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Tired: Generative AI companies continuing to ingest & use copyrighted materials, regardless of individual authors’, artists’ & creators’ objections. Wired: Midjourney being sued as a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” by Disney & Universal for copyright infringement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

How cool is this? Just seen this Sauron birthday cake on Reddit (and now wondering if that means it can also see me, etc etc)

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The story of beneficial mutation in Chernobyl's irradiated wildlife is fascinating - and it's going to keep giving more twists as time passes. www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

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Slimming Jab Guy, urban successor to Slenderman.

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Only in London could you go to the @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social in the morning, followed by a snack of smoked salmon bagels at @jw3london.bsky.social then head to Camden Arts Centre for an exhibition of Richard Wright paintings, and finish with Vietnamese Pho for lunch. @mattpotteruk.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

submitted 27 days ago • 118 comments

NYT reporter: "America has crazy weather."

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What an incredible read in @newscientist.com. 'How buried cables are revealing Earth's interior in incredible detail'. Scientists are using dormant fibreoptic lines for subsurface imaging, listening & monitoring – & finding everything from movement to resources. www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Women can submit anything from a four-line poem to a 3,000-word lead article, from a 300-word bedtime story to a 700-word memoir performance piece – they publish over 60 women in every issue. Deadline 7th July. Details in link. Please share :)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I’m trying to find a phrase to describe an important phenomenon: When we fix a problem, we forget it. Pop culture forgets, and the mass media forgets, and young people never learn about the problem or how it was solved. Can you help suggest a name for this phenomenon? Read more here:

submitted 35 days ago • 82 comments

I love* when a five-day conference makes you pay full registration even if you only attend half a day *I do not love

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

The Taliban, currently keeping Afghanistan safe from the terrifying sins of [checks notes] women’s participation in society, women’s faces, houses with windows, education, music, pictures of humans, roadsigns with stick figures on etc., bravely outlaws the sin of chess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Of the wonders we’re excavating at Skipsea, East Yorkshire, my favourite is this rare medieval floor, 6th-9th century. How many leather-bound feet, over a thousand years ago, padded in and out of it? How many people stood in the doorway, having passing conversations? 🏺 #Skipsea2025

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Well I for one can anticipate literally nil problems or protests or issues cropping up as they prepare to hold the Festival Of Thatcher. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"ChatGPT Barbie represents a triple threat to our privacy, our culture and our planet," said Ms Neff. #NihilismAndTechnology

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

The current insane, largely unwanted AI push in the U.S. reminds me of 20th century pushes to forcibly modernize “backwards” people by requiring them to use tech singularly ill-suited to their actual lives. It’s also good to recall those failed schemes all claimed their tech was “inevitable,” too.

submitted 69 days ago • 22 comments

One I’ve shared before, though I’ve since made some minor translation changes. By Jiang Jie 蔣捷 (1245-1301), another favorite ci poet who bore witness to the demise of the Northern Song dynasty. “Listening to Rain” —on what changes, and yet what remains. #everynightapoem during torrential rains

submitted 72 days ago • 11 comments

The money is going to what now

submitted 72 days ago • 193 comments

what a visual

submitted 72 days ago • 204 comments

Germany considering loving its gold reserves out of the US should be a huge worry to the US government. This administration has burned so much of the trust that made the US the safest place to keep gold - and made the dollar the world’s reserve currency. www.mining.com/germany-may-...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 72 days ago • 1306 comments

The framing of this is WILD. Starmer isn’t “under pressure from biggest backers to unpick Brexit after Trump tariffs”. This isn’t some shadowy cabal exerting influence. The pressure is coming from reality. Brexiteers were 100% sure of alliance with the US. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

the audacity of claiming protestors are being paid when musk literally pays people to vote is just beyond

submitted 73 days ago • 300 comments

I love finding bands that open up new worlds for me. Looking for some strange, gorgeous, left-field art sounds? ‘The Dream We Carry’ by cult Liverpool collective The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus, is pretty astonishing. therevolutionaryarmyoftheinfantjesus.bandcamp.com/album/the-dr...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s AMA on Reddit with a highschool & college friend of the dipstick who tried to contact the North Sentinel tribe is just incredible. www.reddit.com/r/AMA/s/mm8O...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Saving the economy would be a good move, but then Trump might start calling you "Wacky Chris" or whatever on truth social so who's to say.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Trump loves taking credit for other people's achievements, but he will soon be shirking responsibility for the US recession he caused all on his very own.

submitted 75 days ago • 65 comments

You absolute, utter, utter clowns. Not just the wreckers pulling you all into entirely predictable catastrophe, or the idiots who voted for them, or cheer them on. But everyone who’s suddenly gone a bit fucking silent. The ones who say, ‘Nothing to do with me,’ or ‘It’ll blow over.’ We see you.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

We’re going to need a Razzies/IgNobel/Darwin Award-type prize system for all these fucking calamitous unforced errors. Call it the Trussies or something.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Musk's latest government subsidy. Public-funded security for his car dealerships. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

When the recommendation is to "take a burner phone" when visiting a country, it should really just be "don't go." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 78 days ago • 15 comments

Great new report on Ukraine’s drone ecosystem and defending Europe! www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/public...

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”