Ben Gray

Trainee stoic | Professional sceptic

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@k_trendacosta @Scientits Until machines start sensing, perceiving, and interpreting the world, and making these interpretations available to others, then we’ll still need writers and poets and artists and creatives and storytellers and leaders and dreamers and humans.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@briesmith @DanNeidle @JohnRentoul You have absolutely no idea how inefficient, ineffective, incompetent, or corrupt public service provision is. Nor how many people benefit - directly or indirectly - from it.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@ArchieSykes5 @DanNeidle Bigger by number of people?
Or by revenue?
Or by contribution to the UK economy?
And the data is from France, Einstein.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welcome to sewage-on-sea: Britain's most fashionable tourist hotspot Whitstable is being despoiled by floods of effluent pouring into the ocean, just as the taps in homes and businesses run dry."

People in Whitstable and Kent really do get it from both ends, your sewage is dumped on to local beaches and your tap water gets cut off simply because the water company can't keep your supply running. Bloody hell.

Brilliant state of the nation piece by David Jones, @DailyMail

https://t.co/0sHmAWYWMv

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@Phoenix4419 @DanNeidle Bravo 👏
Ad hominem attacks really are the apex of social discourse.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@bes65401 @DanNeidle @JohnRentoul Less waste = more money to invest
Better investment = more returns

The difficult part is: what do you do with swathes of people who no longer benefit - directly or indirectly - from government inefficiency, incompetence, or corruption?

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@DanNeidle @JohnRentoul It’s a popularity contest, Dan!
I’d have thought you would’ve figured that out by now.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@DanNeidle @JohnRentoul If you think that local, regional, and central government spending - and public service provision - is effective and efficient, then you’re not part of the solution.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@implausibleblog

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

In hiding for over a fortnight to swerve any scrutiny over his multitude of illicit donations but finally breaks cover to shit all over the express wishes of Henry Nowak’s family

You can set your watch by Farage’s pisswizardry

A stain on U.K. politics

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

I hope @wesstreeting reads the replies to his post and reflects on his morality. Hopefully, his constituents will too.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The concerns I raised about Gaza - including distressing eyewitness accounts from UK medics - were a result of moral urgency, not 'mid life crisis'.

It felt like hitting a brick wall at the time - now I know how casually those concerns were dismissed.

https://t.co/Q1EKotzCUW

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@DHSCgovuk @jamesmurray_ldn @BBCNews Has anyone looked at the post-mortem of the National Programme for IT (2002-11) that spent £10bn on not delivering a single electronic patient record?
Anyone?!

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@Channel4News The ‘family’ released a written statement. Who authored it is not known. And don’t forget - Vickrum’s brother and mother are alleged to have assisted in his crime.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@bbc5live
Sikhs carrying ceremonial knives did not cause Henry’s death.
His death was caused by Vickrum Digwa, and indirectly by the officers attending the scene.
If Naga cannot discuss the causes of Henry’s death with care and intelligence then find someone else who can.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

In a survey of 951 respondents from companies with more than $100 million in revenue:
- 37% said they achieved AI-related cost reductions of between 10-20%
- 40% saw improvements of less than 10%
- Only 4% reported achieving savings of more than 30%

[Bloomberg @business]

“The technology worked. The value didn’t arrive,” Bain concluded in the report. https://t.co/mZPh5ldFzp

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

Excellent animation! 👏
It would be fabulous if one of the awesome science communicators like @jimalkhalili @ProfBrianCox or @veritasium could extend the maths and graphics to explain how EM radiation propagates over time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Points of view

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@StephenMorganMP Safer toilets?!
I’d have thought more people were concerned about ticket prices and service delays/cancellations.
Anyhoo, please tell us how many toilet-related injuries occur per 1000 pax hrs. And then report back on the improved figure in 100 days.
Can’t wait.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@Heidi_Labour Please commission and publish an independent benchmark of service performance, ticket prices, passenger satisfaction, and rail network operating costs against European peers.
More data, less gaslighting propaganda.

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@BenZaranko Possibility #3 - Ofcom doesn’t operate in Europe …

[Ben Gray @iBenGray]

@cremieuxrecueil @KirkegaardEmil I wonder to what extent this phenomenon is caused by purposeful Danish government policies that motivate immigrants to learn and adopt the Danish language, customs and cultural norms?