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If AI is such a clear and unambiguous public good, but cannot function profitably, clearly the answer is to nationalise it, yes?

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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

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"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

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TIRED: AI will take your job by automating it away INSPIRED: AI will take your job by tanking the economy when investors realise they funnelled trillions into a hype bubble with no business model

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Over the last two decades, local divers and fishers have pieced together a mosaic of no-catch zones covering 20,000 km² of Mexico's coasts. buff.ly/k5M7Gax #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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From The Bad Place, but interesting.

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I once told a guy insisting that AI writing was just as good as any writer that we should do a live demo in realtime where we both get a prompt, he uses his way, I use mine, we let the public decide what they like better and the loser never writes again. He never did take me up on it

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A shipbuilding company in Tasmania just launched the world's largest fully electric ship—a 130 metre ferry capable of carrying 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles between Argentina and Uruguay. buff.ly/Ud6Trfc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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#sharegoodnewstoo

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Another amazing medical breakthrough. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-...

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i would like to draw your attention to the flowers of potatoes

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Can't fully print organs yet, but can print a whole host of things inside the body, no surgery needed. Here's the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Happy birthday to Danish #seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer #womanInScience, a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.⁠ 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci ⁠ As she first postulated, 🧵

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The Paris region has cut air pollution by over 50% in two decades, saving thousands of lives. Fine particulate and nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 55% and 50% respectively since 2005, reducing pollution-related premature deaths by one-third over a decade. buff.ly/99cKKka #ShareGoodNewsToo

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If a company discontinues an edible product (chocolate bar, sandwich etc) then legally they should have to release the full recipe and construction instructions into the public.

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More medical improvements coming. #ShareGoodNewsToo singularityhub.com/2025/05/12/s...

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this is not an exaggeration

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This might be one of the most unhinged things ever committed to print. The criminal justice system is in literal meltdown, and the MoS devotes a full-page of hysterical shrieking to…whatever this is.

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Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun. Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.

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Imagine if the UK made a decision to distinguish its tech sector by making it ethical and factual and observant of copyright. As the rest of the world drops into a hell of misinformation, that could be our USP. And I think it's a promising idea. Of course we're not going to do it.

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Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where 🧵

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Japan's greenhouse emissions fall to record low, down 23% from 2013 peak, the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1990. The decline was driven by reduced energy consumption and increased renewable energy, which now accounts for 22.9% of Japan's electricity. buff.ly/WD8cEaa #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Alan Moore from a new interview. alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...

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'An abandoned potato sorting station near Krasnosilka, Ukraine with a unusual, cantilevered design. The concrete block at the end forms the counterweight of the structure, creating the impression it floats over the fields.' curious-places.blogspot.com/2011/11/floa...

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Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

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A thread for @aptshadow.bsky.social (who probably knows most/all of this)

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Rhubarb crumble for pudding after Sunday dinner this evening. As ever, I wonder who it was, having established the leaves were poisonous, and the bit under the ground was poisonous, said 'lads, hear me out, how about we try the bit in between?' And who agreed?!

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They just don't name newspapers like they used to...

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#ShareGoodNewsToo

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fact of the day via Sunday Times: “This was the first time the Conservatives had not won a majority on a single council since the local government system was created in 1889.”

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one of the most admirable aspects of human culture, until comparatively recently, is the near universal civilisational compulsion to wear a silly hat after you accumulate any amount of power fundementally this is where society started going wrong. why don't the powerful wear drip like this anymore

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Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. I like to think that ‘foreswunk’ is to be exhausted before you even begin.

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