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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

“the world, I assure you, is right queasy,” Sir John Paston in a letter to his mother. 19th April 1471

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing quite like an AI-generated avatar of a white male "academic" to explain the words and findings of an expert on ancient Assyria - a female, Muslim, Saudi Arabian academic based in my old Oxford college, who happens to have a book coming out on this. Predatory platforms combine🤦‍♂️

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

This is what Musk actually believes! The idea that white Afrikaners are the true "indigenous" population of much of South Africa and most black South Africans are interlopers who immigrated from other areas of Africa more recently was - and I guess is? - a key tenet of Apartheid ideology.

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

Useful reminder on a way you can reduce the data you expose when sharing links. Similar url simplifications work for lots of other websites too. Firefox has an option called ‘Copy Without Site Tracking’ that does this automatically.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Always test in prod. Doubly so when it's in Treasury...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 37 days ago • 876 comments

This is the responsible framing.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Thoroughly deserved. He is a level above everyone else at the moment. A player for all conditions and formats.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is such cool analysis of PIN in @haveibeenpwned.com's Pwned Passwords. Scroll through the page and watch the heat map change alongside the explanations of how people are creating (somewhat) predictable PINs: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Fascinating thread teasing out the dependencies and impacts of relentless AI scaling.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that the richest man on earth is paying someone to play a video game for him around the clock, so that he can pretend to be one of the best players in the world to his Twitter followers would be hilarious if it wasn’t so incredibly sad.

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

Amazing comeback from Neil Robertson. Thoroughly enjoyed our first trip to the Masters Snooker. My son was absolutely spoiled for his first ever live snooker match!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Love this! Although feel old as ,despite my excitement playing the shareware version in ‘94, I would now pick walking round an art gallery drinking wine over playing a FPS.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

submitted 61 days ago • 110 comments

Went to see a couple of games there last summer and I’m amazed the ground staff manage to provide playable pitches. This happened 7 times last winter! Can completely understand Ashley Giles saying that they may have to leave and build a new ground.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve forgotten which were exam texts but up to GCSE: Loved - Arms and the Man, St Joan, Macbeth, A Man for All Seasons. The Once and Future King Enjoyed - Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, 1984, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Go-Between. Didn’t get on at all with The Mayor of Casterbridge.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

That ending gets me every time…

submitted 76 days ago • 30 comments

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Great article here from Steven Finn on the difference, for fast bowlers, between County and Test cricket.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

England players with a lower average than Crawley against New Zealand (min 5 inns completed). Those above him include Tufnell, Leach, Finn, Anderson …

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments