It's genuinely bizarre that people are still trying to claim Starmer is "decent" and/or a "dull technocrat". Like, have you being paying even the slightest bit of attention?

Probably want to save it drop off at the new PMs office...

This is a super paper

I try to reword it so that it's not required. I think it's usually better to be a bit more wordy or repeat yourself than use this kind of construction.

Living in Germany near the Danish border we sometimes go to Denmark to watch films (because in Denmark they subtitle English films rather than dubbing them). The tickets are SUPER expensive but the drinks and snacks are sold at totally normal prices. It's weird.

It's like they chose the most irritating way to frame cool and impressive technology.

But... the winner didn't navigate the course. They crashed into a barrier just before the line and needed to be rescued by humans.

The timing of the trains, the sheer unreliability of Deutschebahn, and our distance from the airport means I/we usually arrive 3 and a half hours early. It sucks. Airports suck. Waiting in airports sucks.

I avoid the Wetherspoons personally, but I do remember ordering cocktails at about that time in Wagamummas (sp?) Heathrow and when our drinks took a while the waitress apologising and saying "people don't usually order cocktails at this time" and I'm frankly shocked by that.

Watch this.

Because it is good.

Murphy

1000 hectares. Well, that sounds massive doesn't it? Except there's 8.8 million hectares of agricultural land in England; of which 600 thousand are in Norfolk alone. This would take up less than 0.2% of the agricultural land in Norfolk. That's a meaningless impact on the amount of green space.

That's what my first thought was, but half the time things are subskeets to something I've missed and I'm so old and confused these days 🙂‍↕️

I'm entirely unclear who "this guy" is referring to here?

Black and white photo of Marie Maynard Daly. She is wearing a white lab coat with a striped blouse or kerchief visible beneath. Her hair is swept back and she is looking down, possibly at something on a lab bench of table. Lab cabinets mounted on a white tile wall are visible behind her, along with lab equipment sitting on a counter.

Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the United States. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Image: National Institutes of Health

I was today years old when I learnt this was a fake passage. And I've actually read the bible. Oops.

Discussion with chatgpt where it generates what it sees based on a non existing picture. It offers to annotate the picture and then generates some picture that has nothing to do with anything.

gets even funnier.

I showed this to my friends and now they want one. Where did you get it from?

My favorite mind-blowing fact is that sharks significantly predate the rings of Saturn.

Laundered works because it has the implication of changing one thing to another as in "money laundered", imo.

The guy who invented the idea sells trees, he's not a scientist. He did work with a scientist to run a proper study on whether changing things reduced hayfever. It didn't but he carried on pushing his idea anyway adding that it had been studied in published research now!

The tl;dw is this: it's not tree pollen that causes the majority of hayfever. Most trees are both male and female (dioecious) so no its mostly not happening. For Ginko, which they are doing it, it's happening because Ginko fruit are highly toxic to many animals and they're an invasive species.

Botanical Sexism Isn't Real, It's Marketing YouTube video by Farm to Taber

You've quite possibly heard the idea that has been kicking around that allergies have got worse because we've been planting only male trees in cities to avoid them producing fruit?

Yeah, it's total bollocks. Like a bollocks cake with bollocks icing.

This is a long (> 1hr) watch on how and why

But... The UEA is *also* in Norwich.

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid.

Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

This strikes me as smoothing hiding what's really going on. Hide the trendline and it's basically level, possibly slightly trending down, up to 2020 when it drops dramatically and doesn't recover.

Hmm, what happened in 2020?

Although unlike you I do think in this case that the semicolon in that quote is compelling on its own; it's just a very odd thing to do unless you're deliberately trying to hide an AI origin of the text.

The point about human mistakes is very true: people make weird errors all the time. It's the number of weird errors that makes the case compelling and that's the thing about AI tells. No tell is convincing on its own -- it's only the weight of them taken together that is convincing.

And continued here. Both are excellent reads. I can see I need to work on my AI spotting skills, and that's an irritating thing to have to write.

Did you read that "The Machines are fine. I'm worried about us" from Minas Karaminas? The one about the two PhD students, Alice and Bob, where one of them uses an LLM to do everything and the other doesn't?

Turns out there's compelling evidence it's mostly or entirely AI generated