Calvin Jones

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This excellent essay by @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social speaks to why the current interest in humanoid robots is misplaced, and by the bye sticks a stealthy stiletto into febrile LLM hype.

rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-h...

SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...

As mentioned earlier by @seatsixtyone.bsky.social the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December

What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

Came back via Ystradfellte. Stunning.

No ice cream! The world and #Bannau is not what it was.

@cerij101.bsky.social

Old-fashioned economic thinking driving biodiversity loss says new study Old-fashioned economic thinking is driving biodiversity loss, according to a new international study led by academics at a Welsh university. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academ...

Old-fashioned economic thinking is driving biodiversity loss, according to a new international study led by academics at a Welsh university

Don't know what your Venn diagram looks like but luckily not buying from these won't change my life.

Breathing a big Only Murders sigh of relief today mind.

Fab! Is there a non Amazon source?

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

Aha!

Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’ The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him

Great to see @nickharkaway.com featured in the Grauniad, but slightly infuriating that readers are directed to Karla's Choice not Sleeper Beach at the end.

SciFi still not 'proper' writing then* 🤔

*unless it was his choice of course!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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JFC, we're boiling the planet for this shite.

NO BUT LOOK AT MELANIA'S HAT THO!

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

It's good to have @chakrabortty.bsky.social back, even if it is only to document our increasingly desperate times.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'll have to see if that's tax deductible.

Jones the Numbers HQ might not look much but it has Pete's Organic Shop on the ground floor, home brew beer on the Mezzanine and Beth the folk harpist practicing upstairs.

Sensory overload, I can tell you.

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Food price inflation on the rise...

Interesting report on the BBC - easy to target NIC changes but the real impact on food prices seems to be coming from weather conditions that are only going to get worse due to climate change. Who takes the biggest hit on this as a % of income? The poor. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/4Vnd...

I had some sympathy with Valleys Leave voters back in the day, but anyone who votes Reform in the Senedd in '26 is an irredeemable tosser.

Labour must rethink growth strategy to curb rise of far right, says top economist Former Bank chief economist Andy Haldane says left-behind communities need investment to stem populist tide

Andy is halfway there. But unless you tackle redistribution of current income and wealth, this is all just puff.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I would lay this squarely at the door of horrific inter-generational inequality.

Purely anecdotal, but the number of working class people I hear in cafes and pubs talking about jetting off inter-continental for off season holidays makes me think the climate is properly f*cked.

this is one way to spin cost overruns 😀 #nuclear

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Musk is wearing a T-shirt that asks, "What would Orwell think."

Orwell took a bullet to the neck while fighting Tommy Robinsons and Elon Musks in Spain.

Not if you'd seen me. To track my time I needed a calendar instead of a stopwatch.

Vuelta a España stage 20 preview: 'Harder than the Angliru' - ultra-steep Bola del Mundo summit to provide definitive GC verdict Race returns to mountain top finish west of Madrid for first time in 13 years

Been up both of these and Angliru on a mountian bike was harder than the Bolo del Mundo on a road bike 😬

www.cyclingnews.com/races/vuelta...

Deeply impressive. Patsy Kensit once asked me for a light mind.

three men are sitting in red seats in a theater looking at the camera . Alt: Westlife three men are sitting in red seats in a theater looking at the camera .

Oi! That's my wife's cousin you're libelling!