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It's the centenary of Miles Davis (1926-1991), the Picasso of jazz. Like Picasso, an utter genius who reinvented his style every decade. Also like Picasso, an utter monster particularly to women who got too close to him.

Um #WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

I've joked about being uncomfortable about the the way Tech Bro's have pushed me into Team Pope v's Team Tech. The papal encyclical is a good reminder that I'm not team pope. This is a deeply conservative document. It is a well designed trap for liberals who are pissed off with AI boosting 1/

It's the centenary of Miles Davis (1926-1991), the Picasso of jazz. Like Picasso, an utter genius who reinvented his style every decade. Also like Picasso, an utter monster particularly to women who got too close to him.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

This is superb. An hour of deep thought and articulate description of modern geopolitics. I commend this podcast to the house open.spotify.com/episode/6M8o...

"Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot. You were *sick* the day they taught *law* at law school!"

Our situation has not improved

Cleaned out the shed on a bank holiday

A ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ is what you have when either there is no actual understanding or the parties do not want any understanding to be binding.

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

Ekranoplan ! Ekranoplan ! Ekranoplaaaan !

Self-Portrait https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28750

I seriously think Reform's biggest weakness is that it's a party that, among all its potential candidates, can't find anyone better than this danger

⬅️ just blocked the weird ignorant boring racist American instead of replying to her

As for every tournament, I’m just going to put it up because it bears repeating: “Three Lions” is not a song expressing a sense of entitlement about “football coming home”, but a song expressing a sense of hope persisting against bitter experience.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

👇 be more like this

it remains extremely funny to me that SBF was early on anthropic

I'll put you down as a "maybe" ?

Can't wait to see how they replace her with someone even worse

Someone sent me this image yesterday and I think it's the rosetta stone of online discourse. 1. A pret sandwich being *$16 PLUS TAX* should definitively end any US vs UK food discourse. Good GOD, guys. Good God. 2. I now finally understand the US vibecession, too. 3. And why you're all so angry.

🧵 Today marks the birth anniversary of the greatest film music composer who never wrote a single film score: Richard Wagner, born on this day in 1813 in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1883). Let me explain ... 1/16 #filmsky #musicsky #moviesky #BOTD #classicalmusic

Hooray, a new season of Clarkson's Farm youtu.be/GJxPc3B2osU?...

Burrito taxi here, X is all on getting rich on the SpaceX IPO, and it hit me: WE MAKE THE BURRITOS IN SPACE Since launch costs will go to zero and energy is free in space and resources are free in space (I'm told), just have Orbital Burrito Centers that send down burritos direct on demand

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Scenes www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Employees in Samsung's semiconductor division (78000 people) to get an average $340k bonus. A mean not a median but that's not bad.

One of the most popular-among-those-who-came-after writers of Caesar's time is Cicero, a guy who, in a sense, watched the chiefest political battle of his lifetime be completely lost for his side. Hasn't hurt the book sales any, millennia later.

Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper would like a word. (Have a Nobel Prize already for work using AI to unfold proteins).

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

I love this team #avfc

It’s the 1,701st anniversary of the start of the First Council of Nicaea which debated how divine yer man Jesus was compared to his old dad (I paraphrase slightly) – and at which St Nicholas (yes, that one, but pre-sainthood) got so angry with one speaker, he twatted him one 🧵

Yes DuckDuckGo works well, all you have to do is to put the icon in an obvious place to break the muscle memory of using Google

I'm hearing that Merkel has just offered unconditional surrender

Very normal democracy

It feels like so many of you have literally zero interest in confirming the truth or falsehood of what you're sharing. And if anyone does try to tell you it's not accurate, you scoff and say "Oh, you think NUMBERS and CHARTS can tell us things?" How are you any different from MAGA, exactly

This is awesome in part because "No-wait. Hold the line a minute," is Wodehouse anticipating the [record scratch] [freeze frame] "Yep. That's me" construction by 70 years.

Genuinely think this is up there with "it is a truth universally acknowledged" and "all happy families are alike" and "it was the day my grandmother exploded" one of best starts to any book

Gillian Tett writing in the FT "a couple of weeks ago I swapped ideas about the Federal Reserve with Curtis Yarvin" was a pretty depressing point IMO

Genuinely think this is up there with "it is a truth universally acknowledged" and "all happy families are alike" and "it was the day my grandmother exploded" one of best starts to any book

Dobby's grandad begging for socks.