Mathematician. Of sorts.
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Remember, the Chancellor of Germany is in the Lincoln Bedroom while all this is going down.
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German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
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TONIGHT
Researchers do stand up comedy. Including a special guest appearance by Pythagoras.
Be there, or be the square on the hypotenuse.
#BCM47
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This is an interesting piece, on the underlying reasons for high UK energy bills. Consumer prices come later - its all driven due to gas (we need to delink our electricity prices from the gas price urgently)
Why does the U.K. have higher energy prices than other countries? 📈
And is it all the fault of net-zero? 🤔
Not really, it’s a bit more complicated!
@AnushkaAsthana explains 👇
#Peston
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Elon seems to be under the impression that most people hate Ukraine and blame it for the war. He doesn't realize he's taking an unpopular position. And I think it's because he takes the Russian troll accounts in his replies to be real American individuals.
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If you've ever posted a single word about "chesterton's fence" you should be deeply alarmed about Elon Musk's total incuriosity about the ground level problems in departments he's hollowing out.
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you snivelling fucks would have surrendered at marathon/thermopylae/etc and we wouldnt have any fucking western civ for you to jerk yourselves off over
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Totally seething levels of anger from British military contacts about this, by the way.
A feeling that losses the British military took fighting alongside America in Iraq and Afghanistan (at American request) have been written out of history; their dead comrades disrespected.
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I think people sometimes fail to comprehend how fortunate the world is that the owner of Wikipedia hasn't gone down the right wing rabbit hole that so many tech founders have gone down.
Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) used to be libertarian (or an Ayn Rand follower—close enough), and I remember him saying he'd never take money from the government.
But! What I'm asking is different from the government directly paying the Wikimedia Foundation, which it *probably* doesn't (dunno). What I'm proposing is this: Let's make it official Trump administration policy that no federal monies should be spent on Wikipedia editing.
This, too, seems like a thing that Jimmy Wales might be willing to get behind. Or, at least, the more libertarian Jimmy Wales that I used to know.
It's worth asking, anyway.
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Twitter has so far failed to reinvent itself as a primary source of content, or implement the necessary features to become a YouTube killer. But it's not even the right goal, because Twitter's value was always as the place where anyone who was famous anywhere else still had to be.
Twitter was never the largest driver of web traffic, but it was definitively the place where The Conversation was happening. If you followed a streamer or podcaster on a dedicated media platform, you also followed them here, to keep up with events and observe them participate in the culture.
By making Twitter a walled garden content platform with no means of egress, Elon has destroyed the rationale for the majority of the world's established creators to be here and develop their brand. This turns Twitter into a dying mall that has lost its anchor retailer and is inhabited only by weird off-brand mall stores and sleazy merchant stalls.
But more than that, trying to make Twitter "the destination" has associated the Twitter brand and sense of place with the specific platform-native content that flourishes and is rewarded here, which is highly skewed, insular, and controversial. So anybody who isn't interested in Elon's political thunderdome for highly online degenerates feels alienated in what used to be the town square, however mismanaged it was.
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It's genuinely astounding how Trump's main thing is that evil foreigners are coming to the United States to rape American women and yet they pressured Romania to release a serial rapist and sex trafficker so he could go to the US and rape women there
BREAKING: The Tate brothers have left Romania, according to reports.
It comes after the Donald Trump's administration reportedly made multiple attempts to pressurise Romania to lift travel restrictions on Andrew and Tristan Tate.
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There’s something sick in Western commercial real estate where the rent does not simply “go down” in totally abandoned spaces like this
I don’t exactly understand if it’s black finance magic, or just desperately holding the bag, but somehow the rent never goes down
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I don’t know how people can honestly tell themselves building housing doesn’t reduce rents anymore
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New: Ministers are preparing reforms to the planning system to radically expand the number of sites where Small Modular Reactors can be built in Britain. ☢️
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It is not possible to appease a bully. Deference will just mean more bullying. The only way is for the world to stand up together. Clearly the USA cannot be relied on, so the rest of us need to rebuild our international institutions and community.
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not to be a broken record, but if Joe Biden had axed hundreds of FAA officials, fired the TSA chief, froze air traffic controller hiring & then we had *multiple* planes falling out of the sky in a **single week** — the articles of impeachment would already be drawn up
