‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)
Opportunism in the sense of causing a bit of havoc. Also: they want to be blown to dust because they'll go to heaven as martyrs. The bombing couldn't help them more. My take: This war is going to end way worse than Vietnam for the US. And the long-term risk to Israel is way underpriced.
Quel surprise
AGAIN. LARGE OXFORD BIOBANK DATA LEAK
I do not find the CEO’s - Prof Sir Rory Collins - response in the slightest bit reassuring
Pseudonymised data can be rehydrated
“One dataset found by the Guardian contained millions of hospital diagnoses and associated dates for more than 400,000 participants.
Cheerful stuff in the FT. Trump has started something that he cannot control. This is arguably far more significant for the world economy than the oil crises of the 1970s.
Scotland's Government has refused to allow Palantir access to our #NHS or our patient records.
For this, it received pelters from the usual suspects, desperate to follow England's lead.
What if-and I’m spitballing here- the new fiver had a picture of a badger flying a Spitfire?
Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
Dennis Hasemann, Buchhändler in Essen, lehnt, nach Weimers Einschalten des Inhandsgeheimdienstes, den Dt. Buchhandlungspreis ab 🎧
share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
Or alternatively this is creative oil price management just before a final wave of big strikes
Yes!
A kid (7) being hit by a car on the pavement outside a school is, according to most respondents to an FB group,just badly trained in dealing with traffic ('much better when I was at school') & basically the victims of a woke society ('need to learn to deal with risk') rather than a dangerous driver.
Ah, I responded to this post at the time, I thought I had a hazy memory of this. Well, can confirm they did go bust.
bsky.app/profile/holg...
One of the worst effects of the Trump era on American culture is in how it reinforces the solipsism that to an extent always permeated American political discourse.
UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.
Maximum capacity is 12 days.
Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.
UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.
The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
Ein Buch muss ein Meteorit sein für die Schlafzimmerfliesen in einem Wohnhaus des Koblenzer Stadtteils Güls in uns.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
This
Frau Strack-Zimmermann.
The war in Iran has taken one-third of the world’s helium supply off the market. And if the conflict continues for more than 2 weeks, disruption for helium users could take months to resolve.
#chemsky 🧪
How is Britain supposed to fight with stuff it doesn’t have?
I just don’t understand the defence commentators’ clamour for war with Iran.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
„Man hat das Haber-Verfahren eine Blackbox genannt. [...] Wer das Verfahren einleitet, kann indes die schwarze Blende entfernen, wenn er es lieber genauer wissen will. Wolfram Weimer bleibt sich treu: Er ist sich seiner Sache sicher, weil er sie nicht kennt.“
-> Treffer, versenkt!
Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.
thanks to @paulconvery.bsky.social for supplying the early archive and foundation myths ...
www.transport-watch.co.uk/topic-7-arch...
Thrupp (Stroud) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 67.5% (+3.1)
➡️ RFM: 16.5% (New)
🌳 CON: 7.3% (-10.3)
🌹 LAB: 5.8% (-12.3)
🔶 LDM: 2.8% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.3% (New)
Green HOLD.
Changes w/ 2024.
Councils declaring a 'climate emergency' and then giving permission to fell 50 or so trees *during nesting season* on a plot that's had building permission for 5 years, need to give their heads a wobble.
'Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas'
