M.A. Kersley @makersley

After LIFE IS STRANGE launched, I was writing on LIS 2, going to lunch with one of the talented artists, talking about the the game's legacy and he said earnestly, "Do you really think people will care about Max & Chloe in five years?" And I smiled and said, "Forever."

Let’s not kid ourselves re Clarkson Jeremy wrote in The Times, "Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The Government doesn't get any of my money when I die. And the price of the food that I grow can only go up."

Tonight in Elena Does Very Serious Military History, I compiled a list of one hundred years worth of “nonexistent things new recruits were told they had to find.” My current favorite is pie tickets, WWII Navy. Followed by grid squares. What are your favorite examples?

Infinite replayability, innovative, made by 1 guy just trying to make a fun game for their friends and their portfolio to get a job in game dev that exploded into a phenomenon. Game of the year should be reserved for games that push the industry forward. Not just for great or good games.

NikTek @NikTek

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I'm sorry how did Balatro Game get nominated over Stellar Blade?

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Current school library book has us in stitches. Every read has us noticing something new in the animation and we're loving the idea of the Good Fairy becoming increasingly *ahem* annoyed at LRFF and his unrepentant face when bopping. @MichaelRosenYes

Must say I preferred the world when the worst a mad entrepreneur could do was invent a weird little car and give kids an affordable introduction to computers.

I’m helping a journalist who is looking for some direct examples of delay impacting either a defendant or a complainant. Do please DM if you have a case that could go on the record?

The Lucy Letby case leaves a troubling question for MD: how can one set of experts see murder in the case notes while others see only poor clinical care? ‘We will never have scientific proof of murder, and the arguments over Letby’s innocence or guilt will continue,’ writes MD in our seventh special report on the Lucy Letby case, published online today. Part 8 in the new issue, out now. ➡️ private-eye.co.uk/special-report…

Study of 554 resumes & 571 job descriptions evaluated by AI (3 LLM's) finds they favored white names 85% of the time; female names only 11%. The AI preferred white men even for female-dominated roles, like HR workers. @lstiffler1 h/t @JessicaCalarco geekwire.com/2024/ai-overwh…

@sid_lambert The goalkeeper with the self-reviewing shirt

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah CBE, the mother of a nine-year-old girl who was the first person to have air pollution recorded as a cause of death on her death certificate, has agreed an undisclosed settlement with the government over her untimely death hja.net/news-and-insig… Rosamund (@EllaRobertaFdn ) and Ella’s siblings met with today Emma Hardy MP, Minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and reaffirmed her commitment to hold the government to account to bring in improved legislation to bring the UK in line with WHO air quality guidelines such as a new Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill known as ‘Ella’s Law’ ellaslaw.uk/what-would-ell… Rosamund said: “Since Ella’s death, I have dedicated my life to raising public awareness of the devastating impact air pollution has on the public’s health.... My aim remains to stop other children from suffering like Ella did and to campaign for the implementation of all of the coroner’s recommendations following Ella’s second inquest. I will continue to fight for the health of all children. I believe every child has a right to breathe clean air, no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status." Solicitor Susie Labinjoh (@SLabinjoh ) of our team at @hodgejonesallen paid tribute to Rosamund’s work in raising awareness about the dangers of air pollution following a "long and arduous battle," noting it had been "a privilege to represent Rosamund and her family." For background on the inquest findings, see: hja.net/news-and-insig…

Why might there be a delay in the details of a police investigation being made public? Well, many reasons. None of which relate to a conspiracy or a “cover-up”. Let’s take a quick look🧵👇

Facebook has accepted well over $100k in just the past month from two pages to run ~290 ads targeting the US and promoting conspiracy theories about the election being stolen or postponed. 🧵

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The stupid deaths sequence alone is worth a Bafta: youtube.com/watch?v=IJoG1s…

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Horrible Histories to receive special Bafta Award bbc.in/3UnKkZl

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Never forget what a psychiatrist friend of mine said to me, “Stimulant medications for ADHD are the most successful treatment for a disorder across the entire medical field. There is pretty much no other treatment for any disorder that performs as well is this.”

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Horrible Histories to receive special Bafta Award bbc.in/3UnKkZl

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The failure of the criminal justice system is not just statistics. It impacts real people every day.   It is Monday morning. Across the country, criminal barristers will have travelled to courts to start the trials of serious criminal offences. There is no time now during a working week for a barrister to prepare the trial that they are starting the following week. That means that a weekend consists of early rises and late finishes to ensure that cases are trial ready. We arrive at court, trial ready. It is hope that exhausts us because there is no guarantee that a trial will start. What can go wrong? Why would a case which has been fixed for trial for over a year and which is now 4-6 years after the crime not start? Cases are listed for trial as “backers” or “floaters.” This means that they will only start if the case ahead of them does not. Witnesses still have to be at court and ready to give evidence. It can sometimes take most of the day before it is certain that a case cannot be reached. Witnesses wait and wait, becoming more anxious and frustrated. Giving their best evidence after that sort of wait is not easy but it is better than the alternative, which is being told that they have wasted a day and suffered additional unnecessary stress, reliving the incident, because the court has no space for their trial. Of course, lack of court space is not the only reason cases are adjourned. There may be no interpreter available from the privately contracted firm who provide interpreters to the court. The court’s technology might not be working, the prison may have forgotten to produce a defendant. In addition, the private company which transports prisoners to and from court may not produce a defendant until late afternoon because the prisoner has been moved many miles away from the trial court because of overcrowding. Sometimes, the case may have to be adjourned because there is simply no barrister in the country available to prosecute or defend the trial which may have been listed without taking into account whether a barrister is available. The criminal barrister will then have to explain to the witnesses that their trial will now take place if they are lucky in 2025, but it might be anything up to 2027 and still there is no guarantee that it will happen next time. We wish that those who have suffocated the criminal justice system by failing to properly invest in it could look at the faces of those people and see the pain and trauma that they have caused. Of course, those accused of crimes who deny that they have committed offences are also devastated when trials are adjourned. They may be suspended from work, having to live away from their homes, on the edge of losing everything that they have worked for and are then told to hang on in there for another couple of years. Another reason why cases can be adjourned or stopped altogether is because those who have been beaten, stabbed, raped, threatened, had their houses burgled, their property damaged, their life savings stolen stop trusting in the system and refuse to turn up to court. They give up. Some may now give up earlier than that, if the person that they have accused of a crime is given bail because their case cannot be reached within a six-month time limit. Chair's Message Mary Prior KC

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Our latest piece on AI image generation exposes OpenDream, a site that's been used to make AI generated images of child abuse and non-consensual pornographic images of celebrities bellingcat.com/news/2024/10/1…

Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, 1902.

A true story from this morning. @WhitHealth

After learning more and more about how dumb everyone is we probably have to do this or people won’t think it’s happening