At a minimum this ought to be Larry Summers forever drummed out of polite society, you don't get to ask Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to groom your students and still get invited to parties.

'It feels like we’re automating more notes from more Teams calls, supported by more email summaries, that encourage more back and forth between professionals who don’t have a better means of working effectively as part of complex settings.'

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

I will not rest until senior Teams leaders are in the dock etc etc

working in a community of researchers improves the job so much, it's almost disgusting

Old Man at Celeyran

I know it's always been the same fucking guys but it's ALL THE SAME FUCKING GUYS

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Fictional conspiracies operate on the naive premise that evidence and exposure would bring down the conspiracy.

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.

GOV Reuse Library - Find and reuse digital service elements - Building public services together - one reusable block at a time dev.reuselibrary.service.justice.gov.uk

A Pork-Butcher's Shop Seen from a Window - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14245

'Elon kan reed buks' and 'Noah can't read signs' are the two things giving me life this week onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!

"Schrödinger's causal inference" (n): The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

Oh fuck off

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

I watched "No Other Land" with my students last week and afterwards, one commented at how their focus on Gaza these past years had diverted them from thinking enough about the grinding repression in the West Bank.

I wrote something about the p-word. lithub.com/so-what-is-a...

amazing obituary

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

wise and incredibly funny

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.

do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you

Dear Hilda Am having a good time, my tongue has not stopped.

people who can compartmentalize elon musk’s actions and are able to keep using his app must better at navigating social realities than i’ll ever be

Peasant with a Chopping Knife - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11758

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

Fascinating discussion below

Slightly odd question, but: What cities in Britain would you say have the most homogenous homes (i.e., a lot of buildings are quite similar)? And which have the most diversity in their built form?

“It’s kind of a shocking number." The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V

Change in Headline

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

moonrise over in Gaza City, by Dawoud Abu Alkas

'...Sometimes that means through layers of intermediaries, user researchers, service designers and workshops. All of that has its place, but nothing beats an engineer being there in person to witness the problems first-hand.'

An old style thing is that if people say the acronym as a word, like Defra, you only cap up the first letter. So like Uefa or similar. Whether government is consistent like this idk.

big news for em-oh-jay or modge people it is 'MOJ', not 'MoJ' design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/content-stan...

Compartment C Car 293 - 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103960

Jake, what is happening on twitter dot com?? I could have sworn the #numbers guys used to have a little more heft…

📷 What lies at the heart of this unusual-looking spiral galaxy? This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy NGC 4102, home to what astronomers call an 'active galactic nucleus' 🧪🔭

“Empower” is the most worthless word in the English language.