Rodger Kibble

The Graun has started doing this too.

The way I 'take control' is by accepting cookies in order to read the article and then deleting them as soon as I've finished

Public Order Act 1936?

No? Tony Blair wanted to introduce compulsory ID cards and deport asylum seekers in defiance of the ECHR

Reminds me of George Grosz

Thanks - I immediately thought of that image but hadn't known the photographer's name

State of the Union

At least people won't be expecting a sequel to Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dynamite

I'm reminded that I made some modest contributions to the annotations, particularly for the 1969 volume

"In fact, in the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face ... It’s not about the colour of your skin or your faith, of course it isn’t."

Of course not 🙄

I feel there should be some quote marks in that headline

A book in translation with a blue cover - has to be Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Baby McBabeFace

I assume she was named after Aphra Behn, the C17 playwright, poet, novelist and spy celebrated by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own

Had mine yesterday, hoping to recover over the weekend

I have fond memories of Gaby's Deli, an institution of London's theatreland until Gaby retired in 2018

Congratulations to Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, who is now Archbishop-designate of Canterbury

Fair do's, Biden famously stole a line from a previous Labour leader, terminating his 1988 presidential bid in the process

Black T-shirt with 'No to ID' logo

Good thing I still have my No2ID T shirt from the last time round

You'd think they might have learned from Theresa May's 'hostile environment', which was intended to target irregular migrants but had disastrous consequences for people who were here quite legally, and inconvenienced many of the settled population.

Asking what would be an improved ‘Turing Test’ for AGI is like asking for a better test for phlogiston. Asking when we will get AGI is like asking ‘when will we synthesize phlogiston?’ It’s a badly formed question. The object of the test is an ill-defined concept with no referent in nature. 2/2

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I always thought the broadcasters missed a trick there - they should have dubbed the voices of all politicians, not just SF, using the cast of Spitting Image

Sadly, my first thought was that Object Z must be an object-oriented extension of the formal specification language Z.

Which, even more sadly, it is staff.itee.uq.edu.au/smith/object...

Does this mean she is proposing to restore the Earnings-Related Supplement to various benefits that was introduced by Labour in 1966 and scrapped under Thatcher in 1982?

I was prompted to read it after seeing the film that's 'loosely adapted' from it

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

Dale Olson Dale Olson was born in Fargo, North Dakota on February 20, 1934. As a teenager, he lived in Portland, Oregon and he worked as a newspaper reporter. In that role, he managed to get an interview with…

It is an inspiring story but this isn't the first time the connection has been made: you can read about it on his Wikipedia entry which cites this piece from 2018

worldqueerstory.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/d...

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Easy job for Hegseth given that "all necessary troops" = zero troops

Perhaps for the same reasons they say "unproven" or "contentious" rather than "mendacious"?