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Programmer; Swiftie (Paris N1); the other one from @crickether.com. Probably somewhere to your left.
Swifties: not to read this piece - it’s not worth the brain cells you will lose from having to bang your head repeatedly against a brick wall afterwards.
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore review – flashes of humanity and bafflingly vindictive love songs
This four-track addition to a critically maligned album works hard to remind fans what they love about Swift, with some sweet highs and galling lows
theguardian.com
You can't hate on Cleveland for being a glitter pen song - that's like hating on this tree outside my window for being a tree. Also… c'mon - the delivery of "You only need to find one person in this entire world who doesn't find you completely insufferable!" - that's a 10 right there!
I reckon Taylor saw my recent Apple Music Replays and was like: "Who the freak does Jax think she is? I'll show her!"
Watching Ludwig after having watched Star City. Keep expecting Anna Maxwell Martin to shoot someone in the head.
Looking at getting a heat pump in outer-London and every company we have spoken to want £250 up-front to do a quote (“survey”) so to get just two quotes is going to be £500! Is this normal?
I get where this is coming from, but… * The lesson of sports is that banning ads for things you don't like just leads to more ads for genuinely bad stuff - gambling; crypto; etc. * There should be an equivalent of Godwin's Law for falling back on mentioning tobacco ads in these conversations!
Council bans advertising of fast fashion, flights and cars
Adverts for high carbon products will no longer appear on council-owned ad spaces
bristol247.com
Boarded up shop fronts for rent/sale in Spain. None of it is real - they are illusions and everything you see is intricately painted on to the boardings.
Donald Trump sure does seem to be keen to name things after a 15th Century Italian explorer - I wonder why he is such a fan? * Checks Wikipedia * Oooooh - he was a fantasist who probably didn’t do half the thing he claimed, and was involved in the slave trade. Right. Makes sense now.
Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The Government: You can have plug-in solar now! Also The Government: You can fit it all yourself. Except for the bits you can't and which you almost certainly don't already have. Also-also The Government: You might need Planning Permission too! Who knows? Not us, we are merely the government!
What is the difference really between "mandatory insurance" and tax? Especially as it would have to be highly redistributive? It's just semantics, isn't it?
Something feels off about this supposed AI map that is doing the rounds - my guess is that it is NOT actually AI - not all the way down, anyways - it has been created by someone with an agenda to make AI look silly/bad.
Watched the first ep of Star City last night. Thoughts… * It’s very grim; possibly too grim - we’ll see! * I’m not sure it works as “alternate history” because I don’t know the real history… and I did 2nd/3rd year modules in modern Russian history at uni, so I’ve got a head start on most people!!
Watch Star City - Apple TV
Step into a thrilling chapter inspired by For All Mankind. Same alt-history universe. Different perspective: the Soviet Union’s. Go behind the Iron Cu…
tv.apple.com
Computer Programmers 🤝 All My Single Friends Dates are a Pain in the ****
This is dumb - sorry! You can't do "security through obscurity" - someone will always know which house is his, so you have to assume everyone knows.
Exclusive: Andy Burnham’s Northern home address easily available since becoming Prime Minister
National security concerns deepen after some basic sleuthing from The Lead saw Number 10 act swiftly, reports Michael Holmes
national.thelead.uk
Crazy the extent to which Netflix's Little House on the Prairie was so clearly trying to ensure that the girls looked as much as possible like the girls in the 70s adaptation.
In a hotel lounge, and there is a Boomer using phone banking on speakerphone. If I'd recorded it, I'd have all his login deets via the touch-tones.
It's a great idea, but if I did this the Shame List would be longer than the lifetime of the universe by the end of Day One! (Screenshot because I suspect OP is going to be drowned in notifications and it didn't seem fair to add to that.)
If really feels like we've collectively decided that even if an AI agent does something that would be unambiguously illegal* if a human did it… that's fine? (*Certainly unambiguously illegal in the UK.)
How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
abc.net.au
When you want to name your new road after your favorite American singer, but you’ve had a few beers when you fill out the form.
At Great Malvern station every pillar has a unique floral design.
This totally misses the *actual* problem. You can only “fix” housing for the young by substantially reducing prices. But this would be catastrophically bad for many existing home-owners (negative equity) and *perceived* as a disaster by all of them. So no government will do this. It is unfixable.
How to fix Britain’s housing crisis
We need to find ways to lift the financial and resource constraints on new homebuilding
ft.com
