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Coronation Street - written by Leslie Duxbury (16th June 1975). The ghost of Martha Longhurst returns to haunt the Rovers.

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so i spent the weekend fucking around with the latest chatgpt build working through its text analysis/synthesis capabilities and hoooooooo boy i have a bunch of complicated thoughts.

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We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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how about we not do ww3 and instead we demilitarize globally and do UBI and Green Jobs Programs and Education and Socialization Training? any takers?

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A wonderful walk at home in #Tasmania to look at newly-emerged #fungi! Some names in ALT, but would love to ID the pink-gray coral. #fungus #FungiFriends #mycology #nature #ecology #mushroom #toadstool #Australia

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The irony of a five-time draft dodger holding a military parade for his birthday … Tell me, O Muse, how does one laugh and vomit at the same time?

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Back when this was as ‘glam’ as camping ever got (‘Camping’ 1977) Artist: Eric Winter

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Can we talk about UBI again? Because I don't have a single non-societal problem that wouldn't be immediately and permanently solved by UBI.

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Economic growth itself is an illusion given that it is merely the result of a series of heists that bankrupted the planet. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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It looks like those moon names like 'strawberry' originally come from 19th century books on Native Americans. These were then used in settlers farmers almanacks, I'm not sure why they are being revived now! www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

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This corrosive system has cleverly convinced us all that we can’t live without it, when in fact we will die precisely because of it. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3 They’re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely. store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

AI was trained on everything anyone online has ever written, photographed, painted, and built. The content we created was taken without permission or financial compensation. AI is theft, plain and simple EVERYONE is entitled to #UBI; left, right, and center (this 'czar' doesn't get to decide that)

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Human extinction has moved closer to inevitability. Our recently re-elected prime minister of Australia, with his handsome majority, is now ideally placed, to take a global lead on this matter. #auspol #climate

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Welsh Hill Farm’ CF Tunnicliffe (1949)

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I know the Trump and Elon breakup fight is fun and all in a "let them fight" meme kind of way, but really, this is why billionaires and kings shouldn't exist. This amount of power should never be allowed to concentrate into so few hands. Two radioactive monsters fighting is going to break stuff.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

But a woman president would be too emotional...

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The way some nations are right now, I would be fully ready to get the cold shoulder from them, all because Tassie decided to give a middle finger to the world by ending homelessness and guarantee housing to all, instead of pissing away $1bn on an oversized Subbuteo play set #politas

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

I've seen this story on here a few times with the #fungus called Daldinia concentrica, but that's cramp balls, isn't it? Not a cap mushroom, as in the image. Is anyone able to verify this story? (Just out of interest!) #FungiFriends #science #plastic #NewZealand #research

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

submitted 17 days ago • 74 comments

Niles got a photo on here yesterday, so Margo demanded one today. This is her, sunbathing this morning. If you're wondering why she's laughing, it's because Other Daddy was cleaning out the chickens, who are convinced they need only lay poop, and no eggs. #dog #whipper #puppy #sunbathing

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I'm peeling a carrot for dinner. I made sure I sang all of the title song from 'Oliver!' at him, especially the Widow Corney bits. #dog #whippet #puppy #beg

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More @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social #books! I've never been a #Pratchett fan, but giving him a try. I LOVE Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 'Herland' is BRILLIANT, but can we anthologize something other than 'The Yellow Wallpaper'? It appears twice in these four books alone!

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We are not designed to handle abundance, and this is precisely why there is barely a human in the West today who hasn’t fallen into some type of unhealthy addiction or mental illness open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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