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Let's *actually build* the future, together!
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I'm very sorry everyone, I made *another* new game.
MP Chain 🏛️
I recognised 1️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row.
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@Psythor 's reporting continues to be bloody excellent. Right about the postcode address file, and lots of other stuff too.
Access to AI compute is a social justice issue (FREE TO READ!)
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If you noticed a sudden dip in productivity at Sky News yesterday. It was because the political correspondents were playing @Psythor's game where you have to name as many MPs as you can in ten minutes
Can anyone beat 84 from @LucyJMcDaid? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpre…
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Access to AI compute is a social justice issue (FREE TO READ!)
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MP Recall 🏛️ (NEW ten minute mode!)
I named 70/649 current MPs in ten minutes.
🟥 42/403 LAB
🟦 14/118 CON
🟧 3/71 LD
⬜ 1/11 IND
🩵 5/8 REF
🟢 2/5 GRN
🟪 2/2 YP
🟫 1/1 RB
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MP Recall 🏛️
I named 47/649 current MPs in five minutes.
🟥 33/403 LAB
🟦 7/118 CON
🟧 1/71 LD
🩵 2/8 REF
🟢 2/5 GRN
🟫 1/1 RB
⬛ 1/1 SPK
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Some post-work listening!
New YIMBY Pod!
- @mjrobbins and I do our best to rip off More or Less, and pick apart a spurious number in the news.
- Then we speak to @1jamesHowat about how municipal bonds could help pay for infrastructure!
Listen/subscribe:
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Some lunchtime listening! It's a fun one this week as I try to do my best impression of Tim Harford on More or Less.
New YIMBY Pod!
- @mjrobbins and I do our best to rip off More or Less, and pick apart a spurious number in the news.
- Then we speak to @1jamesHowat about how municipal bonds could help pay for infrastructure!
Listen/subscribe:
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New YIMBY Pod!
- @mjrobbins and I do our best to rip off More or Less, and pick apart a spurious number in the news.
- Then we speak to @1jamesHowat about how municipal bonds could help pay for infrastructure!
Listen/subscribe:
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James O'Malley retweeted
We should turn East Anglia into Europe’s Shenzhen
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If you want to understand why it’s so hard to pause the AI race, the best place to start is Prozac
My latest for @skynews:
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Andy Burnham can talk human (Odds and Ends #109)
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New YIMBY Pod!
- John Healey goes postal, and sends a letter that could maybe fix the government.
- And we speak to Adam Tyndall about Heathrow expansion and how it's maybe, maybe, nearly, almost there.
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ICYMI:
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical (FREE TO READ!)
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The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical (FREE TO READ!)
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James is playing one of my favourite games - find the lunatic assumption in the impact assessment. And it's a doozy.
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical (FREE TO READ!)
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