Kit Eason

A samurai crab walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the face?”

“A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

My iPhoneduo screen has cracked already and I don’t even have one.

How to destroy your departmental rival in 3 easy steps: 1. Make serious allegations. Evidence optional 2 Let rumour do the work while your rival’s reputation burns 3 Count on HR to swallow the story if you’re an institutional favourite A major problem at many universities now

Where did this thing of saying 2-30 to mean the year 2030 come from? Do people think it makes them sound more policy-y?

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

I am excited to announce that I am starting a lab at Stony Brook University in Fall 2027! Please reach out about collaborations! Note that the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social Computational Science Graduate Fellowship application has just opened; more later on this fantastic opp. krinoslab.github.io

The Persilschein Ultra edition has arrived, as my old copy of Galland's classic and influential piece of misdirection has gone walkabout. It must be thirty years since I first read it, and I'd forgotten about Douglas Bader's fawning introduction where he praises Galland for not doing politics.

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

Fable.Lit.Dsl + Fable.Lit.Dsl.Shoelace v2 are out! • Growing lists and one-armed ifs no longer rebuild the parent, so scroll, focus & animations survive • New forKeyed for keyed lists • Text & attributes are bound: escaped, and updated in place github.com/JordanMarr/F... #fsharp

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn seem like incredibly lovely people. youtu.be/hAZp9KAuETU?...

Interesting example of negativity-bias in BBC news headlining: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nefarious-plot-to-undergo-years-of-m-1850433563/

Introducing Fable.Ripple: fine-grained reactivity for F# and Fable. A write updates the exact DOM nodes reading the signal. No virtual tree, no diff. Four focused packages for signals, DOM, forms, and routing. Try the beta: fable-hub.github.io/Fable.Ripple/ #fsharp

Hot off the press Data Science role in Southampton UK. Absolutely world class team. Green impact. #datascience careers.hitachi.com/jobs/1825171...

Anyways who wants to look at some cool drawings of engines? merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

If any journalists reporting on tech-startups or financial shenanigans want to contact me, I think I have a story about a soon-to-IPO company possibly screwing over its early employees.

Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal In 2023, Prof Wyn Evans offered to settle for £10,000 & a sabbatical year! Instead, Cambridge leadership fought an Employment Tribunal at a cost of > £600,000 & destroyed the reputation of a University department Huge waste of public money to undermine Cambridge

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

What kind of experience is not “lived experience”?

Learning to code? That's great. My main tip is don't learn on Python. I know you read Python is great, but don't learn on Python. I know people told you Python is easy, and it is, but don't learn on Python. Learning to code on Python will teach you to write bad code. Learn elsewhere, then Python.

NORWEGIAN OWNED WI-FI HBO PETS

“Perpetuate” and “perpetrate” are different words and mean different things.

There was a time when people would move their gold TO the USA in times of trouble. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FIRST BATCH OF LIVE DATES FOR 2027! I'll be playing Gorilla in Manchester with the beautiful @apta.bsky.social and Norwich Arts Centre and Cambridge Junction2 with Slowdive's Simon Scott. Tickets available on Monday. warringtonruncorn.com/live/

Thinking of having a whip-round to buy the producers of “Ludwig” some lights.

The two scandals involving Cambridge University that are in the news show exactly the same thing Internal processes which could & should address matters early, discreetly & with compassion and support, are no longer operational

Are you in the UK? Are you running android? Did you receive several emergency alerts yesterday? Could you run `adb shell content query --uri content://cellbroadcasts` and send me the output?

If they tried harder, I’m sure OpenAI could make the Windows Chat GPT app more confusing to use. At the moment it’s only extremely confusing.

Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal Handling of grievances at Cambridge University has left many people without the means to challenge what happened to them, particularly early-career scholars & those without access to financial backing This victory is for them 21percent.org?p=4153

This transphobic code of practice is going cause immense harm to trans people's everyday lives. And lots of women's and disabled people's. We think we can stop it. But not without your help 👇

The greatest trick the seagull ever pulled was convincing the pedants it doesn’t exist.

We’re operating two direct @lner.co.uk services between Newcastle and Bedford to make journeys to/from London easier during the upcoming engineering work closure on Sunday 30 August. They will connect at Bedford with Thameslink services.

Good example of poor colour blindness accessibility on UKHSA's heat health alerts map. 'No alert' and 'Red alert' are practically indistinguishable if you have protanopia ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/weather-heal...

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface