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Dave T-W

@monkchips Not sure if you have seen this, but likely up your street if you're free today. Not sure how widely our marketing reaches!

ucl.ac.uk/computer-science/eve

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TODAY, : Cory Doctorow gives our 2023 Peter Kirstein lecture. "Seize The Means of Computation: A Big Tech Disassembly Manual" Followed by a panel discussion hosted by @leotanczt

Tickets still available, free.
ucl.ac.uk/computer-science/eve

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If you're interested in the climbing season, Alan Arnette has pretty much the best source of info and analysis. (I am not a climber but have been watching this fascinating blog for years)
alanarnette.com/blog/2023/05/3

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I found it: The Grilling Trap, Kamil Galeev.

twitter.com/kamilkazani/status

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With the old folks and the kiddos doing Tourist .

Stopped at the crèche of the SAS, the St Ermin Hotel, where the division bell used to ring to give MP's 8 minutes to get back to Parliament via a secret tunnel. The concierge kindly allowed us to have a peek behind a hidden door. And a very reasonably priced coffee with a lovely clove fragranced oat cookie.

Quick look into the magnificent Byzantine styled Westminster Cathedral. Boat trip up the Thames to Greenwich, another hidden gem in the Chapel at the Royal Naval College.

Then under the Thames and back home via DLR.

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andreasdotorg

This is why we can't have nice things.

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theguardian.com/politics/2023/

Glad to hear this. This Kingdom is not United, and the Empire on which it was based has been crumbling for a century. Brexit was the fatal wound after disjointed attempts at devolution introduced by Labour in the 90s. We have been avoiding this conversation for too long.

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Yogthos

amazing timelapse

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ChrisO_wiki

5/ The recruitment campaign is a sign of Russia's ongoing struggle to find more manpower for the war in Ukraine. However, recruiting from its space agency suggests that Russia is increasingly sacrificing specialist expertise in pursuit of its diminishing hopes of victory in Ukraine. It seems unlikely that making rocket engineers into infantrymen is a good option for Russia's future prospects. /end

Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/38720

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Ada Ґ.

@davoloid @ChrisO_wiki
Thing is, they *almost* get it. They’re just completely unrealistic about what russia would have to do to be feared, independent, or great. They think that future is just over the next hill, when in fact it might as well be on Mars.
Their collective comprehension of this isn’t going to change soon - they’ve been believing in the next hill for decades, never realizing it’s all a fantasy.

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Having a John Barry day while I do the housework. Love his : the bold brass on the action sequences (007) the suspenseful slow vibraphone and piano (Try), the whimsical synth (Florida Fantasy), the lush flute and orchestral romance (Somewhere in Time).
open.spotify.com/playlist/14yb

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I saw a great article/thread the other day about the way that people in authority are held to account by people who have time to sit and argue about things they don't have full understanding of. Which trends towards authoritarian approaches and simplified explanations.

Anyone recall seeing this? Can't think where it was now. I'd like to say it was Cory Doctorow or David Allen Green but it span past my eyes before I had a chance to save it.

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Annalee

The reason sith lightsabers sound different and throw off more sparks is inferior engineering caused by lack of knowledge sharing because sith believe competition breeds strength while Jedi share knowledge and encourage collaboration. This is not dissimilar to software engineering; in this essay I will

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Jon Worth

And really the sheer absurdity of European Sleeper

Here are two determined guys. They lease a freight locomotive, 2 ancient sleeping cars (at least with air con), 6 couchettes without air con (also old) and 2 seating carriages

And they manage to run a Berlin-Brussels night train, something that others - like DB, NS or SNCB - could *much more easily do with their financial means* BUT REFUSE TO EVEN TRY

And basic though it is it’s booked up all summer

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Steve Randy Waldman

“The greatest monsters of history —men like Andrew Carnegie, JP Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Andrew Mellon — lived lives of cruel mass-exploitation, only to rehabilitate their reputations at the ends of their lives, or posthumously, by endowing charitable foundations that do genuinely good works, while plastering those monsters’ names on every tangible expression of those works. Our modern crop of monsters are pursuing the same path” @pluralistic doctorow.medium.com/rich-peopl ht @SteveRoth

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David Penfold :verified:

All this sewage dumped in the rivers! I used to be really keen on wild swimming, but nowadays I’m just going through the motions.

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Bastard of the day goes to the ebay buyer who wants to return an old necklace she won for £15 (an absolute bargain) because it's not as shiny as she thought and "I honestly cannot resell this."

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Leonie Tanczer

Plus, on the topic of #gender differences in academic engagement:

"#women more likely to engage with #charities, regardless of career stage and research field."

Thus, "women have weaker links to #industry than #men".

➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Snigdha

Do you remember Amanda Gorman's poem from the Biden inauguration? The state of Florida banned it in school. So much for freedom. joemygod.com/2023/05/florida-s

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Emma the Space Gardener 🌿🚀

I've decided to move my newsletter - the Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report - to Substack.

If you're already subscribed, you should have had an email telling you just that!

If you'd like to subscribe, this is the new address. I'll be sending out the newsletter on Tuesday as normal.

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

emmadoughty.substack.com/p/gar

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