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Monaco

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Many a “career” is still relying on Covid opinion

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

I now avoid any podcast involving someone smoking a cigar 🚩🚩🚩

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to a summer holiday in "freeloading," "pathetic" Europe. The original idea was to go to America. Went off that idea.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

To successfully rally public support for increased taxation of the wealthy, we must fundamentally change tax systems

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

If Europe wants to position itself to the world as more reliable than the US, having Ukraine as its only distinguisher won’t fly - if that is funded by gutting global cooperation, & run in parallel with greenlighting an end to Gaza, it positions Europe as valuing white lives only.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Spent a nice day in the sun at our 🎾 clay courts watching Dan Evans practice

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been hearing a lot about “free speech” online over the past couple of years, but we’re moving into a time when actual free speech is going to be (1) hard, and (2) really matter.

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

It's stuff like this that causes distrust in politicians which leads to the likes of trump getting into power

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I had a vague understanding of our Fijian roots, but today's conversation with my grandad unveiled their true significance, With my ancestors landing on the islands in the late 1800s. I now feel an incredibly strong bond with the islands I've never visited.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Staying at Coombes Abbey Hotel in Coventry. A colleague comes down for breakfast as pale as a ghost...after apparently experiencing paranormal activity all night

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

On the plus side, Elon killed our Twitter addiction

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

The struggle is real: trying to eat anything but chocolate, and ending by eating the chocolate anyway

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

spot on, Shaggy #RealMonsters #MonstersInc

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

Failure is an event, not a person

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Idiot

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Solo living, separation from society, reliance on technology and influenced by tech oligarchs

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Understanding is built from the inside out. While external input plays a role, the essence of learning lies in the individual's power to generate and test ideas. This internal process of conjecturing makes learning a sovereign act.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Funnily enough, people that are extremely unkind to me in person usually have some sort of "be kind" statement on their social media profiles 🥸

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Strive for a constantly evolving understanding of reality, not a static set of beliefs

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The goal isn't just arriving at the correct answer, but rather developing a reliable process for finding it.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

BBC News - AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Being a change agent within organisations highlights how resistant people are to change, even when presented with facts to state they need to change. Comfort is not your friend.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 90 days ago • 204 comments

BlueSky is like twitter around 5 years ago so now I ask myself what mistakes I made in conveying science then and how can I correct this now on BlueSky

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Russia targeting Signal is a pretty good sign of how important that app is. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

I really feel for Celtic! That's the best I've seen them play for years

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Musk, once a fan of Signal, now concerned about whistle blower use. www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

This is the time for scientists to return to basics, ask better questions, conduct more rigorous research and avoid the noise around us

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Time to take Signal more seriously me thinks

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Now that the NFL is over I'm looking forward to watching the NRL to fill the void. New Zealand Warriors are my team 🙌

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Logging into X

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

submitted 165 days ago • 103 comments

Douwe Egberts coffee never fails to disappoint 😕

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I love this

submitted 97 days ago • 3213 comments

The maybe story matterco.co/the-maybe-st...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

What you're not changing, you're choosing

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

China showing communism innovates quicker than capitalism

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

submitted 114 days ago • 17 comments