English teacher; slow reader; user of semi-colons.
London, England
Joined November 2010
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Harry Maguire is United’s captain. Luke Shaw is their only left-back and he’s injured. It’s 2026.
Every time this comes round, the answer is the same. Literally yes.
If you're the richest man alive when the world ends, you can say you won.
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Our first cohort of GCSE Latin students began their course in September, after three years of KS3 Latin teaching. We’re very proud of this. We are a school that is now over 70% PP. Don’t make Latin the preserve of the elite.
We are thrilled to be the new Latin Excellence Hub for schools in the Midlands. By building a network of schools, we will help to ensure that Latin continues to be offered to state school pupils. Huge thanks to @futureacademies, @LawrenceEFoley & @classicsforall for their support
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America: We need to kill the humanities so we don’t lose the AI race to China
China: Every child shall read Jane Eyre
ALT New York Times headline about how Jane Eyre is now mandatory reading for ninth graders in China
I actually think this. At £1bn the government should just cash you out. You get the billion in cash - more money than than you or your next ten generations could ever need - and all your assets are nationalised from that point.
Twitter has had over a decade to scrape my habits and personal data and they've decided I'm a target demo for the highland cow advent calendar.
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British people will walk past a Starbucks, Burger King, Costa Coffee, Taco Bell, Blank Street and not even notice. Then they'll see an independent shop called Al-Badr Supermarket and cry about how the UK is being taken over by foreigners.
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NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
*slamming my egg into the side of a pyrex bowl, spraying broken shell fragments and yolk all over the counter*
"WOKE SHIT!"
Eco friendly be damned.
These white shelled eggs supermarkets now insist on selling because they’re “better for the environment” are rubbish.
Impossible to break the shells without breaking the yolk.
Ruin fried eggs every time.
Which I suspect the government loves, given its banning fried eggs from school food for reasons that make no sense.
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My hot take is that if your company builds software that it cannot stop from hacking into other systems, your company is a malware company and should be treated as such
I want to experience art made by people. I accept that one day soon I may not reliably be able to tell the difference. But I still want to experience art made by people. Luckily there is more than enough already in existence.
Claude Opus 5.5 writes a fugue in the style of Bach. I called Astra’s fugue the most impressive musical feat I’d ever seen from an LLM, and this is just as good. The circle-of-fifths sequence beginning at 1:13 is beautiful. The interplay of voices is natural and satisfying. LLMs are getting to the point where their music is good enough to listen to for pure enjoyment.
Patrick retweeted
Why did Scrooge want a bottle of Fairy Liquid for Christmas?
So he could de-grease the surplus population.
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So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
This is spot on btw. My years in the trenches reading picture books proved that Donaldson's wild success is entirely down to her verse just being better than everyone else's.
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The chatbot industry is an apocalyptic death cult, strung out on a diet of tokens that reinforce their own delusions. It is the worst mass psychosis event in economic history.
Imagine an employee of any other company saying his product has a good chance of making us extinct.
If someone actually believed this bullshit—and it is total bullshit—why shouldn’t they feel their life is being threatened by these people?
If a stranger walked up to your child with a gun and said, “I’m going to pull the trigger now, but there’s only one bullet so they probably won’t die,” how would you feel about that? How is this threat fundamentally different?
We are watching the death throes of the greatest misallocation of capital and resources, ever. Trillions have been wasted so amoral psychopaths like this can play around with unfathomable amounts of computing power with the goal of creating a product that may “kill all humans!”
Shut it all down. This is a poisonous, unaccountable cult run by suicidally unstable children.
