Just this week, the ads on my silly little phone game are “Google Gemini - just take a picture of your maths homework and it’ll do all the work for you, including pretending you understand the working-out”.
It’s illegal to run a human-powered essay mill, but this is FINE…
The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide
You know what would be great, and sane? If the government had got in this much trouble for covering up a report by its own defence chiefs on the catastrophic impacts of climate change for the UK. What will matter more in 20 years' time?
"Rob, how can you keep saying that Lisa Nandy doesn't exist when she gives all these interviews about how she does exist and is definitely turning up to work every day at her department which she insists also exists?"
This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)
🚨 New Substack: Higher energy prices could leave typical British households £480 worse off this year
@mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and the RF team unpack what higher bills mean for living standards ⤵️
Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
Jesu
The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.
When the extinction of so much Higher Education is complete, people will look back and wonder with astonishment at how this vast financial hole was allowed to grow under the economy. A big risk to everyone, not just universities.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
This is a major problem. Certain high-status institutions are hoovering up students for whom they don't have space or teaching capacity.
It's not good for students, it's driving other universities to disaster and it has none of the benefits of either a planned or a "market" system.
Firm agree.
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What is happening to our planet? And why don't people care more? We just had a hideous amount of military emissions and all anyone on mainstream media cares about is the price of fuel and the stock market, even the leftists are too busy to bring up the human-made catastrophe...
A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following
What a beautiful moment.
Cathedral of St Michael, Priory Street, Coventry - Sir Basil Spence, 1951-52. Grade I listed. Image credit: Diliff, Wikimedia Commons
🕊️ Happy Easter weekend from Coventry Cathedral (Basil Spence, 1951-52), one of the greatest works of 20th century British art and architecture.
Oh great, HSBC have pulled my mortgage offer.
When I was looking at rates earlier in the year, they were 3.6%. Now the best rate is somewhere north of 5%.
Possibly the best tweet ever committed to the site.
It is frankly disgraceful this ridiculous situation is allowed to lumber on.
Their interest rate on this death spiral finance is up to 8.25%.
A third of each bill is to cover interest!
You have housing that can't be completed because Thames hasn't built sufficient water infrastructure!
Here's what the Reform UK housing spokesman had to say about the Grenfell Tower disaster. These people are a joke, and a nasty one at that. (1/2)
A friend was telling me that the water companies have been installing tanks on the end of outfalls that they regularly get fined for, so they can store the runoff, then pump it into rivers more slowly.
People just haven't tuned into how bad this could go for the EU and UK. Reality hasn't quite hit them yet.
Any politician who uses the trope of "why should we decarbonise if China continues to build coal?" should be shot into the sun.
Any politician who can't see that China is shaping up to dominate the energy transition should be sent to a re-education camp*.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌
Really disappointed there weren’t some old Irish aunts present to start an argument over transubstantiation.
A meme image of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, wincing away from the head of an alien xenomorph from Alien 3. The text on the alien says 'click here to use our new AI features!' And the text on Ripley's face says 'Me'.
Every. Goddamn. Company.
That’s nicely put.
I really think that football as a whole is missing that big clubs are being managed totally through a financial lens now. Are the bigwigs at Spurs bothered if they aren’t world beaters, if the stadium pulls in the cash, and they can keep wages and transfer costs down?
