I realise it costs Amazon money to support an old device but it is a tad frustrating that my perfectly functioning first edition Kindle paperwhite from 2012 has now been rendered obsolete. A replacement is over £150. I added a book to it just a few weeks ago!
"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust."
On one of the worst people in British politics.
Love this map. Via @jonnelledge.bsky.social.
ourworldindata.org/world-popula...
Currently having fun at the Prostate Cancer UK from ideas to innovation conference.
May the fourth be with you. Today I learnt about the surprising origins of the term.
the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
By showing us where the people in the world are, cartograms help us understand global living conditions better.
Portable R 4.6.0 is now live for Windows and macOS. No installer, no admin, no system changes. Just extract the archive and run.
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel): github.com/portable-r/p...
Windows (x64 + ARM64): github.com/portable-r/p...
#rstats #macos #windows
Painful but true. "May the Fourth Be With You" was originally a Tory campaign slogan, coined for Margaret Thatcher on election day in May 1979...
Portable R 4.6.0 for macOS
Signed with a Developer ID Application certificate and notarized by Apple. These modified R binaries should not trigger Gatekeeper warnings.
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Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.
