If you give DALLE-2 an image, then ask it to produce a variant, it will give you six. If you choose one of the six, then ask it to vary THAT, it will do so in the same way. If you repeat the process hundreds or thousands of times, then string the images together, you get this
Is this the vague beginnings of a new art form? Or an uncanny simulacrum of a DMT trip? Can’t decide
Incidentally the initiating image is the first photo ever taken. Which is neat
Choosing the images to feed back in makes it less interesting. What would it look like had DALLE-2 made its own choices ?
Yes, I had the same thought
Even better, get GPT3 to choose. Two AIs bouncing off each other. Leave them to it for a day. Imagine
That video you linked to starts with a real photo of a building and it got turned into a graphic of a ball on top of a cone.
That's the one my dog would have chosen.
The initial image is actually the first photo ever taken - by a human
I appreciate most of this is totally lost on PB-ers, but I’m happy to educate
Why are you so unable to accept that people can look at evidence and come to different conclusions?
Er, what?
What conclusions am I dismissing?
I’m just pointing PB to some fascinating developments in AI and ML. Maybe repetitively, but I aver it is still more interesting than the 178th debate about Tory sleaze
But both have their place in the diverse garden of PB. Each to their own
Your disdain for those who don't accept that this is sentient AI, which you've been banging the drum for ages. probably this stuff today is not the best example of your work on that front. You routinely suggest that anyone not agreeing with your view is too limited to accept reality.
Read the thread. Any rancour initially comes from others. Sometimes I respond, a little
Tho I do believe that anyone not fascinated by this lacks imagination, at the very least
But it is the nature of PB that it attracts more technically minded, less imaginative types? That is not an insult. I could never build a car - or code a computer: skills I would like to have
I think its a false dichotomy - technical people can be incredibly creative too. I work in academia and see amazing creativity coupled with technical excellence all the time.
Agreed
But it is interesting and notable that the people on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok who are using DALLE-2 or just looking at it - and saying FUuuuuKkkkkkKK - are nearly all artists: creative people with imagination
In part this might be because they are the ones whose lives and careers are challenged, but might it also be because they have the imagination to extrapolate, and also the gifts to see what is being revealed?
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
If you give DALLE-2 an image, then ask it to produce a variant, it will give you six. If you choose one of the six, then ask it to vary THAT, it will do so in the same way. If you repeat the process hundreds or thousands of times, then string the images together, you get this
Is this the vague beginnings of a new art form? Or an uncanny simulacrum of a DMT trip? Can’t decide
Incidentally the initiating image is the first photo ever taken. Which is neat
Choosing the images to feed back in makes it less interesting. What would it look like had DALLE-2 made its own choices ?
Yes, I had the same thought
Even better, get GPT3 to choose. Two AIs bouncing off each other. Leave them to it for a day. Imagine
That video you linked to starts with a real photo of a building and it got turned into a graphic of a ball on top of a cone.
That's the one my dog would have chosen.
The initial image is actually the first photo ever taken - by a human
I appreciate most of this is totally lost on PB-ers, but I’m happy to educate
Why are you so unable to accept that people can look at evidence and come to different conclusions?
Er, what?
What conclusions am I dismissing?
I’m just pointing PB to some fascinating developments in AI and ML. Maybe repetitively, but I aver it is still more interesting than the 178th debate about Tory sleaze
But both have their place in the diverse garden of PB. Each to their own
Your disdain for those who don't accept that this is sentient AI, which you've been banging the drum for ages. probably this stuff today is not the best example of your work on that front. You routinely suggest that anyone not agreeing with your view is too limited to accept reality.
Read the thread. Any rancour initially comes from others. Sometimes I respond, a little
Tho I do believe that anyone not fascinated by this lacks imagination, at the very least
But it is the nature of PB that it attracts more technically minded, less imaginative types? That is not an insult. I could never build a car - or code a computer: skills I would like to have
I think its a false dichotomy - technical people can be incredibly creative too. I work in academia and see amazing creativity coupled with technical excellence all the time.
Agreed
But it is interesting and notable that the people on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok who are using DALLE-2 or just looking at it - and saying FUuuuuKkkkkkKK - are nearly all artists: creative people with imagination
In part this might be because they are the ones whose lives and careers are challenged, but might it also be because they have the imagination to extrapolate, and also the gifts to see what is being revealed?
Sure, but thus far just another tool. The recent iterations of Photoshop (which look like magic to anyone who used it a decade back) created similar, though slightly less hyperbolic responses.
The cabinet absolutely loathe the guy. And it is wonderful to see
Not enough to quit though
There must be some game theory applicable to this. "The Cabinet Ministers Dilemma." They are rivals, the first to resign fears the legend of Heseletine will apply. Can they act collectively? Can they trust one another?
This is an opportunity for Gove and others who know they are not in the running to be PM.
But Dowden has already resigned, which could have been the first drip in the torrent.
Nobody followed him.
Wallace and Zahawi might be competent eggs, but they are putting up with all of this, which means they are terrible people.
Has Dowden been replaced? Boris's ethics advisor hasn't, obviously. But since that is an entirely pointless appointment, it's no surprise.
But someone needs to pretend to chair the Tory party. Or is that too pointless?
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
Thanks.
