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  • Temperature alignments

    Temperature alignments

    As we start another heat wave here in the UK, the talk about temperatures increases. One topic I find constant, especially in conversation with American friends, is understanding what various temperature measurements mean. For example, what’s 30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? (The answer is 30°C = 86°F.) The questions are repetitious as they comes up […]

    Neville Hobson

    08/08/2022
    Aside, Life
    Celsius, Fahrenheit, heatwave, temperature

  • #Brexit: A story in five parts

    #Brexit: A story in five parts

    Everyone has an opinion about Brexit. About the good. The bad. And the ugly. The chaos at the port of Dover this weekend – along with everything else related to transport: queues and baggage-handling nightmares at airports, train strikes over staff pay and benefits – are being put in the Brexit frame too. If I […]

    Neville Hobson

    24/07/2022
    Aside
    Brexit, Dover, transport

  • Topics for FIR 270

    Topics for FIR 270

    My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 270, our monthly long-form podcast episode for July 2022, published on July 18, 2022: The Uber Files The Uber Files are a leaked database of Uber’s activities in about 40 countries that reveals how Uber stormed into markets around the world, and how it used stealth technology and […]

    Neville Hobson

    18/07/2022
    Aside, FIRtopics
    gaming, Guardian, ICIJ, NFT, reputation, Sony, Uber, Uber Files, Wikipedia

  • The enduring influence of Paul McCartney

    The enduring influence of Paul McCartney

    A few days ago I met up with some good friends for lunch at a terrific pub outside Dorking. It was a pleasant 90-minute drive on a warm and sunny day from Newbury via Guildford and through the Surrey Hills. To make the journey even more pleasant and very relaxing, I listened to the Spotify […]

    Neville Hobson

    01/07/2022
    Aside, Music
    Glastonbury 2022, music, Paul McCartney

  • Topics for FIR 263

    Topics for FIR 263

    My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 263, our monthly long-form podcast episode for June 2022, published on June 20, 2022: Google has not created sentient AI — yet The suspension of a Google engineer called Blake Lemoine, who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was […]

    Neville Hobson

    20/06/2022
    Aside, FIRtopics
    AI, Blake Lemoine, brand, copyright, Creative Commons, FIRtopics, Gen Z, Google

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