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Cracked and faded statue of Vladimir Komarov, the first human to lose his life during a space mission.
Again AI is both going to make people obsolete AND is a flawed purveyor of nonsense. OR it’s just a tool and humans are still in charge and just as much as you are responsible for the wreck if you crash yr car so you are with the collateral of using other machines.
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Newton's own handwritten annotations on Principia: fixing spelling mistakes (WTF?!!) of the first edition (missing "c" in "auctore" and correct ablative "Newtono") as well as career progression "equite aurato et regio societatis praeside" (knight bachelor and president of the RS)
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Oliver Soden’s elegant biography of H.H. Munro, better known as Saki, reveals a complex man: was his real character the dandy who skewered the English upper classes, or the fervent patriot who died in the trenches?
Saki’s two selves | @WomackPhilip
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Fabulous report here by researchers at Warwick University who've done a massive job of data cleaning to work out the true number of new homes given planning permission in the last 20 years - and headline is that Gov't figures overcount by a staggering 43% thinkhouse.org.uk/site/asset…
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Thank you to @pressgazette for standing up for investigative journalism and press freedom after it received more than 500 complaints regarding my nomination for this year's British Journalism Awards pressgazette.co.uk/news/awar…
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Obituary: Pioneering conservation architect Donald Insall, who has died aged 100, played a key role in changing the way historic buildings were regarded ow.ly/sH2l5102uJX
The facts on Arday have not changed. He did not misspeak / get it wrong. He lied. The facts are pretty well established despite his subjects looseness with them and Helen Lewis’s article a good place to start. Peter Jukes is running a PR campaign for his newspaper based on the death of Jason Arday in which he uses dull but repetitive underhand means to undermine solid reporting by other journalists, implying the worst possible motives to their work. This is his vicious little grift.
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Amazing: journalist does journalism to discover something, and because everyone is so used to people living by press release, they literally can't believe the journalist found it out on their own.
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Let’s bring back the Picture Post. Who’s with me?
LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.
Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: new.life.com
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This is the pedestrianisation of a main road as pointless media event. Photos shared, experiences of new normal detailed; until all the boring stuff about displaced traffic and cycling infractions and its shit and we simply must have a swimming pool in the Thames at Blackfriars.
Photos reveal walkable Oxford Street as first phase of pedestrianisation begins: dezeen.com/2026/10/27/photos…
tim abrahams retweeted
To Western commentators, the elections in Serbia were about restoring democracy, but THEY WERE NOT ABOUT THE EU OR RUSSIA!
