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🇬🇧 "_Households will be charged £129 less for a typical annual bill from July as the energy price cap is due to fall, according to energy consultants Cornwall Insight._"
Energy bills set for series of falls as price cap due to be lowered, says forecaster https://news.sky.com/story/energy-bills-set-for-series-of-fall...
Afternoon all.
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The Spanish words 'año' ('year') and 'España' ('Spain') contain the letter ñ, which is called eñe.
It comes from a double nn. One of the n's was abbreviated as a squiggle on top of the other: ñ.
For instance, 'año' comes from Latin 'annum' with nn.
However, 'puño', 'España' and 'viña' come from 'pūgnum', 'Hispāniam' and 'vīneam', which didn't have nn.
My graphic explains how they got their ñ:
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Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good
US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1
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#AI is killing the joy I feel with a lot of things lately. That's not a great feeling. But you can explain it if you compare AI with frozen pizza.
🇺🇸 **Is Trump the same as Nixon in 1968? - Luke A. Nichter**
#Video length: forty-six minutes and thirty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruqU--AR7Qo.
#Lecture #History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Trump #Nixon @histodons
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How 'banking the unbanked' drew millions of Africans into the thrall of vulture capitalism. Unregulated FinTech loans is a new form of digital exploitation: "a ticking time bomb" of chronic indebtedness. https://techcabal.com/2025/05/16/bnpl-startups-debt-crisis-kenya/
🇬🇧 “Cheap imports and poor returns from farming mean our self-sufficiency is in peril. Some even think we’re on the road to rationing”
From chicken to potatoes, Britain’s never grown less of its own food https://www.thetimes.com/article/7a9c9bc3-1444-4561-9426-acbd180c6e37?shareTok...
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“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.”
Paul Harvey (1978)
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AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data
https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-summarizing-research?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
📸 📖 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 **A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese war by James H. Hare**
“Read or download for free”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76109.
#History #Histodon #Russia #Japan #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Book #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon #Images #Photography #Photos @histodons @bookstodon
Morning all.
💻 🕑 🗓️ **Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars**
“_Unlike simply recognising shapes, understanding analogue clocks and calendars requires a combination of spatial awareness, context and basic maths – something that remains challenging for AI, the team says._”
🔗 https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/most-ai-struggles-to-read-clocks-and-calendars.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #Time #Clocks #Calenders @ai
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MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit-disavows-doctoral-students-paper-on-ai-productivity-benefits/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
📚 **English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern (1893)**
“_Although the earliest known marks of ownership of books or documents dates from the latter years of Ancient Egypt, and people would mark ownership in the Middle Ages with simple inscriptions, it wasn't until the advent of printing in 15th-century Germany that we see the development of bookplates in their more modern decorative form._”
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-book-plates-ancient-and-modern-1893/.
💻 **How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data**
David Gerard
“_The big money in AI wants stuff it can call “science” to back up its claims of AI magic right now, and it doesn’t want to wait around for the peer review process._”
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #PeerReview @ai
📖 **Author offers warnings after interviewing former Nazis for decades**
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/17/author-laurence-rees-nazi-mind-warning-holocaust.
**The mystery of the ‘real’ Milady de Winter of The Three Musketeers**
🔗 https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/real-milady-de-winter/.
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RSS, the best way to keep up with both things that update frequently and also hardly ever:
In the end it is always the gravitational pull of the bond market that brings a politician back down to earth with a thud.
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