Rather excited to see that a cause I believe in coincides with important principles I hold and interests I have.

Sunlight to fuel: Cambridge’s new breakthrough in clean energy Cambridge scientists have created a solar-powered reactor that turns CO2 from air into sustainable fuel – no batteries required

Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source. Read how this works ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Eppur si muove 😓

#Climate #BesserWeiter #CarFree #ShowYourStripes #research #science

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Magnificent bronze Art Deco doors with peacock design, originally made by Tiffany in 1925 for a jewellery store, but since moved to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago

‘Climate change is here and now for us - we need more help now’ A senior county councillor has urged the government to provide more support after Lincolnshire experienced severe flooding.

No mention that Colin is literally Trustee of a Climate Denial outfit. Obviously cut from the report for reasons of concision
www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...

The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

UK exporters suffer £27bn hit from Brexit Smaller companies bore the brunt of trade barriers with the Continent as trade in services remains resilient

"Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK’s global exports and a 3.1 per cent decline in imports into the UK from the rest of the world”
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

A house in Walthamstow on the market for £865k

The same house, listed with a different estate agent, for £571k

As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…)

Bar Standards Board ‘failed to protect’ female barrister from online gender violence Disciplinary hearing opens against Charlotte Proudman for saying a judge had shown a ‘boys’ club attitude’

This whole thing reeks of punishing lippy women who don't know their place. Solidarity with my admirable friend Charlotte Proudman - my regulator needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/10/bar-stan...

Another disastrous statistic attributed to Boris Johnson and he wonders why no one wants to buy his book.

Krugman's best pieces:

• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...

• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...

• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

Musk likes to brag how “X is the world’s #1 source of news”.

Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like.

This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper.

Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days?

Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".

Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."

Which has more coverage?

TV presenter Gregg Wallace makes another online statement

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

Map of London, East. Colour coded.

Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.

Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Next step in city logistics: Open terminals Open terminals are city-owned infrastructure where goods can be shifted from big vehicles to small cargo bikes for intelligent last mile solutions.

And who has realised that making rail fully accessible also means the range of cargo cycles is increased exponentially? www.velove.se/news/next-st...

There's been a 63% increase in cargo bike use in London - over 70% in some areas - helping cut pollution & congestion.

Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses.

zagdaily.com/featured/is-th…

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia page...

"A team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was trained on...[this ]showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models." www.404media.co/google-resea...

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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making Englis...

Does Labour have the constitutional radicalism needed to deliver English devolution? With @janicemorphet.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Russian commentator: "We must destroy NATO. This is important to us. We are worried about Britain and the US ... We are interested in them having problems".

And so Brexit and Trump are explained.

How bad things were. After a long freedom of information fight @thetimes reveals that when she was Justice Secretary Suella Braverman sent at least 127 official emails to her personal email with 290 attached documents in breach of security rules bit.ly/3Ab91l1

UK to consider USB-C as charging standard Will it also plug into some common sense?

Brexit means taking the same decision as the EU two years later because no one was going to sell us stuff if we decided differently www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/u...

The special issue that Somwrita, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I coordinated is EPB's current issue! In it you can find 17 stimulating articles to explore the relationship between urban {form, size, infrastructure, mobility} and inequalities all in one place.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epbb/51/7