How do you get around location services? Or does ExpressVPN do that for you too?
...Viazovska and her collaborators emerged from the sphere-packing work with a higher ambition. Mathematicians had long suspected that E8 and the Leech lattice are much more than just the best way to pack spheres. These two lattices, mathematicians hypothesized, are “universally optimal,” meaning that they are the best arrangements according to a host of criteria — for example, the lowest-energy way to position mutually repelling electrons in space or twisty polymers in a solution.... ...The resulting paper, said Sylvia Serfaty of New York University, is on a par with the great breakthroughs of the 19th century, when mathematicians solved many of the problems that had confounded their predecessors for centuries. “This paper is really a great advancement of science,” she told Quanta at the time. “To know that the human brain is able to produce a proof of something like that, to me it’s a really remarkable fact.”
The story of another of this year's Field's Medallists is rather more remarkable.
As a slogger on the coalface of academia, I do hate these geniuses who work three hours a day and make prof in their 30s
He sounds pretty unusual, though.
Just wait till he's landed with preparing for the next Research Excellence Framework for his school (or whatever the major subdivision is called in his uni).
Somehow I don't think he's going to be beating a path to the UK. Though I note one of this year's four is an Oxford mathematician.
Yep. The 8th Amendment protects him from preparing REF returns while in the States. He'd be a fool to come here!
His contention was that: "This time next year, the Russian armed forces will be be equipped with simpler and less variety of equipment with a lot of Chinese/Indian/Israeli electronics but there is no doubt there will be a lot of it."
That might happen, and quantity does have a quality all of its own. But whilst India and China are quite happy to take cheap hydrocarbons from Russia, giving Russia lots of high-tech stuff carries other concerns.
Then there's the track record. in the 1950s to early 1980s, Russia could crank out tens of thousands of pieces of military equipment a year. A prodigious amount of tanks, AFVs, planes, missiles and everything else. But their recent track record is less impressive. Their recently-updated tanks have proved to be Ronsons, and their clean-sheet design, the T-14, did not perform well in Syria and is available in tiny numbers.
Does Russia actually have the manufacturing capability of making even (say) the T-80U in vast enough numbers to make a difference? Thousands of AFVs? Thousands of missiles that actually hit a target? They're not exactly making a lot of the T-14s recently. And many of their 'new' tanks are actually renewed older tanks.
According to Oryx, Russia has lost 830 tanks in the first four months of this war. That's a heck of a lot to re-equip.
Note: I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm casting doubt on whether the corruption-ridden Russian system will actually be able to do it.
It was stated, a while back, that production at the main tank plant in Russia had stopped due to lack of supplies and equipment. A lot of modern manufacturing requires specialist materials and parts.
Back in the day, the USSR was very careful to keep itself as self sufficient in such things.
After Things Changed, a massive amount of Western technology flooded into Russia. This raised productivity enormously. CNC multi axis lathes/mills are staggeringly good compared to manual working, for example.
Putin tried to get back to autonomy - but the problem is that it is much cheaper and easier to buy the technology from abroad than build the complete tech stack at home. So, if you are corrupt, fake the autonomy thing.
So there was a much trumpeted plan to build a Russian made tractor - which turned out to be screwdriver assembly of bits from the Czech Republic, IIRC.
Huge mistake to let cameras into cabinet meeting today. Look at the grim faces around that table. Compare to previous occasions. Look at Javid, Coffey - one of the ministers sent out with a misleading briefing. Look at Gove! Even Dorries knows the gig is up. NOT a happy ship. ~AA https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1544245691215757312/video/1
Or - Ministers realize the nation is in very very tricky times, and adopt the appropriate serious tone.
No, this is the televised preamble aka free party political broadcast for Boris. If you turn the sound up, this thing they are reacting to with "appropriate serious tone" is Boris boasting of a record tax cut (the NIC threshold rise which comes into effect now). It is supposed to be good news.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
Thanks.
How do you get around location services? Or does ExpressVPN do that for you too?
It does that automatically - at least, you choose your (UK or otherwise) location and that sorts everything
I’d happily pay to watch this legally. It’s bonkers you can’t do that
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
If you give DALLE-2 an image, then ask it to produce a variant, it will give you six. If you choose one of the six, then ask it to vary THAT, it will do so in the same way. If you repeat the process hundreds or thousands of times, then string the images together, you get this
Is this the vague beginnings of a new art form? Or an uncanny simulacrum of a DMT trip? Can’t decide
Incidentally the initiating image is the first photo ever taken. Which is neat
Choosing the images to feed back in makes it less interesting. What would it look like had DALLE-2 made its own choices ?
Yes, I had the same thought
Even better, get GPT3 to choose. Two AIs bouncing off each other. Leave them to it for a day. Imagine
That video you linked to starts with a real photo of a building and it got turned into a graphic of a ball on top of a cone.
That's the one my dog would have chosen.
The initial image is actually the first photo ever taken - by a human
I appreciate most of this is totally lost on PB-ers, but I’m happy to educate
Though I'm not in any way interested in these randomly generated computer images which has existed for years and has nothing whatever in common with 'art' the first photograph ever taken IS interesting and was taken in the 1830's by Daguerre. It's thought to be the first photograph ever taken of a human being
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
The cricket only fills a few hours of the day. He still has the rest of the day to explore places.
