£4,000 was an awful lot of money in 1970

If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.

This is quite a scary moment. As this continues we will move from facts being "evidential" to "most likely", this means that truth will become less and less visible as the web is polluted with things that sound right even if they are demonstrably wrong

This woman is a national treasure 🤣

Tbf it seems to resemble my brain at times #actuallyautistic

Seemingly, according to #r4today, the welfare bill is always ""soaring" (it isn't) and people are being "dragged" into higher tax bands (they aren't)

Louise by Ray Jones for Empty Saddles (1936). The low budget western was her first film in five years and marked the beginning of the end of her Hollywood career. Only 29 years old, she made just one more credited screen appearance.

You've got to love Brazilians

Predictable... A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity share.google/GImBDBFjIPV8...

Oh, that's alright then

It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors from @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

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It's clear why he is the world's richest person, truly next level thinking going on here Were talking 7 dimensional chess at least

Seminal film in the sci-fi canon imho

Pioneering Swiss avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition with slopes and small transparent circle, 1916-18 #WomensArt

The dynamics of ML driven pricing algorithms not surprisingly it’s not in our interests but how it works is pretty interesting www.wired.com/story/game-t...

60% of our household have very strong views on which cutlery they use, the other two are psychopaths (imho)

If it can do that much damage to a bollard, imagine what it could do to a small child

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Lots about the owners, nothing about the watch. Does it still work?

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

Insurers see things for what they are (Mind you many are talking about using Agentic ai in their processes at the same time)

This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.

Not wanting to be rude, but how did the Thunderbirds audition go?

Louise in a 1965 portrait by her friend, actor and photographer Roddy McDowall.

Given the tolerances, I wonder whether boxers hold them in before the weigh in

It's the tax that gets you, just ask Mr Capone

Who knew

Quite

I get it, we only trust surveyors professional competence in valuing houses, when they increase them

Let's hope not

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Not 100% a fan of his, this really resonates with me

Johnson was one of those two a penny public schoolboys who memorise a bit of Greek and a chunk of Latin and recite it in the pub... sprinkled with some classical references... while everyone stands around and claps. Not an original idea in his bone head. Not even ersatz PG Wodehouse more PG Twits.

iirc many of us had voluntarily gone into lockdown when we saw what was happening in Italy

I've been overestimated my entire life (This is true)

On vector databases "Enterprises discovered the hard way that semantic ≠ correct." From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later | VentureBeat share.google/aw7E4XhPqr2F...

Yay science!

Restores your faith in humans tbf

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It's mindblowing this beautiful painting was made THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO Also noting, she is very very thin. Women will probably recognize even when we're teens if we have boobs the boobs...move and their shape changes based on that. This dancer's boobs aren't flopping up...which tells me...

"Things were better when I was a child, with no responsibilities etc."

We need more librarians, because they get this stuff

Not going to lie, the reliance of Teams users on the AI Transcript tool is going to kill us all I sort of has all the words, but not necessarily in the right context or importance It completely misses the point most of the time So you end up having to go through it word for word to get the gist

You know how biased the BBC is? They have never had a climate denier on "In Our Time" Nor an anti-vaxxer, flat earther, ghost hunter, etc

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

And there's me thinking that Labour were in favour of unions