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Reminder: If you still have to use #Twitter for business purposes, install the FREE 'Control Panel for Twitter'.
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I like to read histories.
I was reading a bit of history of ancient Rome and was reminded that many Roman emperors were murdered by their Praetorian guards.
This does not count Julius Caesar who died at the hands of angered Senators.
This would never happen in a modern country such as the US. (Can any of us imagine Mitch McConnell or Chuck Schumer playing the role of Brutus? "Et tu Mitch" doesn't have that resonant ring of Shakespeare's version.)

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- Rachmaninov's Second Symphony
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins perform the ultimate romantic symphony, plus Sir James MacMillan’s searing The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mb82

Is #AI really just dumb statistics? "Olympiad-level physics problem-solving presents a significant challenge for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), as it requires a sophisticated integration of precise calculation, abstract reasoning, and a fundamental grasp of physical principles," says the (abstract of the) paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10515: "The Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), renowned for its complexity and depth, serves as an ideal and rigorous testbed for these advanced capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LOCA-R (LOgical Chain Augmentation for Reasoning), an improved version of the LOCA framework adapted for complex reasoning, and apply it to the CPhO 2025 theory examination. LOCA-R achieves a near-perfect score of 313 out of 320 points, solidly surpassing the highest-scoring human competitor and significantly outperforming all baseline methods." Oops ...?

Hyvinvointivaltio vaatii radikaalia remonttia #hyvinvointi

Hyvinvointivaltio vaatii radikaalia remonttia
Hyvinvointiyhteiskunta on törmäämässä ekologisiin rajoihin. Kansanedustaja Anna Kontulalla on yhteiskunnalle kaksikärkinen muutosohjelma.

I drove 256 miles in the Boxster today to collect the remainder of ski-trip luggage from Wicklow, and help Mum & Dad with their Australian tourist visa applications.
That trip, a mixture of motorway and B-roads really cemented it for me: that little blue thing is the best car I've ever owned (possibly ever driven?) If you have the chance, I heartily recommend obtaining one..
It's now also utterly filthy, but wearing the road-muck very well.

Watched the showing of 'Culloden' on BBC4. Saw it at 13 when it came out, on recommendation of our history teacher as we happened to be doing that period. He was shocked at how "gory" it was but there'd been nothing like it in the TV before.
Part off my education about imperialism and suppression of traditional people's, but also an knnoculation against the romantic myth of the Jacobites.
I've always been much more Jacobin than Jacobite.

Good Morning #Canada
On the eve of #RemembranceDay, it's fitting that we wish a ##HappyBirthday to Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, who was born on this day in 1908. Merritt was the first Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross in #WWII, the highest award for bravery among troops of the British Empire. He was also the son of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, who was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on April 23rd, 1915. Merritt commanded The South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Army, (Canadian Infantry Corps), and led his regiment at the failed Dieppe Raid on August 19th, 1942. He led multiple charges against fortified positions, was wounded twice, and stayed on the beach to defend his troops as they were withdrawn. He was captured by the Germans and remained a prisoner until the end of the war.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-cecil-merritt-vc