Bit worried that an England win is being taken as read.
I'd like a thrilling denouement. England collapse. Nine wickets down, ten to win. Jimmy Anderson to get the winning runs with an edge through the slips. Let's have some drama - more fun than England cruising to victory.
Nope. Want England to crush them with Bazball.
Can't understand why there aren't four slips in? Might as well if every other ball goes for four anyways.
NEW: Explosive call now on @mrjamesob a serving senior civil servant rings in to say our democracy is in danger due to lies coming from No.10 Press operation. Says he was felt a duty to ring in after watching Dominic Raab call into question Simon McDonald’s account in his letter
“Stewart” went on to say: Do not underestimate how dangerous this is. Our democracy is under threat. Calls on Simon Case to resign. Says to have the most senior spokesperson to continually lie on behalf of the PM is the sign of a “failed and corrupt state”
He also called on all the civil servants sitting in the Number 10 press office to get up and leave their desks in protest. “I should be at work serving the country!”
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
If you give DALLE-2 an image, then ask it to produce a variant, it will give you six. If you choose one of the six, then ask it to vary THAT, it will do so in the same way. If you repeat the process hundreds or thousands of times, then string the images together, you get this
Is this the vague beginnings of a new art form? Or an uncanny simulacrum of a DMT trip? Can’t decide
Incidentally the initiating image is the first photo ever taken. Which is neat
Choosing the images to feed back in makes it less interesting. What would it look like had DALLE-2 made its own choices ?
Yes, I had the same thought
Even better, get GPT3 to choose. Two AIs bouncing off each other. Leave them to it for a day. Imagine
That video you linked to starts with a real photo of a building and it got turned into a graphic of a ball on top of a cone.
That's the one my dog would have chosen.
The initial image is actually the first photo ever taken - by a human
I appreciate most of this is totally lost on PB-ers, but I’m happy to educate
Why are you so unable to accept that people can look at evidence and come to different conclusions?
Er, what?
What conclusions am I dismissing?
I’m just pointing PB to some fascinating developments in AI and ML. Maybe repetitively, but I aver it is still more interesting than the 178th debate about Tory sleaze
But both have their place in the diverse garden of PB. Each to their own
Your disdain for those who don't accept that this is sentient AI, which you've been banging the drum for ages. probably this stuff today is not the best example of your work on that front. You routinely suggest that anyone not agreeing with your view is too limited to accept reality.
Read the thread. Any rancour initially comes from others. Sometimes I respond, a little
Tho I do believe that anyone not fascinated by this lacks imagination, at the very least
But it is the nature of PB that it attracts more technically minded, less imaginative types? That is not an insult. I could never build a car - or code a computer: skills I would like to have
I'd argue you absolutely could 'code a computer' - at a simple level. I'm not talking about writing machine code or a device drivers, but you certainly could 'code' some Javascript to (say) perform a search from a plain-text file on a website. I bet you could even learn to access databases. Or even create them.
But you would need to want to. And to get to a professional level would take a long time.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
His contention was that: "This time next year, the Russian armed forces will be be equipped with simpler and less variety of equipment with a lot of Chinese/Indian/Israeli electronics but there is no doubt there will be a lot of it."
That might happen, and quantity does have a quality all of its own. But whilst India and China are quite happy to take cheap hydrocarbons from Russia, giving Russia lots of high-tech stuff carries other concerns.
Then there's the track record. in the 1950s to early 1980s, Russia could crank out tens of thousands of pieces of military equipment a year. A prodigious amount of tanks, AFVs, planes, missiles and everything else. But their recent track record is less impressive. Their recently-updated tanks have proved to be Ronsons, and their clean-sheet design, the T-14, did not perform well in Syria and is available in tiny numbers.
Does Russia actually have the manufacturing capability of making even (say) the T-80U in vast enough numbers to make a difference? Thousands of AFVs? Thousands of missiles that actually hit a target? They're not exactly making a lot of the T-14s recently. And many of their 'new' tanks are actually renewed older tanks.
According to Oryx, Russia has lost 830 tanks in the first four months of this war. That's a heck of a lot to re-equip.
Note: I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm casting doubt on whether the corruption-ridden Russian system will actually be able to do it.
It was stated, a while back, that production at the main tank plant in Russia had stopped due to lack of supplies and equipment. A lot of modern manufacturing requires specialist materials and parts.
Back in the day, the USSR was very careful to keep itself as self sufficient in such things.
After Things Changed, a massive amount of Western technology flooded into Russia. This raised productivity enormously. CNC multi axis lathes/mills are staggeringly good compared to manual working, for example.
Putin tried to get back to autonomy - but the problem is that it is much cheaper and easier to buy the technology from abroad than build the complete tech stack at home. So, if you are corrupt, fake the autonomy thing.
So there was a much trumpeted plan to build a Russian made tractor - which turned out to be screwdriver assembly of bits from the Czech Republic, IIRC.
That's how social mobility works in Russia. Bullshiters are actively promoted. Just pretend to work on import substitution, share stolen cash with influential people, and go up. Now *you* check financial transparency and prevent corruption. Your henchmen go to jail but who cares
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Why miss the cricket just because he's abroad?
