VIOLENCE is never the answer, my granddad used to say. As such, when I appeared on The Weakest Link a few years back, and Anne Robinson asked "What "V' is a noun meaning 'physical force intend. ed to hurt, damage or kill?'," I said I didn't know, and subsequently got voted off without winning a penny. Thanks a fucking bunch, granddad. T Ellen, London
Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!
Or his head. We can hope
It is obvious that outsourcing intelligence comes at a cognitive cost, and yet it is alarming that the cognitive cost is so catastrophically high.
Reading the back-and-forth on Olly Robbins's testimony and I have thoughts.
Irony is, the council effectively cancelled the successful multimillion generating Lumiere arts festival because a few grumpy gets complained about traffic, and have replaced it with- knights on unicycles
Well done lads *slow handclap*
If the policy objective is to discourage phone use why is everything at school on an app? Homework, timetables, behaviour, payment systems. All are app based. And most of the learning apps, even at primary, have all the hallmarks of addictive social media/gaming (Times Tables Rock Stars, Dojo etc).
And basically lokks like *any* browser with a chromium engine. So that’s totally not at all unsafe at all, riiiight
If they’re wanting a sub for that then they’re going to be waiting a long time. They couldn’t actually *pay me* enough to install that
That presentation was properly lovely. I liked that #UniversityChallenge
It’s all because of Bowie
We want the mouthy northerners
I know, but it’s still bloody annoying. Oh for the days of a 45 or 50 minute show and a quick Danny Baker thing or something to go to the top of the hour. Or Barry Took doing Points of View
Oh God. Please don’t do the fucking bios and inserts. Just ask them the bloody questions. Stop padding it out #Mastermind
“Ok. Your kids first.”
Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit
I was in my mid 20s at the time and had just spent three years at a university surrounded by absolute throbbers like them. As you can guess, I hated it
So fucking what? Any elite wheelchair athlete you care to name, or indeed any decently fit cyclist can outperform a running human. I don’t give a shit that an ambulant toaster can do it; you may as well stick me in a car and celebrate that as an achievement as much as this bullshit.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.
A knocking shop, with interior design by Liberace.
Samuel Beckett so admired James Joyce that he got shoes the same size as Joyce’s even though Beckett had much larger feet.
This was when Beckett’s writing became really depressing.
Where is it? Maybe a wall or a blockade might help. Seeing how effective they are.
Just saying…
Not reckoning much to this new run of Homes Under the Hammer
The park across the road where I grew up in Middlesbrough had them. Pretty and all that, but fuck me they were loud
Grandstand
‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth
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Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine.
#Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy
The nonce goggles do not help now
Doing a flyover of the KLF
“IN YEAR OF OUR LORD 992 …”
