Defo the former option :)
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Defo the former option :)
At least we've not lost our sense of humour :)
Just hard to see how they articulate what they're doing and why without running into the fake "hostile to free speech" response from the US admin
Maybe not but Trump's big on the whole subject of digital services and European attempts to, in his eyes, constrain the big US players - can't imagine the UK Govt boycotting twitter being looked on favourably by MAGA
Simply want to avoid upsetting Trump?
"if a country goes into autarky in trade, then it goes into autarky in finance. And the cost of that would be tremendous given how much the US is engaged in finance around the world" Cost to who? This interview presents an interestingly upbeat contrast to Krugman's substack last week
I'd read they'd agreed terms with Martinez, unless that was part of some 4d-chess move to get Villa to take Sancho (although looking at the losses on Antony & Garnacho's value, say, just this time last year, I'm maybe being over-generous)
Wasn't there also an angle that her stint there pre-dated the minimum wage she claimed she'd earnt?
This latter reason seems the more plausible, every govt post on twitter must be met with a torrent of abuse
And, to paraphrase Krugman's recent "Why aren't markets freaking out?" post, are they guilty of holding "views that seem safe to hold because many other people *seem to* hold them" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
And we talking FB, twitter providing the content?
On a related subject, you seen the score?
Aren't you supposed to say "here we go" :)
The general public must be such a disappointment to the right-wing press
The Express is taking a Waiting for Godot approach to the much anticipated mass protests today
Yeah, curious to understand if the good people of Owsley County actually perceive themselves as welfare recipients or that any proposed cuts are just something that happens to other people
This is a very good read. “In just seven months since his inauguration, the favorability of the U.S. (not just of its president) has collapsed to the point where this nation is now less popular than China in the eyes of the rest of the world.”
Completely Free!
Don't think the photos of him helping himself to a keg & laughing his head off really chime with the tenor of the article
Avoided the temptation to break into Stairway?
We've all borne witness to a sagely nodded "Ray Davies"
Paul Nuttall's back!?!
Rumours that Trump & Howe are scheduled to parley early next week in Houghton-le-Spring are unfounded
Sure that latter point is what Philp et al are counting on
Remembering that Chris Rock sketch about unacquainted blokes discussing the different routes they take to work
WebEx lol, remembering when he had to get the single person in the business with the account credentials to book calls for us
There'll be Unison-branded and all sorts stuck in there :)
Infinite Jest gets more relevant every day :)
Berners-Lee's Weaving the Web is a great read that covers his time at Cern and him and a colleague coding the first web servers and browsers
difficult?
I got both alerts from the Guardian seconds apart, thought the 0.3 was a lightning quick correction of the 0.4 :)
What was it Kasparov said about Putin, he doesn't fix elections in order to win he does it simply to show that fix them he can
Certainly have some relatives who voted Leave, guessing they're likeliest to be considering Reform
"human rights lawyer Starmer wants unlimited migration" is surely how the telegraph et al translate that for their readers which then apparently sets the Radio bulletin headlines for the day etc. Don't agree with any of what he's saying but doesn't feel like there's much space to change the convo
A literal banger
Newcastle will probably get as far as agreeing terms but then Man U will swoop in with an eleventh hour "actually, we'd like you to stay"
Evening, Alan Sparhawk's choice on Mark Radcliffe's 6Music show earlier today! (Slackware still a thing?) youtu.be/4q6xKo01mdI?...
Can only mourn the failure of the "many" & "well" that drove my parents mad to achieve the escape-velocity required to transcend place and time with this level of success
Imagine swapping County Durham's glorious coastline for the North West
When he saw the photo of them "near wind turbines" he must've thought Xmas had come early :)
Ketchup with pasta lol
Been wondering if there's gonna be a flurry of post-inquiry arrest and convictions sometime during this parliament - would go a long way to countering the apparent zero-consequences-if-you're-at-the-top we've all been sickened by over recent years
Provides a much needed boost to our tatt metrics though
From that Jobs' reveal of the first iPhone to flip-charts in the WH
Curious as to which corporates would be happy to see their logo on the Coffee Cart, presuming Octopus are passing on that particular opportunity :)
We can't expect the whole country to subscribe to Sam Freedman's substack :)
Yes, interesting that the word "enough" featured so heavily in Farage's comments yesterday when it appears nothing is ever for him
Watched this clip just yesterday :) www.instagram.com/reel/DJu0noQ...
