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People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
I know so many intentionally annoying people that aren't monetising it
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 5h agoThis is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
What is it about bluesky in particular that attracts luddites?
Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex@gswrites.bsky.social · 6h agoWhat, please explain, is the benefit of supporting these things? Aside from safety and traffic issues, the entire concept simply diverts income from individuals who will spend in local communities (and may even pay tax) into capital-rich co's and the wealth of distant, already-rich, investors.
Are ideas getting harder to find? Almost a decade ago, a banger of a study said YES. Over decades the US economy had been ploughing resources into R&D, with only slowing TFP growth to show for it. BUT newer evidence suggests more grounds for optimism 🧵 My latest column: as.ft.com/r/ee54d3c9-c...
What if ideas aren’t getting harder to find, after all?
Large companies may have just become better at hiding the fruits of their labour
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Ever since I was a child I've wanted my own aluminium smelter
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome.bsky.social · 6h ago"Run the [aluminum] plant at its full rated 230,000 tonnes and the electrolysis alone draws somewhere around 397 megawatts, continuously, every hour of every day, for as long as the plant is alive." www.autonocion.com/us/american-...
The more I learn about university finances the more I want the entire sector's senior leadership fired out of a cannon.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 8h agoUniversities cannot make money teaching home undergrads or doing funded research. Indeed, those run at a large loss. Only teaching international students make sense in any way. The logical endpoint is taking only international students, reducing research and moving many ops out of the UK altogether.
So many old fogeys on here thinking they're progressive. Aviation is much better than it used to be.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Reminds me of the Terry Pratchet joke about Pascal’s Wager, where upon waking up in the afterlife the philosopher finds themselves surrounded by smiling gods going “oh, someone thinks they’re *clever* do they? someone thinks that they’re a *such* a smart boy?”
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 23h ago
If it's true that Number 10 has banned the DVSA from raising driving test prices by £30 that's the dumbest shit I've read all week £30 is less than the cost of *one hour of driving lessons*
ThinkLabour@thinklabour.bsky.social · yesterdayWhy is it still harder to book a driving test than get Glastonbury tickets? Our latest substack looks at why the driving test backlog still hasn't been fixed six years after the pandemic - and argues the real obstacle isn't logistics, it's politics.
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
"To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs — but a tribute nevertheless." - George Steiner
As I reach my mid-thirties this looms large indeed. "From now on, more and more of what you do in your life will be a waste of time. You sit in a sportscar but you look like a worm on a diamond." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEo...
'Middle aged Men'-Armando Iannucci Shows
YouTube video by MorrisseysMonkey
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Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · yesterdayThe whole series is excellent, I think it's the best thing he has ever done, frankly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arm...
One supervision in 2.5 years sounds bad but I was once told a tale of a PhD submitted in a foreign language and, when the administrator objected, the student said that his draft chapters had been in that language and the supervisor had said they were fine. His supervisor did not read that language.
Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterdayCalls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
excerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate
Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterdayThe judge's sentencing remarks when this man was jailed for antisemitic harassment of Luciana Berger are absolutely horrifying www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
I put on The Last Stand for some reason and all I can think of is the greatest tumblr post of all time
I still feel for people who live in water stressed areas of southern England and have emotional ties to place, but in the long run they might have to consider moving to relatively resource-rich places such as North East England. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Relentless UK heatwaves turn ‘green and pleasant land’ brown
Visible impact of warming climate is impossible to ignore across landscapes that have been starved of rainfall
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We need Bluesky to be big enough that when you search someone's name the top results aren't all cartoon pornography. We need more people with names on here. No offence to the perverts.
Completely indistinguishable from George Galloway. The Greens are in quite monumental danger of fairly extreme takeover at the moment and I'm not sure their internal processes are robust enough to stop it.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · yesterdayA party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.
Musk has managed to poison the well to such an extent that we can now only think of platforms as "The Woke Factory" or "you will receive abuse from misogynists, racists and fascists and you will like it", and that's not great - hopefully Bsky does manage to create something in the middle!
The party of the pub bore. This is why their core ceiling is 15%.
Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · yesterdayOh shut up and fuck off - the British famously lost that battle too and had the advantage of being across a sea for the next few years
I find the defence of the subsidised grocery stores so odd. Maybe it's just because UK Grocers are so good but I cannot fathom how this is meant to work? Or be better than normal policy ways to help businesses or consumers? Why go in to bat for something that is a bad idea and waste of time?
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d agoI have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
Love that we're back to knowing the correct incantations.
Paul McNamara@mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · yesterdayDaily Mail now in favour of benefits “scroungers”
Price change in Tesco school uniforms after 46 years: Trousers: ⬇️ £1 Shirts: ⬇️ 49p Jumpers: ⬆️ 25p And that's *nominal*. Loss leaders and all that, but that's still incredible.
Old UK Print Ads@oldukprintads.bsky.social · 2d agoAug 1980: Schoolwear ad from Tesco (+Grey Polyester/Viscose Trousers; Polyester/Viscose Trousers; Sanforised cotton Denim Jeans; Acrylic Zippers; Acrylic V-neck Pullovers; Polyester/Cotton Shirts; Ribbed Polo Neck Jumpers; White lace-to-toe Sports Shoes; Black Plimsolls, and more)
My theory was always that strict regulation of sports and casino gambling was the load bearing pillar of US equity investment culture
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d agoRobinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto. This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.
