Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

You know that whining noise that EV's make when they go slowly? It's to emulate the noise the luddites make.

#postoffice systems are down across the UK according to our local Post Office.

Opinions headlines reads: Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all

I'm good thanks

20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

It certainly was. It was quite eye opening.

Cover of The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod

First time on Bluesky 👋☁️

🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵

📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙

“A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code.”

gist.github.com/onlurking/fc...

Get on the mailing list for your local auction house (real auctions!). Careful, it's addictive.

somebody needs to come up with an antistatic watch strap (one with the metal stud on it)

picture of the audience

Finale

Roger Daltry putting on an excellent show. 81!
#cheltjazzfest #jazz #Cheltenham

I think that's missing the point. AI friends is a problem for sure, but think of influence "they" would have if you control the opinions (and political leaning) of those virtual friends.

The way social media influences society is toxic enough already, this automates and weaponises it.

"everything in moderation, including moderation"

there's this from the other place

x.com/Siliconinsid...

I think it's a common problem in the UK that we have no idea what goes on in our economy. For example Airbus delivered 766 planes in 2024, imagine the logistics behind that (it's not all in the UK of course). There are many other examples too I'm sure.

Nice workmanship, but better not be spilling any coffee on that table...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Shocking story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maybe open collector outputs?

I was born in a village. My parents separated. I lived with my grandfather. When I was supposed to go to primary school at the age of seven, my father disowned me. My older brother tried to poison me. My grandfather grew old and I became an unwanted child. I learned how to write by writing on walls and rocks with charcoal. I herded goats. My mother got angry about this. She sent me to Ankara to earn money for a gun so I could shoot my father. I was a homeless child. I twice wrote to our president Demirel to educate me but didn’t get a positive reply. I slept in a public toilet in Sıhhiye, fuelled up lighters in Ulus square

Had to pop into town, so quick stop for lunch at one of my favourite sneaky restaurant picks: Sofra Turkish on South Molton Street.

I absolutely encourage you to read the "about us" page on their website.

It actually escalates from here.

www.sofra.co.uk/huseyin-ozer/

"I am Sparticus"

Telemagenta RAL 4010 This page shows RAL color 4010 called Telemagenta. This color appears in the category Violet hues, part of the collection RAL Classic. In other languages this RAL color has the following names Telemag...

This pink?
colorfabb.com/telemagenta-...

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

A fantastic story from @stokel.bsky.social, who used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT logs of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary. With the precedent now set, will journalists be following his lead to see how other politicians are using AI? www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

hate this hate this hate this I hate it I hate it

If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone. I’ve been getting great results out of LLMs for code for over two years now. Here’s my attempt at transferring some of that experience and intution to you. Set reasonable expectations Account for training cut-off dates Context is king Ask them for options Tell them exactly what to do You have to test what it writes! Remember it’s a conversation Use tools that can run the code for you Vibe-coding is a great way to learn A detailed example Be ready for the human to take over The biggest advantage is speed of development LLMs amplify existing expertise Bonus: answering questions about codebases

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

I know what you mean. I tried to adopt a "really, oh all right then if you insist" approach. I wouldn't recommend saying it out load though.

Great breakdown of how the "WoeMeter" from the latest Severance episode was built: make3.co/work/woemeter

@adafruit.com ESP32-S3 Feather spotted!