Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

This photo.

I think Jeremy Bowen is right

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I've watched a bunch of Agile transformations fail over 25 years. Always the same cause. Businesses try to accelerate the inner feedback loops by speeding up the outer loops.

Sorry folks. It's the other way around. You accelerate the outer loops by accelerating the innermost loop.

It’s just so stupid on so many levels.
The *fundamental* problem is that the world has less oil. We need to use less to account for that. Making petrol a fraction cheaper doesn’t help with the real issue, costs the government money and does very little for households.

'Plastic bag' artificial womb could save premature babies YouTube video by euronews

Why does it make me think of this
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BREAKING: Iran confirms it has no interest in a reciprocal assassination against Trump because no weapon it could possibly build, not even nukes, could do more harm to the US than the current president. Iran actually sees Trump as a major asset 👀

It's here too:

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The broligarchy's war on journalism The capture of US media by Trump allies is accelerating and the UK is the next in line. Plus: the mystery money behind my old newspaper.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?

Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia…
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The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

From linked article: "Asked to put a timeframe on when the war might end, Giles offered a rather bleak answer: “It will continue for as long as Russia exists.”

"Rather bleak answers" is my day job.

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I do not want it on my phone. I do not want it in my home.

I do not want it in my brain. I do not want its supposed “gain.”

Not in a book. Not “take a look!”

Not in my art. Not any part.

I do not want it here or there.

I DO NOT WANT IT ANYWHERE.

A mate 'invested' thousands in Brewdogs Equity for Punks. He would bang on about what his shares would be worth when it floats on the stock market to anyone he spotted drinking it. Sadly I don't get to rub it in his face now because he died two years ago.

Note to banks: When doing an international transfer, the funds are supposed to come out of the source account *once* and go into the destination account *once*.
Right now it's zero and two times respectively, but that might be reversed. But it's been days.
You'd think that they know this.

"An expert's point of view"

new acronym needed - Trump Strategies Usually Backfire.. T-SUB. Pushes UK closer to EU (and makes EU more open to trad deals around the world). Pushes countries into the arms of China.. Makes oil and gas incredibly risky and unpredictable so accelerates moves to decarbonise..

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion).

Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.

My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.

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Amongst other things, they're insourcing tech again. Mamdani's team continues to show that you can, uh, just do things if you give a shit?

One of the funniest moments in music history: Billy Corgan getting righteously bullied by Kim Thayil in a Spin magazine profile

Zirp looking like a lost decade where instead of building infrastructure with essentially free debt the US economy decided to fund a bunch of middleman companies and vaporware

🤣🤣🤣🤣

PM set to ban crypto donations in blow to Farage Max Kendix - Political Correspondent Sir Keir Starmer is expected to ban cryptocurrency donations in a blow to Nigel Farage as an independent review warns that they risk letting foreign powers intervene in British democracy. Reform UK was the first party to accept donations in cryptocurrency, which Farage has strongly advocated. He has also personally invested £215,000 in a bitcoin scheme run by Kwasi Kwarteng, the former Tory chancellor, and claimed the party had received “a couple” of donations in crypto. Tomorrow Philip Rycroft, a former senior civil servant, will publish his report on foreign interference in British politics. The Times has been told he will call for a ban on crypto donations as concerns rise about a lack of transparency and the risk of money laundering. Farage has previously said a ban would be “aimed directly” at Reform. Ministers have promised that Rycroft’s recommendations will be “incorporated” into the Representation of the People Bill, which is making its way through parliament. The Rycroft review was launched after the conviction of Nathan Gill, the former Reform MEP in Wales, for accepting bribes to promote pro- Russian narratives. It will also recommend forcing individuals behind opaque company donations to declare themselves to regulators. Rycroft said the report would “set out clear, practical steps to modernise political finance rules ... and better protect UK democracy”. Last year Farage received what was believed to be the largest political donation by a living person when Christopher Harborne, a British crypto tycoon based in Thailand, donated £9 million to Reform. Soon after the donation was received, on August 1, Farage publicly promoted Tether, the crypto company in which Harborne bought a 12 per cent stake in 2016. Farage denied that Harborne had asked for anything in return.

Crypto donations to political parties to be banned. Good.
Farage claims this is aimed directly at Reform. Good.

He also says that him publicly promoting Harborne’s crypto company had nothing to do with Harborne giving Reform £9M.
You’d have to be a v special kind of useful idiot to believe that.

Thanks! The person who first explained that to me was the late Professor John Doheny of the UBC Department of English, around 1975 or so.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

I am getting a VERY strong late-February 2020 vibe about the omnicrisis bearing down on us right now, to be honest.

Fuck Trump!

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

From 2028, no new homes will be on the gas network - and will instead be on a heat network or get a heat pump - and they must have solar panels on their roofs covering an area equivalent to 40% of the ground floor space

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I love Scott Seiss

You can point someone to study after study showing that LLMs have barely improved in the last year, and study after study explaining why their benchmark scores go up (they end up in the training data), and they'll still say "Yeah, well the model *I'm* using has gotten better in leaps and bounds!"

You can ship as fast as you like with AI, if the architecture is brittle and domain is not well defined, any productivity gains will be offset by incidents, bugs and bottlenecks between teams.

AI cannot save you from poor engineering practices.