Michael Williamson

Ugly bag of mostly water.

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[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

I've made an audio play! It's called Jeeves and Wooster's Excellent Adventure. It's half an hour long. It's rather silly. Perhaps it might tickle your fancy? https://t.co/9xLfTopn1f

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@Helenfarhan @AnimalAlphabets Or a version without the "Emperor penguin" text?

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@Helenfarhan @AnimalAlphabets I just stumbled across this while searching for something else, and I love it! You don't happen to have a higher-resolution version or prints of it available?

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@FLoaBComic Just had a wonderful time GMing You Awaken in a Strange Place hacked for five players, with the setting of "Burnt 17th century noir Thailand, written by Jane Austen", in a world with soulmates (and jam rain) but no romance. Thanks for writing and sharing the game!

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@CasparSalmon Assuming the format hasn't changed much from when I downloaded an archive a while ago, the tweets are stored as JSON, so it's fairly straightforward to convert them to something else (well, for a programmer!). If you have a preferred output format, I could have a go.

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@danschm_ Ooh, that'd be lovely, thanks!

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@danschm_ As someone who's yet to snag a code: what's it like over there? Anything like pre-Musk Twitter?

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@t0nyyates Regardless of whether inflation is a tax or not (and I'm certainly not qualified to say!), not mentioning fiscal drag seems like a glaring omission. Presumably a big (biggest?) factor in how the tax burden rises given recent higher inflation?

[spankybackpack @spankybackpack]

GARDEN'S ALIVE

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@AGKD123 I think you'd get the gist from about the last ten minutes (so both the final scene and a handful of the previous scenes), but I'd also recommend watching the entirety of Brazil on its own merits!

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

I'll miss Michael Gambon doing interviews. When they did a video of the Elder Scrolls Online voice cast, all these well-regarded actors discuss their roles very seriously, until we get to Michael Gambon who has a rather more delightful attitude.

https://t.co/qdNH397Qjb

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@LegsFrank I also bought the BBC series The Game, which is a spy thriller that kept me guessing while also having a satisfying conclusion (a rare combination in my experience!). Plus it does a great job of evoking the atmosphere of the 70s (says the person born in the 80s).

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@LegsFrank I've just bought Woman at War on DVD because I remember thoroughly enjoying it in the cinema, but I haven't watched it again yet so I hope past me has impeccable taste!

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@JonnElledge Perhaps Schitt's Creek? Given it's a sitcom, it had far more character development than I expected, and yet still hits the laughs.

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@jwhandley17 @M_Law8 Universal benefits also help to remove stigma and the barrier that bureaucracy can pose to recipients as well.

It doesn't work for everything, but I'm always drawn to the simplicity of universal benefits and leaving redistribution to tax.

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@M_Law8 I believe as posed in the original problem, the predictor is not perfect, and predicts ahead of time. Otherwise yes, in the presence of a perfect predictor then you should always pick box B. (But a perfect predictor implies either a deterministic universe or a temporal paradox.)

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@M_Law8 The predictor in the thought experiment can't be perfect due to the existence of non-determinism or free will. Or, if you prefer, because the event in the future (which box you pick) can't affect the event in the past (the prediction made by the predictor).

[Michael Williamson @zwobble]

@M_Law8 Suppose the predictor predicts that you will pick box A + B. Less great, but your optimal strategy is still to pick A + B so you have $1000 instead of just box B with $0.