forget “r u okay day” and let’s talk about a three or four day work week and a six hour work day… fighting our culture of over work + burnout will do more for our mental health than a corporate morning tea

This is the best short description of Australian climate efforts I’ve seen.

Deeply ashamed to live in a country where baby formula and basic household goods are encased in anti-theft packaging. When are we going to address the reason parents are having to steal baby milk and support them instead of criminalising them.

Happy #Caturday x.com/carehearts12/s…

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

The career history of Pret A Manger's CEO, Pano Christou. Nice to see things like this.

"I'm voting Yes, and I'm asking that all Australians do too."

Tbh “the last days of the Truss administration” could - quite accurately - be described as “the first days of the Truss administration” or simply “The Truss administration”

For Australia, transitioning to a low carbon economy means the future isn’t that different from today, writes Saul Griffith. Only in the future, we’ll export shiny metals, not dull black rocks and natural gas. satpa.pe/N6t4uIL

This is still the best AI ever generated Salmon jumping in a river

Vicious Self-Degradation > you Google > Quora spots query and id’s as frequent > Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer > ChatGPT hallucinates > Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer > ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer

15 minute cities means that every 15 minutes in a city you have to say pronouns and if you don't then a knife crime happens on you and the woke police won't even come and do anything about it because they're only allowed to go 20 miles an hour. It's true, I saw it on Facebook.

In 2015 I wrote quite a cynical piece about HS2 in which I argued that it was probably all about using Manchester and Leeds to build a business case for increasing rail capacity between Milton Keynes and London. And actually it wasn't cynical enough. Lesson learned I suppose.

Sunak reveals his plan for HS2 once it reaches Birmingham:

Letter of the week (from the Guardian)

GPT-4V "Describe this image" 🔃 Dall-E 3 "Generate this image" Recursive loop

In accordance with ancient tradition (and the Port of London Thames Byelaws) a bundle of straw is dangled from Millennium Bridge to warn shipping of work under the bridge (we’re not making this up, honest). Robert, from our rope access contractor CAN Ltd, does the honours.

More than half of all web-users have installed ad-blockers. It's the largest consumer boycott in human history: doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how… 19/

Channel 4 reveals biggest ever broadcasting plans and ground-breaking presenting team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games ✨ channel4.com/press/news/cha… #ParalympicsC4 #Paris2024