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The view from outside

Has Jared Leto found Jesus yet? Or is he going to see how all this shakes out before he finds the Lord?

Recommend this - a piece showing how organised crime (in this case in the Philippines) is both very distributed and also deeply enmeshed in political circles. And how many working on relationship scams are themselves trafficked and engaged in forced labour economist.com/interactive/...

Also: ‘He even has a British accent now, which I am not very pleased about.’

Actually the really interesting bit of this story is about how this gang which had its origins in Sweden ended up working for the Iranian regime. It’s worthy of a Netflix series

Here’s more on how international gangs are recruiting young people to carry out violent acts, and aren’t especially bothered if they get caught or not www.thetimes.com/article/bd49...

We need to learn from countries that are further ahead in thinking about how to deal with wildfires. This includes controlled fires to create firebreaks, households making their homes more defensible and total fire bans in periods of highest risk www.ft.com/content/5481...

Absolutely. I hope it can be tackled and the reasons for risk pooling made to land

I was really struck by the below that many people won’t have catastrophic costs, and so it’s just quite a low salience issue. So it will take a lot of political leadership to push it through. Will be interesting to see if cross party consensus can emerge on this one bsky.app/profile/heta...

aside from anything else, “i need ammunition, not a ride” is just the coolest fucking thing to say

Can he pull it off? Or will it turn out that there’s a reason that policy wonks aren’t politicians? It will be really interesting to see, and on a crucial issue that desperately needs sorting

Policy wonks say politicians should be more open about difficult truths with the public. But if it were easy they already would. So it’s interesting to see the PM make the argument for potential tax rises for social care by indicating the trade offs (‘what about them?’) www.ft.com/content/ed64...

For the DSIR, national prestige meant the telescope had to be visible: it was, to quote the DSIR Chief Information Officer, Lt. Col. Walter Hingston, to be the "great public spectacle" of British leadership of science Huge crowds made astronomers nervous. This is the origins of visitor management

So a second meaning is that Jodrell Bank will be an astronomical instrument, in particular one that is in Britain and one that works when the skies are cloudy (It might seem obvious, right? But radio astronomy was still very new. Optical astronomers needed convincing. The meaning had to be made)

Manchester chooses a single, big, steerable radio telescope. (That's the first meaning: it's NOT Cambridge's style) But to do that requires serious engineering. So Lovell brings in H. Charles Husband (the unsung hero). It is Husband's design Look at the scale of the thing. Those are lorries.

Great 🧵 on the history of Jodrell Bank here

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Chef’s kiss stuff

It’s great to see how the Big Four consultancies are working so hard to educate the public about the risks of slapdash use of AI www.ft.com/content/7e14...