Claire

South Park on the nose with this

The idea that 'Scotch Irish military culture' (whatever that is) is 'Anglo derived' is quite fun. Also that Italians are a subset of this. Absolute racist gibberish.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France).

More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

We have something like 10,000 miles of coastline I think.

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Yes agree. Councils are being asked to do far too much

Understood, although not quite what I was thinking of. I think there needs to be a channel separate to the UK gov where people can choose the best party for their area and have influence over the benefits and consequences of that decision.

Feels like I have missed this tbh. To whom are they devolving power?

I defer to your expertise but I do wonder about the value of having major political battles fought at UK level when it could be otherwise

Yes, sorry if I'm overstepping. I think towns could represent themselves better to a different level of government

Not struggling towns precisely, but I think there's a value in having a level of government between Foreign Policy and potholes

So, I get that we can't just do 'devolution to the English regions' but why can't we just do devolution to the English regions?

Exactly this. The implication is that he's 'one of us' who needs to be mindful of how he presents himself to the public, when that's clearly not the case.

Agree and would be good if we could expand the definition to politicians

I kind of mean after the fact though, as in 'why didn't they see this coming'?

I agree, but I do also think that journalists might overestimate the importance of the Today programme to most people, by which I mean it puts employees on a footing closer to everyone else, whether we like it or not.

Am I wrong in thinking they've just followed the Tory playbook on this, without the requisite connections?

Absolutely agree with your main point but it is happening everywhere. The minimum and median wage aren't very far apart now.

Thatcher would have been absolutely useless in a culture war, and so is Starmer.

Seconded, fwiw

I'm in Scotland and am interested in this without being particularly partisan, but I think what this misses is the English turn to the right post 2010, which doesn't feel international or outward looking at all. Makes it quite difficult for me to interpret Britishness that way

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

That only tells us that people are emotionally connected to the type of music Beethoven wrote. There's no historical context or personal connection. You can't trace the lineage of AI art because it breaks at the point someone used the prompt

Agree, but the problem is that the best art (broadly speaking) is about communication between humans. Yes you can produce something that sounds like exactly like an original Beethoven piece, and most people won't be able to tell the difference. BUT

Was in a training session recently on EDI with some quite senior people. They were given an avatar in a race and had to respond to a series of questions based on their personal experience of support or discrimination, which moved them back or forward. Everyone found it very instructive.

Macbeth: SHIT

Jersey Evening Post ad board: FUGITIVE SAUSAGE DOG CAUSES MAYHEM.

I say we shut down Jersey until we can work out what’s going on.

Late to this but it's exactly right. Imagine you're an 18 year old woman who wants to have five children before she's 35. Now think of the risks, barriers and sacrifices to doing that. There's almost nothing you can rely upon for a good life.

They are extraordinary but you definitely can't train them like hawks