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Gentle recommendation to have a hobby that you can 1) do on your own time 2) are not doing for livelihood or career 3) can grow your skill in over time, and 4) can focus on for chunks of time where you can tune other things out. I spent a couple hours last night developing film and it was excellent

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DID YOU KNOW? I'm unexpectedly rather more available than expected right now, so if you see something Doug-shaped, please do let me know (boosts appreciated!) dougbelshaw.com/work/

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This is whirling round my head at the moment. What should I be working on? thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/01/02/h...

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The clearest photo of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun | NASA

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Perfection.

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Extremely detailed photo of Martian soil from the Curiosity rover 🔍

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So I was a guest at a meetup last week. One of the participants used an AI notes and summary tool. The thing that struck me when looking at the summary afterwards is that what got talked about most was actually the least important part of the conversation, but the tool had no way of knowing that.

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`chmod 777 **/lib` to own the libs

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James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view of the Pillars of Creation

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Interesting snippet in here for Dashboard Government Nerds

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Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

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At work one of the things we do (@carefultrouble.bsky.social) is help different kinds of orgs with their AI strategy and ethical evaluations. Some random trends: - techno-optimistic senior managers who want to sprinkle AI on something but aren't sure what are almost always men in their 40s

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Sobering finding from Centre for London commissioned polling, contradicting the image too many have that London's streets are paved with gold. 1 in 7 Londoners could not cope with an unexpected £20 bill, rising to 1 in 4 if they're hit with an unplanned £50 cost. #LDNConf24

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#UncoolTwo50 Day 42. Computer Love - Kraftwerk (1981) One way to make your sci-fi text timeless: pick something futuristic, find its limitations, then write about being disappointed by those limits. Using this method, Kraftwerk wrote the most accurate song about online dating three decades early.

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Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: Primary school teacher Restaurant cook Nightclub DJ Think tanker

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Polling and opinion surveys contribute to harm year round, not just at election time. In large part because running surveys is a lucrative business that crowds out actually understanding people's lived experience. The reporting on surveys as bad as bad science journalism.

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If you have a shy young person in your life who is not a massive joiner-inner can I recommend getting into Warhammer? If you're not a team sports person or don't thrill to putting on a show, there's not much out there for kids these days and few positive male role models

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I grew up on these streets

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@maggieappleton.com thanks, great talk! Really thought provoking.

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Up early and off to UX Brighton.

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Honestly, speed reading boring and impenetrable books is a skill that needs to be passed on from generation to generation

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“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay. More in my Carbon Brief article 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

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Thinking of you at this difficult time (i.e. Monday)

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Yeah sorry you can't rearrange your sofa delivery date because you have not correctly identified these hedgehogs

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Our user segmentation blog is live! Over a year of work went into it, and I'm super happy to see the post finally go out.

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Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

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The Government Digital Service (GDS) is planning to monitor the environmental impact of the GOV.UK One Login service. www.ukauthority.com/articles/gds... 🔐 #Authentication 🌱 #Environment

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1988! I was very little. Not one of the best Disney films, but I liked it because it had my name in the title 😂

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Any advice on getting through to a real person at Evri? They seem to have lost something I sent and all I can get are automated messages.

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on harder days I rely on my to do list, writing down increasingly simple tasks to create a sense of order. i dimly worry this habit will eventually reach a level of borgesian granularity and I’ll be found in front of my notepad, continually writing and crossing out “breathe” again and again

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Another meme I'm capturing for future use

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Hey friends Back in January I had some ideas about things I wanted to do this year. Now it's June, and some of those things didn't really ignite. Maybe you, too? It's okay. It's a good time to consider what changes you'd like to begin again. I wanted to walk more, so that's mine. You?

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Yes, well done, browser. Create me an event spanning from the 5th to 13th century.

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Weeknote 10-5-2024 – Finding new ways www.oliverquinlan.com/thoughts/wee...

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Weeknote 2024-05-05 - Getting into the new role www.oliverquinlan.com/thoughts/wee...

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