I know a lot of people don’t have the chance to see “Lawrence of Arabia” in a theater, but watching it on a phone should be punished somehow. Flogging? Losing screen time? No more desserts? (I have seen it in a theater and it is overwhelmingly beautiful.)

did… did the dog write this recipe

As you can guess: this is not a failure for hydrogen in any sense of the word. The goal was not to use hydrogen in gas grids, it was to offer a cynically fabricated promise of a solution to allow for more time to kill regulations and fight electrification. And it absolutely worked:

The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses. The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family. And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump does something right? *gasp*

Enshittification? There isn't a perfect examp...

There is a genuine Newfoundland custom of hanging a pickle as a christmas tree ornament. Regrettably this innocent practice seems to have led to gratuitous Xmas filth. Enjoy!

As a conscientious academic I take great pride in the fact my most used word here is "seems" (via anisota.net/harvest)

ChatGPT is just the excuse here - they don't care if you use it or not as long as you can turn out 7+ articles a week (around 5600 words) for $1200 (CAD) a month. The facts they seem to exclude actually talking to residents?! and don't seem to want local candidates also seem to be red flags.

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

Did I miss the part where the Woman's Institute and Girl Guides UK encouraged supporters and parents to contact their MPs and get clarification or a change in legislation so they didn't have to face legal prosecution for protecting their trans members and service users? Those groups have clout!

🧵Scary paper highlighted by @ketanjoshi.co from @huggingface.co.web.brid.gy researchers. Their conclusion seemingly understates the problem. Says "a short video" = ~90Wh. But that's the second worst algo and a 3 second, 15 FPS video. Worst algo 6sec 30fps 720p ad ~ 913Wh! arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19222

Scary paper highlighted by @ketanjoshi.co from @huggingface.co.web.brid.gy researchers. Their conclusion seemingly understates the problem. Says "a short video" = ~90Wh. But that's the second worst algo and a 3 second, 15 FPS video. Worst algo 6sec 30fps 1080p ad ~ 913Wh! arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19222

Delighted to see @ketanjoshi.co doing the homework to measure what I see as the *real* AI energy problem - firehosed AI video from advertisers. Meta will likely be the worst offender, but if it works commercially (subsidised by VCs) you could end up sitting through more (climate-busting) video ads

All the bike and pedestrian infrastructure in the world will not do people any good unless a city has an efficient and accountable maintenance plan.

What I took away from this was more "Isn't it amazing these billionaires can make a tangible impact on the lives of millions of Americans and still have plenty of money left? Imagine if a sane government had taxed it and used it to do some more useful thing?"

Wikimedia UK is the local UK charity for Wikipedia/Wikimedia. It gets some money from the Wikimedia Foundation, but also it's good when it gets some ££ directly. Their goal this funding drive is just £3,000. donorbox.org/wikimedia-uk...

As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Post your favourite Star Trek character - wrong answers only

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.

You were doing so well as a straight talker @zackpolanski.bsky.social please don't play these games. There was a black hole, the new taxes are needed, there's a mansion tax. It's not the budget you or I might want but pick your arguments carefully and truthfully.

I would simply not have the temerity to comment on anything ever again and retire from public life

This is not a good take. Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects. Other countries will use this to justify doing the same. Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?

OK it is "high concept" but I quite like its audacity.

Reform is clearly full of incorruptible men of the people!

The aim should be for individual, not institutional, accountability. Did a university obviously violate the first amendment rights of its faculty to suck up to Trump? Don't seek to fine the university, *seek to jail its president and trustees.* People make decisions, people bear consequences.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

📣Urgent action: the UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees! 🌳🔥😮 🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax

This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Time for a wellness check on India and Nigeria!

🧵It's extraordinary to hear the same arguments about the "squeezed middle" and taxing people removing their incentive to work from the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social as I've just heard from The Economist. Or from the Torygraph for that matter

Telling that I thought Guilbeault had already left. Glad he fought his corner on behalf of our future for as long as he did! Sad that his leaving will probably be seen as a PR coup by this administration!

He’s asked some probing questions and while I’m not convinced his answers to a few implied criticisms (mainly "where does the money come from?") fully hold up, I loved that his answers are based on clearly articulated humanistic values that I share. That's what I want in a politician and party.

And of course the article's purpose? "This work presents a novel AI-based framework for ASD diagnosis and parental support".

Nothing establishes Canada's green credentials like a <checks notes> bitumen pipeline. Thoughtful of him to wait until after #COP30 to avoid embarrassment...

🧵I usually have at least a little respect for @economist.com takes but its UK budget podcast was disappointing. Eg focus on how it "hits household spending" when the net impact on most will be neutral or positive. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

I checked out @brianphillips.bsky.social's other recent work and this piece was a letdown - mainly because it does not deliver on the headline... which is also grammatically incorrect! Probably @theringer.com.web.brid.gy's fault though. www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

For those unfamiliar, this involves: - Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew - Burning them for energy - Capturing the carbon that results from burning - Transporting the carbon - Injecting it underground - Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

property rights, boo hoo. give us the fast train!

Also liking Labour on the environment. If only they would admit to doing good instead of being embarrassed about it!

Ironically this was a very good Labour budget that did some of the right things for the right reasons. If only they'd been honest about needing to do it before the election and didn't have to be forced to do some of the best bits (removing two child cap). Tax and spend is what the country needs!

REPORTER: What kind of concessions is Hitler and the Germans going to have to make? CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.

Frustrating to see the fuel duty cut extended again. This is a policy that benefits the richest households much more than the poorest as they spend more on petrol. That's without even accounting for the environmental impact.

Every time I saw any of the people mentioned it was always obliquely and I never really understood what this whole thing was all about. Now I do. Though I wish I didn't. But Brian Phillips is that rare journalistic trifecta - a brilliant stylist who also writes clearly and researches thoroughly.