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hottest day of the year

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

i keep thinking about this essay. it's about watching every single video within a machine learning dataset. what that does to you. unthinking.photography/articles/on-...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A pair of hedge fund managers. One funds GB News and buys The Spectator. The other revives a remote Scottish island: on.ft.com/3HHpBwa

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

When landing on the Moon, the astronauts watched an instrument called the FDAI that showed the spacecraft's orientation. The ball inside the Flight Director/Attitude Indicator rotated in three axes as the Lunar Module rotated. Let's look inside and see how it works. 1/N

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is labor being replaced. Baby steps, but an actual financial calculation for companies to make now... Person or robot? What is more inexpensive. Things accelerate from here and we NEED to get ahead of this & work out what the hell happens next. UBI? www.youtube.com/live/cPBvUxK...

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

Fascinating story about London’s almost-Eiffel tower in Wembley youtu.be/tKWUxImbwTo

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Watkin’s Tower: London’s Failed Eiffel Tower

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The menswear guy should be offered a knighthood and full UK citizenship. OBE at the very least

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Almost every intro on Newsnight: Presenter: “We are joined by Nick Watt. Nick, what…” Happens almost every night, wonder if it’s on purpose

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

rip brian wilson, this is my favorite story about him, from the "be my baby" wikipedia page, which has a section dedicated to him

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Trailer for @samgadjones.bsky.social's new Hot Money podcast

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Went back to mastodon just to see how WWDC went down, and it did not disappoint

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Sooo... the government has removed the 1m planning rule in England, and the BBC have opened the comments section on their article...😱😳 Because I clearly hate myself, let's do a quick fact check on some of the most popular comments... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Tracking (almost) every push notification from news orgs. Such a great idea - www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...

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submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

A few of the things I like about Star Trek (especially TNG/DS9): * Incredible portrayals of competence * Grappling with moral complexity * Deep character & interpersonal studies * Black (and Irish) people in space * Recognition that all things are possible given a radical transformation of society

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Having to ask homeowners for permission to take things out of their houses would kill the theft industry.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

My friend Julie Forchammer from Klimakultur talking about the Equinor sponsored UK school game 'energy town' I gave it a go and it yelled at me for building too many wind farms (and also has hydrogen power stations.......) e24.no/energi-og-kl...

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

submitted 26 days ago • 65 comments

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Pokemon stop

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I have just been informed about the use of split diopters in the new Netflix infodoc about the Titanic submarine implosion. I borderline respect the (depraved) hustle.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Prisons minister James Timpson: ‘This is not a quick fix’ https://www.ft.com/content/9c0614cc-b719-4d35-9725-af9f3f170f2f

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This article is dead on. It’s the feeling everyone I know is talking about at the moment. Pretty much everyone js functioning fine, getting on with stuff, knocking jobs off, but mostly without a mission that’s connected to fighting the problem it feels illusory. www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

This incredible, proto-Mannerist bust portrays Eutropius, the first eunuch to be consul. During his rise to power, he was notorious for his greed & cruelty which I think the sculptor knew and shows in this portrait. He eventually fell from power & was executed 🕰️c400AD 🏛️📷 Kunsthistoriches Museum

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 46 days ago • 150 comments

I hear Nick Clegg’s back on the radio

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings. Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top. Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them. Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

#MSH45 | The Blast Let's back up for a moment. 3.3 billion cubic yards of rock and ice crashing downslope, the landslide buries the North Fork Toutle Valley in debris up to 600 feet deep. Behind it, A turbulent cloud of ash, pumice, superheated gas, and pulverized rock.

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

The idea that my children could be deported and stripped of citizenship because one of their parents wasn't born in the UK is deeply shocking to me. Almost as shocking as agreeing with JRM

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with wildly different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.) on.ft.com/3GS1rPl

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

submitted 32 days ago • 73 comments

Depressed Hanson is on #Eurovision

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

23° might be the best English temperature ever.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting new bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10% via me and Gill Plimmer www.ft.com/content/1f6d...

submitted 38 days ago • 55 comments

Smog Breathing Exercise from oilwell.app The app that helps you embrace climate breakdown

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Post of the year. Team Drizzle (this is not a tedious blog post about OpenAI no matter what your prejudices suggest) www.ft.com/content/b180...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

How it started / how it's going

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

HolySmokeCam www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9n...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

my riven paintings from 2022 #art #painting #landscape #riven #myst #dni #fantasyart #dynasoar5

submitted 358 days ago • 5 comments

#Meta has rammed down its AI down WhatsApp user's throats without an option to get rid of it. So I asked it: Does Zuck(erberg) let his children spend hours on the computer playing with AI friends? The answer tells you what you need to know about how the world now works. #Hypocrisy #CarelessPeople

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment