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A graph showing the various risk of death for a pedestrian hit by a car. At 20 mph the risk is 10%, at 30 mph, it's 40%, and at 40 mph, it's 80%

Drivers always minimize speeding by saying things like, "Oh, I was only going 10 mph over the speed limit." But those 10 miles per hour can literally be the difference betwen life and death for a pedestrian or bicyclist.

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Having just read Behemoth I am here to say - this, if true, is fine. Capital homogenising into massive agglomerations as a strongman nationalistic populist comes into power is cool. Nothing to worry about.

It’s John Huston’s birthday.
I’ve never been able to get Noah Cross’ answer to Gittes’ question about why he’s ‘doing it’ out of my head.
Like Hyman Roth, this is an insanely evil old man who wants to defy death & continue to control everything.
Helped me understand Rupert Murdoch & Trump, too.

Wow AI can now simulate a 2005 3D engine for a few minutes only by stealing petabytes of data and using the power consumption of a small country.

The climate crisis demands urgent, multifaceted response beyond market forces

The threat to humanity - oh, and the planet's biota (of which the economy is just a subset)

A "moonshot" of change is the scale of action required

While meritorious, the PC report lacks urgency

So given this can’t have any real use what we’re really looking at is an MP doing a vapourware sales pitch for Silicon Valley

The real problem with AI is that what you want is not a summary of x info or whatever but a summary of x that someone is responsible for

A Clockwork Orange estate fights ‘art washing’ redevelopment plans Community in Thamesmead say working-class people are being priced out and their voices going unheard

#Society #Housing #BowArts #Gentrification #ArtWashing #Displacement Where have I heard this story before? #Balfron www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Good thread this

The worst thing about football podcasts is being repeatedly encouraged to develop a gambling problem or join the army

'One-in, one-out' small boats pilot plan comes into force The

This is a genuinely sick idea.

Allowing one "legal" refugee into the UK for every "illegal" one that's sent back to France.

Literally making one person's safe arrival dependent on another person risking death in the Channel.

Sick.

The Joy of Street Furniture, Cambridge

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer."

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basically "Terence Tao has solved a century old mathematics problem which will allow MRI scanners to work better!" versus "Larry Summers has made a speech arguing that women might be biologically unsuited to engineering, to a branch of Women In Engineering"

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

Broadly, there are two kinds of geniuses in the world. There's the kind you hear about when they've done something really clever. And the kind that you only hear about when they've done something unbelievably stupid and everyone is saying but they're a genius
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Mortgages are rent you pay to the bank. This is still rentierism.

Following her career and the outcomes for her peers, the first fully Twitter native cohort of political journalists (at least that I was aware of), has certainly been illuminating

S1 Episode 3 - Podcast Episode · Blowback · 29/06/2020 · 1h 1m

I live through it to some extent but still, an absolutely wild story podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

fucking hell

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

Incredible to try to promote a moral panic about the *West End*. I’ve lived in London for twenty years and the only person who has ever mugged me in the West End is the woman running the Diptyque counter at Liberty’s.

Antisemitisms old and new feat. Deborah Leter from Tsedek! Podcast Episode · Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) · 08/07/2025 · 48m

Much that will be familiar to the UK left 2015-19 here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsk... • 54m large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry. Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social • 1h it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire ... Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsk... • 6m Govt minister Angela Eagle is asked what her message is to people on the streets shouting "get this scum off our streets" & holding banners saying 'protecting women & children is not far right, its just right' In her reply Eagle says "we hear your worries"

Everybody knows what’s happening, everyone can see what’s happening, and everybody can see who the people are who are trying to make it happen.

I stand by my belief that this is fundamentally a finance problem, and the issue is that you have to piss off a big demographic of voters to solve it.

*shocked pikachu face*

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Been thinking about this a lot recently because the development I live in which is four years old now, is starting to show signs of deterioration at a rate I would expect in 20 years, not under 5.

basically this

Narratives about how hard it is for teenage boys, and subsequently men, to deal with romantic rejection are so weird to read, as a woman who was also once a teenager. Until you realise that they’re entirely built on the premise that girls and women are the gatekeepers to sex and relationships.

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.