Ah. I get it. You're practising the nagging for once you've hooked up
Though I'm not in any way interested in these randomly generated computer images which has existed for years and has nothing whatever in common with 'art'
Existed for years? DALL-E came out in 2021, Imagen in 2022.
Randomly generated? No these are natural language transformers.
You have completely missed the point of what these models represent.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
The desire is not new. Didn't you ever watch "The Lady Vanishes" ?
Interesting news out of France, Macron has demoted the current Europe minister who was very, very Anglophobic and promoted someone who has previously said the UK and France need a much closer economic relationship into the job. Feels like Macron is attempting to reset the confrontational stance of the last few years, hopefully the next PM will do the same if this is the case.
Interesting news out of France, Macron has demoted the current Europe minister who was very, very Anglophobic and promoted someone who has previously said the UK and France need a much closer economic relationship into the job. Feels like Macron is attempting to reset the confrontational stance of the last few years, hopefully the next PM will do the same if this is the case.
BREAKING: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Finland and Sweden will make the alliance 'stronger' after 30 allies signed an accession protocol to allow the countries to join.
Interesting news out of France, Macron has demoted the current Europe minister who was very, very Anglophobic and promoted someone who has previously said the UK and France need a much closer economic relationship into the job. Feels like Macron is attempting to reset the confrontational stance of the last few years, hopefully the next PM will do the same if this is the case.
Interesting news out of France, Macron has demoted the current Europe minister who was very, very Anglophobic and promoted someone who has previously said the UK and France need a much closer economic relationship into the job. Feels like Macron is attempting to reset the confrontational stance of the last few years, hopefully the next PM will do the same if this is the case.
Though I'm not in any way interested in these randomly generated computer images which has existed for years and has nothing whatever in common with 'art'
Existed for years? DALL-E came out in 2021, Imagen in 2022.
Randomly generated? No these are natural language transformers.
You can go into any one of twenty video houses in Soho and at the press of a button they will happily generate any number of images depending on your needs. This function has existed for years. If the imput is now words what difference does it make? I can sit next to the operator and say give me a spaceship. Elongate it change colours change shape give it metal wheels painted blue add a few spikes etc etc. I'm struggling to see anything new that might be useful.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
The desire is not new. Didn't you ever watch "The Lady Vanishes" ?
A cracking film, which my daughter, who finds watching cricket every bit as incomprehensible as does @Cyclefree, thoroughly enjoyed recently.
Come to think of it, Cyclefree does have just a hint of Miss Foy.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
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Fair enough.
Seems odd to me - and not just because cricket is to me unbelievably boring.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
Next
Fair enough.
Seems odd to me - and not just because cricket is to me unbelievably boring.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
But no - cricket. Sigh....
Cricket is pretty much the only game I don't find boring, with the exception of Wimbledon tennis.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Why miss the cricket just because he's abroad?
Ah. I get it. You're practising the nagging for once you've hooked up
No. I'd just get on with doing what I want.
I'm not a believer in couples doing everything together. People need space, even from their partners. Well I do, anyway
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 24m Just to repeat. We’ve been told Pincher was vetted at the time of his appointment. That vetting will have uncovered the 2019 incident, which was officially recorded. And that will then have been reported back to the Prime Minister. There is no way round this for Boris or No.10.
NEW: Explosive call now on @mrjamesob a serving senior civil servant rings in to say our democracy is in danger due to lies coming from No.10 Press operation. Says he was felt a duty to ring in after watching Dominic Raab call into question Simon McDonald’s account in his letter
“Stewart” went on to say: Do not underestimate how dangerous this is. Our democracy is under threat. Calls on Simon Case to resign. Says to have the most senior spokesperson to continually lie on behalf of the PM is the sign of a “failed and corrupt state”
He also called on all the civil servants sitting in the Number 10 press office to get up and leave their desks in protest. “I should be at work serving the country!”
One has to wonder why Case was employed as the top civil servant in the first place? iirc he had zero civil service experience and was employed at the Palace. Before that wasn't it some management consultant job?
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Not sure if he replied @Anabobazina but it's easy if you use a ... VPN
Google Chrome with something like Windscribe or FreeVPN and you are away. Just search for cricket stream, football stream and you will find any and every match you ever wanted to watch. Google may not give you all the right links so something like yandex will do the job. Indian websites constantly stream every cricket game in the world.
I won't put the actual streaming links here as I don't want to encourage illicit downloading.
Another great thing about those VPN's is that you can change your virtual location to anywhere in the world.
Which also means that were you so to desire it you could also watch BBC iplayer. They try to stop you so, again, I'm not condoning it. Ahem.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
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Fair enough.
Seems odd to me - and not just because cricket is to me unbelievably boring.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
But no - cricket. Sigh....
You forget I have been travelling for 3 months solid, near enough. I do that other stuff all the time
I like cricket anyway, and this isn’t just any old cricket. This is a world class England run chase that — if they do it - will stay in the record books. PLUS It will be over in an hour and the Lovcen National Park will still be there
If we’re going to be wed you need to understand this, otherwise, quite frankly, the whole thing’s off
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
This guy collected random objects from around the World and put them on display in a house he bought expressly for that purpose, and then donated it to the National trust to ensure the collection was not dispersed.
