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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 1h

I was happy to see that the original is still open when I passed by recently, zone 1, Queensway. I suspect there are a few more scattered around.

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 2d

I submitted a tree months ago, also in Suffolk, but I rather suspect there are very few people verifying the trees, I havent heard anything yet. Would be interesting to contact the people behind the register and hear their side of the story. Wondering if they need more volunteers.

Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 2d

I went such a long time ago it was the capital city at the time!

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 6d

the AS/400

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 6d

The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 6d

on.ft.com/48hiEgC "It warns of “external dependencies of the AI stack” — the infrastructure and software needed to build, train and manage AI applications — which it says “can be weaponised” by both “state and non-state actors”, posing a risk to supply chains."

EU pushes new AI strategy to reduce tech reliance on US and China

Brussels to unveil plan targeting digital sovereignty as it warns technology can be ‘weaponised’ by geopolitical rivals

on.ft.com

Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 7d

Seems like its not easy to reverse trains there and get from arrivals to departures platform which is probably required for customs layout, as it wasnt designed to be end of line.

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting. I would happily use Stratford (although what kind of layout for passport control i dont know but there seems to be a lot of space). St Pancras is so much more crowded now even at same capacity, and the expansion plans seem to be going to take a long time.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 7d

This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London

What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post

jonworth.eu/constraints-...

Constraints on future Channel Tunnel operators - Jon Worth

Sometime this autumn the UK’s Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will adjudicate on capacity allocation at Temple Mills depot in east London. Responses to ORR from Eurostar and the four other companies tha...

jonworth.eu

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 7d

after the roses

A bunch of bright red rosehips in the hedge, glowing in the sun.

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 8d

There is a huge Sahara green wall project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_G... although it has difficulties.

Great Green Wall (Africa) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 8d

Don't tell me you are making coldbrew from scratch.

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 8d

"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...

cds.cern.ch

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 8d

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 10d

It does say some content bsky.social/about/blog/0... but I am not sure what and how accurate, but there supposedly is a flagging mechanism. But yes very different to eg missisippi

Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online - Bluesky

Part of Bluesky’s mission to create a more open and decentralized social web is helping users feel safe and in control of their experience. We always try to balance safety with privacy, and free expre...

bsky.social

Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 10d

In the UK it is AFAIK only use of DMs that is blocked without age verification. It doesn't try to do any content detection I don't think.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 10d

This sounds great on.ft.com/46vOll8

Five stars for 11,000 Strings played on 50 pianos in New York — review

[FREE TO READ] Georg Friedrich Haas’s microtonal work brings an astonishing palette of colours and sounds to the Park Avenue Armory

on.ft.com

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 11d

Evening walk

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 12d

Ah the plum crostata war

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 12d

They explicitly say that many of the recommendations are pay to play if you read the small print. So yeah the algorithm is fine, its just what someone else wants.

Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 15d

Goethe tells the story of the old Duke of Saxony, an original as well as stubborn man, whose advisers urge him to reflect and ponder before making an important decision. “I want neither to reflect nor to ponder,” he replies, “otherwise why would I be the Duke of Saxony?” www.ft.com/content/85ee...

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

www.ft.com

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 17d

Oh no that didnt work, this time I will ferment them first and try again...

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 20d

“When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the text. His version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original, weighs in at more than six thousand pages” yalereview.org/article/amir...

Amir Ahmadi Arian Goes in Search of Iran's Most Famous Translator

Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

yalereview.org

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 22d

Saw some clouded yellows fluttering around today, very bright yellow! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

A bright yellow butterfly on purple clover

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 24d

Killing red squirrels is illegal, I would contact local authorities or wildlife organizations, as the owner may well be required to control it.

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 24d

But they didn't print picture of said snowstorm based event and I can't find it...

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