It is obvious - as a revealed preference - that a 33% rise in crossings is treated as x10 or x100 as newsworthy as a 33% fall in crossings.
When this is most salient issue, BBC and public service broadcasters [if not the newspapers] should be checking that skew: it feeds a big public misperception
Snap.
Impose a levy on ISPs. Job done.
I like curiosity as an objective. It used to be (perhaps still is) one of the FCA's internal cultural characteristics. It's also something UKRI supports by funding funding academic's curiosity driven research.
It has the potential to be quite an empowering concept for civil servants.
There is a staggering gap between Trump's confidence in his extraordinary talents, so that a great power's strategy can be safely left to his mood of the moment, and the harsh reality of his limited grasp of the meaning of the events unfolding around him. As he starts from the assumption that there is none more powerful, his default tactics always involve bullying. When the targets are unresponsive all he can do is either double down, with ever more lurid threats, or else move on, as if there was never an issue, without acknowledging defeat.
Magisterial from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
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Ha ha, you're hilarious 😂
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Yes.
It's surprising to me how little discussion in the UK there is of the massive progress there has been of making the economy less natural gas dependent.
Gas is just 3% of electricity generation today. Total gas use fell by 26% from 2022 to 2024, after Russia invaded Ukraine
Put our thermostat up to 18.5 this year. Felt extravagant.
Such an obvious thing to do. Call it "The Constituency Work & Research Grant" or something.
I think they're ok but news orgs should have some sort of regulation to carry a banner for any photorealistic content that says it's not real
Focused inbox is the devil's work
But no, I meant the way it minimises draft emails when you look at another email you're referring to and then tabs them at the bottom of the window
That's what I thought until I got upgraded to Windows 11. It comes with Co-pilot, so it can do everything except open a Word document in Word.
Also New Outlook hides emails.
It's out to get me.
In fairness, the non-bricked Office is also increasingly unusable.
I've never dreamed a smell, sounds pretty out there.
But dreams are weird. Maybe we dream-smell all the time and just don't recall it?
I could possibly do a whole thread on this for HE. Once read a terrific article in one of the trades where an academic was taking down their leadership for the indignity of making them do... DSE training.
That students have legal rights.
Yes, even PhD students.
OH COME ON. 81% clearly weren't paying attention to the the film, never mind read the book. Pfft.
North Wilts... and also I forgot where Hampshire was.
Wait, this is real? My 9 YO was talking about this yesterday... in Wilts
Starting to beg questions about how many of the child actors will have died of old age before the series finishes.
I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.
Now you mention it, I may have seen some videos of that while doom scrolling.
This raises the possibility of what other jumping events they should have. May I suggest:
- highest jump from a standing start
- most little jumps in a minute
- moshing (scored in much the same way as dressage)
So I'm not against the tech. I just think the tech has to be helpful, not pretend it can do it for you when it can't.
...but I did have 4G. Managed to download the OS map of where we were and used GPS to get back on route.
It's a good piece, albeit the cartoon reminds me that I was walking up a mountain with the family last year and we couldn't find the gate that was on the OS pathfinder book.bwe got a little lost.
This mirrors part of my pet theory that people who think AI will come for skilled jobs are wrong. Workers are going to have to be *more skilled* in the future so we can spot the AI slop.
Well that sent me down a pleasant little Wikipedia rabbit hole 😊