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Something's happening.
My inner Scot is surfacing and I'm starting to get emotional.... most likely end up head-in-hands at 3am, as we get beaten by a failed state, a permanent humanitarian disaster zone, run by drug gangs.
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Somebody has to be the wealthiest person on earth. That it is someone who built several global companies through innovation, congruent with human aspiration, seems like a plus.
Would we prefer inherited wealth like Rothschilds and Walmarts, bankers or Warren Buffet's speculative wealth?
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You'd think from watching TV that the troubles around the country were just spontaneous eruptions of irrational fascism. Nothing to see here - move on. When they have deeper roots. No one in power is simply asking Why? Quite extraordinary.
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Tell me the world is not changing.... this is slap bang in the middle of Europe...
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23…
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Jun 12
Unpopular opinion. Starmer is right on defence.
Russian spectre is exaggerated in terms of war on Europe. Why should we impoverish ourselves when spending in Europe has been historically low, and four EU countries not even in NATO?
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Jun 12
Juicy games this week:
Sat
Brazil v Morocco
Scotland v Haiti (late nighter)
Sun
Netherlands v Japan
Tue
France v Senegal
Wed
England v Croatia
Fri
Scotland v Morocco
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Jun 12
Is there anything that shows the failure of our over-lawyerly politicians than this shocking inversion of justice?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7…
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Jun 11
Doug's not happy with me watching World Cup... when he needs a walk...
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Jun 11
And so it begins. Supporting Scotland, England, Netherlands and Mexico in that order....
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Jun 11
Fell for Tip Toe ads on social media - but it's wooden, badly scripted and comically bad in all the wrong ways.
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Jun 11
Dogmatists see everything as anomalies. Brexit, deplorables, populism, riots, Reform... when they are a political backlash to their own policies. Decapitations, stabbings, killing of children, rapes... are also ignored as anomalies.
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Jun 11
Banning AI in learning would deny agency to so many in accessibility which gives anyone the ability to get knowledge, say read this to me, caption this, summarise in simpler language, show it in a graphical form, translate into my first language, give relevant examples, quiz me, let me use my voice. Accessible intelligence responds intelligently to real needs and to deny this technology to learners is to deny humanity in learning.
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Jun 10
Claude Fable academic papers already emerging. Some are VERY impressed.
Feels like a moment.
futureofbeinghuman.com/p/is-…
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Jun 10
Been to two World Cups (Italy and France) but not this one.
US put my wife on a no-flight list some years back (their mistake) causing us a huge amount of inconvenience and money to get home. US Embassies just close door on you.
Fans getting knocked back by TSA who don't give you reason for ban. Freedom of speech used to be the hallmark of American culture, it no onger exists there.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15y…
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Jun 10
Using Fable to finish off coding and agentic user testing as it works through the application like a human, on two products we're building. Minds blown.
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Jun 9
A Sturgeon-Murrell event is brewing.....
Jun 9
Manchester City Council have just awarded a 4.7m contract to a EV company.........
Who is the MD of this EV company......Andy Burnhams wife.....what a coincidence!
Remember Makerfield, Burnham is just the same as all the other inept Labour MPs!
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Jun 9
Those that spend nearly 20 years or longer in eduction; largely reading, writing, critiquing text. We never hear of their oral skills atrophying, cognitive offloading their skills in dealing with the real world, people skills being cognitively surrendered. Their agency atrophying.
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Jun 8
Not the whole story but there's a fundamental point here about technology destroying the assumed moats, first the internet, secondly AI. The latter is quantitatively and qualitatively different, in that it has allowed a lot of research to move out of the traditional HE space.
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Universities had a moat until the late 1990s because they were the repositories of knowledge.
Over the next two decades that moat eroded. The internet made information widely accessible. AI now makes expertise widely accessible.
Universities struggled to find a new identity. Rather than focusing on knowledge creation and dissemination, they evolved to maximize cash flow through a variety of taxpayer subsidies.
Marketing and branding replaced their traditional role as centers of knowledge. Scientists became minor players inside organizations that still market themselves as temples of scholarship.
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