@streetartutopia More information about the mural, and Mary Barbour

https://mymodernmet.com/jeks-mary-barbour-mural-glasgow/

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/6765/Mary-Barbour

15 Powerful Art Pieces Overflowing With Emotion: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/15/powerful-art-pieces-overflowing-with-emotion/
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Mural by JEKS ONE in Glasgow, UK for the Yardworks festival.

@Lyle The owner of a pub came to us (the city council planners) and said "I need to close this pub to build a block of flats on the site". We said "no, we don't want that pub closed." They said "but look at all that space given over to the car park, that's just a cost to us."

So we said "we're perfectly happy for you to build a block of flats on the car park - we don't want people driving home from the pub anyway, the pub doesn't need a car park."

Result: The site now contains a pub and a block of flats. And some bicycle parking spaces for the pub's customers, which take up vastly less space than the previous car park.

Glasgow Caledonian University is looking to appoint a Technical Officer in Electronic Engineering.

Details and application at:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL566/technical-officer-electronic-engineering

#job #electronics #engineering #university

Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to access to your devices and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill

Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.

There once was a girl from Purdue
Who kept a young cat in a pew
She taught it to speak
Alphabetical Greek
But it never got farther than μ.

Remarkable chart in a new paper out of MIT looking at cognitive performance of LLM users in an essay writing task - https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Used Royal Mail's postcode finder website, and discovered that when you ask to show the address on a map, they use OpenStreetMap. That's cheeky - they don't allow us to use postcode data as it's proprietary and closed data, but they rely on our volunteer mappers to build the free open data map that they then use!
#openstreetmap

If the goal is to "support jobs" then investing in war is the worst way to do it.

http://thecommongreen.scot/2025/06/15/if-you-want-jobs-dont-prepare-for-war/

The Waverley paddle steamer coming in to Penarth this morning. #Wales 📷 my daughters

A lot of companies seem to misunderstand the role of pay in hiring and retaining smart people. In my first year at Microsoft Research I listened to a (normally sensible) member of the lab’s leadership team explain that the bonus structure was there to incentivise good research. I looked around the room and wondered who had ever thought ‘well, I was going to do some mediocre research, but for 20% more money this year I will do something world leading!’ My guess: no one.

If you want to hire the best people, you are looking for the people who, if money didn’t matter, would do the job for free because they believe it’s important and care about the outcome. You don’t pay them well to persuade them to work. You pay them well so that they can afford to work on the things that they think are important. If smart people don’t think the things you’re doing are important then you should consider why you’re doing them.

This is especially true for executive compensation. The best CEOs are ones that care about the company’s products and want everyone to use them, not the ones that want to make the most money. This is especially true for non profits where your pool should start with people who care a lot about the organisation’s mission. Paying more (above a certain level) won’t find more of those people it will simply dilute the pool with people who are there for the money, not the mission.

EDIT: A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding this and think this is an argument to pay people badly. It absolutely isn't. If you pay people badly, they will spend a lot if time thinking about money. Your job as a manager is to remove problems. Money removes a lot of problems. But a lot of problems cannot be removed by applying money. If someone competent is being told to do nonsense work that they know will cause problems in the long run, no amount of money will make them motivated. The problems that can be solved with money are the easy ones.

When the facial recognition algorithm says
You are guilty. Sorry if a women in Manchester wrongly accused of shoplifting and getting banned from shops despite being innocent. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo #biometrics #news #survillance

A little more about why I returned the #RoyalSociety Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder. #Musk

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article

Martina at Nerdforge, the patron saint of unhinged bookbinding projects, rebound all 40 Discworld books as one giant 14,000 page book that's a giant fantasy-themed Rolodex you turn with a hand crank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5w

@TheBreadmonkey ahm sorry Dave, ah cannae dae that

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

It looks like the question of what the longest street in Glasgow (and indeed all of Scotland) is has been settled once and for all. Well, according to this plaque I came across today on the corner of Argyle Street and St Vincent Street at any rate. However, something tells me it isn't an official one. 😀

#glasgow #longeststreet #plaque #scotland #humour #keepglasgowweird #aberdeen #argylestreet #dukestreet

Funny Signs (15 Photos)!: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/10/funny-signs/
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Great Wheat Sharks — Anne Melady in Ontario, Canada.
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Shark fins appear to slice through a golden wheat field along Highway 8 west of Dublin, Ontario. Installed by 75-year-old landowner and retired nurse Anne Melady, the piece is titled Great Wheat Sharks. She created it to lighten the mood for drivers during the pandemic and continues the now-local tradition with humor and simplicity.

An open call for Scottish artists, from Edinburgh Science Festival:

"We’re looking for a Scottish-based or Scottish-born artist to create a large-scale commission that explores the historic, social and cultural dynamics of science

The opportunity culminates in a major installation at the National Museum of Scotland’s Grand Gallery during the 2026 Edinburgh Science Festival..."

#Scotland #Edinburgh #art #science #commission
https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/open-artist-call/

At last! It's been found!!! Someone call Nigel Farage quick!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tf2fmycjzc6ezahgufdhbvg6/post/3lrbp67ftuk2h

a group of cartoon characters ...