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andrewducker- 1. Seismologists were able to identify 43 of the 45 songs at a Taylor Swift concert by the earth movements they caused
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- 2. The NICE evidence reviews on trans affirming care look very very suspicious
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- 3. Edinburgh buses produce £3.2 million dividend for councils for first time since Covid (and back to 90% of pre-Covid passenger levels)
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- 4. New post-Brexit tariff to apply to UK cars sold to Canada
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- 5. It's 2029. How do you instruct an LLM to power the world?
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- 6. Covid, lab leaks, and raccoon dogs. What does the evidence say, and how should we think about it?
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- 7. Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important
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Date: 2024-03-29 01:37 pm (UTC)Body of text:
All of the cases at the wet market, including the first detected case, were Lineage B. Lineage A wasn’t discovered until about a week later, and none of the Lineage A patients had been to the wet market.
Captioned of illustration:
Lineage A (left) was used by the Minoan Cretans, but has never been deciphered. Lineage B (right) was used by the Mycaeneans for lists of palace goods.
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Date: 2024-03-29 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-29 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-29 01:45 pm (UTC)Bias note: I work in a factory that exports material worldwide; the post-Brexit paperwork that the UK forces Canadian factories to fill out is daunting.
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Date: 2024-03-30 05:25 pm (UTC)We are *terribly* important. Because of historic reasons. And so we must be treated very *very* specially.
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Date: 2024-03-30 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-29 03:00 pm (UTC)As you say, that looks worryingly dodgy.
I've said from the start that there was something untoward about all this!
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Date: 2024-03-31 01:28 am (UTC)It looks like a system that allows for lobbying.
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Date: 2024-03-30 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-30 11:25 am (UTC)