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abandoned power centre parking lot North American city planner sees lots of potential to transform successful bike city Amsterdam to unsuccessful car-dependent suburb.

"North American city planner sees lots of potential to transform successful bike city Amsterdam to unsuccessful car-dependent suburb."

You can vastly improve the experience for pedestrians by closing Oxford Street to motorised traffic and still leave some segregated space for bikes and scooters. It's not that hard.

Classic Sadiq Khan - taking a good thing (Oxford Street pedestrianisation) and using it to undermine cycling...

The problem is, AI uses them, because it has been trained on how we write - it is picking the most likely next word, based on its training data set (often scraped from the net).

So if someone writes in a cliched way, it will look like AI.

But either way, you can dismiss it as *bad* writing.

recently, I've noticed conversations here, on Reddit etc, where people flag tell-tale signs of AI generated text. Patterns of tone and rhythm. Stock phrases etc.

See for example bsky.app/profile/youn...

Often these are correct. But not always.

If the UK is serious about retaining any global leadership on any issue, the Government cannot allow our soft-power to atrophy like this...

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Timeline: ID cards A timeline of key events and quotations about ID cards, which have been scrapped by the new coalition government.

Not sure how you define major party, but the Lib Dems were strongly opposed - so either Tories weren't the only major party against it, or they were (in your view), the only major party that wasn't Labour!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164331

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.

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www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

this is remarkable?

Berlin power cut: Activist group says it was behind fire that cut electricity supply The far-left Vulkan Gruppe says in a statement that targeting the fossil fuel economy, not cutting power, was the goal.

Far left German terrorism? We really are back in the cold war aren't we... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A line graph shows the time series of global mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-November from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in January-November 2025 was 1.18°C globally. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

A look at global temperatures so far this year (January to November) compared to each other period since 1850... 2025 is the 2nd highest on record!

Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

You need to read this story.

Proper Christmas Tree, with proper candles.

Not pictured, the bucket of water and fire extinguisher, because we are very sensible.

Pescetarian Christmas Baked Hake was surprisingly successful. Would 100% cook with hale again.

Gotta love a proper fishmonger, even if it does mean braving the madness of #BoroughMarket on little Christmas Eve.

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Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody will be able to live up to it

Now they just need to restore the direct service to Marseille

View Damien P. Williams, PhD’s graphic link Damien P. Williams, PhDDamien P. Williams, PhD • 1stVerified • 1st Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science. Unless specified otherwise, take it as read that I'm not speaking for my employer.Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science. Unless specified otherwise, take it as read that I'm not speaking for my employer. 1w • Edited • 1 week ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn So, new research (👇🏾) shows that a) LLM-type "AI" chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to provide you with an answer-shaped something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— this is the reason I call them "bullshit engines" (https://lnkd.in/e_q5P8jr). And what makes them perfect for accelerating dis- and misinformation and persuasive propaganda. And again, the fear here isn't necessarily that candidate A gets elected over candidate B (see commentary from the paper authors, here: https://archive.is/pjKqI). The real problem is the loss of even the willingness to try to build shared consensus reality— i.e., the "AI" enabled epistemic crisis point we've been staring down for about a decade. So overreliance on "generative AI" actively harms critical thinking skills, degrading not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage with, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing and understanding facts to produce knowledge. Further, users actively reject *less* sycophantic versions of "AI" and get increasingly hostile toward/less likely to help or be helped by other actual humans because said humans aren't as immediately sycophantic (https://lnkd.in/eqxccAfU).…

Sharing this @wolvendamien.bsky.social post here because it's important in the context of a growing push to use LLMS as a form of climate advocacy or science communication: they're only "persuasive" when the software lies freely

www.linkedin.com/posts/damien...

afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

I followed this all the way to the first post (Snufkin, for my Moomin pals out there) and nobody had posted Aragorn, Samwise or Faramir.

Spotify Wrapped, but it shows you how much each artist earned from your streams this year.

Why does this even exist???

The OBR is pushing us into a doom loop It has been making us poorer for 14 years

Good use of my monthly free NS article... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …

If @barristersecret.bsky.social is right (seems likely) then, undermining Jury Trial will do little to reduce court backlogs.

Maybe the Justice Secretary should tackle root causes of delays before stripping away core constitutional rights. Just a thought.

thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...

Just read the update from Zipcar. This is a right bugger, I only convinced my now London-dwelling mum to sell her car in October....

This is off the top of my head.

These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.

Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?

“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”

It is absolutely mind-boggling.

Lammy quoted by the BBC: "[if] someone steals an iPhone from an electrical shop tomorrow - is it right that that individual should be able to opt for a jury?"

If the person is guilty, then not allowing a jury trial might be acceptable. But that's rather putting the cart before the horses...