Tom Chivers
"Far too nice to be a journalist": Terry Pratchett. DMs open, chiversthomas(a)gmail tomchivers.com Order my first book, The AI Does Not Hate You, below
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The Jubilee
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Tom Chivers
I'd forgotten how dark Perry Bible Fellowship is pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jub… pic.twitter.com/hOEKlLwQQM
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A Border Kept Him From His Daughter. Now He’s Here to Say Goodbye.
A 13-year-old girl from Honduras waited for her father to join her in the United States. But her father was repeatedly detained at the border. He came too late.
His Dark Materials (TV series) - Wikipedia
Tom Chivers
Huh, James McAvoy as Lord Asriel and Ruth Wilson as Mrs Coulter in the upcoming His Dark Materials TV series. Intriguing casting. Not sure I completely buy it but let's
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MAHNOB |
Tom Chivers
just discovered there's a European research grant for "Multimodal Analysis of Human Nonverbal Behaviour", or MAHNOB
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Who's afraid of the feminists?
A new YouGov poll, commissioned by the charity HOPE Not Hate, finds that 33% of people agree with the statement “Feminism is to blame for making some men feel marginalised and demonised in society”. The actual polling is not online, for some reason,...
This Speech Was Written For President Nixon To Deliver If The Astronauts Didn’t Make It To The Moon
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission completed its journey to the moon. Although its crew of Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins were highly trained, there was a significant possibility of disaster, and everyone knew that the...
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Tom Chivers
remarkable to read Nixon's "second speech" to be given in the event that the first men on the moon did not return lifestyle.clickhole.com/this-speech-wa… pic.twitter.com/zaFxtoOeZN
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Bears and wolves to coexist in UK woods for first time in 1,000 years
Bear Wood near Bristol aims to spark debate about rewilding of ancient woodlands
What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong
Most people have an extremely incorrect perception about waste disposal and recycling. Here’s the reality.
New research to explore adolescent wellbeing in the digital age
The Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, is to undertake a new research programme on a...
Surprise suitor eyes move for former Liverpool star Sturridge
Serie A side Bologna are reportedly keen on signing former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge.
YouGov | What the world thinks
Tom Chivers
The “could you take a point off Serena Williams” thing is a bit silly. Question doesn’t specify whether it’s in a single game or a match or what, or whether double faults count. I can easily believe lots of people think “she’d double-fault once in 5 sets”
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Notice of correction and clarification: Clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Lightning Process in addition to specialist medical care for paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial
This article ( Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018;103:155–164; DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313375) has been corrected and republished. The previous text of the article, marked up to show all the changes made, has been posted as an online...
Tom Chivers
Well, well, well! The much-publicised study into the deeply controversial “Lightning Process” treatment for ME/CFS has been given a correction to acknowledge, among other things, outcome switching: changing what was measured after data started to come in
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Realtime Trains | 614T 1405 Valley Nuclear Electric to Crewe Coal Sidings (Drs)
Realtime Trains provides live realtime running information for the full Great British railway network using open data.
The Missing Lynx by Ross Barnett review — what happened to Britain’s mammoths?
As elegies go, The Missing Lynx is an awful lot of fun. Britain was once home to a startling array of “megafauna”; bloody great animals, essentially. Mammoth and woolly rhino; bears, wolves and...
Tom Chivers
My gushing Times review of The Missing Lynx by @DeepFriedDNA, which is surprisingly fun for a deeply sad elegy for Britain’s lost megafauna
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More people have access to electricity than ever before, but the world is falling short of its sustainable energy goals
Stepped-up efforts are required to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy
Something fishy is going on with the Tory leadership race online
Two of the most prolific Twitter accounts supporting Boris Johnson have displayed bot-like behaviour, while three of Jeremy Hunt's top followers have suspiciously high post rates
Acceptance of gay sex in decline in UK for first time since Aids crisis
Number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen, survey finds
Help raise £25000 to Support Cutting-Edge Liver Research in Memory of Andrea Colvile
Weʼre raising money to Support Cutting-Edge Liver Research in Memory of Andrea Colvile. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Do humans have a future?
Most AI researchers think that, probably in the next few decades and almost certainly in the next few centuries, we will build something that is cleverer than us. The question is: what will happen after that? My book The AI Does Not Hate You, covers...
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Tom Chivers
musings on James Lovelock's "Novacene", which struck me as essentially a weird fever-dream of free associations rather than a serious look at the AI future unherd.com/2019/07/do-hum…
(although I do have a book out on the same topic so I should declare my interest)
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