Ian Weinfass

Cost of Chipperfield’s new Edinburgh concert hall more than trebles

Cost of Chipperfield’s new Edinburgh concert hall more than trebles

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Francis Terry’s ‘world-first’ Neoclassical Passivhaus home rejected

Francis Terry’s ‘world-first’ Neoclassical Passivhaus home rejected

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The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

A great piece from James Marriott. FWIW I am working on a laptop, I didn't read this on my phone... open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

‘Crematorium-like’ later-living housing scheme refused ‘Crematorium-like’ later-living housing scheme refused

Plans for older people’s homes in Hertfordshire have been refused after a councillor said they resembled the local crematorium.

The impact of crumbling concrete on UK policing

The scale and cost of the RAAC crisis at UK police forces revealed

The building dispute that could cost Kent Police £39m

The PFI building dispute that could cost Kent Police £39m

Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light Having escaped a life of drudgery in Birmingham, Ozzy became the rare rock frontman you could relate to – and then, against the odds, a national treasure

Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light

Debarment investigations into Grenfell suppliers paused to safeguard integrity of criminal proceedings Debarment investigations into seven organisations criticised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry have been paused to prevent any impact on criminal investigations

This reads like the Met and CPS this week taught the Cabinet Office what contempt of court is www.gov.uk/government/n...

The loud drumbeat that companies should "embrace AI now or be left behind" has more in common with high-pressure sales techniques than biz strategy. And that's fine - tech firms have something to sell. But the rest of us needn’t confuse it with anything more profound. www.ft.com/content/4688...

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Higgins Homes in court over 2018 Bethnal Green death | Construction News Higgins Homes and four construction workers have appeared in court over the death of a woman in east London seven years ago. Michaela Boor was struck by a

Higgins Homes and four workers appear in court over death of mother walking past Bow construction site in 2018

In other news, Saudi Arabia, which has done as much as anyone to ensure the financial success of Club World Cup for FIFA, has executed a journalist, who was tried in secret, and sentenced to death over what activists say were tweets critical of the regime.

Building company and four men charged with causing death of woman The four men are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 16 June.

Higgins Homes and four men charged in connection with the death of Kayla Boor, 28, in Bethnal Green in March 2018.

She was struck by a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks as she walked on a public road, having just dropped her young son off at nursery.

The dangers of silica dust | Construction News The mortal danger to construction workers from silica dust is getting worse Stonemason Stuart Johnson would come home from work “absolutely covered in

Silicosis kills 500 construction workers in the UK every year. They're not often discussed, but the risks of contracting the disease are increasing

They're Swiss not Swedish!

Great stuff, looking forward to reading it. Really fascinating pieces in the Sunday Times - and incredible that you followed up that part of Peter's training sessions!

Great news, congratulations!

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

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How to Spot AI-Generated Scam Products It's harder than before to tell what’s real and what’s fake, but if you look closely there are often tell-tale signs.

It’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? @koltai.bsky.social helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

Gotta love the possibility that the Government won't know how much it needs to cut because cuts to the ONS have robbed it of the ability to effectively measure the economy

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew

McLaren wins £8m dispute with ex-Southend FC chairman | Construction News McLaren Construction has won a case over a £7.9m debt owed to it by a former chairman of Southend United Football Club and his development company. The

Construction firm McLaren has won an £8m legal dispute with Ron Martin, ex-chairman of Southend United

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

"We're eating more cheese cubes - and loving it!"

Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014

Didcot collapse investigation in ‘latter stages’ – after nine years | Construction News Detectives investigating the Didcot Power Station collapse in which four men died have said the probe is entering its “latter stages”, as the ninth

After nine years, the investigation into the deaths of four men in the Didcot Power Station collapse is now said to be entering its 'latter stages'.

Daughters of two of the victims told me about their hopes that they will finally get answers about why their fathers were killed.