Quantifying Britain’s moron risk premium on.ft.com/3sduphG

Possible reason for low UK productivity over the past decade: how on earth is anybody able to focus on work with politics going on like this?

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queasily useful for teaching HCI, looks disturbingly like a human dalek

New Lecturer Post at Brunel - applications from HCI people especially welcome! Closing Date 22/02/2023 #hci #ux

Not heard it framed like this before, but I this is neat and guts a chunk of industry and academic rhetoric: "‘financial inclusion’, a euphemistic phrase referring to efforts to onboard people into the commercial banking sector, and to make them dependent on bank credit"

Great to see more shadow programme committee activities building future research community leaders. INTERACT conference interact2023.org looks a good opportunity for PhDs, PostDocs and early career researchers. Apply forms.gle/Jiy7L1eXCkfU7u… by 20 Feb'23. #HCI

Interesting point from Anikó Szombati (Central Bank of Hungary) for digital money, we must distinguish between "transaction-type cash" vs. "accumulation-type cash". Not quite sure if this is architectural or end-use, but highlights difficulties for *what kind of* CBDC design #DMI

Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof. level) post at Computer Science, Brunel University London (UK). Esp. seeking applicants in blockchain or HCI (closing 23/10/2023): careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/senior… Happy to chat (DM me) #facultyjobs #HCI #fintech #blockchain

I wanted to actually go in and see it with my own eyes. Sometimes twitter is uncharitable. I wanted to see it for myself. And it's really there. It really does talk about extending Metrolink to Manchester Airport. Metrolink to Manchester Airport opened in 2014.

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