Can we all stop "driving efficiency" please? It is unedifying.

I absolutely did not ever understand the appeal of Bananarama

Far be it from me to offer advice to someone in his position, but if my his grandparents were my grandparents, I'm not sure I would wear a black shirt to a photo op.

I wish someone online would point out some hypocrisy or inconsistent behaviour because only then will we have real change.

Who could possibly have seen this coming.

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The lawsuits are going to be quite the spectacle.

Look at my moon, isn’t it super!

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him. He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

www.ft.com/content/5f6f... What do you call it when a massive customer can't pay, so you help it by giving it bits of your company?

my friend's dad is a journalist and photographer. He did an exhibition on Handsworth. Jenrick should focus on housing and education in Newark, for which the Conservatives did f*** all. I grew up in Newark under the Tories, BTW. Have a word. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Alter Ego (Mac, 1986)

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

This is quite a read. I'm sure it will all be fine. www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Look after each other.

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard" RIP to the greatest to ever do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

Here's the short 8-minute video.

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR. POPE

Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece

I hear it is National Poetry Day, so I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

David Hockney. Fish & Chip Shop. 1954.

The real reason the Home Office keep losing cases.

@robarmstrong.bsky.social writes a good piece here, which touches and expands on some of the stuff I've been covering: Oracle's share-price spike on massive AI infrastructure pipeline for customers who may not yet have the money, paid for primarily through debt www.ft.com/content/603b...

This is the last of the Croydon postcards.

Email in courier because that's really going to get me to cover your story

Here's my impression of Dad when he saw my hair.

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid"

when on my first bike ride in about three months this morning oh my legs they sore

A small ball and stick. A hole a long way away. Ridiculous slacks and an electric vehicle. There’s no way a right-thinking person can make sense of golf.

since we're talking about Home Office IT procurement, let me tell you about the Police National Database... www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/p...

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary go.nature.com/4gHDSGF

A thread well worth reading.

With all this talk of rapture, a much-sampled rap lyric has been bugging me: "The name of the game is rapture." Anyway, it is from Stetsasonic's Got Stetsa I. 4 mins into this track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OyV...

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

I look forward to everyone who freaked out every time Biden rambled on incoherently in public having a similar reaction to whatever the hell this is

The most Tory-coded thing I love? National Trust car parks. And gin.

It is by no means a unique opinion, but it is the correct opinion. When we first heard it, we knew everything had changed.

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RAPTCHA

"Look over there, that's where they land and expand." "Oh, yeah." www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/u...

"You couldn't make The Birth of a Nation nowadays," laments D. W. Griffith, "because it's three hours long, very racist, and I am dead."

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Russell Spitzer will present the internals of Apache Iceberg's query planner and execution engine. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

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