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This might be the first time ever in a World Cup that EVERYONE remembers who came 3rd 🥉 #worldcup2026 #friend #england #football
Be nice to see these adopted over this side of the pond. The doom loop is like circling the void...
Of course they bloody well are. Ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Some kind of thinly veiled quadi-religious belief in humankind's reason for being that excludes other animals from the protection this would afford. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22…
Ah, an intelligent consideration of AI.
AI can 'lie and BS' like its maker, but still not intelligent like humans sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
We don't ascribe human feelings onto our nearest living relatives (other animals) so why are we now in danger of attributing them to machines and robots? #AI #ChatGPT #machinelearning #patternmatching
We are reluctant to ascribe human emotions to our closest living relatives (animals), so why are we so quick to believe that machines & robots can share/reflect them? #AI #ChatGPT #pattern-matching #plausibility
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Does the UK need more North Sea oil and gas extraction?
@C4Ciaran digs deeper into Rishi Sunak’s decision to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences.
Seems logical. If counterintuitive.
Intelligent brains take longer to solve difficult problems: “participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple tasks, while they took longer to solve difficult problems than subjects with lower scores.” bihealth.org/en/notices/inte…
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"One thing’s for sure, implying that economically inactive over 50s are enjoying golf too much to return to work is probably not going to help."
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Due to the Covid restrictions in 2021, Australian farmer Ben Jackson couldn’t attend his aunt’s funeral. So he laid grain for his sheep to gather around in the shape of a ♥️ so she could see it from heaven. Love and humanity will never ever be restricted.
Brilliant. Precisely a prediction I made at the beginning of lockdown. Remote working supports diversity and inclusion.
With Covid prompting more employers to consider remote arrangements, employment has soared among adults with disabilities. Employers are reconsidering job requirements, overhauling hiring processes and recruiting candidates they might once have overlooked. nyti.ms/3sw0bXA
ALT A quote from Arlene Kanter, the director of the Disability Law and Policy Program at the Syracuse University law school, reads: "If other people can show that they can perform their work well at home, as they did during Covid, then people with disabilities, as a matter of accommodation, shouldn’t be denied that right."
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My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.
He's four months old.
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1/. As the death toll rises to 41 today, four women you should know who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in Iran when protesting gender apartheid and the killing of #Masha_Amini:
Hadis Najafi, aged 20, shot six times when security forces opened fire on her.
I tend to agree with the author. And it probably says a lot about politicians.
From Thatcher to Truss: stop equating female leaders with feminist leaders cityam.com/from-thatcher-to-…
Incredible. Foot perfect at every step.
Take a bow @VernStokes. To organise and deliver the perfect state funeral in front of the world is a testament to you and all involved. Proud to be british 🇬🇧
#queensfuneral #TheQueen #GodSaveTheKing
