Bruce

Lovely news from St James’ Park - four pelican chicks were born last month, the first time in 360 years

While it’s all been rather fun, I do hope @hughlaurie takes the time to read my @unherd article (I’m sure he can stretch to a subscription). Because while his witty riposte was genuinely amusing, one point I make in the piece is that it was shared with his 1.2 million followers on X. I have around 38,000. That creates something of an imbalance - particularly given that the responses to my original post were overwhelmingly warm-hearted and affectionate towards the show. The result has been some fairly horrific trolling. It turns out House fans are even more abusive than trans activists (and that’s saying something). I have enough experience of the media to take it on the chin, as the saying goes. But someone without my background might have found the experience far more distressing. Link below 👇

“This is called cognitive offloading”

Is AI killing jobs? New data shows that, more than three years after the release of ChatGPT, there is no evidence for a significant impact of AI on overall employment in the UK. In our new report, we break down the labour force into different occupations and use four measures of AI exposure to determine how likely they are to be affected by the technology. Surprisingly, occupations with higher exposure to AI have grown faster than least-exposed ones, not slower. This holds across all four measures, and across two different data sources. The wage picture is different. Pay in AI-exposed occupations has lagged the rest of the labour market since 2019. But that gap opened three years before ChatGPT, which makes AI an unlikely candidate for the observed wage compression. This flattening of the wage structure is visible across the within-occupation distribution and strongest at the top quartile, which is consistent with labour market dynamics that predate generative AI.

It's an honour to have had you post here. I make a series on Britain's lost and living pubs @Britains___Pubs and hope to one day come and shed some light on the work you do. Not that most of the world can't see, but simply with my own touch and thoughts. It's been rough lately, but your shows help me as much as they possibly can, which is unusual considering how against most celebrities I am. You, however, I salute for many reasons. I hope to see you one day, if fate permits and never forget that we are who we are. 🤝🍻🏆