We had fun with the launch of Firebloom from Justin Davies (pub by Discover Kelpies) in @TheEdinburghBookshop
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Readings, questions from our younger readers, sea shanties, drawing jellyfish, plus cake!!
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We had a return visit from author Justin Davies - we had a terrific night launching his children's novel Haarville a couple of years ago, and this month he and the Discover Kelpies publishing team were back in the Edinburgh Bookshop to launch Fireblo…Flickr
If there is no possibility of a Control Group, you can't do RCTs or really any meaningful stats.
Thanks to the Let'er'rip Normalcy Bandwagon, there is no Control Group with Covid now, and just deciding to pretend there is one is bad Science.
What do we do instead? MODELS. MODELS YOU FUCKWITS. MODELS.
The damn Solar System has no control group either.
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EA: l’anticheat di Battlefield 6 che chiede le chiavi del regno - (in)sicurezza digitale
Il mondo del gaming si prepara al lancio di Battlefield 6, previsto per il prossimo 6 ottobre, Electronic Arts si trova al centro di un polemico dibattitoDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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BYD’s Profit Plunge May Be a Worrying Sign of Things to Come
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CEO Snatches Autographed Cap From Kid At U.S. Open
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CEO Snatches Autographed Cap From Kid At U.S. Open
People have flooded the CEO's company with negative reviews on Google.Paige Skinner (HuffPost)
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The image features two individuals wearing cowboy hats in an outdoor setting with a mountainous background. The person on the left is wearing a black cowboy hat and a brown jacket with a shearling collar, while the person on the right is wearing a tan cowboy hat and a blue denim jacket with a shearling collar. The person on the right is also wearing a khaki shirt underneath the jacket. The two individuals appear to be standing close together, with the person on the left leaning slightly towards the person on the right. The background is blurred, but it suggests a natural, outdoor environment with trees and mountains.
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The image is a Venn diagram titled "GOP PRESIDENTS" at the top. It features three overlapping circles, each labeled with a different characteristic: "SENILE" in red, "INCOMPETENT" in blue, and "CRIMINAL" in green. The diagram categorizes four GOP presidents: Reagan, Bush, Trump, and Nixon. Reagan is placed in the "SENILE" circle, Bush in the "INCOMPETENT" circle, and Nixon in the "CRIMINAL" circle. Trump is positioned in the overlapping area of all three circles, indicating that he is considered senile, incompetent, and criminal. The diagram humorously suggests that Trump shares all these negative attributes with the other three presidents.
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#Trump wants to axe an #AffordableHousing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities
Be consistent: I can do this. Piece of cake
Be controversial: that gets me into such trouble
Be useful: How can I help you?
Thank you for the tips 💖
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Earth's Seasons Are Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space
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Earth's Seasons Are Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space : ScienceAlert
The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
SUN + SEA + SAND = FABULOUS BEACHES
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Find your favorite paradise with an array of Florida beach vacations. Browse an expert guide to Florida beach vacations to find the getaway that's right for you.www.visitflorida.com
einer der besten sätze die ich in deutschen talk-shows gehört habe.
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‘A different shock to the system’: De minimis tariff dodge ending means less purchasing power for Americans
Closing the loophole could raise $10 billion a year, but experts say the number is "not all that meaningful" compared to the country’s trade deficit.Nino Paoli (Fortune)
The Art of a Hopeful, Solarpunk Future - The Story Seed Library
The Quiet Part, August 28, 2025
"In this video I wanted to share a really cool resource for publicly available #SolarpunkArt, called the the #StorySeed ibrary at storyseedlibrary.org I think most people could really benefit from taking a moment to question what a better world, or better future might look like. The art and artists in this video have done an incredible job inspiring me to imagine that better future, and I hope by sharing their works I might be able to do the same for you. All of the art featured in this video has been made by hand by people, none of it is AI, just straight up human artistry."
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Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters
President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims related to 2020 election lossMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
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Serie A: Inter-Udinese 1-2 - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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F1: Olanda; Hamilton penalizzato di 5 posti in griglia a Monza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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F1: Olanda; Hamilton penalizzato di 5 posti in griglia a Monza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Parte in salita il weekend di Monza per Lewis Hamilton, il primo vestito di Rosso. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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Serie A: Lazio-Verona 4-0 - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Lazio-Verona 4-0 Lazio (4-3-3): Provedel, Marusic (40' st Hysaj) , Gila, Provstgaard, Nuno Tavares (21' st Pellegrini), Guendouzi, Rovella, Dele-Bashiru (33' st Belahyane), Cancellieri, Castellanos (33' st Dia), Zaccagni (21' st Pedro). (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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POTUS threatening violations of Posse Comitatus across the country
Is there a more important story than "where is the military on the question of the fascist authoritarian takeover of America"?
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in reply to Subjacent Banana • • •This relates to a horrible abuse of the term "Model" that's current now among anti-Science Techbro pop literati shitheads.
A Model is something that makes a prediction and entails a contradiction. With a model, you know if you're wrong.
Go read Hume or Leibnitz.
Kepler had a MODEL of the orbits of the planets. You can ask where Jupiter should be in the night sky on August 8 @ 44N48W. If it is NOT there, Kepler knows he was wrong.
Newton had a MODEL of motion, e.g. F = m * a. If you have the force and the mass, you know what the acceleration is. If you end up with the wrong acceleration - YOU KNOW YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG.
An "LLM" is not a "model." It's a guessing machine. It just generates plausibility. Plausibility is not prediction and plausibility is not contradiction. It is a "model" in the same sense that your stock broker has a model.
Don't come whining when you run out of money. Past performance is no indicator of future results.
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