Fesshole 🧻We've used the same half dozen or so clocks in exam halls, but have found that we need replace this this year with digital clocks because some of our pupils are unable to tell the time on analogue clocks. From an exams officer in an independent school.
Stephen Mackenzie
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mhoye"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."
Prof Christina Pagel🧵A Covid thread - but a good news one!
I’m barely writing about Covid anymore because there is barely any Covid to write about.
I thought it was worth celebrating this in this thread. 1/7
small robots516) Wavebot. If someone waves and you think they're waving at you so you wave back but actually they're waving at a person behind you that you didn't know was there, this robot jumps out from behind the first waver to wave back to you, thus avoiding social embarrassment. #SmallRobotsRemastered
Mark A. Rayner
Tim Harford 
Chatbots make stuff up. Why do we believe them anyway?
Marathon day. An early train into London, then an unfamiliar journey across a race-disrupted city from Paddington to Blackheath, all in good time for the start of the race. I was nervous, of course, but was cheered by the sight of another bib-wearing runner — more experienced at marathons, less familiar with London.
Me
https://timharford.com/2026/06/chatbots-make-stuff-up-why-do-we-believe-them-anyway/
https://numatic.com/uk/products/ppr170-2/ I have just discovered Evil Henry.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its Fuck. Is there a plan to repair all this damage, you know, afterwards?
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-oceans-data-trump-science-a9539443dfaa32b3a67468a25f8b2674 Someone explain to them that this network is also our only line of defence against the Dwellers Under The Sea. Or just offer to buy it at an inflated price. That should work.
Ocean sensors will go dark under Trump funding cuts
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation. An expert told The Associated Press Tuesday that it’s a crippling loss of information. The Ocean Observatories Initiative has collected real-time ocean data for a decade and informed more than 500 scientific publications. It was intended to run for another 15 to 20 years. Instruments will be pulled from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and south of Greenland. Scientists warn it’s a particularly precarious moment. A marine heat wave is already building off California and experts predict an El Nino event this summer.
