I've almost certainly peaked for the day. Maybe the year. www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🤯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

Over a thousand years of data on peak Japanese cherry blossom ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...

In winter, I spoke at a faculty event about AI. I was alarmed by the range of faculty awareness. Some believe our students are so "good" they'd never cheat. Yes, cheating's wrong. But systems that explicitly or implicitly incentivize cheating--AI does both--will produce cheating. 11/

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

@iainl7.bsky.social @mikeyb137.bsky.social

Morning

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

At our Annual Conference, researchers shared their latest work. We’ll share their project posters over the coming weeks. First: Burcu Sevde Selvi & @ojgarling.bsky.social discuss skills mismatches in East Anglia & gaps to support young people’s transition into work. Poster: bit.ly/4nceZpJ

Instead of the deranged post everyone is sharing, please notice this thoughtful Easter message from NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of Artemis II, flying toward the Moon today. “Whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not…” 🌎 🌕 youtu.be/WdgsAtjrxq4

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

THE TROPE MAKER #wfrp #oldhammer

I am really enjoying season one of HBO’s Harry Potter: Your Takes

New project- 出口🏃🏻‍♂️ Shinjuku Station has over 200 exits, I'm going to draw all of them wrongly, not where they actually take you, but the many worlds that they could take you to.

‘Camouflage class in New York University... They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph’, March 1943. Original colour photograph by Marjory Collins. Source: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

'Open Government', the first episode of Yes Minister, was originally broadcast on this day in 1980.

Much of Palantir's "genius" is not genius at all, it's just smart data science. When did UK politicians decide the UK state didn't have the intelligence and capability to build it's own systems? Why does the NHS need a Palantir? It's just data guys, not Elvish spells.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.

Gondor’s leader was of course driven insane by overuse of social media.

Very wise.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

1. Aubergine 2. Nocturnal Animals 3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

*gasp*

Hope you get the job, Steve!

Back when Twitter was good.

I have never understood this argument: LLMs are here to stay. So we need to learn how to use them. The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.

I’m not saying we’re cooked as a culture, but the left are wrongly convinced that Keir Starmer is going to sell all our digital ID data to Palantir and the right are convinced it’s a ploy to enrich Euan Blair.

I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a computer, begging you all to learn just the slightest amount of nuance before you apply the marketing term AI to all forms of machine generation and analysis without understanding their fundamental differences

I ran out of characters on the last post. And now the world has lost another character. Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned. Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything. RIP old mate.

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

Little disingenuous of Cov CC here. Regardless of the company itself, "robust due diligence in line with our procurement process" is not on any level an ethics review. #localgov #ai www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.

Local planning law should be boring.

Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.

Great, we've automated podcasters.

"PhD level" can mean a lot of things in a lot of contexts. Most of them less impressive than they sound.

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.

The UK is getting age verification to stop you viewing dirty french postcards like this

I suspect whoever wrote this Executive Order thinks the LLM guys have a *lot* more control over their models than they really do, and are going to be disappointed pretty quickly www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...