Jon Naylor

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Renal Gone Kid

Smart kid!

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It's not that AI is useless.

It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming.

1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

It was bloody good, anyhow!

Mrs Naylor reminds me that after reading Rob MacFarlane's Mountains of the Mind, we were introduced to earlier interpretations of the word 'sublime' as meaning immense, chaotic and terrifying. To clarify, McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle are none of these things!

Really looking forward to seeing Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker, and John Doyle at the Crescent in York tonight. Seen them twice before and every moment was sublime.

Autistic man dumped after failing to purchase piece of red cardboard An autistic man has been dumped by his girlfriend after he neglected to buy her a red rectangle of cardboard on February 14th, it has been announced. Dexter Livingstone, 26, who also failed to obtain…

Livingstone said: “Siobhan left me because I’d apparently made ‘no effort’, unlike her friend Becky’s boyfriend, who had a bunch of helium-filled foil delivered to her place of work.”

Photo: Steve Bannon and Matt Goodwin shaking hands and grinning together. Quote from Steve Bannon: "Darkness is good... Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." - Steve Bannon, convicted fraudster, enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, friend of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin

Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.

For one wonderful dog walking moment this week, the rain abated and I heard yellowhammers singing for the first time this year.

An uplifting thread to read in these depressing times. There is hope for the USA yet.

Screenshot of the Nullschool app in landscape orientation showing wind streams over the Northern Pacific Ocean with the action menu overlaid on top.

I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here!

earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.

And, like the website: no ads!

Links below ⬇️

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Aw it's like someone brought their teenage son to a conference, and he's having a meltdown because he's finding it boring.

Integrity is one of the few things we genuinely own and have control over. How we chose to exercise it tells the world who we are. Some times that comes at a personal cost, which sucks. However not acting with integrity will eat you up for far longer.

That soft focus on Carol Kaye's photo - Vaseline on the lens apparently.

I went there to see The Breath a few years back. Found Rioghnach standing out in the foyer gazing up at the very same pictures, saying "How do I get on that wall?"

Is this the Caroline Club by any chance?

I remember Graham Linehan in the other place gradually finding it impossible to post about anything else. It was kind of sad.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

A drummer's eye view from behind a trombone player to a large audience seated at dinner tables waiting for the show to start.

Fun times with a new band! Just joined Bare Brass Band and played a big posh charity event last night. Great fun!

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

Mass

A dog sits near a tall shoe rack filled with various types of shoes in a room with wooden flooring. All shoes are stacked on high shelves, out of the dog’s reach.

“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

I guess you're right there. There's also an interesting omission of clarity in the message. 'Skilled Worker - Medical' is treated as a different category in the immigration statistics. Is it a different visa category too? If so, does the change apply there also?

I welcome the move. I'm surprised they're currently giving skilled worker visas to B1 level, which implies they would only need an IELTS score of 4. I agree with you though. It's a misleading headline, which leads to an impression that the change applies to migrants in general.

Nor is this regulation concerned with a particularly high proportion of worker visa cases, only about 30%.