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by frereubu 1y ago
Sad news - I hope it continues and they manage to get someone who keeps the quality high. As others have pointed out, the thing that makes In Our Time great is it assumes the people listening are interested in learning something without poi
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by frereubu 1y ago
I know what you mean, but I have a feeling that if this series ends it's not going to be replaced by anything that's its equal in terms of intellectual depth. Feels to be like keeping the brand would keep the producers focused on
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by frereubu 1y ago
Likewise - I always skip the science episodes and wondered whether there were hordes of historians tutting their way through the other episodes. It feels to me like there are two types of science episodes though - one where it's pure s
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
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by frereubu 1y ago
I went to claude.ai and saw a pop-over window with this choice, clicked to opt out and saw a "server error" alert. Then went to Settings > Privacy and the option wasn't there. I had to click something else (can't reme
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by frereubu 1y ago
Interesting, hadn't thought of asking Claude for something like this. Just tried to pull this and the one from a child comment together as a Spotify playlist and looks like it's made a few mistakes in the last section. It's i
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by frereubu 1y ago
Bit disappointed there isn't any Ozric Tentacles in there to be honest.
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by frereubu 1y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out - I thought it was all part of the same deal.
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by frereubu 1y ago
All part of this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/postal-servi... "Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less
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by frereubu 1y ago
I can't quite tell whether you know this from the way you wrote your comment, but the Fixed-Term Parliaments act was repealed in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_201...
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://archive.is/H8eJx
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Sen Genshitsu, grandmaster of the tea ceremony, 1923-2025(ft.com)
2 points by frereubu 1y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
For those too lazy to go digging: https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/7498ED4A7CB57/media%2FGu8ks... Original tweet: https://xcancel.com/Astro_Ayers/status/1940810789830451563
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by frereubu 1y ago
The essay goes into this, clearly means love in a different way to how you've taken it, and doesn't exclude the use of rules to codify it: " Loving attention : a kind of just, patient, generous attention to others. This, she
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://archive.is/cUTJ5
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The Great Crime Paradox(ft.com)
5 points by frereubu 1y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
Risk is a product of likelihood and potential seriousness of consequences. The reason I consider motorbikes too risky is that the potential seriousness of consequences is extremely high if you're going at any reasonable speed. And to f
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by frereubu 1y ago
I would love to get a motorbike - I enjoy cycling and love speed - but I've had three people in my wider circle of friends suffer life-changing injuries while riding motorbikes, including one just before his wedding that they had to ca
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by frereubu 1y ago
A couple of families recently told me that they showed or took their 9-to-10-year-old children to the Wilson staging of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach, and the kids were transfixed for the whole performance. I found it interes
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by frereubu 1y ago
That feature isn't what I think the parent comment is asking for. What you've linked to is specifically YouTube Kids, and it's groups of channels whitelisted by the YouTube team. What I think the parent comment is asking for,
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://archive.is/uh9Kf
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Figma seeks $16B value in test of US tech IPO market(ft.com)
13 points by frereubu 1y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
That's what Ikea furniture has been made of for as long as I can remember (a few decades).
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by frereubu 1y ago
This is a great thread about wealth and craftsmanship. Wealthy people used to appreciate craft, which has morphed into spending lots of money on a brand rather than an understanding of what it is that they're buying: https:/&#x2F
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by frereubu 1y ago
Great sales pitch, but this is a key excerpt: > What was the catch? It seemed most municipalities required you to renovate the house within a couple of years of its purchase, and due to high levels of interest, the houses often went to a
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by frereubu 1y ago
Never seen the film, but have always liked the idea of Brad Pitt as the overweeningly proud and self-involved Achilles.
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by frereubu 1y ago
I think the thing I love most about Logue's retelling is that when reading it I hear the voices so clearly. I often think it's a shame that nobody (as far as I know) has put on a play of War Music .
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by frereubu 1y ago
Failure can teach you a lot if you're willing to learn.
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by frereubu 1y ago
This is a point made well in the film Wilding - https://www.wildingmovie.com/ - about a rewilding project in the UK. You need change and open ground for any biodiversity benefits. It's a bit like the close-planted comm
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by frereubu 1y ago
Maybe this is something you heard too, but there was a This American Life episode where some people who'd had early access to what became one of the big AI chatbots (I think it was ChatGPT), but before they'd made it "nice&qu

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