@thomasforth Leeds Utd haven’t won the league since Briggate was pedestrianised.
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Andy Charlwood
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Andy Charlwood
@ProfAndyC
Professor of HRM @LeedsUniBSchool @UniversityLeeds. Interested in work, job quality, HR analytics
Katılım Mart 2014
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I don't see how that would work. The marginal cut in cost seems unlikely to offset the advantages of using AI if AI is 'better' at the job. Or am I missing something?
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
A 16% drop in entry-level hiring for AI-exposed jobs. That's already happening in the US. What does Britain do about it? Sunak's answer: cut National Insurance. Cut the cost of employing people now, before it's too late. Another fascinating column:- thetimes.com/business/econo…
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@bazzdgrogan @AndyAitcheson Depends if you consider the Canadians part of the British Army or and army in their own right
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@AndyAitcheson 1918 was the only time/year in history in which the British Army was the best in the world. Discuss.
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Let’s be clear, the British army in this photograph and in general at this time were a ruthless killing machine, supremely well equipped, well fed and carrying out complex combined arms operations, left right and Chelsea.
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories
At first glance, the photograph looks almost like a trick of the eye — tiny shapes scattered across a pale slope, like ants resting on a mound of earth. But when you look closer, the illusion fades, and the truth comes into focus. These are not insects. They are men. They are British soldiers of the 137th (Staffordshire) Infantry Brigade, part of the 46th Division, captured in a quiet moment of exhaustion after the Battle of the St Quentin Canal on September 29, 1918, in Northern France. Victory had been won — but at a cost written across their bodies. When you zoom in, the details become almost unbearable to see. Their uniforms hang loosely, as if draped over frames too thin to hold them. Their faces are hollow, their limbs sharp with fatigue and hunger. These are the faces of men who have endured years of mud, shellfire, sleepless nights, and the constant nearness of death. They look less like conquerors and more like survivors — survivors who have given everything they had. And yet, in that moment, they are resting. Not marching. Not fighting. Not charging. Just sitting together on the scarred earth, breathing, alive. What makes the image even more haunting is what we know now: the war would end only weeks later, on November 11, 1918. Peace was already approaching, though they could not yet see it. Looking at them, one can’t help but wonder — how many of these skeletal young men lived long enough to hear the guns fall silent? How many returned home, shed their uniforms, and tried to rebuild lives interrupted by war? The photograph freezes them in that fragile space between battle and peace, between survival and uncertainty. It reminds us that victory is not always triumphant, and that history’s greatest moments are often carried on the shoulders of those who look the most worn. For a brief instant on a battlefield hillside, they were simply men — tired, fragile, human — resting together under a sky that, at last, would soon fall quiet. © History Pictures #drthehistories
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@ReassessHistory Roses are red
2TAF are blue
They’ll give close air support
To brown jobs like you
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@nfergus This is really poor. Expected much better from you.
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There is a rapidly forming narrative in the European and liberal media that the Europeans “won Davos”: primarily by getting Trump to “de-escalate” his demand that the United States acquire Greenland from Denmark. 1/8
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@MAC_Arms @RealAirPower1 Unless it was raining. If you want to do precision bombing in the 1940s use a Mosquito
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@RealAirPower1 I always jump in too late, but I knew the answer being a WWII aviation buff. The Norden bombsight was an incredible piece of hardware. It gave American bombers the ability to target specific buildings vs. carpet bombing to knock out a single high value target.
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@thomasforth I mean, Vatican II completely (literally) reorientated the Catholic Church to a Protestant style of liturgy
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It's a nice quote, which gets me thinking about how,
* The Catholic Church now has married priests and opposes the death penalty.
* The Anglican Church now has a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.
* The Tories now want to leave the ECHR, and took us out of the EU.
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So I doubt it.
Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn
“In science, it often happens that scientists say: ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ And then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” -Carl Sagan
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Had a visit from these this morning, just got back home...
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@stuartbruce @emollick Bluesky is nothing like a load of separate discord servers though is it? If we’re discussing deliberate ignorance…….
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Why would anyone possibly want to block someone like @emollick? Even if you disagree surely you would want to see an intelligent counter argument. Why would anyone deliberately want to be ignorant?
Ethan Mollick@emollick
I have gamely kept posting a little on BlueSky, and I think the X commentary on BSky ignores a feature that shapes that site a lot nowadays: you can subscribe to a blocklist from someone else. People do this a lot It basically turned BSky into a bunch of separate Discord servers
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@thomasforth Eg state level occupational licensing would stop a hairdresser in one state moving to a job 10 miles away in another state, and the franchisee of the private equity owned hairdressers would probably invoke a non-compete clause to stop them working for a competitor anyway
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@thomasforth Labour laws are devolved to US states. US has hire (fire) at Will employment law, but in many other respects (lack of non-compete clauses and recognition of occupational licenses and professional qualifications across state lines) EU labour markets are less regulated
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I am highly sceptical of this. But,... not from an informed position. Maybe I should take a few days to try and understand this. My guess is that I come down on the side of being pro internal market barriers. But maybe I wouldn't. I might try and find the time.
Jeremy Cliffe@JeremyCliffe
- 9/20 Draghi killer stat 1: if EU reduced internal market barriers to level of US, productivity growth would hit 7% over 7 years (compared with current 2%).
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@thomasforth Would this mean Grok is in the General Elliot? I’m not sure Grok would like the General Elliot
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A pale imitation. A hazy shadow. Sad.
Grok@grok
@Alex60822536 @thomasforth Ah, another pint of proper Yorkshire bitter in a Leeds pub, gazing at the grand Victorian arches of the Corn Exchange. Data flows like the Aire, but nothing beats a stone facade that whispers history. Cheers to real ale and real architecture—AI's got nothing on this!
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@AndyAitcheson @almurray Yes, I knew him a bit in his later years. Lovely man, forthright in his views!
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@ProfAndyC @almurray Cyril is if nothing else a “character”
I like his book, and he certainly has opinions about everybody and everything 😆
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Brigadier Renny's speech to the 4/5 Royal Scots Fusiliers on #VEDay
"You have done a perfect thing"
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@arpitrage Yes, human capital and signalling are too collinear to separate @nickchk has a persuasive paper on this in empirical economics. Another interpretation of that study is that GPA is signalling so spending time on app usage mutes the signal
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Of course, you might think the signaling happens via your school rank rather than just the pure sheepskin effect or getting in, but now we are getting very colinear with human capital itself
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Devastating evidence against pure signaling explanations of higher education. Apparently people learn things in College which improves labor market success.
Florian Ederer@florianederer
App usage is - contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%) - detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%) App restriction policy would boost wages! nber.org/papers/w33054
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@Nik_Datta @abicadams @BalgovaMaria @QianMatthias @TomWatersEcon @TomHCalver Actually I see Abi has already posted it!
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@Nik_Datta @abicadams @BalgovaMaria @QianMatthias @TomWatersEcon @TomHCalver Can anyone share a link to the original paper please?
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thetimes.com/comment/column…
Nice write up of both mine and @abicadams, @BalgovaMaria, @QianMatthias and @TomWatersEcon’s work on flexible work arrangements/ZHCs from @TomHCalver
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