Niall Litchfield
@nlitchfield.bsky.social
Data Guy. OakTable member and cricket fan. Loves interesting problems and thinking. Niall sounds like the river. All views are my own. "Chris Bryant dressed as a scarecrow"
There are several data centres within 15 miles of both of those locations.
I'll be willing to buy the desirability of data centers once they locate one in Beverly Hills and one next to Mar-A-Lago.
100% this, also extremely smart not to say what those measures actually are, or which types of new unknown disease they apply to and which they don't.
How handy he had a pair of scissors with him on a trip to the beach
Man finds a young seal tangled in a vegetable sack and frees it before the plastic could turn deadly.
Imagine thinking your great-grandparents lived in a world where there was less hunger and food inequality than today.
Imagine explaining this to your great-grandparents: "We produce enough food for everyone, but millions still go hungry because they don't have enough numbers in a bank account." What a ridiculous species.
Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history
Can't help but feel that many of the real downsides listed in this article about 25-year-olds in the UK (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) might be a side effect of the massive growth in higher education. In 1990, about 16% of this age group had a first degree or higher. Today that number is 52%.
The evidence that shows today's 20-somethings really do have it worse
People in their 20s are facing a tougher start to adulthood than any generation in almost half a century, according to analysis for the BBC.
bbc.co.uk
Very much not the point here, but at last we are moving away from 'Let me be/I have been very clear on this' to 'Let me say/I have said this very directly' *sigh*.
Burnham intervenes to condemn FIFA’s share plans - all starting to feel very European Super League…
A perfect bluesky post sharing a perfect x post.
“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
The Aus/UK free trade deal brings goodies to our house in the form of TimTams. Will not repurchase; no better or worse than Penguins.
Happy tenth birthday to one of the all time great Evening Standard headlines.
Looks like the GOP wants war with China and North Korea
This by @sarahditum.bsky.social is fantastic on the ways in which we now review and consume media. Ostensibly about The Odyssey reaction it's really about us. substack.com/@sarahditum/...
Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)
All the takes about The Odyssey are bad, apart from my take
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This feels wrong www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - Could see how it could be manslaughter, but that doesn't seem to have featured.
Milford Haven pupil, 16, not guilty of trying to murder teacher
History teacher Vicki Williams was stabbed in her classroom at Milford Haven Comprehensive School.
bbc.co.uk
Pleased to log on here today and find that the World Cup is all about Geopolitics as seen through the roles of those core characters, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal. Harry Kane, having featured for the last week, is now largely forgotten.
Doing the O/S wars like it's 1999.
Do you have a slow Windows PC? This is how you fix it. Step 1: Get a USB drive around 8 GB in size. Step 2: Download Linux Step 3: Backup files Step 4: Install Linux and make sure Windows is gone from your system when you it. Step 5: You're welcome.
youre welcome
Eu European Union
ALT: Eu European Union
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not the point at all, but one of the few measures of real technological progress over the last decade is the fact that you can now charge your laptop, phone, vape, sex toy, and chainsaw with the same cable
I may be tiny… but I have places to be, people to see, and absolutely no idea where I’m going. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
Piet Mondrian's work on the London Underground is exceptional.
So the biggest issue that I have with the criticism of Tuchel's overly defensive approach is that, that's almost exactly what we did in the Azteca and for which we got lauded.
A young man (Suraj Sharma) tells two stories neither of which convince.
The itinerary for the boys’ trip to Holland may have been overly ambitious. Starring Sean Connery