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Story idea: we are x years in the future and there’s an ageing generation of those who still know the old art of “thinking” independently of computers In a race against the machines (😉), a few remaining humans try to rescue those skills against the rise of LLM, human mortality & dementia

I wish Google would stay out of all the other things and bring back an actually useful search engine I don’t want anything else from them, just the original product

Other every day fixes for the PM to consider, I’ll start: - when a train company leaves you stranded they should pay for the taxi - when a job requires you to live somewhere they should pay for the move #everydayFixes

Saying the treasuries every day fixes will save £21 a year seriously underestimates my garlic consumption

Normalise emailing people to say you read and enjoyed their work. Academia can be a bleak conveyorbelt of endless negative feedback. Sometimes it's hard to know whether anyone values your work. That's why it means so much when someone takes the time to message and say so! Be that person.

Emailed them. And they responded. And corrected it. Thank you Always call stuff out, don’t think oh they’re probably right, oh they do this on purpose, etc

Ah the “balanced view” they presented for Brexit

I happened to be in London 2004 when this was happening. And despite being an F1 fan, I’m glad it’s not ecclestons vision but @london.gov.uk ‘s vision which won. Oxford street pedestrianised - may it be successful, green and bring people spaces to relax www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jul/...

Hey @theguardian.com how is this correct, wanna check your maths? How can “on average” be the same as the possible top of nhs payscale? 🤔 (And before we get into this in surgery you become a consultant after a minimum of 6+2+2+6 years - many have phds and fellowships on top)

This is what nearly a kilometre of opportunity looks like. For Londoners, visitors and the businesses that call Oxford Street home.

How many people would cycle down Oxford street in past? I certainly would not even attempt too. But yes more bike lanes and routes needed, but maybe celebrate this one and don’t always be so negative

That rainbow was a nice touch

I hope this starts a transformation similar to what happened in Paris

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I read this realising I have become a “casualized knowledge worker” What a succinct way of describing this

Thread that should be added to the Life in the UK test

I caught something on the TV the other day. Apparently Network Rail have trained swan wranglers in their cews.

A colleague's train was delayed recently and they were told the Swan Removal Team had been called.

Wouldn't have happened in Her Majesty's day. Under Charles, these feathery bastards have lost their discipline

One of my favourite swan rescuing facts is that they fit perfectly into the big blue Ikea bags Wembley: Swan rescued from supermarket roof in Ikea bag www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

German friend mentioning they have to go back to working full time 35h Germans really need to stop whining about “how bad things are”

That was my morning reading 🫣

How many Zacharias is one scaramucci @scaramucci.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Ah give it to Jenkins to show so little understanding about maths - it’s not about adding up numbers, it’s logic, it’s abstract thinking, deduction. All those bits that are needed more than ever, especially in times of LLM

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From time to time someone still asks me: really, you haven't gone back? FFS, I don't change my mind about *much* harder ethical decisions that *actually cost me a lot that matters.* Why would I change my mind about this thing?

Emailing me on a Friday with something non urgent and then again on Monday 7am in case “I lost the email” will not get you the result you think it would

people who haven’t realised that dealing with climate change is one of the urgent ways to reduce future conflict, are simply not seeing the world around them

Today was the senior faculty development day where i gave my talk Had appropriate disclosures 👇

In this script, I am Bond

Ich wünsche mir neue, zeitgemäße James-Bond-Filme: Bond deckt auf, dass feindliche Mächte Parteien und Social Media manipulieren und verrückte Milliardäre Übles planen. Und dann sagen alle: "Tja, hm, ok, kann man nichts machen." Bond wird Alkoholiker und lebt mit 12 Katzen in einer 2-Zimmer-Wohnung.

Found this account. Do you have surgeon frogs

Funny how the man who is responsible for all of our mortgages go through roof is not winning that one

Looking at this, the logical next step is that we're going to have to start writing our academic papers under exam conditions. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It’s flu season. Get your flu jab.

THE TAPESTRY IS HERE #CPC26

But the question everyone in Oxford is asking - where does botley Road bridge sit