Plato would like to have a word.

To beautiful not to share.

Martyn Drake: Why we must recognise there are other perspectives than our own We will never speak with one voice as long as we’re arguing among ourselves or agreeing to disagree

We will never speak with one voice as long as we’re arguing among ourselves, or worse, “agreeing to disagree”.

So, the next time you find yourself at an impasse, try the question: “From what perspective should we be coming at this?”

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Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
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Or d) he was uncertain
Sorry.
I'll get my coat.

ignorantia juris non excusat

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Pie chart showing the percentage of pantomimes performed by title. Aladdin, Snow White, and Cinderella are the big beasts with everything else just making up the numbers.

Pantograph

We have taken Travelodge off our list of accommodation providers for all staff and volunteers. I wasn’t impressed with their response. As a woman who travels a lot on my own & has experienced a man trying to get into my hotel room - I need to see some urgency and clear action!

Martyn Drake: Don’t underestimate how much work goes into culture change It might be presented as a simple recipe but it’s not a case of just following a few steps

Culture forms spontaneously whenever you put a group in a room and give them a problem to solve.

But culture also endures; even when all the original people have left, the new ones will continue with the patterns they’ve inherited

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I believe the use of centi- for hundredth rather than hundred (and milli- by extension) came about because the French, who set the definitions, already used decime as a term for one tenth, so they went for centime as a hundredth. Having used up Latin they went Greek for hecta- and kilo- instead.

I think the film might be Butterflies Are Free, if so it would be 1972

Potentially underplayed: Positive politics

Everyone I spoke to who was voting Reform gave reasons as concerns and fears of various kinds, mainly over immigration and general state of the country

The Green voters generally said they were inspired by what the party was standing for and its vision

Tomorrow the ONS will publish new data on the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). This is important – and not just because the number is very close to one million…

A study on how class identity interacts with immigration views in UK - results are more interesting than you might expect.

"I don't like immigrants so therefore I can justifiably claim to be working class" is an actual, measurable thing.

Similar effect in Italy with identifying as Christian.

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.

When "the system" disproportionately rewards disinformation and divisive content, fact-checking and removing individual posts and accounts is futile. It's the system that requires attention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't know if you completed the consultation survey but it made Sir Humphrey's national service questions look amateur. "Would you prefer to punish this group more brutally, or this other group more cruelly?"

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

The analogy between "AI denial" and climate denial is spot on. In both cases you can show someone a graph of an astonishing trend, and people will not just doubt that the trend will continue, they doubt the current verifiable state of the world.
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Good article on the rise and rise of Manchester
I spoke with @hayleylever.bsky.social and @warrenheppolette.bsky.social who've been heavily involved in the system work @joesarling.bsky.social describes in his thread
You can hear their view on how replicable it is here: youtu.be/hbptJgpJA0o

Martyn Drake: The power of relationships and community Charities can bring organisations together across sectors and have conversations about common purpose

“We know people don’t 'present' with a single issue – their challenges are often complex and intersectional, which is why agencies need to work together if they want to make a real difference”

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This is brilliant. Their album had been no. 1 in the charts for over a month, having knocked "With the Beatles" off top spot. And they're playing 5th on the bill at a Uni gig where the champagne and buffet are the main attractions. Such innocent times.

Crikey. At least the Russians have the decency to keep their funding secret.

Good leaders make good appointments. It's what makes then good.

Interesting early research on AI in the workplace and how it can reduce our ability to learn new skills