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  1. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    They....what now?

    Replying to @eldahshan
    Yes, they periodically spray a fine mist on all the produce, and play a rainstorm soundtrack while they’re doing it. Americans don’t even notice it’s happening, it’s like asking a fish about the water
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    18 hours ago

    Best thing you’ll read today. Bravo

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  3. 18 hours ago

    May interest

    William Gibson on the word ‘interface’ in yesterday’s Guardian.
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  4. 20 hours ago

    For the amusement of you can speculate that alcohol & paracetamol consumption explains much of the age divide in British politics:

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    20 hours ago

    The correlation breaks at a fairly primitive level of societal evolution, which is why strong people often seem to favor primitivist social orders and get frustrated at how hard it is to actually rewind to such states.

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    20 hours ago

    Modernity breaks the correlation between individual strength and collective well-being. The fates of societies often end up depending on the behaviors of weakling train wrecks with One Weird Trick, while strong people stand aground useless and frustrated.

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  7. Jan 11

    I think will like this one.

    “Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems” -Sergey Brin (Google Cofounder) Orthopaedic Ward Bladder Scanner kept disappearing. Staff from other wards never returned it. Innovative CNM solution was to put a “Broken” notice on it. It’s working 👏👍🏻💦😂
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  8. Jan 11

    one for

    I stopped to upload a photo and a coot walked right up to me. So I took a picture of its bizarre lobed toes.
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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    The past is a different country, but unfortunately that country is also England

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  10. Jan 11

    One of the grand ironies is that Johnson is very much like Theresa May: he may have some trigger issues (we are yet to identify what these are) but he is actually uninterested in most thing - so it matters a lot who his advisors are

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    Jan 10

    Australia in the 21st century - precarious workers with the highest vulnerabilities carry 100% of the risk, with zero responsibility taken by capital or the state.

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  12. Jan 10

    A couple of things we need: 1) A Marxism that isn't in hoc to Christian Eschatology 2) A Systems Discipline that isn't in hoc to Hayek's mystic leanings These thoughts brought to you from watching a talk yesterday.

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    Jan 9

    A crazy, mostly under the radar internet scandal: The non-profit that was given control of the .org domain name is trying to sell it to a private equity company for $1 billion

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  14. Jan 10

    This from is long (1hr40) but the upside is there are no visuals, so you can listen to it just as audio. Highly recommend for anyone trying to process where we are now.

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  15. Jan 10

    The other job ad Dominic Cummings put out there...

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  16. Jan 9

    Mr writes:

    "The breakup of the union may be one of the few good things to come out of Brexit — not just for Scotland and Ireland but also, and perhaps especially, for England."
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  17. Jan 9

    One to go with 's Scunthorpe watch

    Extremely concerning that Liberty steel is set to axe hundreds of jobs. We need Government to urgently step in to save this industry & implement a comprehensive steel strategy. Otherwise it will be families & working class communities that pay the price.
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    17 Dec 2019

    New book out now. Who's Driving Innovation? ()

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  19. Jan 8

    One for

    Oh God, he's found another one...
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  20. Jan 8

    One thing that is fascinating in a lot of these reports is they don't seem to notice 's work provides a simple model for how a large volume of artificial personas can tilt debate.

    ”Artificial personas are the future of propaganda. And while they may not be effective in tilting debate to one side or another, they easily drown out debate entirely. We don’t know the effect of that noise on democracy, only that it’ll be pernicious, and that it’s inevitable.”
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