lakoma @lakoma@qoto.org

@letterror The Tumblr guy (Matt Mullenweg) recently said you should be able to “choose your algorithm”. Ideally the tweaked algorithms can be saved and shared, so anyone can be involved in evolving good parameters for different users (and different moods of the same user).

"In some cases they will be ... redevelopment or refurbishment on an existing site or a new wing of an existing hospital"

I'm sorry, but no matter how much you want to believe it, a new wing of an existing hospital - by definition - is not a new hospital.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59372348

Those subject matters that are so important in school do not exist outside of it.

Ben Nevis by moonlight 🌛

One of my favourite images of Scotland's highest mountain, taken during some breathtaking conditions last winter.

It was one of those nights when you barely needed a head-torch as the light of the moon was so bright.

#LandscapePhotography #Munros #ScottishHighlands #BenNevis #AstroPhotography #Hillwalking

The Five Stages of Grief, updated for 2022:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Mastadon

Chris Riddell on the chancellor’s plan to leave non-doms in clover and the rest of the country in recession

#Brexit is dead.

Tories mull Swiss-style ties with Brussels — which means FoM returns.

Which is nice.

But this is a flag raising exercise to see how much virulent opposition there is to it.

Ergo, it won’t happen.

Which isn’t nice.

https://apple.news/ALov82aHKRT6AcRd_Ov5SjQ

‘Not Actually Very Good’
Britain’s Post-Brexit Trade Agreements with Japan & Australia

Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy – two newly-negotiated deals that should have showed off the possibilities of a post-Brexit world.

However, when the Government’s own data is analysed on the performance of the deals, their failures become patently clear. As the Government’s former Environment Secretary has now admitted, the Australia deal in particular is “not actually very good”.

@BylineTimes
#BylineTimes

#ukpolitics #Brexit #FreeTradeAgreement #FTA #Japan #Australia #BrexitBrokeBritain #ToryBrexitDisaster

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/15/britain-underwhelming-post-brexit-trade-agreements/

#Scotland #Highlands

#introduction hello everyone! I am a social scientist with an multidisciplinary background, doing research about #migration, #forceddisplacement, #asylum, #urbancitizenship, #diversity, #superdiversity, #immigration, #sociology, #inequality with a regional focus on #Europe. you can find out more about my work here: https://nandosigona.info/about/
And if you happen to be one of the few going against the grain you can find me also on Twitter https://twitter.com/nandosigona

My top 5 interview tips:

1. Be yourself.

2. Be clear.

3. Be humble.

4. Be curious.

5. Be genuine.

Looking good!

That's everyone from the #BylinesNetwork except East Anglia Bylines and Kent Bylines.

We're building up all of the #Bylines on Mastodon and getting established here. They already have >15K followers between them.

#CitizenJournalism #Community

Why is Brexit so rarely mentioned when it is such a major contributor to the UK’s woes?
#BrexitBrokeBritain

UK economy made worse by 'own goals' like Brexit and Truss mini-budget, IFS economist says https://news.sky.com/story/uk-economy-made-worse-by-own-goals-like-brexit-and-truss-mini-budget-ifs-economist-says-12750476

For some reason I have American Pie running through my head this morning, and most especially the reference to the day the music died. Will Musk make this the day Twitter dies? The idea is so bizarre, and yet so plausible.