Jon

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

Very wise.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

That would be a blessing. At least it's quick.

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

I love it. It does not love me. To an explosive level.

Is 1. a choice or digestive necessity?

1. Aubergine
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

Yeah, was not ready for that landing out of nowhere.

*gasp*

Hope you get the job, Steve!

Back when Twitter was good.

I have never understood this argument: LLMs are here to stay. So we need to learn how to use them.
The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.

I’m not saying we’re cooked as a culture, but the left are wrongly convinced that Keir Starmer is going to sell all our digital ID data to Palantir and the right are convinced it’s a ploy to enrich Euan Blair.

Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe instructing Joey to say "Fix the economy and public services" with him at the end instead saying "Digital national ID cards!"

I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a computer, begging you all to learn just the slightest amount of nuance before you apply the marketing term AI to all forms of machine generation and analysis without understanding their fundamental differences

I ran out of characters on the last post.
And now the world has lost another character.
Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned.
Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything.
RIP old mate.

There's a good T. Ocellus joke here somewhere, but I'm not good enough at image editing.

I find this really difficult. Have been rewatching Rebels with my 8yo and he loves it beyond most other telly that doesn't have Dragons in. I couldn't be happier about the SW direction at the moment. Does it matter that the film belongs with the show?

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’

Little disingenuous of Cov CC here. Regardless of the company itself, "robust due diligence in line with our procurement process" is not on any level an ethics review. #localgov #ai

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

a woman says it 's a fact while standing in front of an american flag ALT: a woman says it 's a fact while standing in front of an american flag

***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES***

This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law.

Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.

Local planning law should be boring.

Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.

Great, we've automated podcasters.

"PhD level" can mean a lot of things in a lot of contexts. Most of them less impressive than they sound.

Nice challenge and very well written, will share a lot...

But also have skeptical thoughts which need mulling over.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.