Aidan Skinner

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Quite. Also GDP, and therefore tax revenues to do social democracy with.

statutory paternity pay for self employed dads is really good stuff tbh

The 4 kinds of bluesky user

Tremendous

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

1400s: a language is a dialect with a great novel published 1800s: a language is a dialect with an army now: a language is a dialect with a compiler

Offered to 60,000 employees (their total workforce is 223,000 employees) “As we well know from watching the tech industry over the years, big earnings is the perfect time to shave off some headcount to keep the line going up.”

The good old days when the unions were still opposing equal pay for women

Me and the regular group who like my posts

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

the silence continues

"The bearded intellectuals I liked to hang about with all seemed to switch from old-fashioneds to Negronis"

Are you a Labour MP (or office staff for same)? Have you been contacted by GB News & asked about my estimates of how (2024) constituencies voted in the EU referendum? Please remember: that was 10 years ago. Some people die, some turn eighteen—& most importantly, some change their mind!

Amazing visualisation of our grid and the balancing costs of renewables at the other end of the country far from equivalent demand. Clean but definitely not cheap for a long time yet.

This could be George St and Princes St

@finnob.bsky.social this may be up your traffic calmed street?

Has to be said that a great thing about Lula is he is a champion grade hater

George Galloway, 1954-2026. Followed a stray balloon onto the tracks at Cardiff Central. RIP big man

17yr old ELIZABETH TAYLOR washing her dog — Amy — in 1949.

Viscerally upset by the Beth Upton stuff. They won't be satisfied until they have hounded a woman – who the tribunal explicitly found had done nothing wrong – to her death. Btw the "incident" in Australia is that a patient worried she *might* be forced to be treated by her. She of course wasn't.

The tech world gets a lot easier to understand once you suss that Americans like the idea of their children far more than they actually like their children. It's an inherently dehumanising and narcissistic parenting culture where children are extensions and status symbols, not independent humans.

my sources say forcefemming, in camps, being considered for all men im pro-man and take no pleasure in reporting this

Cray-2 was the fastest computer ever built as of 1985, processing at 1.9 gigaflops, or 1.9 billion floating point operations per second (FLOPS) iPhone 17 processes at ~2,073 gigaflops, or 2 trillion FLOPS Cray-2 weighed >5,500 pounds, while the iPhone 17 weighs 6.24 ounces— >14,000 times lighter

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

I have eaten the emergency stockpile that was in my house and which andy burnham told me to save for the emergency Forgive me they were beans so baked and so beany

We are continuing to closely monitor network disruption. If you experience a power cut, you can call your network operator by dialling 105 or visit powercut105.com

Thank you to the engineers working around the clock to restore power to customers in difficult conditions following Storms Austen and Boelo. While we know there are many still without power, over 670,000 customers have now had supplies restored since the storms started.

Of course it's an audi

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

most left of centre people at least generally know what to make of someone who responds to a report finding more racism by desperately trying to discredit the report and say there's no issue at all. It's always interesting to see when exceptions are made

had to reorganise some drawers in my office and it strikes me that management is when you make sure there's post it notes and leadership is when you make sure they're genuine 3m super sticky ones

The UK: no but why *should* we have 3 days of basic food and water in? What are they not telling us? Also the UK:

the guidance and advice have literally all said "if you are able" as well! if you don't have space or money or whatever, then just... don't? as per the guidance.

THANKS TO SHARIA