dubious blur

Yeah :) cancelling the HS1-HS2 link one of the silliest mistakes recently.

Which is less likely: Branson crowbarring old TMSTs out of Eurostar and SNCF, or regauging a path from London to get another meter of headroom. (I was wondering what W12 clearance made for freight had resulted in, but there’s still not enough headroom above…)

Yes, and yes, but the path is there and electrified.

Unless someone’s thinking HS2 and forgetting what’s been done to it 😬

A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

Willesden, Primrose Hill and the NLL/HS1 junction north of St Pancras?

Smedley Butler a guide book, not a redeemed man

Until SoftBank need to offload it quickly

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Is it going to be Nvidia who lends the money and ends up owning Arm afterward

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

'Gary Neville's comments about "angry, middle-aged white men" being responsible for division in the UK have angered middle-aged white men such as Nigel Farage and Jeremy Kyle.'

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Even if you are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

That green bar is giving me hope too

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.

one half of energy transition going well. gotta get on the breaking fossil capital part...

Now, it seems that there’s another risk to consider, and that is your association with the vendor becomes a liability. The basis could be as calculated as a matter of brand safety, or it could be that you genuinely just don’t trust them anymore. What’s it going to take, then, to get out of that relationship?

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fashtech is a software supply chain issue

by @doriantaylor.com

Is that a context you want collapsing (I’m guessing no)

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

If the WSJ has noticed the underpants gnomes problem with AI, a correction can’t be far, even without Drastic Measures.

Meanwhile

The history of the "white gloves" in cartoons. As usual the answer is racism.

There is also a tendency towards fatalism amplified by social media dynamics among Liberal and Left milieus that tends to exaggerate how much of the UK population will automatically back authoritarian agendas.

Succumbing to panic and paralysis is not going to defeat the Far Right.

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle. The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

funniest part about the right having to pretend kimmel got sidelined because he “lied” while having to pretend the entire rightwing media apparatus doesn’t exist