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Timothy Barber retweeted
Trying to compile history's maddest takes without this man's incredible output would be like listing the twenty greatest sonnets without including Shakespeare
Timothy Barber retweeted
Is there a more lazy, more vacuous, more infuriating public statement than ‘Lessons Will Be Learned’? How about learning a more empathetic and meaningful phrase, you thoughtless incompetent bastards.
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Say goodbye to having a lawn in California. Grass is the first step. It’ll be the crops next. Large parts of the US will become uninhabitable due to water shortages. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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As recently as 2015 China exported under 375,000 cars a year, fewer than India, and about as many as Germany and Japan shipped in a single month.
In the currently on pace to export over 4,000,000 in 2023.
economist.com/graphic-detail…
Timothy Barber retweeted
The saddest story in this weekend's edition? The number of teenagers doing a modern language for A-level has gone into freefall
Since 2013, German A-level -45% and French A-level -37%
thetimes.co.uk/article/germa…
Timothy Barber retweeted
19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime.
The sentencing figure is not for me. It is for you. You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. You are being forced to surrender your country of Russia without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist.
Timothy Barber retweeted
Next comes the strict regime prison colony. This is the father of my kids. I’m so proud of you, my love!
Timothy Barber retweeted
I wonder is @OpenAI performing the biggest act of "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" in human history. They appear to have scraped everyone's content on the internet under a US interpretation of fair use. And that's different from, say, search engines.
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Bloody hell this is really magnificent from @asda Chairman Stuart Rose (formerly @marksandspencer)
More of this. Much more. It’s vital that business leaders speak out in this way. Bravo. 👏
Timothy Barber retweeted
Having just collected neighbour Dorothy’s shopping list, in her 103rd year and still digging up her potatoes, she pointed out she’s now lived through the reigns of 4 monarchs: #GeorgeV, #GeorgeVI #Elizabeth2 and now #CharlesIII .Truly extraordinary. I think I need to sit down.