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Yeah, it definitely used to require more manual setup, especially when wifi was something separate from your internet connection. Can't even remember the last time I typed 192.168.0.1 into a web browser and tried to remember if the password was still "admin", but it used to be a regular thing

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone... Who needs proof when you got vibes?

On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

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Somehow the most ludicrous bit of all: "He has told interviewers in the past that he believes his father did not know who the German dictator was when he named him."

No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis It may be a vote winner. That doesn’t make it right.

Someone asked me to take this out from behind the pay wall and I - unlike the British housing market - am nothing if not accommodating. So: no, empty homes won't solve the housing crisis

Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it."

In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime.

The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

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Cover artwork for Comedy Playhouse. A stage with a red curtain and spotlights behind is filled with various items, including: an elevator door, two paintings (of the House of Commons and a lighthouse), a sign pointing to Chortle-on-sea, a neon "limbo bar" sign, a ginger cat, a microphone stand.

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Hackney Wick – Re:LDN Hemmed in by the busy A12 dual carriageway to the north and west, and by the River Lee navigation to the south and east, Hackney Wick feels like an island: a strange and unique place, cut off from the...

I posted some more Hackney Wick photos from last weekend, the first time I've been back since the Lord Napier re-opened. Its slow but seemingly unstoppable transformation continues reldn.co.uk/hackney-wick/

Dennis Morris: Music + Life ★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ Time Out Discover music, culture and Black British identity through the lens of Dennis Morris.

Went to the Dennis Morris exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery yesterday. Bob Marley and Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Sex Pistols and countless slice-of-life photos of Hackney and Southall and elsewhere in the 60s/70s. Great stuff thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/den...

Is it okay? Squaring up to the foundational question for language models.

The writer Robin Sloan had an interesting and nuanced take on the ethics of this distinction earlier this year, which I still think is the best I've read: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

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Ah yes, I guess I wasn't thinking about this being at international level where there's more competition, rather than club level where he'll surely keep playing for quite a few years

Entirely predictable. Presumably traffic will also be channeled towards less scrupulous providers who ignore the need for age checks, which *definitely* won't have any other terrible consequences

All protein counts!

Still ate ’em, though

Found one in my kettle yesterday. Sadly the discovery only came at the *end* of pouring boiling water over some noodles

Could he overtake Tendulkar? 600–900 runs a year for another 3–4 years of his career, taking him to 37/38 years old? Seems doable but I know essentially nothing about cricket!

As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic

A map of the very north of Cornwall, showing the villages of Morwenstow, Woodford, and the beautifully named "Shop".

The Cornish village of Shop does in fact have a shop, but it has insanely chosen to call itself "Furze Stores" rather than "Shop Shop"

This piece, by Jack Beaumont, on working at a SEND school in particular is brilliant, and searing in its anger at the state of education for kids with special educational needs

Has anyone else started getting calendar invite spam recently? A vector that was previously surprisingly unused and is quite hard to think how to block…

Okay, perhaps not 30%, but still a significant sum given her peak earning years had such low base rates. £100k in the bank in 2008 earning 2% would end up with £140k in 2025; £140k is the equivalent of £85k in 2008 purchasing power, so a 15% loss just in those 17 years.

But either way, the core idea IMO is: it's easy to feel risk-averse about wealth when you don't have much of it; that creates worse long-run outcomes for people; education about risk overcomes that; wealthy parents teach that lesson; we need to find a way teach it/change behaviour more broadly

e.g. 63.5% of the wealth of the 50th–90th-percentile households in the US financial, of which 24% is in equities; I'm guessing the proportion is lower here fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2024/04/comp...

Are those ratios fixed/similar to other countries? e.g. we went through a couple of decades of well-off people thinking the best use of their money was becoming BTL landlords, which must at least somewhat influence the weighting of property in that mix? (Asking, not stating)

Class definitions are slippery, I know – "the top quartile of household wealth" is probably more the thrust of what I meant

I do have sympathy for those reasons, but think what a 5.5m-person Wessex could achieve! Bigger than Yorkshire!

One of these things is not like the others

YouTube video by Geebo Geebo Armando Iannuci - Getting the amount just right.

No such thing as too much MSG. Have you tried having more MSG? You have to get the amount just right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TQ...

The net result of which is either their kids internalise that lesson, and lose all their savings to inflation, or think that actual gambling (day trading, options trading, etc.) is a sensible thing to do because it's what rich people do

In hindsight from this thread, the most annoying things for me is that wealth inequality is partly perpetuated by middle class people teaching their kids how to invest, and working/lower-middle class people teaching their kids (like me) that investment is inevitably frivolous gambling