Simon Fraser 🏴🇪🇺💙🔶
@esseph63
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
Lots of new followers today. All bots, flogging AI. All blocked and reported.
The unemployment rate is not historically high, if you look back a few more years. Peaked under Thatcher, of course, and always higher under Tory governments.
And then an anemone floated by. An anemone? An anemone. Was it an enemy? Was the anemone an enemy? Yes. Was the anemone an enemy? I don’t think so. It seemed bored, uninterested in the world. Anomie, one might say. Anomie in an anemone? You don’t hear that very much.
45 year old male, I should have said. Oh, and Google AI is useless.
There were so many powerful political cartoons in that era. This is one of my favourites, which must also have been featured in a school textbook.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. This is a really good article about the use of literacy. The Learning Dispatch carlhendrick.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Self-certification is never a good idea, and a spectacularly bad one in this case. I never imagined the US regulatory regime was already this dysfunctional.
“What? We gotta freeze those missiles for Ukraine? Wait a second … well heck, they’re already in transit. Nothing to be done, I’m afraid.” This, or variations on it, need to echo up and down the command chain. Resist!
The analytical analysis appendix has the same info, but labelled better. But no information on the relative size of each cohort, ie how many million people are at each qualification level.