there’s something quintessentially british about this picture idk. like, you’d find these lads in every british pub.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if 25th-century historians would use ability-to-build-efficient-highspeed-rail-networks as a key benchmark for civilisational progress in the late 20th/21st centuries.
I don’t think it’s inaccurate to characterize torching the block as outright rapey
"In 2018, 44 per cent of UK Twitter/X users were women according to an Ipsos Mori survey; by January this year, that had dropped to 38 per cent and will, I think, continue to plummet if this is the direction of travel for the platform." fascinating
The Twitter/X owner has announced that ‘blocked’ users will soon be able to see all social media posts - I’m not looking forward to being reunited with those unsavoury men who feel it’s their right to...
That Harris picked him is a testament to her judgment and the weirdly under-acknowledged fact that black women see white men with a level of clarity, specificity, and discernment that we generally never develop because we don’t really need it to survive or succeed.
Idem in photography and art: anyone who does photography at any but the most casual level knows that AI will never produce art-although it can fool those who don’t know what it is (see Instagram).
Plus ça change... instead of procrastinating on Twitter, I now do the same on Bluesky, instead of suffering, as I should, through my students' musings on Berkeley on perception.
We need to get that to 1.2 billion as soon as possibleand then maybe everyone can stop talking about that insufferable South African, except when his rockets are landing on Mars.
I read "Purdue Philosophy is hiring an AI", and for a micro second my heart stopped.
There are many more reasons, but yes this is one.