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A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead. A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
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📺 New video! 'Location, Location, Location' is 25 years old, and Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have helped – or hindered – hundreds of hapless homebuyers. Can they keep their frustrations at bay with three more fussy couples looking for somewhere to live?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

at a place I was working a few years ago we got a trendy manager seagulled into our team and she decided to open a meeting by talking your single best childhood day and my mate Steve went utterly blank eyed and said "I don't talk about my childhood" and she cancelled the meeting.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

This #wato interview with Sebastian Gorka is an absolute car crash and she should have cut him off 5 minutes ago

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

Here is this year's philosophy entrance exam for "Normale", the school at France's academic pinnacle. "You owe" Candidates have six hours Use of calculators is not allowed.

submitted 28 days ago • 27 comments

odd that dril hasn't posted since the pope died

submitted 43 days ago • 20 comments

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

submitted 50 days ago • 36 comments

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

submitted 52 days ago • 307 comments

What the fuck

submitted 54 days ago • 117 comments

my favorite amy klobuchar story from my youth: back when she was the hennepin county attorney, my bff’s mom was the ramsey county attorney they both agreed to run a charity 5k. BFF and I were like 3/4 of the way through the course, and saw Klob get dropped off and pretend she ran the whole thing

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

submitted 56 days ago • 67 comments

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fasc...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Deranged. Will secure the collapse of a significant part of the UK university system, at a time when there is a lot of money to be made out of it, for no political return. If the case is explained properly most will not mind foreign students coming.

submitted 56 days ago • 81 comments

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

submitted 61 days ago • 105 comments

well ladies and gentlemen wasn't that a great display of f'ing around? I know I know thank you very much. please remain seated however as the second part of the program is about to begin.

submitted 62 days ago • 9 comments

I've been trying to find the right ancient history parallel since last night and I think I've finally got it: It's as if Rome punished the uppity provinces by deciding to sack itself.

submitted 62 days ago • 13 comments

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 71 days ago • 329 comments

Zuckerberg 2012: Move Fast and Break Things Zuckerberg 2024: Move Fast and Take Things

submitted 71 days ago • 10 comments

Whatever happened to taking things to the grave

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

Ethnically cleansing a region so you can put people you like more in that region is not, in any sense, a new idea.

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

I would tell you that my great grandparents are rolling over in their graves, but I can’t be certain, because unfortunately, I don’t know where those graves are.

submitted 134 days ago • 40 comments