Jon Fell

Another outstanding bit of work, congrats!

partly because of some mysterious y axis scale which implies decline?

Do the unfavorability stats for all more or less match how often they’re featured on tv or in news headlines?

Deliver growth without building anything

Peels adornment off disgraced scumbag (5,9)

Soon it will be Burnham beaches

"On espère qu'il reviendra à la vente" : mis aux enchères à Bastia, un portrait de Pascal Paoli ne trouve pas preneur Ce samedi 13 décembre, une grande vente aux enchères a été organisée à Bastia. Des livres, des tableaux, et parmi eux une pièce rare : un portrait de Pascal Paoli qu'il avait commandé avant sa mort à ...

It didn’t sell, such a shame that the CdC or some other kind benefactor couldn’t buy it france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/corse/haute-...

Gemini 3 Solves Handwriting Recognition and it’s a Bitter Lesson Testing shows that Gemini 3 has effectively solved handwriting on English texts, one of the oldest problems in AI, achieving expert human levels of performance.

An incredibly useful post for anyone wrestling with trying to decipher difficult handwriting:
generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...

16-team finals!

sadness in his eyes

Jinxed that one didn’t I, twat

Absolute fiction that thing

I think you’ve got to take a lot of credit there for judicious deployment of the old ‘they’re gonna score 10’ manoeuvre. Hope we can capitalise 🤞

Listen to the raincoat, Watch the sun rise

A most extraordinary example of fly-tipping today, just outside Leighton Buzzard: a mobile home full of crap, just dumped in the middle of a road

‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auction Thirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as “portrait of a man”. The anonymous buyer, however, knew precisely who the unnamed man in the picture was: Pascal Paoli, the 18th-century Corsican independence leader and icon of the Enlightenment. Continue reading...

‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale

YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)

RIP Steve Cropper 🎸

Incidentally, quite a few of the markets featured in that WHO report, including some with reportedly high adolescent / adult consumption ratios, have e-cigarette bans in place according to the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control

Not to mention the fact that arguably the relevant comparison would anyway with be with younger adult age groups given that it's common for e-cigarette prevalence to be lower in older age groups.

I don't have the time to dig into this in more detail right now, but you only have to look at the mis-matched years, and some of the countries cited with the biggest ratios, to wonder about data quality.

I think the claim comes from this recent WHO report: www.who.int/publications...

Many happy memories of the Grand Méchant Loup!

Absurd; cf also the wearing of black arm bands which now seem to be worn more often than they’re absent

Congrats and thank you, London Centric’s brilliant

Nice to see Bob Scribner too

Le sketch pénible en cours ici est une amusante parabole.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.

Hope you’re going to check out one of those dental floss farms

Stefan Collini · Agent of Influence: Christopher Hill’s Interests Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual...

Interesting discussion, via a new biography, of the historian Christopher Hill, in the latest @lrb.co.uk:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#History 🗃️

New blog post for Cambridge MAA / Nouvel article de blog pour le MAA de Cambridge Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Digital Lab has recently posted a new article on the statuette of Campu Fiureddu, Layers of Meaning: A Corsican figurine at MAA, available via this l...

Link to new blog article for the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, avec une traduction française