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An incoherent new front in the information war. https://t.co/1ZIMZ0bi3g

Modular cognition: How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up.
https://t.co/1RRSrSb1nl

In a war people seem much more willing to share their indulgence in weapon porn. https://t.co/6YCuHSs0ka

RT @RichardJMurphy: Making sense of energy price rises is important. They’re going to be the cause of a lot of poverty in the UK, soon. So,…

RT @DrSimEvans: UPDATE

Renewable costs have plummeted over the last decade, whereas gas prices have recently soared

UK gas generation is…

I do love a good shmooze. Here at the @IMLPO member meeting and aside from a couple of tech issues everything is going according to plan!

Deleted a tweet about NASAs Space Launch System costing $4.1bn per launch because it's actually the first 4 launches that cost that. I assume that takes decade + long dev costs into account, but isn't it oddly arbitrary to spread them among 4 launches? https://t.co/VeexUGah8v

Mapping Doggerland
https://t.co/5IW5CnPtWQ https://t.co/y6rh7rbQjV

So I had this dream. I was desperate for the loo as I plummeted down a chasm only to realise I was late for the exam tomorrow & naked in front of the whole class who were chasing me & Bill Clinton through a maze in a fast car that careened off a cliff into a lake I drowned in.

Then my teeth fell out.

I met Graham on Thursday after inviting him to speak at the @IMLPO member event. The talk was brilliant and included a real-time demo of the craziness that is Companies House. https://t.co/mAdT227zJD

@FirstBSA Hi. Can You tell me if the X6 Clevedon bus is running as normal along Wellington Terrace today?

Wowzers. My Mum and @BettanyKevin are celebrating their 50th Anniversary today. https://t.co/LgtqOHarpA

RT @Greenpeace: The richest 1% - the more than 60 million people earning $109,000 a year- are by far the fastest-growing source of emission…

RT @AddictMap: Map lovers, I recently stopped for 30 min in a bookshop checking out this maps book. Love the way visual information sticks…

“How people fall apart” – The #neuroscience of burnout.

https://t.co/nyFyQXTbDG

Far be it for me to suggest that the power companies might shaft you more than they already are, but it might not be a bad idea to take a gas/electric meter reading today.

RT @IMLPO: "90% of crypto firms seeking approval for their anti-money laundering controls have either withdrawn their applications or been…

Successive failures to regulate access to #Porn is creating an invisible crisis for children & young people.

https://t.co/TWAo5k9y8j

Parental embarrassment and the tendency to delegate responsibility to ISP safety settings, ignores the broader problem.

Yikes. "The gently parented child."

https://t.co/qJTqaEC5Sh

If there's anything we've learned about #megaprojects esp #nuclear ones, they tend to come in vastly over-budget. Sunak knows this. £13bn for 8 reactors will balloon in no time.

https://t.co/8omChYzK1N

RT @IMLPO: What is the Modern Landscape of White-Collar Crime?

In this article from @LawyerMonthly,
@hatton_helen discusses her firm’s wo…

“Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics”

Discussion: https://t.co/wzS62E2XpM

Paper: https://t.co/VwTib4om9A (pdf)

#Economics #EconTwitter

Agreeable people.

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Deduction. Induction. Abduction?

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#philosophy

RT @xkcdComic: Linguistics Degree https://t.co/AR8axJMKb0 https://t.co/h5l667Fi7b https://t.co/yDnYPudpR1

The "yes hair theorem".

https://t.co/sbYcR8VCel

But what are they saying? 🤔

https://t.co/2Pm6hgw25T

Overconfident defenders of the Dunning-Kruger effect

Overconfident defenders of the Dunning-Kruger effect | The Psychologist

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@FirstBSA would you mind confirming what's happening with the X6 / X7 Bus from Bristol to Clevedon. Is it true that there won't be any buses after 9pm?

Can't help but wonder what sequence of meetings had to happen to get the #RwandaMigrationPlan on the table. I mean, who approached who in the first place? And what was the quid pro quo?

"…evidence that mindfulness can lead to undesirable outcomes by dampening feelings of guilt."

https://t.co/esG40NCs96

Maybe there's hope for recovering those missing mails and WhatsApp messages after all!

https://t.co/TEKnRYzBH5

"We believe that what has happened is reflective of structural and societal attitudes towards relationships and sex education as well as art, culture and who is allowed to create and what we are allowed to engage with in the UK."

https://t.co/MjKXZuwsAz

#Bristol #Arts

Unusual Science Fictional concepts please.

I remember 'Slow Glass' which, as the name suggests, is glass which vastly slows the speed of light & offers a (literal) window on the past. Can't remember where it came from though 🤔

#scifi #sciencefiction

Another word that's new to me. ‘Aphantasia’ is the absence of visual imagination.

https://t.co/NujptROTUd

I really think this song is underrated https://t.co/LJBVODfTyU

Sometimes watching a very, very bad movie can be kind of inspiring.

