New (good) changes to UK company law being rolled out:
Releasing videos to a schedule is one thing, but releasing videos to a weekly schedule non-stop for a decade is something else entirely.
Raise a glass to Tom Scott
Enjoy your rest, you deserve it!
Two weeks left to have your say on how #Southend council is elected - continue with 1 of 3 councillors being elected most years, or all 3 elected once every 4 years? https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/3027/have-your-say-on-how-your-council-is-elected
🆕 blog! “Tech Predictions for 2024”
Only fools try to predict the future. You can read my predictions for 2023, or dig deep into my archives and rate me on how foolish I am. So here are my five predictions for 2024 AI Genocide It is obvious that Large Language Models are based on stolen material. I suspect that a lawsuit […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/tech-predictions-for-2024/
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#future #nearfuture #predictions
All 13 episodes of the original "Cosmos" are on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage
Central Museum #Southend is open, with an exhibition of EKCO radios (alongside the Saxon King and permanent exhibits).
https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/3033/popular-ekco-exhibition-at-southend-central-museum-to-be-extended
Just 267 pieces but took us three days to finish this Big Bismuth puzzle from @nervous_jessica @nervous_jesse
https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/generativeProduct.php?code=411
Tis the season to reflect on my 20% project from my Google days!
"Santa Tracker Tales: Nearly crashing Google's servers, Leaking Santa's data, and Angering an entire country"
https://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/santa-tracker-tales-nearly-crashing.html
🆕 blog! “Electricity That's Too Cheap To Meter”
Nuclear power was sold to the world as a safe, clean, and economically viable source of electricity. We were told that it would be "too cheap to meter"1. Even the most ardent proponent of nuclear power will have to admit that hasn't come to pass. Construction costs for nuclear power stations are dwarfed only by […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/electricity-thats-too-cheap-to-meter/
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#electricity #environment #solar
New boundaries have been published for the 2024 General Election. I've taken the Local Election results and applied that to the new boundaries https://dbatley.com/elections/2024/bce_final.html #BoundaryCommission #ukpol
Well this is a mess. I'm glad I haven't used my main email address for any apple related stuff, but I'm sure I have silently lost messages from people because I don't use messages on Mac at all
https://maya.land/monologues/2023/12/26/laptop-of-the-magi-apple-antitrust.html
Unexpectedly interesting story of some of #London's christmassy locations
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/12/nazareth-gardens-and-bethlehem-house.html
YOUR CHRISTMAS MOVIE
MY INAUGURAL LECTURE
Open Science!
Huge Patient Datasets.... but with Privacy Protected!
Vast National Infrastructure Projects... but created by a Small Squadron of Vikings!
Epic Battles for Clinical Trials Transparency... but with Happy Endings!
Data... but with Mawkish Moving Stories about Colleagues and Family!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Matt Gray is Trying: Line Marking
I knew this would require some skill and practice, but wow. The people who do this day in day out are so good!
Thanks to Total Line Marking for letting me come over and ruin their car park!
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