Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
A wonderful programme - it's been making me feel briefly cleverer for many years. #FlowersForAlgernon #whataboutTomSutcliffe?
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Dacia Mother Know? #abbacars
Sunny Sunny Sunny #abbacars
Wartburgloo #abbacars
I saw that recently and he stole the film for me!
Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
I watched this a few weeks ago - it looks glorious on the big screen and (even having watched it a zillion times) still scares.
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
It went for $695k in the end...
It's some sort of retail consumer survey. They're... mystery Chopin.
Listening to the UK Europe minister calmly saying that drawing closer to the EU might reduce red tape for businesses. Goodness me! Might it? Is this perhaps why the EEC was created in the first place?! Why has no one ever told the British public this before?
350,000 attended Tel Aviv rally tonight, calling for a ceasefire and a hostage deal. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Too many co*ks spoil the broth.
I like your thinking, but... no.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
As a purely practical answer: no, you shouldn't thank ChatGPT; it's a literal waste of energy.
fancy forty-five minutes of impeccable sketch comedy? here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I interpreted that as meaning you had a paper round...
Looks like the BBC has cut all the footage of Hozier - last night's headliner at Reading Festival - after he spoke about civil rights and Palestine.
OK, I guess.
I know about Denali; I know about Uluru. But until you mentioned it, I did not know about Yr Wyddfa. Its primary name in Wikipedia is still Snowdon. So just as a practical point, I can see why the BBC used that name.
Over $500k with 5 days to go- and it's got a head gasket leak?!
You seem to be advocating towing a jeep behind your bicycle in case you get a puncture. The massively distributed nature of solar and wind already makes it resilient.
"not as catastrophic as Chernobyl" - hardly reassuring. And these potential solar farm fires... are they in the room with us?
But has anybody actually built and operated one of these new SMR designs? In the meantime, solar + batteries get significantly cheaper every year.
By Robert Heinyleiny.
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That's a moron.
Mealy Dan
Katarina's witty.
I hope the Menswear Guy is on the case...
You're two billion short. Phew! #starsnotgoingout
I just read the synopsis of 'Alraune'(1928). Blimey!
It's a terrible film. I rarely feel I've wasted time watching even bad films, but this...
And he has a YouTube channel! youtube.com/@xingzhilei?...
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hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Nine Billion Names Of Nyalarthotep.
What a lovely response.
I think you'll find that's the Chinos.
I tested the Tata Loadbeta pickup. It was a bit of a shocker: stopped altogether with a blown fuse on the M25. And the tyres were appalling. But it was sturdy and very inexpensive...
I think the origins are regional; I didn't come across it at all until moving North to Lincolnshire as a child. Now I'd say it occasionally, without feeling self-conscious, despite being a horrible pedant otherwise.
Did any of them draw the demon Pazuzu?
These solids are like tonics for your plate - plate-tonic solids, if you like. #sorrynotsorry
Won't somebody turn their swords into... ploughman's?
But it was Maurice Duruflé's favourite funk track!
Queen Of The South... 2
Thanks Joan, but I'm only the messenger - it's Dr Hawkins you should be praising.
Does felony rhyme with baloney?
Meal Team Six.
This is Peek Biscuit. ...and Freans, obvs.
Ahem...
This! #moreorless
That seems incredibly inexpensive for a fabulous thing with such a great provenance. You'd be welcome at any of the great classic events. So much more exciting than the $multi-million$ cookie-cutter hypercars doing the rounds now.
By Molly Ringwald!
Marvellous! I love the story that, when he met Cole Porter, he pointed out that his father had been a coal porter too.
Pod racing! Arthropods, gastropods...
Respectfully... no.
In the ABC News report quoted here, there's a couple of appalling paragraphs, in which the statistics regarding support for same-sex marriage are completely misconstrued. In what sense has overall support 'softened' if it's still at the high it reached five years ago?
And that's all the faces Memling knew how to paint, isn't it?
They're linked, I believe.
The alien civilisation's observers blended perfectly into human society.
I know, I know, motorway service stations are awful; but Tebay is properly nice.
Reminds me of the excellent idea that in every episode of 'Line Of Duty' there should be a moment when one of the regulars looks at the camera while saying, "in the... Line Of Duty".
Live orchestra too! In a 20s cinema!! In Berlin!!!
Hey! D'you mind? I just took my kids to see 'Metropolis'! PS they liked it. PPS well at least that's what they said to me.
I genuinely thought this was about Auberon Waugh at first.
Just to be clear about what this says--not only is transition rare among the general population (<2%) and not only is detransition rare among those who do (lowest estimate is 1%, highest is 10%), but *transition regret* is only a third of detransition. A fraction of a fraction of a fraction
The King of Spain gets everywhere.
Stella Rogen.
Tangle Loser? Tango Seller?
Life will find a way.
This is cars we're talking about - nothing's more serious than that! Of course I know - but the ad copy makes it look like they're selling some abstract investment like stocks. You'd never be able to sell a copy of an Apple share as the real thing...
Never Never Say Never Never Again, Again
But it's also a fake; I'm not against a tasteful replica, but a more straightforward description would be nice, and less of this AI slop ad copy: "The 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa is a popular roadster from Ferrari and a strong competitor in its segment. "
If you repeat this enough you will get people just straight up referring to it as this like it's the real name for the thing bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
OK - to add to the "AI-generated lists of US Presidents" fun, I asked ChatGPT this: 'Please generate an image that shows all the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with portraits of each of them' and got this...
You don't want highly-conductive graphite shavings floating into critical electrical gear. So yes, it's apocryphal, I'm afraid.
Kaybies?
Yes! I'd forgotten High Noon in Space.
"Don't tell him, Bubba!"
Poor old Anthony Zerbe in Licence to Kill was pretty nasty.
In France, just to be awkward, they're called Talkie-Walkies!
Corking ALT text there.
Yes! I had five or six of them, and remember their being rather inspiring.
And three focal lengths, by the sound of things!
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I can remember the Seventies, when they had White Shuck Dog Eggs.
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
And a perfect complement to... youtu.be/mScdJURKGWM?...
Only Murmurs In The Building
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