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"I've got a brand new content harvester"

submitted 5 hours ago • 57 comments

Good piece this. Not just a US issue, I'd say...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is awful news. When I began my journey as a hack in the mid-Eighties, my first paper (the Hackney Gazette) & the South London Press were London's local behemoths; they came out three times a week & were an integral part of local democracy. The SLP's demise is a depressing sign of the times.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I see that my (Labour) MP Andy Slaughter voted "Aye" and, like his fellow AI-friendly Labourites, chose to side with the Altmans, Thiels and Cleggs of this world against artists and creators. This will not be forgotten, or forgiven.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

"The head of the little-known private group set to take over Gaza aid deliveries has resigned, saying the US and Israeli-backed plan would not be able to adhere to humanitarian principles." www.ft.com/content/54ec...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In 1990 nearly everyone had an NHS dentist. Now half the population have no realistic chance of finding one. Episode 3 of More Jam Tomorrow is about British teeth 👇 morejamtomorrow.com/episode/teeth

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Tottenham lead the Europa League final at half-time despite failing to attempt a single shot on target in the first half. (Opta)

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

“I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours,” he told the BBC.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

The shock of confectionary breaking the £1 barrier is real

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Keep it in the family: Brothers on opposing teams dismiss each other in County Championship game www.wisden.com/series/count...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“It is astonishing that a Labour government would abandon the labour force of an entire sector. My inbox is filled with individual artists & global companies who are bewildered that the government would allow theft at scale & cosy up to those who are thieving.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Fucksake. Government has stripped the Kidron amendment defending creators’ copyright out of the Data Bill using an arcane parliamentary instrument. Not going to say where I would like to insert an arcane parliamentary implement.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Umm I'm not so sure about this.

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Declaring an interest, I was born in that unit, my sisters were: that’s a massive geographical gap in coverage (20 miles minimum in any direction: Yeovil is a town of 50 thousand these days, and abysmal transport links).

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Perfect shitstorm, as the UK’s most lackadaisical bok distributor (look, Ma, no packaging materials!!) seems to have teamed up with the UK’s most careless parcel-tossing delivery service. I’m estimating about 50% of today’s new titles will be returned damaged #BooksellerWoes

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Many reports of armed federal agents appearing at D.C. schools across the city today.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Pakistan has issued a flood alert after India suddenly released a high volume of water from one of its dams.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Rwanda, Africa's most densely-populated country, is once again desperate to host "illegal aliens". Why? Because it hopes a deal would mean the US stops pushing it to pull its troops out of DRC. Will the US be that cynical/crazy? x.com/TheoMpoze/st...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Reform gains currently 665. Tory losses currently 665. This is basically just a rightist rebrand, isn't it?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, in Canada…

submitted 28 days ago • 948 comments

hey, are you a trans/intersex/gnc PhD student who is defending/has defended recently? DM me, i can sponsor 5 of them for those who would like one but can't afford one :)

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Terrifying thread - especially when you consider that Palantir has a major role in NHS data

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

Heard the first cuckoo today. 🙂

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this ⁦‪@wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT

submitted 45 days ago • 59 comments

now this is the anecdote of the day

submitted 48 days ago • 36 comments

Here at The Local we hear from quite a lot of people who have messed up when it comes to their French visa or residency permit, and unfortunately quite a lot of them are the victims of crappy advice from unregulated 'hand holding' services

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The UK government is dealing with the current crisis by leaning hard into tropes: “iron-clad” tax policies, the transatlantic "special relationship", the necessity of Brexit, and UK exceptionalism –or “British brilliance”. All suggest a country struggling to adjust to the world as it is. 👇 (1/x)

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

Ideas

submitted 49 days ago • 561 comments

It's very very dry out there. PLEASE leave water out for wildlife, as they will be struggling – at a time when many species are nesting (or attempting to): www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Shocked, I tell you. But the timing of this may actually be quite helpful as Brexit becomes steadily more discredited.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Football and Saudi Arabia, Jock Stein's last game, Eduardo's broken leg, Botafogo's strange glory, Crvena Zvezda at 80, Auxerre, Hastings United, Kerala, the Manchester United v Arsenal brawl... all in Blizzard 56, out now. theblizzard.co.uk/shop/issues/...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Talking of #Greenland , this terrific book explains how noted marketeer Eirik the Red came up with the name cos 'People would be attracted to go there if it had a favorable name'. A millennium or so later, the ruse finally appears to be working.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

From a Sunday Telegraph story about people who have inherited houses while already owning one, complaining that having to pay double council tax on this second home (if they keep it) is ‘extortion’ and I just…cannot

submitted 61 days ago • 52 comments