He expressed the view that looking at those objects could transport you to other places and peoples.
Now, having seen the collection, much of it is junk. Very few pieces inspired me at all. Queen Mary is said to have remarked that the most interesting thing in the house was the man himself, but I share the idea. Immersing yourself in the unfamiliar is good for the soul.
You can go into any one of twenty video houses in Soho and at the press of a button they will happily generate any number of images depending on your needs. This function has existed for years. If the imput is now words what difference does it make? I can sit next to the operator and say give me a spaceship. Elongate it change colours change shape give it metal wheels painted blue add a few spikes etc etc. I'm struggling to see anything new that might be useful.
There is a vast difference between a domain specific tool like a 3d modelling programme, no matter how sophisticated it is in order to reduce the effort of the operator, and a natural language to image transformer. There's no operator for starters, there's no tool at least nothing you need to operate directly, you put in text and spits out images. There's no human expertise required at all.
In the future as these models get faster you could litterally talk to them and have the images refined on-the-fly. Eventually you could have them generate an entire narrative sequence as fast as you can speak. And there's no reason in principle why you can't have them go the opposite way. Turning images to text or audio, and back and forth.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 24m Just to repeat. We’ve been told Pincher was vetted at the time of his appointment. That vetting will have uncovered the 2019 incident, which was officially recorded. And that will then have been reported back to the Prime Minister. There is no way round this for Boris or No.10.
Though I'm not in any way interested in these randomly generated computer images which has existed for years and has nothing whatever in common with 'art'
Existed for years? DALL-E came out in 2021, Imagen in 2022.
Randomly generated? No these are natural language transformers.
You can go into any one of twenty video houses in Soho and at the press of a button they will happily generate any number of images depending on your needs. This function has existed for years. If the imput is now words what difference does it make? I can sit next to the operator and say give me a spaceship. Elongate it change colours change shape give it metal wheels painted blue add a few spikes etc etc. I'm struggling to see anything new that might be useful.
Christ
I know you’re not the brightest, but still. Make an effort
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
The desire is not new. Didn't you ever watch "The Lady Vanishes" ?
Yes. I do hope your suggestion that I am Miss Foy-like is a reference to my mystery, spy-like qualities & ability to get involved in adventures rather than anything else.
I rather fancy the romance on a train angle since that is how I hooked up with my husband.
In Russia. And Ukraine. Under Communism. But.... ssshhhh ..... don't tell anyone.
the longer this PM drags on, the less the chances of anyone now in Cabinet succeeding him (they'll all be too steeped in The Awfulness). Anyone wanting to jump ship really doesn't have long. https://twitter.com/gabyhinsliff/status/1544268089537216513
NEW: Explosive call now on @mrjamesob a serving senior civil servant rings in to say our democracy is in danger due to lies coming from No.10 Press operation. Says he was felt a duty to ring in after watching Dominic Raab call into question Simon McDonald’s account in his letter
“Stewart” went on to say: Do not underestimate how dangerous this is. Our democracy is under threat. Calls on Simon Case to resign. Says to have the most senior spokesperson to continually lie on behalf of the PM is the sign of a “failed and corrupt state”
He also called on all the civil servants sitting in the Number 10 press office to get up and leave their desks in protest. “I should be at work serving the country!”
One has to wonder why Case was employed as the top civil servant in the first place? iirc he had zero civil service experience and was employed at the Palace. Before that wasn't it some management consultant job?
It is because both parties have convinced themselves that the Civil Service has been captured by the other lot, and is inefficient and obstructive. Thus both parties' enthusiasm for outsiders, management consultants and chums.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 24m Just to repeat. We’ve been told Pincher was vetted at the time of his appointment. That vetting will have uncovered the 2019 incident, which was officially recorded. And that will then have been reported back to the Prime Minister. There is no way round this for Boris or No.10.
Probably not.
The song debaser is going through my head. What a PoS this fat scumbag dog is
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Not sure if he replied @Anabobazina but it's easy if you use a ... VPN
Google Chrome with something like Windscribe or FreeVPN and you are away. Just search for cricket stream, football stream and you will find any and every match you ever wanted to watch. Google may not give you all the right links so something like yandex will do the job. Indian websites constantly stream every cricket game in the world.
I won't put the actual streaming links here as I don't want to encourage illicit downloading.
Another great thing about those VPN's is that you can change your virtual location to anywhere in the world.
Which also means that were you so to desire it you could also watch BBC iplayer. They try to stop you so, again, I'm not condoning it. Ahem.
The quality on most of those 'streaming sites' is awful.
I am a bone fide Sky subscriber and want to watch it abroad, that's all.
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
If Gove, Sunak and Raab resigned why wouldn't Johnson just re-appoint others to those positions?
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
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Fair enough.
Seems odd to me - and not just because cricket is to me unbelievably boring.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
But no - cricket. Sigh....
You forget I have been travelling for 3 months solid, near enough. I do that other stuff all the time
I like cricket anyway, and this isn’t just any old cricket. This is a world class England run chase that — if they do it - will stay in the record books. PLUS It will be over in an hour and the Lovcen National Park will still be there
If we’re going to be wed you need to understand this, otherwise, quite frankly, the whole thing’s off
Blimey, Root is going to leave Bairstow becalmed on 97 at this rate.
the longer this PM drags on, the less the chances of anyone now in Cabinet succeeding him (they'll all be too steeped in The Awfulness). Anyone wanting to jump ship really doesn't have long. https://twitter.com/gabyhinsliff/status/1544268089537216513
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
If Gove, Sunak and Raab resigned why wouldn't Johnson just re-appoint others to those positions?
