Jim Harris

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Name a more spurious measurement than the density of a church's central passage.

Aisle weight.

statistic of the day

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

What's that in my eye?
As a teacher, I see how this works in our own school. The best aspect of my job.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Let me find the world’s tiniest violin…

Time to end this elite Victorian indulgence and chart a more vibrant, nature-rich future for Britain’s uplands

Relevant. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Where’s me jumper
Where's me jumper
Where's me jumper
Where's me jumper

Yes, it's very hot.

istheukhotrightnow.com

Nuclear fusion is already beating nuclear fission, despite the closest plant being 93 million miles away.

"You look like you would enjoy Dubai" is the most savage insult I've ever heard

This is like the "what if an ordinary guy ran the 100 metres next to the Olympians", but F1 cars. Amazing difference.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

#showyourstripes . Grim, but as always love a good impactful data-viz showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

#showyourstripes . Grim, but as always love a good impactful data-viz showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...

As always on this date, remembering the sign outside a San Francisco restaurant on the 50th anniversary of D Day offering "Free Dinner for All Veterans of the Norman Invasion."

I will say it if no-one will: it's amazing to me that if you're a woman and would like to buy summer swimwear, your only two options are seemingly "god no I don't swim, if I breathe my entire tit will fall out" or "ach ja, ich had a wonderful time swimming for East Germany at the 1988 Olympics "

Virgin Media O2 network flaw allowed customer phones to be tracked Company has reported issue to watchdogs and fixed the problem

As an O2 customer, why am I learning this from the FT rather than my network provider? www.ft.com/content/2fc4...

Fantastic running. And documentary evidence nonpareil.

"I'll take all of that you've got." Glorious.

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Very jealous! What a weather day. Great pics. (So grumpy about my DNS)

Strata fitness graph collapsing

Mileage graph collapsing.

And it was all going so well. #grumpy #ITBand?

Nice use-case. 👏👏

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

List of my parkrun times illustrating that I missed my ten-year old PB (19:34) by one second.

Paul Daniels presenting the 1980s UK TV games show "Every second counts"

A graphic of every parkrun I've ever done, showing elapsed time

Agonisingly, I only found *14* seconds. We go again. We do not let this slip now.

I simply could not love this any more. Perfecto.