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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 7h

I’m hoping this is the Guardian being the Guardian. The Bank of England should know that private schools fees are not in its basket of goods and services for measuring CPI, I imagine because so few people pay private school fees.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13h

I have a Tesla model 3 ev. It's a pretty big family car. It weighs about 1800kg.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13h

It is a priority of Thames Water to get that shit directly into the rivers where it belongs.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 2d

Me: which cities or towns are in more than one country.

AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).

The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 3d

This is the most thermodynamically illiterate BS that I’ve read in a long time:

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.

Absolutely dismal.

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid

A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first

www.theguardian.com

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 7d

Incredibly sad and shameful.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 7d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13d

Like I said mate, priorities. Let’s maybe do cards in good time after we don’t have people living in cold and squalor.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13d

It’s not the just the cards, it’s the tone deafness of it. I want hospitals and schools that work, I don’t want money wasted on ID schemes. Priorities.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13d

Status quo, with Anglican priests sitting in the House of Lords, but the boss is a woman.

That does not strike me as the breakthrough the OP perhaps thought.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 14d

No Pasaran.

Memorial to the British and Irish members of the International Brigade.

Inscription for the London International Brigade memorial.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16d

This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity:

neo4j.com/customer-sto...

Enel Rebuilt Its Grid as a Digital Twin — Now It Sees, Plans, and Acts in Real Time with Neo4j

ENEL delivers real-time grid intelligence across 9 countries, automating 80% of customer quotes that once required manual processing

neo4j.com

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 21d

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20d

LOL, ok boomer.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20d

I don’t think it’s an upgrade thing. Take a web site that has a black background and slide the window over eg a Word document. Apple thinks it’s nice that you can sort of see the word doc behind the browser window. It’s fancy but actually unhelpful.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 21d

Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS?

It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 21d

Yeah, but authoritarian "communism" lacked both and it still sucked.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 23d

Yup. His focus on simple (and wrong) messages is amazing. The closest we ever came was "Rise like lions from slumber" which remains evocative but a bit middle-class pretentious.

Don't remind me about Labour's "Controls on Immigration" because that failed in all possibly dimensions.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 23d

"Take back control" was, frankly, brilliant politics. The complex, technocratic pitch that remain rolled out was difficult to understand, and defensive. TBC was simple and empowering (and yes, wrong).

We must learn from Reagan of all people: if you're explaining, you're losing.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 23d

Nah.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 23d

The logos are all lovely but the name doesn’t work well in my English-hardwired brain.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 26d

Aloof and oblivious?

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 28d

Have patients, you just need to practise.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · Sep 16

I think about this a lot. From parliamentary conduct, to professionalism in the (office) workplace. These are behaviors that entrench interests and alienate people from other backgrounds.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · Sep 15

With nuclear it’s always follow the money.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · Sep 15

The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer.

This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.

This does not make any sense.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

www.theguardian.com

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