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Posts by Alan Paxton

15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the Culture War | Origin Story
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This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth

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It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

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They won’t. They are smart enough to have gamed out “the idiot fucking sues despite what we know”.

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Looking forward to it.

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You misoverestimate him. It’s all on Don Jr’s laptop.

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They really don’t like renewables, I wonder why ? It must be very annoying that Trump is ruining their argument.

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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …

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Primoz there, with his eclectic interpretation of the yell of victory.

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Something about going through the shit of losing an election and choosing to do what good he can afterwards.

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NEWS! Britain First march in Manchester: Hundreds hospitalised with severely grazed knuckles buff.ly/3RJCqCx

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I refer the gentleman to the current frivolous lawsuit against the BBC.

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Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage.
A woman answers the door.
We have come for the child, says the hooded figure
So soon? she asks
It is time, says the hooded figure.
The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card!
What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure
We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! 
For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness
Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman,
the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them.
Do not cry mother. 
I am a writer now.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

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Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently.

Newton: now hang on just a minute…

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Vision zero takes account of everyone being capable of making mistakes, and the system takes account of that so a mistake by a child crossing a road or by someone driving along it does not result in death or injury. Hence road rules like speed limits.

💯 this 👇

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If by AI she means vast quantities of monitoring and data overlaid by ML, she might say that, otherwise it just sounds like “ChatGPT tell me where the leaks are”, which is basically the other picture.

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I want to see what happens when the financial non-viability of AI finally hits.

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Yes this, and it’s also true for knee arthritis too, in my case, and others too I suspect

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This should be really easy to solve, if it isn’t already, with a centralised register. It should then be advertised the hell out of to reassure people. And part of taking your state pension could run a search on that..

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this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

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Or both.

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“Everyone” always knows. Except for the rest of us. This seems to be the defining characteristic of the modern scandal.

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From outside its hard to distinguish attacks on Reeves’ competence from partisan misogyny. Whereas with Starmer we have now reached critical mass of “intelligent people close to the inside who seemed willing to give him a fair hearing have concluded he’s useless”

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What didn’t Keir Starmer know, and when didn’t he know it ?

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Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

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According to Pax, Rome “encouraged “ rich private citizens to subsidise bread for the masses. We could do that with billionaires

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Too late for Orban’s handouts. AI ?

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Many people are saying that JD is quite ignorant about the history of religion in Europe and the Middle East but that overlooks his expertise on the ottomans.

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“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent “

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Learned to project the stupid person’s concept of a smart person.

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