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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4h

This happened with my nan last year and the hospice workers say it's very common. They say goodnight to everyone then ten minutes after you arrive home you get the call. OP shouldn't be so hard on themselves.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. Will have a look

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think this multidimensionality of voters has recently become more pronounced? Or are methodologies just becomone more adept at capturing nuance (and in fact are increasingly data led polsci studies giving people the syntax to articulate to themselves those more nuanced positions?)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Good journalism is more important than ever, given the epistemoligal poisoning of online discourse. The present funding model is part of the problem, though imo. I don't know how that one is solved.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Hard agree on all counts.

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

I think 'anti-meaning' is very interesting. I mean there is already an issue with the Anglocentricism of the likes of ChatGPT. As regions develop thei own LLMs we could see an epistemilogical silofication, which exacerbate lack of understanding in a world that is becoming increasingly divided.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Defo. It's an accelerant for good or bad work, reproducing at pace the skill of their user or their mistakes. To use a data science term 'Garbage in Garbage out.'

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

There is a bubble in both investment and expectation at the moment and yes the correction will be somewhat brutal. AI is here to stay though.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 2d

Many mistaken assumptions made about the skills required in a post-AI world. Tech and formulaic stuff will be largely automated. The ability to write and parse complex text, present and influence will be key skills. Talking as an English Lit grad now working in complex tech roles and researching AI

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

Stop paying private children's homes exorbitant fees and bring them under LA control.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

He would be better placed than I to advise. Not a specific ep. as much as a theme I've heard him come back to.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

French cuisine seems to have, for a long time, based it's entire schtick on niche ways in which to enact animal cruelty....and butter.

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

Blocked after that post.

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

This is only tangentially associated, though @gralefrit.bsky.social has some excellent stuff about creatives after a degree of success and changing of circumstance means their subsequent characters/stories can't feel the money running out in the way that earlier ones did.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

Kurt would have had some dodgy views about all this, I suspect.

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

It's just classic, post Brexit zero sum thinking. There is only so much employment/money/education to go round so we must of course save it only for people who can trace their bloodline back to the magna carta.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 3d

You monster. I hope you getting the princess frock at the end of the parade was worth all the anguish you caused.

Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a cup of coffee .

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a cup of coffee .

media.tenor.com

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

Is your partner's school funded by a local authority? Or private trust?

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

I dont think we are going to ever agree here so let's just call time.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

Now you are really realising you have lost the argument and are just trying a last ditch c-bomb. This isn't twitter Dave and insulting me isn't going to make you feel any better.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

Why are you trying to gain authority over this argument via your partner's job? Would they be happy with central government taking over school recruitment? Maybe ask them. Or just continuing swear on the internet like so many people of your kind like to.

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Phil Rothwell @phillyrothers.bsky.social · 4d

So your argument seems to be that schools should not be able to deny access for unvaxxed children, and that should be a job for central government?

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