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
If Gove, Sunak and Raab resigned why wouldn't Johnson just re-appoint others to those positions?
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
I think that is a scenario where we really will see the fabled men in grey suits arrive to end the matter.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
Thanks.
How do you get around location services? Or does ExpressVPN do that for you too?
It does that automatically - at least, you choose your (UK or otherwise) location and that sorts everything
I’d happily pay to watch this legally. It’s bonkers you can’t do that
Thanks, and yes – it's absolutely absurd that you can't just pay extra and have worldwide access.
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Not sure if he replied @Anabobazina but it's easy if you use a ... VPN
Google Chrome with something like Windscribe or FreeVPN and you are away. Just search for cricket stream, football stream and you will find any and every match you ever wanted to watch. Google may not give you all the right links so something like yandex will do the job. Indian websites constantly stream every cricket game in the world.
I won't put the actual streaming links here as I don't want to encourage illicit downloading.
Another great thing about those VPN's is that you can change your virtual location to anywhere in the world.
Which also means that were you so to desire it you could also watch BBC iplayer. They try to stop you so, again, I'm not condoning it. Ahem.
The quality on most of those 'streaming sites' is awful.
I am a bone fide Sky subscriber and want to watch it abroad, that's all.
The quality is fantastic. HD. Just need to hunt around a bit then bookmark.
Once you've found great streaming sites it's brilliant.
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
If Gove, Sunak and Raab resigned why wouldn't Johnson just re-appoint others to those positions?
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
I think that is a scenario where we really will see the fabled men in grey suits arrive to end the matter.
But there is no such thing as the men in grey suits. This just means the 1922 committee doesn't it?
the longer this PM drags on, the less the chances of anyone now in Cabinet succeeding him (they'll all be too steeped in The Awfulness). Anyone wanting to jump ship really doesn't have long. https://twitter.com/gabyhinsliff/status/1544268089537216513
Can Wallace manage to extract himself from all this shite without members caring he was one of those propping it up all?
Otherwise it may be those outside cabinet who end up with the crown.
His contention was that: "This time next year, the Russian armed forces will be be equipped with simpler and less variety of equipment with a lot of Chinese/Indian/Israeli electronics but there is no doubt there will be a lot of it."
That might happen, and quantity does have a quality all of its own. But whilst India and China are quite happy to take cheap hydrocarbons from Russia, giving Russia lots of high-tech stuff carries other concerns.
Then there's the track record. in the 1950s to early 1980s, Russia could crank out tens of thousands of pieces of military equipment a year. A prodigious amount of tanks, AFVs, planes, missiles and everything else. But their recent track record is less impressive. Their recently-updated tanks have proved to be Ronsons, and their clean-sheet design, the T-14, did not perform well in Syria and is available in tiny numbers.
Does Russia actually have the manufacturing capability of making even (say) the T-80U in vast enough numbers to make a difference? Thousands of AFVs? Thousands of missiles that actually hit a target? They're not exactly making a lot of the T-14s recently. And many of their 'new' tanks are actually renewed older tanks.
According to Oryx, Russia has lost 830 tanks in the first four months of this war. That's a heck of a lot to re-equip.
Note: I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm casting doubt on whether the corruption-ridden Russian system will actually be able to do it.
It was stated, a while back, that production at the main tank plant in Russia had stopped due to lack of supplies and equipment. A lot of modern manufacturing requires specialist materials and parts.
Back in the day, the USSR was very careful to keep itself as self sufficient in such things.
After Things Changed, a massive amount of Western technology flooded into Russia. This raised productivity enormously. CNC multi axis lathes/mills are staggeringly good compared to manual working, for example.
Putin tried to get back to autonomy - but the problem is that it is much cheaper and easier to buy the technology from abroad than build the complete tech stack at home. So, if you are corrupt, fake the autonomy thing.
So there was a much trumpeted plan to build a Russian made tractor - which turned out to be screwdriver assembly of bits from the Czech Republic, IIRC.
That's how social mobility works in Russia. Bullshiters are actively promoted. Just pretend to work on import substitution, share stolen cash with influential people, and go up. Now *you* check financial transparency and prevent corruption. Your henchmen go to jail but who cares
The final bit that most people miss is that doing the actual import substitution with local equivalents is actually bad for you. If you invest all that money in actually doing the job, there is less money for the the bribes to push "up" the pyramid.
See Chavez firing people in the state oil company in Venezuela for investing too much money.... in oil production.
Good morning. Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy. Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL You heard it here last.
If Gove, Sunak and Raab resigned why wouldn't Johnson just re-appoint others to those positions?
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
I think that is a scenario where we really will see the fabled men in grey suits arrive to end the matter.
But there is no such thing as the men in grey suits. This just means the 1922 committee doesn't it?
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 24m Just to repeat. We’ve been told Pincher was vetted at the time of his appointment. That vetting will have uncovered the 2019 incident, which was officially recorded. And that will then have been reported back to the Prime Minister. There is no way round this for Boris or No.10.
