Badger, badger, badger... MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM 🍄
Jonti Picking's flash animation - and earworm - set the world alight in 2003, becoming one of the internet's most iconic memes. Now preserved in the BFI National Archive.
@laurencetratt I find the papers position intuitive intuitive and highly relevant. But then I’ve spent the week thinking how to program a factory that contains a lot of autonomous robots :-)
A thread of thoughts after seeing "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for the first time in decades:
First, it is a deceptively simple film. Much more than a "teen movie", it is a fascinating symbolic representation of masculine psychological development.
Mourning the passing of @atulbutte. I learned so much from the precious few chances I had to be with him. He's someone who always picked up the phone whenever I needed advice, on anything, anytime. A great man who made everyone around him better.
I’m back from the Hermitcraft charity event and I’m still blown away by the incredible generosity of the HC community!
The total keeps climbing as auctions finalize and donations roll in. So far, we’ve raised $818,000 for @GamersOutreach
Thank you all for making this possible!
🟩 Thank you Hermitcraft 🟩
The Hermits and friends raised an astonishing $810k+ for #GFG2025
We look forward to sharing all the play experiences unlocked for families in treatment throughout this year!
It is testament to the UK’s world-class education system that four of this year’s Nobel prize winners (so far) were born and educated in the UK. They are Johnson and Robinson for economics, Hinton for physics and Hassabis for Chemistry. This is cause for pride and celebration. But it is also profoundly depressing that to fulfil their extraordinary potential, all four felt obliged either to move to North American universities (Johnson, Robinson and Hinton) or take US megabucks (from Google - Hassabis, and to a lesser extent Hinton). In other words their success shows both the success and the weakness of the UK. We create the so-called human capital, but the fruits of these outstanding brains are routinely reaped by other countries and economies, usually the US. Any British government should surely focus on what needs to change to retain great British talent, and the commercial revenues their ideas spawn, at home
@swardley While not a direct answer - this paper is my starting point when I am thinking about this type of thing in the Pharmaceutical R&D https://t.co/r6445lEd6F