Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @mariafarrell.bsky.social
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I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

😭 help . I planted a beefsteak tomato thinking it was going to grow bits of cattle flesh but it was just tomato. I'm so confused, the EU parliament needs to help me. I've been tricked and mislead

EU 'veggie burger' rule change will impact the following foods:

• Buffalo Wings
• Toad In The Hole
• Fish Fingers
• Deviled Eggs
• Caeser Salad (unless it contains at least 33% ancient Roman dictator)

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

I knew this was going to happen, once her sister took on the brother as an apprentice.

5/ Fun fact: Edgeworth, AH Bowley, & Edwin Cannan were keen cyclists, but Edgeworth annoyingly liked to chat math shop A Lot on their rides. Cannan is reported to have said "Bowley, let us go a little faster, Edgeworth cannot talk mathematics at more than eight miles an hour."

#OTD 8 Feb 1845 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth b (d 13 Feb 1926) Guy Gold Medal 1907, President Royal Statistical Society 1912-14. For many years one of VERY few RSS members interested in mathematical statistics. @royalstatsoc.bsky.social /6

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

They literally fact-checked the lyrics to a CMAT song.

Narcissism.

Well, it's not like there's a viable rail connection.

(FFS, all the same)

Personal security question as sadly running Ugly Mugs means I'm constantly being threatened by violent men. Does anyone know of a good parcel box? I need a way to receive packages too big to fit through a letterbox, without my having to open the door.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Oh fuck, they're merging

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

Very likely, but not crash out ignominiously.

OTOH, it's a true measure of the importance of the presidency (purely ceremonial, for all that MDH and the two Marys brought it dignity and culture).

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
🎂Oct 5, 1864 Louis Lumière born in Besancon, France 🇫🇷
Let there be #MOVIES :

1895: First movie, with the cinématographe, using the principle of intermittent movement of film

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IMHO, that Trump never replied to the absolutely humiliating South Park episode from this season is the strongest evidence that his inner circle has successfully created a (false) information bubble around him. Trump has never exhibited sufficient self control to simply ignore something like that.

I've been making coffee like this for nearly 40 years.