Mary Branscombe

Glasgow Central: Building collapses next to station as fire causes major disruption Dozens of services have since been cancelled and the station will be closed until further notice.

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Building collapses next to Glasgow Central Station as fire causes major disruption

a neat little thing about Rivers of London is that the color of white people's skin gets noted.

Evidence that something is transformative isn't *always* "there were problems, now there are none." Something could still be transformative if it shifts a whole bunch of people from dealing with a certain class of problems and into another class

Hopefully none of them picked Alberta

It is equally awful to abuse people in the ways outlined in this article if you are a great chef or a terrible chef or an average chef. Nobody should feel obligated to admit that they learned a lot while being hit and punished and abused. It doesn’t matter. You could learn just as much without that.

If this keeps up, threat of boycott of World Cup in US will become pretty serious: hard to get people to come to country that is destabilizing world with wars of stupidity AND is notoriously tossing visitors into concentration camps. Regardless, our tourist industry is smoked.

NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship

I once interviewed an expert on oil consumption that focused on consumers. He said low gas prices are a religion for Americans and they will do absolutely nonsensical things to access them, like drive miles and miles out of their way.

If you wanna lose votes as fast as possible, raise gas prices.

Have you ever seen someone change their mind in real y(this should happen more often! Absolute kudos to anyone who goes and looks for themselves and changes their mind)

(The answer is we more or less attest the attestation environment and it's still just turtles all the way down)

I like attestation but everyone stops making eye contact with me when I ask how we know the attestation itself is trustworthy

WebP Image Extension - Microsoft Apps The WebP Image Extension will enable you to view WebP images in the Windows File Explorer, Photos and other Windows apps. WebP is a modern image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for...

For some reason Microsoft made WebP support its own fucking thing you have to go out of your way to download.

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Not and make phones and laptops thin (yes I have seen the popout expanding Ethernet ports no they are not reliable)

And I’m going circle back to the advantages of being able to waterproof phones (also without any compliments to Bluetooth)

With all due respect to Tom (seriously, not being sarcastic), I think he's wrong. Anyone who thinks this has not paid attention to how the successfully completely reversed the trajectory of trans equality in the UK in only 10 years.

They will probably manage the same with abortion.

the labs aren’t talking about whether LLMs are conscious — it was a few lines in two interviews a month ago — but based on news orgs’ behavior, it seems like people are clicking the headlines like crazy. so I kinda feel like the frenzied clicking and viral dunking is the primary phenomenon here

Russia won the Cold War

Tonight in Saint Paul MN the sun will set at 7:09 pm.

Civil twilight will finish at 7:38 pm.

Nautical twilight will finish at 8:12 pm.

Astronomical twilight will finish at 8:47 pm.

So going to bed after dark will be easy!

Tomorrow morning’s astronomical twilight starts at 5:05 am.

A victory for Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “To be honest, I don’t even understand now how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. In fact, it no longer exists.”

Fabulous UK Chontiner-ing

This is great and entertaining from @henrymance.ft.com ! Amazing insight into how the aristocracy think, skirts with satire, but ultimately lets the subject hang himself with his own words, whilst managing to acknowledge his charm and a human connection.

If all wedding DJ playlists now have a mandatory Bad Bunny segment, God Bless America.

And I don't mean this in an aggro way. I mean this a person who watched their favourite community members fade into irrelevance rather than adapt to a changing industry.

I we will build better things together. Please come along. I can't wait to see what you discover and build

If you are a developer and you are averse to using AI tools, you are where CSS die-hards were when they rejected JS frameworks. It will get lonely out there, and harder to find work

Breakfast clubs that feed kids, these days but if not, you and the kids leave the house at the same time and the kids take the bus to school. (Or the tube round here)

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

Good news: @astrosky.eco is now fully hosted in the EU, by an EU company! 🔭

I wanted to migrate to a more cost-efficient server layout anyway, so I figured why not also move out of the US while we're at it 🎉

There are vast roosts of them on Merton common- driving back from Croydon Putney at least a decade ago and crossing the common at dusk and thinking at first that the starlings had got very big!

Hey, that’s basically The Shape of Water isn’t it

It’s like you want laptops to be more expensive and less confusing