Kenny Pryde

What's FFG?

Not sure the premise is true.
However, considering this is a media company that slashed its journalist payroll and used AI 'photography' to save money --yet *still* can't sustain itself -- that's not good for anyone.

Zone 2 vs. HIIT Is a Futile Debate. In the real world, among elite athletes, experienced coaches, clinical physiologists, and patients, this debate doesn't exist. It is well known that Zone 2 and high-intensity training must coexist.

Anyone interested in sport, cycling, physiology, training and medicine could do a hella lot worse than subscribing to Dr Inigo San Millan's 'hot-off-the-press' Substack.
He's already upsetting podcaster bullshit. And he's only on his first post... inigosanmillan.substack.com/p/zone-2-vs-...

In a world of sports spoiled by 'professional' fouls, feigning injury to get an opposition player sent off and other fakery, the interchange between stage winner Michael Valgren and the guy he dropped to win solo - Julian Alaphilippe - warmed the cockles. Cycling can still be great. #Tirreno

That's the perfect start to my day.
Spot on, on every level.
Cheers!

Just discovered a company clearly manipulating trustpilot with fake reviews using AI. People need to understand how quickly AI is going to destroy trust in a lot of information.

When reports started leaking into the 'mainstream' about bot factories generating clicks and views and generating fake reviews for products, I reckon the rot set in and trust started to decay. But, as you point out, AI is going to accelerate that process enormously. The wisdom of crowds...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Not sure what we're 'arguing' about here.

My question stands - farming in most Highland areas is about more than cash. So we could pay 'farmers' to look after land in whichever way 'we' think appropriate. But the idea that we just let it go 'wild' and it'll be fine and regenerate after hundreds of years of human impacts is deluded. IMHO.

Why wouldn't it be true of some on the left (as well as some on the right)? The left can be outraged and bigoted too, let's not kid ourselves we've got a monopoly on 'goodness' or there isn't a misanthropic, hair shirt version of left politics.

The archetypal Bluesky debate!

Worse in the sense of what LT revealed or in the sense that the subject matter was more depressing than you imagined?

100 per cent true that, "We live in an era of perpetual outrage."

But if it is certainly true of 'the right' then, surely, it must also be true of 'the left' as well as those 'undecided' and 'don't know' folks caught in the cultural crossfire. Its no wonder *everyone* feels so crushed.

No way man, no way! Leonardo would be a YouTuber and design influencer with millions of followers on his 'socials' if he was alive today!

Deeply unimpressive from both speakers, and far from reassuring. Sounded a lot like 'Nothing to see here, move along.'

There is no war, but the war will end soon and is just beginning.

I'm not sure I'd choose a holiday in Scotland.

Always loved Paris-Nice, the white jersey of race leader back then. But reminded today why we invariably skipped the first few stages when reporting on the race - bleak weather and scenery on the early sprint stages. And a lot of loooong transfers between stages. Race to sun, indeed. Ha! Happy days.

My finger was hovering over the 'Buy' button when I saw 'No reviews' which is always deal-breaker when I'm buying a table.

Mine was a frivolous observation, suggesting that the popularity of both parties was heavily dependent on those figureheads. When they departed, so did the popularity of their parties.
I'm not sure how I see Johnson "gutted" the Tory party though.

Using X?!

'Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality...'

And the reality is she and her party are heading for oblivion.

I was only 12 or 13 when 'Clair' was a big hit in the UK and it seemed a bit weird to me even then. Very different (pop and rock) times of course, but unimaginable today.

No Salmond, no party.

No Boris, no Tories?

Does anyone know what type of monitor this is?

Alright, nice spot!
I have no idea, no medical training, no contacts in the field so let's start speculating!
I'll say a blood lactate and/blood sugar monitor for live in-car monitoring of his nutrition/glycogen state.

"Scintillating"? Hahahaha. Come on! It was unspeakably dull.

Depends entirely on what is being sung. 'Swing low sweet chariot'? No. A hard, eternal no.

Strange (2006 Remastered Version) YouTube video by Wire - Topic

Pogacar wins Strade Bianche, again. Another solo attack (79km!) leaving some of the world's best one-day riders floundering, helplessly, in his wake. And he won by over a minute in those awful white shorts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0f...

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

A pioneer of autism research is asking us to rethink the diagnosis, only viewing as autistic those diagnosed in early childhood (usually before 3 or 5) with severe intellectual/language impairments. Everyone else with the label may be suffering from something else...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers:
‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’
‘Super Mario Brothers.’
‘Oh, that’s a game.’
‘What?’
And they showed me this thing jumping up & down.
‘This is you.’
And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’