Eccles Crisp

Artist’s painting of red circle with red diagonal line signifying Forbidden with words around circle — No Electronic Glasses. The red diagonal is across a black drawing of a surveillance style eyeball with a glasses-like drawing. This is from a larger wall piece of various logos prohibiting this and that.

Annette Messager
From a large wall piece of 68 Forbidden signs.
« Les Interdictions en 2014 »

Repugnant

Jimmying
#Shrinking

Wrote about the quiet death of Britain’s buses, and why data sometimes leads to bad decisions. open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

New game when spotting bad #stats methods in the wild:

Is it:
1. Someone playing dirty (p-hacking, data fabricating..)
2. Someone with no idea what they're doing
3. Someone with a complete disregard for the truth

All of these now enhanced with LLMs!

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson working at her desk. She is wearing glasses and white or light dress with short sleeves and a collar. Johnson is leaning over her desk, writing. An analog adding machine sits on the desk in front of her, along with several papers and a translucent globe with multiple axes used for orbital calculations. She is holding a pen or pencil in her right hand, and wearing a bracelet or watch on her left wrist.

After Katherine Johnson double-checked the Friendship-7 flight plans, John Glenn said "If she says they’re good, then I’m ready to go."

Here she is, working at her desk later that same year. 🧪 👩🏾‍🔬 🚀

Image Credit: NASA, NASA Langley Research Center

Two buildings, on left clad in red, orange brown lattice work, on right a gold cylinder with vertical cut out of glass in shape on the end of a fountain pen cap. Small figure of person in green hi viz vest dwarfed by buildings Bright blue sky.

Clad tidings
#streetphotography

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My recording comes with all-season tires for year ‘round listening

Book cover, in black, red and white. The Old Enemy by Henry Porter

Great read, The Old Enemy, by Henry Porter. V timely. Ready for another. @henrycporter.bsky.social He’s written some bangers

Otto Pippel. Beethoven Concert OP. 18 Nr. 5. 1940

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

Book extract showing excerpt from a letter: “I am still just as frightened of bombs, & guns going off, as I was at the beginning. I turn bright red and my heart hammers, in fact I’m a beastly coward but I do believe that a lot of people are, so I don’t mind! Well darling I must stop, and I do feel sure that all your present work is useful, and if you can put in a little refresher in nursing – well all the better. Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis always your loving Peter

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

Typical February there. Plum blossoms by Feb 14. Maybe a few days of v heavy rains. March often cool and gray

The alt-text suggests a different photo perhaps ?

“Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them."

—When asked how such a ‘nice lady’ could edit Martin Scorsese’s movies.

HBD, 👑 Thelma Schoonmaker...

This is lovely. No matter who painted it.

aerial shot of San Francisco's Union Square, a big crowd full of little people - title card for The Conversation that reads "Supervising Editor Sound Montage & Re-Recording WALTER MURCH"

the eight words every girl longs to hear

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Achilles Papapetrou, a giant of the field, was *furious* when he saw his colleagues ignoring Kerr's announcement.

He stood and demanded the crowd's attention, noting he had tried and failed to solve the problem for 30 years. Did they not understand they were hearing about a major discovery? (7/n)

Black and white photo of Roy Kerr. The photo is from the shoulders up. He appears to be wearing a knit, collared shirt. He has thick dark hair, a bit wavy and unkempt, and a cleft chin.

But the most important development at the conference came when a young physicist named Roy Kerr presented his solution of the field equations of general relativity describing a rotating black hole. (5/n)

Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid washing machine

#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine.
The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning

Newsroom ASB Notice NASS discontinues select data collection programs and reports Issued August 28, 2025, by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Lance Honig at Lance.Honig@usda.gov or (202) 690-8141. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is discontinuing the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government’s efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens. The Notice of Discontinuance of Information Collections submitted to the Federal Register can be found here. ### NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing official data about U.S. agriculture and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.

FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

A cycle lane in the dark morning, completely snow-free while the rest of the ground is covered.

3 or 4cm of snow overnight, pic taken at 5:44am. Gotta love the Stockholm cycle paths.

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

Tunnels, Vercors series, 2019. Christophe Jacrot.

CDC.Gov Archive Index With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...

A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:

acasignups.net/cdc-website

The GOP is on the cusp of destroying Obamacare This time Republicans are taking a death-by-increments approach to the ACA — and it just might work

The GOP is on the cusp of destroying Obamacare
This time Republicans are taking a death-by-increments approach to the ACA — and it just might work. Every one who voted for trump will be sorry, broke and without healthcare.
www.salon.com/2025/11/18/t...

Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

Tired: OMG
Wired: GGMM (Good Golly, Miss Molly)