Badger @Spinybadger@qoto.org

You know that feeling when something's well known as a really great example of its type and it's been around for years, but you've only just got around to it and you want to tell everyone how impressive it is, except there's no way to avoid sounding like "There's this really cool band, and they're called The Beatles"?

Really feeling that right now. #gaming #Witcher3

"Spirit of 92" placards in the crowd. The most likely manifestation of that isn't the way the final went, but the group stage tie when Pakistan were bowled out cheaply but got away with a No Result due to rain.

#WorldT20

Don't see many wicket maidens in T20 cricket. Well bowled Adil.
#WorldT20

I know there are plenty still doing #Wordle daily, because I see the results in my feed!

If that's you, you might like #Thirdle thirdle.org as sonething similar but different.

You get 3 words arranged in a crossword grid, with the joining letters given. Yellow is in the wrong place but the right word, while pink is in the wrong word.

I find it a slightly more strategic challenge.

So we have a delivery due today - between 9.32 and 12.32.

Every time I get one of these notifications, I mutter about spurious precision, but I suspect there's probably something else going on here.

If it was me, I'd calculate the earliest a delivery was possible, then tack on a fairly arbitrary margin of tolerance based on past experience.

Anyone know if this is even vaguely near the mark?

Reading Robin Ince's "The Importance of Being Interested" - very enjoyable so far, witty and engaging.

Just read this passage and I have questions. Specifically, assuming the moderate effect size is significant, what steps were taken to control for confounders? Because I can think of a *lot* of possible hidden variables.

Going to have to see if I can track down the original study, aren't I?

Cracking #cryptic #crossword by Picaroon in the Guardian today.

Lots to love, but particularly appreciated the four long solutions.

While thinking about how easily we assume a #halo effect stemming from success in a particular field (hi, Elon), I was reminded of the apocryphal story of #Newton creating a cat flap for his #cat and a smaller one for her kitten.

A quick search for more details revealed several sites providing chapter and verse on this and related myths (such as Newton actually inventing the cat flap), including the history of the story and the likely origins of it. Unfortunately, it also turned up hundreds more excitedly repeating the claim.

So the #BirdSite verification situation is working about as well as everyone predicted. There's a nontrivial chance that #Musk could keep it afloat in the short term on the back of people paying $8 to take the piss.

This is a thread of "blue tick" account impersonations, some of them genuinely hilarious. Also functions as a handy list of brands who will almost certainly be actively boycotting the site in future, but so would a data dump of every known global brand.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590899514638229506?t=Lkemfzer0mSEpcJjHEbGDw&s=19

Kwasi Kwarteng speaks on Liz Truss's economic plan.

He said he didn't like it, but he had to go along with it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kwasi-kwarteng-talk-tv-interview-liz-truss-z0zg5fgpk

Good - C4 will be showing the World T20 Final.

Bad - The forecast is so poor that they might have shelled out for a non-event.

Uncertain - Where they find the money for stunts like this, and how it will affect plans to privatise the channel.