Brilliant! Google's headstone will read: "To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information."

The main thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is making sure he can't have a gun.

Today's winner!

Immigrants get the job done! Hero!

I mean yeah. Quantum does that to your head!

So cool!

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Fascinating: the schizoid, the hysteroid, the psychasthenic & the ignoid. A sort of INTP for KGB recruiters. macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-or...

Brilliant! Ireland as the 1st dystopia!

Honest reviews: waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/12/16/p...

How'd you like these apples!? This is brilliant! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

So interesting! I'd heard some of these stories when I was a kid. But they were a 'rural' thing- blood blessings & the old ways: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Increasing variance. Setbacks for RenTech. Hmm. Looking choppy: www.ft.com/content/4300...

The Finnish lesson: Start early & show kids how mis-information works. This is literacy, mental hygiene & civil defence for the modern age: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6482

Nice quote from Sprog at the end! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

Jesus, this is harsh: Roscommon – Roscommon lost contact with the outside world in 1983 so it’s hard to know who is famous there now.

Why is it the Onion & WWN have the most accurate headlines?

Very good!

Fantastic! This is NYC!

Brilliant! My wavefunction collapsed reading this!

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Gorgeous!

Canada has a stake calling out Pete Hegseth's murder on the seas. In June 1918 the hospital ship Llandovery Castle was sunk. The U boat murdered survivors in the water including 14 Canadian nurses. Canada never forgot or forgave. We have prosecuted war crimes ever since. Sucks to be you Pete.

Woah, Slings & Arrows Bro. "HORATIO Hamlet’s best friend and the comic relief. He’ll have a crush on Ophelia, but it’s imperative she never gives him the time of day. We’ll give him an off-putting hobby that will be repulsive to women, like reading, to solve this."

OMG;brill! "The worm eating the Politician’s brain filled my heart with a viscous envy. The worm was privy to his secrets. To his raw, animal nature. It got to curl up inside his brain folds and throb with him as he tried to form thoughts. I wanted to make my home in his oversized Irish cranium."

The EU is the last experiment in post-national federations (& the arguably the first really successful one since the US; long way to go ofc). Given European history, it is essential that it continue & prosper. Only great-power nutcases would think otherwise.

Yep, it's equivalent to AfD or Le Front National or Reform in charge of the US, with all the bat-shittery that entails. Learn from US stupidity & do not make the same mistakes.

Yep.

I vaguely remember from early childhood a white bread, butter & sugar sandwich made by my grandmother. I wonder if this phenomenon is related? Sounds very Victorian tbh.

Very nice summary of what we're missing in the search for the origin of life in SPAAACE. (Basically complex molecules, not 'building blocks').

History will judge us so harshly for this:

Then, there's too domesticated...

No Mall for Old Men:

Lovely interview with Ian McEwan. Nice thoughts about what happens when societies forget (e.g. we've lost memories of WWII & the horrors therein). So stupidities (fascism) & horrors (imperial wars & consequences) can return to haunt us: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Amazing & wonderful to see!

It's simple enough: Make most people's lives better. Pragmatism + smile FTW!

'Arcadia' (& 'Copenhagen') still the best play(s) about Science. Was a privilege to see the Gate production at the turn of the century. Absolute brilliance & a great performance.

She has a point!

Brilliant! Yay, Science + joined-up political thinking! More please!

The Cav could do anything back in the 20's with an elastic band, some stolen bicycle parts and a wind instrument!

Amen! Kids these days! I remember when...etc.

The sooner a leading British politician is brave enough to stand up and say that Brexit was a complete disaster & here's how we're going to reverse it, the sooner Britain can be saved from it's worst instincts.

Gorgeous! That lit up bit is about the size of the US..if the US were a giant parking lot, being resurfaced *all the time* by volcanoes caused by tidal squeezing. Look at all that yellow-ish surface sulphur. "The smell of sulphur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner".

When can we launch fast cheap cameras to other stars please! ? Someone (not me) in the far future should get to see exo-worlds like this!

Same. Pros: New families of drugs from some ML models. Medicine, Astronomy & bio/chem benefit from ML. Cons: Humans don't like thinking (its expensive). AI is an excuse not to. If you don't already have a BS detector, you can be fooled. Longer term: Coding disappears (Star Trek computer does it).

The Beeb has been a bedrock of free speech since WW2. This is appalling.

Let's get ready to...FAMILY!

Very cool! You can see the pattern of Longphorts all around the coast & up-rivers. Love linguistic echos too (Salt Hoy; Dalk Hoy; Leixlip; ironically Waterford from WindyFord!). Plus ebb & flow in Dublin as power vacuums arise from Ivarr et al. having a go at Wessex/Mercia & Northumbria.

Scaffolding + reward = Deeper thinking!