A reminder

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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

👀 Spotted in Mumbai. The impact of the CWC25 is undeniable. Champions now, legends forever. 🌟 📸 : Uma Bagalkote #HerGameToo

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“You know what sucks? Having customers. Surely we can put an end to that.”

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

evergreen

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It's wild to me how on point Pope Leo seems to be with AI use. A quote from today: "Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Not use it?

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In this Cambridge final club, Summers is the third person singular of the verb “to summer.” But they do know this: Larry will be persona non grata on Nantucket and the Vineyard next August.

Actually interested in boosting actual economic growth? Consider investing in higher education. 'The study demonstrates....A 1 percentage point increase in tertiary attainment is associated with a 0.03 percentage point increase in annual GDP per capita growth'.

Behind every dramatic rescue lies invisible work. We've drilled 51 boreholes and operate eight water bowsers delivering 20,000 litres daily – keeping ecosystems functioning during the harshest months. Read the 'invisible work' that keeps conservation running: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

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Remain focused on what matters, and why it matters. No paywall; share. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures -69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction -Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66 -50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.

Bring back imposter syndrome

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Eastern chipmunks!

The River Cherwell is one of many sites at risk due to organised criminals dumping mountains of illegal waste. The Environment Agency must clean up this mess and the National Crime Agency must crack down on this scourge.

Kemi fulfils a very important constitutional function by letting a failing PM whose government is imploding around him have a bit of scheduled easy fun each week as a treat

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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, donated $38 million to Xavier University in New Orleans, part of a wide-scale giving spree to HBCUs.

“He was wrong about not regulating derivatives. Wrong when he helped kill Depression-era banking laws, turning banks into too-big-to-fail welfare monsters. & as he helps devise ever more complex tricks & spends ever more taxpayer dollars to keep the financial casino running, he remains wrong today”

This is headline whiplash.

One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May

Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules. The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win. A moral & political death-spiral.

What I don't get about McSweeney is that he seems to hate most Labour members, most Labour MPs and most of the people who actually voted Labour or want to vote for it. Why is he there? Why does he seem so unable to accept that it's not the wider Labour movement that's the issue in this, it's him?

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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Don't own any. There.

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

"UK Asylum seekers' jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister' (Alt Text for Image Below): Every damned day this supposedly Labour government says something more vile than it said yesterday. These rancid policies will yield electoral annihilation.

Remarkably, this is *not* an @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post.

Is it 'online training course'?

Who were they clubbing with? They were clubbing with trafficked children, correct?

Thank goodness studies convince people… oh, wait

Pinheiro Braathen gives Brazil historic first World Cup win reut.rs/43x8ANt

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

‘Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.’ John Kerrigan on Atlantic slavery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Genuinely pretty appalled this got published. (Don’t bother with your savvy remark about how nobody should be surprised.)

Bit of good news...

AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/

Labour seem to now come up with a new kamikaze nosedive operation to alienate social liberals while failing to attract Reform curious voters every month. Then back off again in face of anger from progressives and failure among social conservatives. A doom loop which may yet kill them off altogether.

*looks at timeline* Ok I’m bringing the baby Great Egret floofs out of the “emergency cute” archive. #birds 🌿