Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it

Depressing if you think phasing out hen cages and pig crates is negative and divisive. I think it's legitimate to make them the lede as more consequential than puppy farms (arguably the focus on companion animals is government spin)

Slot out

Confusing. See also the Portuguese Social Democratic Party

Credit where due: George Osborne bears a decent amount of responsibility for this, and honestly good for him.

At this stage, I'm unsure whether AI or George Osborne poses a greater threat to everyone else's employment

Hang on Nigella Lawson's step-father was AJ Ayer??

Milos joining a proud tradition of Hungarians in Britain

OpenAI is ten years old today! My take on how its transition from idealistic charity to profit-seeking corporation shows how capitalism squeezes morals out of business theconversation.com/why-openai-i...

You wait 28 years for a World Cup group, and it's basically the same one again

Other than the fall in asthma, I don't think there's anything here I didn't know before, but all of these facts ought to be better known and appreciated - and worthwhile to bring them together.

This is a story I’ve been wanting to write for ages. It’s about how a generation of fans have brought the ultra movement to Scotland, and what that says about fandom, connection and friendship in a world where so much of life is digital observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Arne Slot: "normally you score more than your xG" NO! That's not what "expected" means!

If there's one thing Liverpool have tended to be good at, it's looking through the random noise around bad patches

Liverpool weren't particularly bad tonight, are just in a run when everything that can go wrong is going wrong. But if - big if - they can shut out the external noise, they can take encouragement from the performance

Crisis club Liverpool have the third best underlying numbers in the Champions League this season

I don't know, feel like we've seen this film before. 2020/21 Liverpool had a spell of relegation level results sandwiched between title challenging pace to start and end the season. 2022/23 Liverpool went 11 unbeaten to end the season

First World Cup game I ever watched was Scotland v Brazil...who'd have thought it would be 28 years before they'd be back

McTominay has scored overhead kicks in plausibly the two biggest matches of his career

Guess which game I got in the ticket ballot....

@otcpod.bsky.social Is Ivan Juric being sacked from three top level jobs in a year some sort of record?

Reasonable to say Slot approached this game too negatively. But reasonable also to say he was only a few bounces of the ball and marginal refereeing decisions away from the plan working.

"At the stroke of midnight, the Indian women's cricket team achieved its tryst with destiny" is an outstanding line, fair play

Nope. United 3, Chelsea and Atalanta 2. Nobody else more than 1.

@andrewbeasleyfootball.com Palace have five wins at Anfield since 2015 - are any team close to that???

It seems a sub-optimal state of affairs that whether that's a penalty on Gakpo depends on how good he is at diving

If there isn't an AI dating assistant called "Cyrano" by the end of the year these guys have no culture or imagination

The near absolute polarisation in views on my timeline as to whether that was a penalty between English and non-English people is quite funny

According to some guy called, uh, Michael Caley, this is the opposite of how Liverpool got good (From @rwohan.bsky.social's book, which is great, you should buy it)

Things that make me irrationally angry: that nobody in the Eurovision green room seems to have thought of keeping track of the remaining points. Like, how is it possible that I knew Austria had won before they did?

It's funny because it keeps happening

A good question posed & answered here by @aveek18.bsky.social: aveekbhattacharya.substack.com/p/why-isnt-a...

When I tell people I got married in a castle, but it's really not that big a deal - this is the context

Why isn't animal welfare a bigger issue in British politics? open.substack.com/pub/aveekbha...

why is the co-founder of aberdeenshire-based brewdog who wants to create a british version of "doge" called james watt and not ellon musk

also that it is largely comprised of former friends of mine

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

Someone please do me a back of an envelope cost-benefit of dogs. What do we think the optimal number per capita is?

The 7th carbon budget is a MASTERCLASS in avoiding a climate culture war, despite having to talk about flying and farming. Kudos to the team!

I was trying to be careful not to load the dice in how I framed it, but can see how original post might have come across a bit too pro dog. The growth in dogs is a fascinating phenomenon in its own right, especially how that interacts with the pandemic.

CCC's 7th carbon budget advice on agriculture & land use: - Overall, land use changes required over 19% of UK farmland (previously expressed as 'one-fifth' of ag land) - Meeting 7CB means a 27% reduction in cattle and sheep numbers between 2023 and 2040 1/ - www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The brewing culture war over dogs is a fascinating confluence of so many social trends: social atomisation and unwillingness to let the messiness of other people's lives intrude, safetyism, the long behavioural shadow of the pandemic. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The growing evidence of iatrogenesis (harm caused by "treating" people who don't need it with mental health interventions) is one of the most confounding research findings I've come across in recent years

Cutting Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GDP means that a massive fraction of our aid budget will be spent in the UK on accommodation for asylum seekers. I don't have an up to date estimate, but could easily be half. Leaves much, much less for "traditional" aid.

Estimate of the impact of the PEPFAR funding suspension so far. pepfar.impactcounter.com

Listening to @zonal-marking.bsky.social on the Athletic podcast arguing that "Expected Goals" is an unhelpful or misleading term, and I don't think it is? Maybe it's more familiar if you're aware of Expected value or talking about probabilistic outcomes "in expectation"

A propos of nothing: this seeding system is nonsense. Team that finishes top of the Champions League group stage should get to pick their last 16 opponents. Team that finishes 2nd should get second pick. Etc

The UK's falling fertility rates and ageing population need proactive thinking now—waiting until we reach East Asia's situation isn't an option. Great to have contributed to this @smfthinktank.bsky.social collection, which makes a strong progressive case for action.

Great piece by Gaby Hinsliff, taking its cue from our @smfthinktank.bsky.social report to argue that the left don't just have reason to worry about birth rates, they also have a positive story to tell about how progressive policies make it easier to have a family www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This seems like it would be an awesome job