The NHS is prime data real estate. The summary care records and other databases you are opted into, by default, are food for these slavering corporate fascists. You CAN opt out and not feed the Palantir beast via this link.
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.
Butterfly in the bluebells of a sunny Sunday
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
The barman said what are you drinking, I said marriage on the rocks: music.apple.com/gb/album/don...
Love the bollards decorated with mosaics scattered throughout the Woodlands area of Glasgow. Created as part of the Glasgow 1999 project and designed by local kids, each one is different.
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#glasgow #bollard #mosaic #streetart #woodlands
“You’ve been cold to me so long I’m crying icicles instead of tears” music.apple.com/gb/album/two...
📣 Calling all city leaders!
The Public Sector Capabilities Index is now recruiting cities to participate. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent blog outlines why cities should join the Index & what they can gain from participating.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/JphB6c2
@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
See it, say it, sorted.
Early days, but the orangery is coming along very nicely
The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 99% since 1991 Representative estimate of the price of battery cells for lithium-ion batteries, across all major cell chemistries. Prices are in US dollars per kilowatt-hour, adjusted for inflation.
At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes
ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...
Cities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world
This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities
Or the unpredicted
Is there anything more enlivening than the unexpected?
I see what you did there