Streaming has proved that there's a very long tail of very bad SciFi. This one is atrocious.

It's Australian and set in the Sahara.

Neither fact in itself should really be a problem. I mean, I'm sure if I could wrench my eyes away, I'd be able to think of loads of brilliant Ozzy SciFi.

[yikes. There's a man. In a room. & there's blood…And, oh, it was a hullucination]

And the Sahara. It's hard to form an opinion about whether there is too much or too little sand in the genre, but that provides an allure. Will this movie help me answer that question?

This one has 2 characters.

A rugged security character who is investigating the isolated facility and currently showing his sensitive side to the mysterious blond woman who appeared out of nowhere.

It's almost halfway through. There's been intimacy but nowhere to be seen is the massively deep hole that I'd really switched on for.

[Crawling around naked in a corridor. Zombie hullucinations. So many corridors]

Still no hole! This must be one of those movies where all the action happens at the top of the hole.

He is pretty traumatised by the hallucinations I think… Maybe he's already in the hole?

I think I need to forget about the hole.

It's basically exactly like Event Horizon set near to the top of a really deep hole.

But worse than you'd imagine.

Oh no. it's becoming properly supernatural. If I'm following this correctly, he has literally just sold his soul to the devil whose been posing as the blond woman.

Don't do it, Jack.

The real blond woman has just hid in the kitchen unit like the children in Jurassic Park. Only not so good!

And then a really abrupt rescue for everyone involved… With rousing music. Blimey.

Later at the debrief 'the incident' is put down to – wait for it – psychedelic gasses emitted from the hole. But something isn't sitting right with our hero.

Things are getting bad. He's just been put on 'extended sick leave'.

And is still having hallucinations. Could it have been him all along?

The answer is an emphatic, maybe.

But do I care? Not enough unfortunately.

They really let me down with the hole.

@Opticheart @pick_vic @SwipeWright I'm not religious but I teach my children not to blaspheme because I know people who are and who find it offensive. It's no skin off my nose to avoid offending people who have different beliefs. Respecting pronouns is just that.

Is this the the future of tea? And why are they targeting me with it? https://t.co/zf8FWCxt9Q

The hypothesis that religiosity and the endorsement of conspiracy theories share similar cognitive features.

https://t.co/85Cua6HR6h

Getting rid of annual MOTs really helps with cost of living, especially if you're in a 3-car family. And besides, vehicle safety and roadworthiness are totally subjective. As a non-car owner I really appreciate the government tinkering with the probabilities of my demise.

Ed Balls

@FirstBSA Hi there. Can you confirm whether the X6 is running back and forth down Wellington Terrace in Clevedon today? Not sure about impact of roadworks on Hill Road.

Somewhere, the Sun.

#fractal #artwork https://t.co/IAeuXlzWnX

Seed-firing drones that plant 40,000 trees every day.

https://t.co/m4wRTg4bJt

Molten salt battery tech can store energy for months.

https://t.co/fGrv1tpWGj

RT @GT270913: Brexit benefit klaxon.

#Populism and #nostalgia
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RT @adamndsmith: bet you've never seen a snail drink water https://t.co/5RQrhLPaAf

@BBCPM – The cookies aren't going! The government is just intending to stop letting us know what and how many there are, which makes our data footprints more opaque and vulnerable to exploitation.

Cutting 20% of the civil service gets you £3.5bn less £X in unintended consequences due to lost services, false economies and 60k additional unemployed.

Estimated loss to fraud and error across all Covid-19 response measures. £15bn

https://t.co/UOzcDLZHRe

I'm kind of curious if we happen to be at precisely the right angle to view the donut, or whether we'd get that view whichever direction we were observing from. https://t.co/psQkCIwUNh

This should probably get a bit more attention. https://t.co/zxrM2jpaKa

@MikeWel61647760 All of them? Even if it were true, the civil service implements policy set by government, so I'm not sure you can blame them directly.

So I found the answer to this question, and it's pretty weird.

https://t.co/EZ74XwiiJI https://t.co/VyivIC2b3Q

RT @EdConwaySky: 🧵
Something seriously odd is afoot in natural gas markets.
There's a BIG glut of gas in the UK.
Wholesale gas prices are t…

@DrAaronB Would you mind linking to the source Aaron. It's bound to come up.

RT @IMLPO: "Bad behaviours that are present in our economic sphere are emerging with greater regularity in our politics and our public sphe…

RT @TheFractalist: Chasing Rainbows

#fractal #fractalart #digitalart #art #geometry #geometricart #complexity #artist #psychedelic #psyche…

RT @JoeJancar: Bristol Suspension Bridge last night.

#Bristol #visitbristol #cliftonsuspensionbridge #bbcbristol https://t.co/VE3ltf1Ygz

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe…" https://t.co/aXZMUaoKSh

RT @xkcdComic: Angular Diameter Turnaround https://t.co/V2s0SWIKYW https://t.co/xrA7nYlJ3R https://t.co/VXNJ1a3eSG