& that drop explainable by fewer 5-yr olds enrolling vs 18-yr olds leaving?
"His dream of staying in the job for 20 years" 😳
Also learnt that William Hague attended Wath Comp!
Spent most of the day thinking about this article :) Seems to me there's a gulf between those with access to a profound sense of collective loss, and those utterly unable to relate (with the latter more likely to be in control of resources or seeking to gain them)
& how long before the "AI overview" effectively overwrites that long history of good data, as far as all but experts-in-the-field are concerned?
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you...wrote that? (Or there a GUI between you and it)
Girls Curb Veep
Cheers!
Really? didn't know that
Late 80s Cern had a sharable, inter-departmental telephone directory thus removing the problem that Berners-Lee solved via the invention of the web server, browser, & hypertext
"we were right all along!" chorus everyone's favourite time-served science-deniers
“1995” by Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist #nowplaying #6music
Farage getting his revenge for Trump saying he "knows nothing" about Nige's favourite subject lol
Hence mass-adoption of VPN clients :)
Can we have a y axis here pls
More or less productive than we've gotten used to?
... E.g. I read some advice for businesses whose core business is retail but also provide an online forum for customers to interact with each other - can't imagine there's a definitive list that covers this latter scenario
Proactively monitor the obvious big-ticket sites, "the list", & then deal with smaller players as complaints are raised that they're not complying? ...
From the .gov.uk page on this subject "Any site that allows users to share content or interact with each other is in scope of the Online Safety Act" www.gov.uk/government/p....
Post shots and tag that Derek Guy dude for pointers?
Is it just me or is the revelation he knows nothing about "small boats", the subject that dominates so much of our political discourse, just the most priceless unintended diss to Farage, Robinson et al
Loving the message this unwittingly sends to Farage, Robinson et al - "I'm not even going to pretend to know anything about the thing that matters to you more than anything else"
abrdn
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Lol, a quick google: "Texas is the leading state in wind power generation in the United States, generating more wind-powered electricity than any other state. In 2022, wind energy accounted for over 26% of Texas's total electricity production, with a significant capacity of 40,556 megawatts"
I think in this case, as they're happily affirming Sunders' framing of their position, it's serving a socially useful purpose
"while a car is being driven" jfc
Petrol station?
And have a bolt-hole in Dubai
Totally agree! And I think that'll be the case for the vast majority of users who see it
It's from the number 10 official account, 4M views so far on twitter "Delivered by who?" seems much more direct *to the average reader* than a coded 14-word tweet with a couple of capitals
My takeaway of it it's been written by an extremely-online edgelord and aimed at a v niche audience of fellow-travellers Last night's tweet by the UK Govt is in the middle of actual threats of co-ordinated disorder aimed at asylum seekers - latter has far more immediate real-world consequences
Compared to last night's "feel free to presume your Uber Eats guy is illegal"?
Yeah, now I'm up to speed with the symbolism this defo screams "lads! I've got control of the government's twitter account!"
Signalling to an extremely-online niche audience?
Ta - we don't have a monopoly on dicks running government social media accounts then
Ta, never heard of this before
Can you enlighten me on the 14 words thing pls
Ta, & what's the significance of 14 words?
What's the significance of the H's?
& on a Tuesday! legend :)
Re: Mr S, survived the leaving do night out?
Just imagining the torrent of abuse and misinformation this will be generating in the replies over on Twitter - utterly self-defeating
Christ, 53 minutes of this stuff
Data breach on the horizon
Primarily aiming to force Labour to switch spending away from things he doesn't like e.g. green energy transition?
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Beat me to it :)
I'm gonna have to become President to keep us out of trouble
