Tim Jones

The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

YouTube video by Capitalisn't Why The Economics of AI “Can’t Be Made To Pencil Out” - ft. Cory Doctorow | Capitalisn’t Clips

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#AIFAIL

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Immigration myth busting www.cleveland.pcc.police.uk/wp-content/u...

English Civil War musket ball damage to the porch of Holy Trinity, Stratford (Shakespeare’s church). Looks like someone might have got put up against the wall here.

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

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Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th UK volunteer UK Biobank scientists say the human body can be studied in greater detail than ever thanks to people like Steve.

I’m in there somewhere.

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Pasadena Roof Orchestra tonight at Malvern (UK). Never thought of myself as a 20s-30s jazz fan, but this was bloody brilliant. Not from Pasadena at all, but remember them being popular when I was a kid in the 70s

Some random old fella with a greyhound I met at the garden centre today complemented me on the condition of my R53 Mini of 21 yrs. Simple things make me happy. (Lucy in the pic, no longer around)

Working to keep our borders safe.

Agree. Think he started new sentence.

Gene found to link obesity risk in labradors and humans Scientists have found a genetic cause of many labradors' - and some people's - tendency to overeat.

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YouTube video by Channel 4 News Russia Ukraine: will Trump’s peace plan just lead to more war? | Timothy Snyder

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“Sharing Pack”, “Sharing Bars”, “Sharing Bag”. Latest marketing BS to get round health/ethical issues on selling crap food. For choc bars, it’s also an MBA’s dream; as you can put extra gaps of air between each family member’s supposed ration, thereby increasing package volume to contents ratio.

YouTube video by Ward Carroll Deep Intel on the U.S. Plan to End the War in Ukraine

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Making sense of what is happening in the United States 18th February 2025 How can we make sense, from a constitutionalist perspective, of what is currently going on in the United States? Perhaps it cannot make sense, perhaps it is senseless – and…

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Royal Society urged to expel Elon Musk as fellows sign open letter More than 1,700 academics complain about X owner’s behaviour, citing his ‘assault on scientific research’

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Happy Darwin Day #darwinday

Legal showdown looms as Trump tests limits of presidential power Trump's latest moves could be part of a strategy to expand his presidential powers even further.

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Everyone keeps their Scrabble letters in a Crown Royal bag. Ours is still good after 45 years.

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article) The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

"In interviews, scientists — who are forbidden by the terms of the stop-work order to speak with the news media — described agonizing choices: violate the stop-work orders and continue to care for trial volunteers, or leave them alone to face potential side effects and harm"Gift link nyti.ms/3EtjEBq

'The chart shows a clear downward trend in the share of people who see religion as important in their lives. This is based on surveys across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, from 1993 to 2022.'

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So DeepSeek denies the truth of Tiananmen Square. Presumably any US derived / controlled AI could be obliged to deny the truth of January 6th ?

Tech-savvy now means logging onto PCPartpicker and plugging some components together. School children in the 70s were building the likes of the MK14 (Science of Cambridge), ZX-80 etc., and coding in machine language. Probably have sorted AI if we’d put our minds to it ;-)

We need to talk more about what Ian writes about here. And do more. I’ve deleted my Twitter and FB and Insta accounts. I want to reduce my use of Amazon. I want to use my phone a lot less. And yes, I understand these things are more difficult for some for all sorts of reasons. Not judging.

America has traditionally been a haven for immigrants from around the world.

Ben Shahn's masterful Jersey Homesteads Mural depicts Albert Einstein with other immigrants (late 1930s)

#histSTM #Einstein

Correlation does not imply causation.

I sympathise, and miss the good old days of 2009 Twitter. I’m also too busy doing stuff in the real world (while I can!)

YouTube video by Sky News Protesters paint Darwin's grave

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