupid when
you look at the first words
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