So in London we prepare kids for a £69k gdp/head economy and in the E Midlands for a £31k one?
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ken@kenklabnik.bsky.social · last mo.Is there a ko-fi or similar? Just wondering
I don't code in C#, Go, Rust, etc. I code in markdown. The agent is the compiler.
I would pay Roger Allam and Will Smith to record a political podcast called "Peter Mannion's Boo-To-Nanny" and part of the joke is it gets cancelled after one episode.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w agoThis would be the single best thing about being a trillionaire. You could fund that epic cinematic dramatization of the Haitian Revolution. You could fund an entire film studio dedicated to new, non-derivative science fiction. You could bring back Arcane for four more seasons. Whatever you want!
If you'd told me 8-10 years ago that this would be Rogan's focus in the week leading up to Conor McGregor's rematch with Max Holloway I have to say I'd be surprised.
Niche take on Al Carns' presumed leadership bid, without doxing myself, from around the time my profile pic was taken:
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
June 2026 will mark four years of Operation Interflex, a UK-led multinational training programme that has trained more than 63,000 Ukrainian personnel as infantry soldiers, leaders and instructors.
Occurring the liminal space between 'true belief' and 'just a edgy joke' is the whole deal for the neo-nazi. That's *why* it so import to aggressively confront the edgy joking, because it's a stalking horse for the Über/Untermenschism.
If the ONS is systematically overestimating inflation, that isn't just a data problem: it causes actual price rises to go higher because lots of bills are linked to the official figures observer.co.uk/news/busines...
I can’t pay rent with a chart, Matts. I can’t eat a median. All I can FEEL in m my day-to-day lived experience is the difference between actual real gdp per capita (excluding transfers) and a linear trend-line over the 2000-2019 window.
This makes me reflect on my own interest in economic science, which is not my field but nonetheless has had a surprisingly large impact on me, especially as it pertains to the debunking of misinformation. 🧵
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo agoyou're welcome! (Though it's @besttrousers.bsky.social who really puts in the time in the trenches here on the economics, I'm just professionally interested in how bad data and soundbites spread.)
Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.
A bogus story is posted to tiktok. It circulates around the other social media sites. Reddit says that it's bullshit and bluesky falls for it. How the fuck are you dumber than reddit? Before I joined bsky I wouldn't have thought it was possible to be dumber than reddit, aside from YouTube comments.
"I have to hedge anything vaguely positive I say lest I be punished" is a fucking abuse dynamic. We've all been roped into a toxic relationship with a sentient tar pit that thinks it's the Good Guys.
This post seems like it was intended to flatter women 🧐
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 3mo agohot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— The Thick of It Peep Show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Trailer Park Boys Blackadder The Simpsons Yes Minister The Office (UK) Battlestar Galactica 24 Nathan For You Arrested Development South Park
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3mo agoName your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Arrested Development Six Feet Under Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Terriers A.P. Bio Futurama Bob’s Burgers Lost The Good Place The State The Americans Flight of the Conchords Justified Parks & Rec
It has been more than 48 hours since we first approached the Green Party for comment about Tina Ion. And well over 24 hours since we went to them for further comment on *this* story. We have heard nothing. From their press office, from anyone senior, or from Zack Polanski himself. Nothing.
Francis Sedgemore@hesgen.com · 3mo agoNewcastle Green Party candidate Tina Ion says "Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist.". Is Ion one of the "99%" of candidates whom party leader Zack Polanski stands behind?
“AI is only as useful as your ability to evaluate what it gives you. And that ability—the capacity to interrogate an output, to know whether the premise is sound, to sense when something is missing—doesn’t come from a prompt engineering course. It comes from…” (1/2)
What the Future of Higher Education Demands of Us
A dispatch from Cambridge
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"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs." open.substack.com/pub/verysane...
Against the Luddites
The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.
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The thing about nitwits is they have bad ideas and it's fairly important to say "these ideas are bad".
slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time
AI Liker Georg@avengingfem.me · 5mo agoprobably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...
@moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app you guys gotta go on a purge of antisemites here. This shit is spreading like wildfire among the seedier corners of this app. If they want to post shit like this, they should go back to X/Twitter.
Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.
Hasan is an antisemite but importantly, he also is an idiot who has nothing to add. You're not even compromising on morals so that you can listen to a math genius or a grandmaster architect or even a star athlete something, he's just some dweeb
Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoHegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."