Probably not.
True.
But I think this morning'e events have absolutely guaranteed Johnson will not be leader for next GE.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
This guy collected random objects from around the World and put them on display in a house he bought expressly for that purpose, and then donated it to the National trust to ensure the collection was not dispersed.
He expressed the view that looking at those objects could transport you to other places and peoples.
Now, having seen the collection, much of it is junk. Very few pieces inspired me at all. Queen Mary is said to have remarked that the most interesting thing in the house was the man himself, but I share the idea. Immersing yourself in the unfamiliar is good for the soul.
I have been there.
I'm not really interested in objects - though the stories they tell about how they are made and acquired and why can be interesting. But people watching is endlessly fascinating. I often sit in cafes here and watch. And definitely abroad.
I would do it with my children when small. Get them to watch someone and make up a story about them: who are they, why are they there, what they will do next etc.
Hard to get bored just sitting and observing and letting your imagination run away with you.
Attorney General Suella Braverman declines to answer whether she thinks Boris Johnson told the truth about what he knew of allegations to Chris Pincher
I wonder if I am the first person to watch English Test Cricket in the town square of the Montenegrin royal capital
Nice!
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
Pretty simple - SkyGo plus ExpressVPN plus a decent wifi or 4G signal. Try and avoid places with large crowds of people all using their phones
This is not meant to be rude. But why travel if you're just going to watch a game you can watch from your own home?
Because it is exquisitely pleasurable to sit in the sun drenched town square of Royal Cetinje and nibble strudels with fine coffee as I watch a superb England team chase an absolutely historic victory against India
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Is it any different to me listening to TMS on my Devon hols every year? Actually forms part of the holiday for me. Cricket and TMS is an essential part of my soul.
the longer this PM drags on, the less the chances of anyone now in Cabinet succeeding him (they'll all be too steeped in The Awfulness). Anyone wanting to jump ship really doesn't have long. https://twitter.com/gabyhinsliff/status/1544268089537216513
Can Wallace manage to extract himself from all this shite without members caring he was one of those propping it up all?
Otherwise it may be those outside cabinet who end up with the crown.
When he goes id expect lots of press stories from cabinet about how they onky stayed from duty and to restrain his idiocy. How irresponsible it would have been to leave it all to Johnson loyalists etc Fat Dog and my part in his downfall
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But it is interesting and notable that the people on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok who are using DALLE-2 or just looking at it - and saying FUuuuuKkkkkkKK - are nearly all artists: creative people with imagination
In part this might be because they are the ones whose lives and careers are challenged, but might it also be because they have the imagination to extrapolate, and also the gifts to see what is being revealed?
Has anyone left in public life got a shred of honour and decent left?
I keep meaning to ask you for the details of your set-up so you can watch Sky abroad. I had a ropey set up in France that I could not get to work at all, so I'd be keen to know for future trips.
The recent iterations of Photoshop (which look like magic to anyone who used it a decade back) created similar, though slightly less hyperbolic responses.
But someone needs to pretend to chair the Tory party. Or is that too pointless?
How do you get around location services? Or does ExpressVPN do that for you too?
Back in the day, the USSR was very careful to keep itself as self sufficient in such things.
After Things Changed, a massive amount of Western technology flooded into Russia. This raised productivity enormously. CNC multi axis lathes/mills are staggeringly good compared to manual working, for example.
Putin tried to get back to autonomy - but the problem is that it is much cheaper and easier to buy the technology from abroad than build the complete tech stack at home. So, if you are corrupt, fake the autonomy thing.
So there was a much trumpeted plan to build a Russian made tractor - which turned out to be screwdriver assembly of bits from the Czech Republic, IIRC.
Wimbledon has the same problem.
I’d happily pay to watch this legally. It’s bonkers you can’t do that
http://webstudycentre.blogspot.com/2013/03/worlds-first-photograph-with-human.html
“We are eeking out the final hours and days of this Government. We aren’t talking about weeks or months”
Don’t see how that happens without quite a few Cabinet resignations in the coming hours, but even still 👀👀👀👀
https://twitter.com/TomSwarbrick1/status/1544258122721665026
Might as well if every other ball goes for four anyways.
“Stewart” went on to say: Do not underestimate how dangerous this is. Our democracy is under threat. Calls on Simon Case to resign. Says to have the most senior spokesperson to continually lie on behalf of the PM is the sign of a “failed and corrupt state”
He also called on all the civil servants sitting in the Number 10 press office to get up and leave their desks in protest. “I should be at work serving the country!”
@mrjamesob “You are”
https://twitter.com/hattmarris84/status/1544260557297127427
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But you would need to want to. And to get to a professional level would take a long time.
which brings me to this tweet https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501374092980768769 that reminds me of our Government - simply replace Russia with Bozo...
That's how social mobility works in Russia. Bullshiters are actively promoted. Just pretend to work on import substitution, share stolen cash with influential people, and go up. Now *you* check financial transparency and prevent corruption. Your henchmen go to jail but who cares
Not north of the border.
