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Dave T-W

Call out to anyone in the @ucl community, staff or students: is back in January - will sign up for this if schedule allows!
sites.google.com/view/learnhac

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3rd day of a flu that's knocked me for six. Likely miss the Xmas gathering tomorrow. :(

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Evening walk around central London and I couldn't be any less festive. Rampant consumerism, piped jollity, this prison camp of brightly lit entertainment, and yet there's so much darkness and suffering in the world.

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Kamil Galeev

IF Russia has been under the unprecedentedly wide sanctions regime for almost two years

BUT The Russian production of missiles has only increased, now far exceeding the US capacities

THEN The targeting of sanctions has been incorrect, all along

bird.makeup/@kamilkazani/17309

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Dave T-W

Kiddo' claim her English teacher has banned the use of "won't, don't and couldn't" as they're americanisms.

I told her to reply "Very well, I shan't be using them any more."

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Joan Westenberg

writing dystopian science fiction should just be called “journalism” at this point

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Dave T-W

That was awesome. Also put me onto the lavish 2016 BBC production of War and Peace, which also has pretty decent representation of battles, in terms of the grand view and individual bloodshed.

E.g. youtu.be/lpHLr5-zpx8

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Taylor Lorenz

“Pinochet’s torture chambers were the maternity ward of neoliberalism, a baby delivered bloody and screaming by Henry Kissinger.” rollingstone.com/politics/poli

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Max Kennerly

Today in corporate hypocrisy: "There I Ruined It," which uses AI to make song parodies, is in private mode on YouTube thanks to UMG copyright claims.

Let's be clear: if that stuff isn't fair use, then absolutely none of the outputs from big AI models are fair use. Including Google's.
youtube.com/watch?v=vZnj45cMnR

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Ms. Uppity

Insert deep and enduring sigh. 🙄 theverge.com/2023/11/28/239782

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I've shared that series before but those are here:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9

Mostly talking, so easily watchable in the background, but it's also available as a podcast. open.spotify.com/show/0gwIT6Sl

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Dave T-W

New initiative aims to develop a better understanding of 's . Snyder's lectures on YouTube showed how the area and people played such a key role in European history over thousands of years, yet is misunderstood by the West and misrepresented by "Russia". And there were lots of lessons about nationhood, language and culture that apply to many other locations.

theguardian.com/world/2023/nov

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Denis Buckley

'Postscript: the Department for Education is currently recruiting a videographer, primarily to film the education secretary, Gillian Keegan – for a salary of £48,701 a year. Michael Gove sent every state primary and secondary school in England a King James Bible (“funded by philanthropists” to the tune of £375,000). An oak-framed portrait of the king for every school is costing £8m.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Dave T-W

Love Ridley Scott's films, but have to say that is a sadly glorious mess. So many characters and situations randomly thrown at the screen, I felt I understood the period of history and man less than when I went in. Realistically, this should have been a series.

So to compensate I'm watching Waterloo (1970) with the amazing Rod Steiger.
youtu.be/3DcWJrzK0wU?si=RJgOet

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating

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Dave T-W

recommendation: The Curse. Cutting satire on gentrification (so far). Excellent understated performances from the stars and the background characters, gives it a real documentary feeling.
youtu.be/tui5vl13Gqg?si=h9cp31

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Colleen Morgan

University of York Digital Archaeology MSc student Dushyant Naresh created an immersive 360 choose-your-own-adventure film about Avebury for his dissertation. Check out the film, and read about the project on the Avebury Papers blog:

aveburypapers.org/an-avebury-s

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Dave T-W

Should have looked closer. The second photo above was some gorgeous pastries, also a staple of BA cafes.
This is what a cabinet of empanadas looks like. NB: they are not at all the same as Cornish Pasties.

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Andrew Stroehlein

I can understand people who are frustrated with the current political situation in their country.

But I’ll never understand people who don’t realize things can get even worse.

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Dave T-W

One thing I really miss about is Alfajores and Empanadas. In BA there would be shops with rows and rows of these, all different varieties, but here they're usually presented as greasy tiny dumplings. Found Chango just off Bond Street in , and these are *really nice*.
Any Porteños need to pay attention - you would clear up.
maps.app.goo.gl/YWkpAhomWYmpe5

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