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        <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>Fewer Tory Councillors survived the 2026 local elections than 1st Class Passengers on the Titanic</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[The Tories lost 563 councilors in the May 2026 local elections - 41% of the seats it was defending. ie Only 59% of councilors survived. For comparison, out of 325 1st Class passengers, 202 survived - 62%. (Of the 2208 people on board, 705 survived. The crew had the lowest survival rate - 214 out of 899, just 23.8%). Given the striking appallingness of the Tory result would seem like something they&#039;d notice. Now, given Labour are in even deeper trouble, you can argue the Tories are simply not int...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>BBC Proms 2026 Concerts</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Today the BBC announced the concerts in the 2026 season of concerts, running from 17th July to 12th September. The full BBC programme is out now in bookshops or here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms For years now I&#039;ve added basic details of the concerts into a public Google Calendar that people can subscribe to to see the concerts (timings, programmes) alongside their other diary items. Events dont show as &#039;unavailable&#039; so there&#039;s no intrusion, and most apps can switch display of calendars on/off re...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Weird Uses of Drones</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[We&#039;ve grown used to drones in a range of circumstances - warfare for example, or self driving cars, or sometimes delivery drones tootling along pavements. Seeing them in video from warehouse like Ocado or Amazon moving pallets of good around is routine now too. Fixed robots have long been come - like in car factories. There are still times where a use fro drones comes up that is surprising or amusing. This is an occasional series of posts on the subject. First up - the use of a humanoid robot (e...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Crime with Tunnels</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Possibly just a perception thing, but there is a weird seeming difference between UK and continental Europe is the way crims commit crimes: there seem to be much more use of tunnels in crime on the continent than there is in the UK. Is this some cultural thing in the crim world, or is it some systematic weakness in the buildings being targeted. As always, anecdote is not data, so beware. This post is the first in an occasional series on anecdotes I&#039;ve come across for this weird fascinating subje...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Self Driving - Weird Edge Cases</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Millions of kilometers have been driven by prototype self driving systems from multiple companies at varying degrees of maturity, often with a human sitting behind the wheel able to intervene if needed. In a few places actual self driving cars are in use, like Waymo in San Francisco and some other cities. Most though are still in some form of development and approval. One standout from these is the weird edge cases that still seem to arise, cases the software somehow didn&#039;t see or respond to saf...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Post Zero</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Just seeing what this is about. And maybe my longer thread posts would be better done as posts here.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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