Net favourability ratings:
Sturgeon +15
Sarwar +3
Starmer 0
Cole-Hamilton -11
Harvie -11
Slater -11
Ross -26
Sunak -28
UK govt -51
Salmond -61
Johnson -62
Savanta ComRes; 23-28 June
Century for Root!
Randomly generated? No these are natural language transformers.
You have completely missed the point of what these models represent.
Didn't you ever watch "The Lady Vanishes" ?
Ratification of the bids could take up to a year.
https://trib.al/QTC8as2 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1544266013298016258/video/1
Bridge to Mars as flagship policy?
Come to think of it, Cyclefree does have just a hint of Miss Foy.
Fine margins as Barty said before.
Seems odd to me - and not just because cricket is to me unbelievably boring.
You could be watching what is happening around you in the square, the people, imagining their lives, the stories behind them, why those buildings are the way they are etc, how ordinary life abroad can seem both so similar and so very different in unexpected and small ways etc.
But no - cricket. Sigh....
Been trying to work out the process by which dog dies. Im thinking Gove is the most likely first mover. Hes a snake and a player and also knows he will get a gig in most cabinets. Rishi would then jump on board as hes been a total teasing tart throughout and will want the 'kill cred'. That should do it but for a confirmed extermibation lets throw in Raab. Hes stupid enough that Gove could convince him throwing the dog out the window is love and wont have a scooby how ridiculous he looks after this mornings sycophnancy.
Its Gove, Sunak, (Raab!!), GOALLLLLLLLLLLL
You heard it here last.
Cricket is 3D chess in my opinion.
I'm not a believer in couples doing everything together. People need space, even from their partners. Well I do, anyway
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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Just to repeat. We’ve been told Pincher was vetted at the time of his appointment. That vetting will have uncovered the 2019 incident, which was officially recorded. And that will then have been reported back to the Prime Minister. There is no way round this for Boris or No.10.
Google Chrome with something like Windscribe or FreeVPN and you are away. Just search for cricket stream, football stream and you will find any and every match you ever wanted to watch. Google may not give you all the right links so something like yandex will do the job. Indian websites constantly stream every cricket game in the world.
I won't put the actual streaming links here as I don't want to encourage illicit downloading.
Another great thing about those VPN's is that you can change your virtual location to anywhere in the world.
Which also means that were you so to desire it you could also watch BBC iplayer. They try to stop you so, again, I'm not condoning it. Ahem.
I like cricket anyway, and this isn’t just any old cricket. This is a world class England run chase that — if they do it - will stay in the record books. PLUS It will be over in an hour and the Lovcen National Park will still be there
If we’re going to be wed you need to understand this, otherwise, quite frankly, the whole thing’s off
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/snowshill-manor-and-garden
This guy collected random objects from around the World and put them on display in a house he bought expressly for that purpose, and then donated it to the National trust to ensure the collection was not dispersed.
He expressed the view that looking at those objects could transport you to other places and peoples.
Now, having seen the collection, much of it is junk. Very few pieces inspired me at all. Queen Mary is said to have remarked that the most interesting thing in the house was the man himself, but I share the idea. Immersing yourself in the unfamiliar is good for the soul.
Interestingly, to US prototype, 1940s, complete with a Liberty ship or similar wartime class.
In the future as these models get faster you could litterally talk to them and have the images refined on-the-fly. Eventually you could have them generate an entire narrative sequence as fast as you can speak. And there's no reason in principle why you can't have them go the opposite way. Turning images to text or audio, and back and forth.
I know you’re not the brightest, but still. Make an effort
I rather fancy the romance on a train angle since that is how I hooked up with my husband.
In Russia. And Ukraine. Under Communism. But.... ssshhhh ..... don't tell anyone.
** wanders off humming **
https://twitter.com/gabyhinsliff/status/1544268089537216513
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
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Years and years in this trade. Never seen anything like this [the Simon McDonald letter]
What a PoS this fat scumbag dog is
https://sports.ladbrokes.com/event/politics/uk/uk-politics/boris-johnson-specials/228803216/all-markets https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1544269847957209091/photo/1
I am a bone fide Sky subscriber and want to watch it abroad, that's all.
It would only be fatal to Johnson in the unlikely scenario that there are no new cabinet aspirees.
Watch the speccy assassin
And this is against India not Ireland. Incroyable given where they were a few months ago
Once you've found great streaming sites it's brilliant.
Otherwise it may be those outside cabinet who end up with the crown.
See Chavez firing people in the state oil company in Venezuela for investing too much money.... in oil production.
But I think this morning'e events have absolutely guaranteed Johnson will not be leader for next GE.
I'm not really interested in objects - though the stories they tell about how they are made and acquired and why can be interesting. But people watching is endlessly fascinating. I often sit in cafes here and watch. And definitely abroad.
I would do it with my children when small. Get them to watch someone and make up a story about them: who are they, why are they there, what they will do next etc.
Hard to get bored just sitting and observing and letting your imagination run away with you.
Attorney General Suella Braverman declines to answer whether she thinks Boris Johnson told the truth about what he knew of allegations to Chris Pincher
#Newsnight https://bbc.in/3anaBmK https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1544271674719313920/video/1
Euro Tumbles to 20-Year Low, Putting Parity With Dollar in Sight
The common currency fell as much as 1.4% to $1.0281.
Fat Dog and my part in his downfall