I think this would improve almost every conference I've been to; even when people finish their presentations on time, a bear hanging round on stage would add to the general gaiety. I'd also let him deal with anyone who turns up with a Mac they want to plug in without having brought the right cable.

Made a kind of chilli crisp cacio e pepe tonight, replacing the black pepper with Chinese chili crisp. 8/10, would make again. (It's only 8/10 because I don't have the skills to make s properly good cacio e pepe)

Here's my video from frozen Kyiv. Temperatures in Ukraine have risen - it's -1C today, with a lot of slush! - but are forecast to drop again this week. Air raid sirens and Russian attacks continue. The Kremlin had targeted *every* power plant, with most hit many times www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxIT...

The demands will be a) pls wash the dishes and remember my birthday or b) be a 6’2 clavmaxxer alpha non-chud, none of which is anything women remotely want or understand

The world will be burned down by people who don't understand that fire is hot

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

I don't hate actual Nazis as much as I hate antivaxxers. At least Nazis have an ideology & a grudge; anti-science grifters have nothing but the certainty of their own ignorant narcissism.

Une femme française extraordinaire

The real divide is between those who like the Brontës & decent people, aka Austen fans. I'll take the books where nobody either seduces their rivals' sister in order to abuse her *or* locks their wife in the attic & attempts a bigamous marriage, thanks.

Well hello there

Quite apart from the extraordinary viciousness of its supporters, the reason people are chary of engaging with the trans debate is that even the biggest proponents of sex abolition can't agree among themselves whether the same court ruling is a triumph or a disaster.

Mine says 'the closer you are, the slower I drive'

One of the defining things about the new breed of media baron is that they're cheap bastards. They want the power and the glory but not the payrolls. At least Pulitzer, Hearst and Murdoch hired lots of journalists.

"Whatever I want" is politics, economics & the backlash against women's autonomy though. Where do I sign up to become a football fanatic?

lol

The wrong teenagers were getting pregnant, that was the problem. Poor girls from working class backgrounds weren't about to deprive Matt Goodwin of academic jobs. It's the know-it-all smartypants lot who should be kept pregnant & out of men's competition pool.

Babies as an antidote to women having intellectual and political lives is a tale as old as time, and anyone advocating for it is by definition a wrong 'un.

Finally we get to the bottom of it. Matt Goodwin is butthurt that he didn't have the glowing academic career he feels he is owed because of *girls*.

What interests me, & confirms my view that politics is just vibes on crack at the moment, is that nobody is out there warning the Greens that by telling millions of Labour voters (we still exist!) they're not "really left" Polanski is alienating his potential voter coalition.

Yeah, about the whole progressive alliance, tactical vote thing we need to do to stop Reform... This could be a challenge

And you can still shop online & avoid the evil empire if you need to. I use eBay a lot & it's rare that I don't find what I need on there at the same price as on Amazon, & if it's something that can be bought second hand (books, furniture, decor) the environmental benefits are significant too.

I don't see how this can have any meaning without being broken down by sex.

What makes me think the world is in peril isn't AI per se, but things like Google sacking Timnit Gebru in '23 for warning that technology shouldn't be developed without any ethical or regulatory guardrails. If something can't be built safely & ethically, then yes, building it really is dangerous.

Dubai- & Florida-based ones give the Monaco cadre a run for its money though

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

This is a good as everyone says it is, of course. What it opened my very uninformed eyes to is the weird fact that we may be getting so much political reporting not because our politics are uniquely turbulent or eventful, but because political reporters are the only ones doing any reporting anymore.

"History is women following behind with the bucket." So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy. Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I used to be a supply line manager - arguably even lower on the scale of Real Jobness than logistics managers. Until one year when Apple's share price went down because they couldn't meet their Christmas orders due to not getting their Intel chips on time. Wasn't such bullshit then, was it lads.

It's very good. I wished there was more discussion of those alternative approaches to mental distress that exist in other cultures - Suzanne O’Sullivan touches on them in 'The Sleeping Beauties' too, which I really recommend.

The British government’s recent reforms have largely remained under the radar. But they will matter hugely—and long after the fire and fury over the prime minister’s future has passed econ.st/4a6OA80

The big consciousness conference in Tucson/Arizona is cancelled. Philosophy & Cognitive Science are fields long known to be largely inside-handshake dudebro clubs, something which I said out loud (it's not that they'd hired me), and now revealed to be disproportionally present in the Epstein files.

“Violence against women & girls is perpetrated by men of all backgrounds- the vast majority of rapes are perpetrated by someone known to the victim." Co opting inaccurate & racist anti-migration rhetoric hurts all women, especially Black & brown women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

Russia is killing children - yesterday a 10-year-old boy in Kharkiv region, today an 11-year-old girl in Sloviansk.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

And just maybe consider skipping the circular firing squad altogether. Bringing down your British Al Gore, and for what? There's no British Bubba or Obama walking through that door, Labour.

I feel like I'm living in a Jasper Fforde book, where somebody came & stole a piece of history, leaving an awkward gap. How have we skipped over the "let's get some child rapists behind bars" stage & jumped straight to the "let's institute a destructive circular firing squad" stage?!

Starmer won a thumping majority 18 months ago. He’s the PM, not whoever’s managing Watford this year. Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.

Keir Starmer is a good, decent man with public service running through his veins. He came into politics for all the right reasons. He’s defied the naysayers many times and he’ll do so again. He’s changing and renewing our country and has restored it’s reputation across the world.

Why were the Greens so inaccurate? They massively overestimated their own support by nearly 40% and massively underestimated the support of Labour and Reform based on the outcome of the recent Long Ashton by-election. Looks like the Lib Dems no longer hold the crown for the dodgiest bar chart!

🗳 Clevedon South By-election 🗳 After the Labour by-election win last week it is worth looking at the results. We are all used to a dodgy Lib Dem bar chart or two over the years but in this election it is worth looking at the campaign bar charts used by two parties, Labour and Green.

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

People with no children already pay more tax, because we get fewer transfers from the state. Think of just a mother's medical bills, or one year's school tuition. Women without children also do more care work than childless men, so we're probably the biggest net contributors to the welfare state.

As I said the other day: the real goal is power. Sex is just the social glue.

When it comes to saving nature - it’s not building regulations we should be focussed on - it’s reform of farming. Farming Regulations are where the big wins can be found. Not housing.

Big picture facts support what our Nature Minister says - given that the built environment (buildings and roads) is about 10% of our land area, even if we hit 300k new homes a year that’s just 1% of existing housing stock, and houses are a tiny % of the 10% built environment. buff.ly/OYJo79t

He was a right old creep

They purged London of the Jews with such righteous fervour it was necessary to coin the modern sense of Holocaust 400 years hence a man penned this moving lament for the poor Strangers and their martyr 400 years hence we sit in the thrall of this "prescient" performance with the Jews left forgot

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