Paul Marrow 🇪🇺

Of course I have to like it 😀

And abou time too

The Weak Strongman: How Trump’s Presidency Emboldens America’s Enemies Trump performs strength at home—but abroad, adversaries see only institutional collapse and strategic weakness.

The Weak Strongman: How Trump’s Presidency Emboldens America’s Enemies www.socialeurope.eu/the-weak-str...

Woah. This is next level authoritarianism: put your political opponents in prison. #Americans: rise up some more. You have done brilliantly with #NoKings but this is bad. Really really bad.

Yes indeed. I think it was Peter Lewis that put me there but I added my DPhil supervisors. I notice that Peter (who is at Ontario Technical University) has not added any of his students.

I still think your initial statement about this article is true. AGI as currently understood has such huge requirements we are nowhere near them

Why this route?

The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.

@pmc.bsky.social since I haven't identified the original thread now you have to tell me where and when. 😅 30 years ago is too long. (The amount of snow falling in the last few days has also been too much.)

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

🎤 do you hear the party sing?
Singing the song of angry men
It is the music of a party
Who will not be elected again

Looking forward to Kemi Badenoch's further forays into popular culture, in which she prosecutes Oliver Twist for begging, Kevin McCallister for assault, and Santa for failure to take an obviously sick reindeer to the vet

The geographically larger sparsely populated Austrian Lander showed a tendency towards the FPÖ in the September general election (see any similarity with the US there?)

Suburban northwest England in autumn (not Fall, we don't have that) early on dry sunny day in December

#StormDarragh was here on the west coast of Britain yesterday, seems to have calmed down today

I think we have been experiencing this in 🇬🇧 at least since 2010.

The #LRB certainly has fascinatingly diverse analysis

How would this do for the Lib-Dems in the UK?

Oh, and because STV is used in fact no candidates were directly elected in my region.

38 regions across the country. Approximately the same electorate size for each potential directly elected candidate. So my region is a few districts in central Vienna that could elect 3 candidates. Single transferrable vote with d'Hont weighting to state and federal level. 183 members overall.

Which one?

That really is appalling!

I notice that muting the 20 book challenge using #BookChallenge is not working since almost nobody is posting using that tag. Hence I may have to detach the feed.

It has been good. Watch out or I will mute you 👎🏻

Thanks for assembling this outstanding list

This is not the ideal reminder when a storm is happening on the west coast of Great Britain that will probably continue until after nightfall. But thanks for developing the model.

a graph showing sunset times for different locations in NE US/southern Canada. The curves look approximately quadratic, with Dover NH and Hamilton ON slightly later than Newton/Somerville MA. Earliest sunset is Dec 06. From Dec 2 to Dec 10 the difference in sunset time is only about 0.5 minutes

Someone on Mastodon reminded me that it's "analemma day" (~ earliest sunset of the year in the Northern Hemisphere)

Messy code: github.com/bbolker/bbmi...

I hope you will be pleased to know that I wrote in a preference vote for eine Ärztin in my Austrian region (constituency/electoral district). I like to elect people with an intellectually demanding background.

The Bundspräsident has asked the current VPÖ chancellor to work with the SPÖ to from a coalition. They will probably need a third party, I expect the NEOS

No, they have been ostracised by all the other parties after their leader used phrases last used by the unmentionable Austrian (AH). Their success has been much overreported: they have the largest number of seats in the National Assembly of any party, but not by much.