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Advertising groups and tech start-ups are racing to find ways to help brands boost their likelihood of surfacing in results from AI chatbots, marking a new era of 'SEO' FT story w Cristina Criddle: on.ft.com/4iAVZxr

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Via a mailing list I'm on: an academic dispute over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

The Constitution, and every ounce of law interpreting it, you blithering idiot.

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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

submitted 23 hours ago • 185 comments

I remember when I thought that making the thing was the hard part; turns out that just letting people know the thing exists is so much harder than I remembered or anticipated.

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A company that supplied hundreds of millions of pounds of unusable COVID tests saw their profits surge to £178 million after lobbying a Conservative peer for contracts Their turnover jumped by 6800% after supplying tests which were later deemed “unfit for public use” bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/v...

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I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights. Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

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Spotted by a friend in Sheffield: the Daily Telegraph posing a question that you might imagine the Daily Telegraph is almost uniquely positioned to answer.

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Trump on cutting government-funded research into cancer and Alzheimer’s: “Well maybe we didn't think they were right.”

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I’ve been thinking a lot about various nudges, policies, and technologies that could get us to eat less meat, and I must admit I didn’t think of making meat super-dangerous.

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NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up, because the latest Rasmussen poll showed low net favorability ratings on immigrants and that gulags are a toss-up issue for suburban moms. #savvy #clever #wonk #nobeliefs #noprinciples

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something

submitted 12 days ago • 265 comments

Honestly, me too.

submitted 10 days ago • 263 comments

#NoKings

submitted 10 days ago • 330 comments

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

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So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

submitted 10 days ago • 80 comments

Staying up till 4am to get get enough alone time.

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submitted 27 days ago • 37 comments

You are here.

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

This is what @aoc.bsky.social warned us about: Attempts to ferret out trans women using the "wrong" bathroom or participating in sports will be a wholesale invitation for creepy men grope women and girls to "make sure"

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87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Amazing visualizations of a new global migration database from 3 billion Facebook users.

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We can do this because we fund science.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Something lovely and nostalgic and gentle about this.

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NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045

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From land mine detection to sniffing out tuberculosis, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, A new generation is now being trained to detect illegally trafficked wildlife parts.

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In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software". Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. ??

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

She liked to read and he “usually just sat”. Inexplicably, she didn’t contest the divorce

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

In case the logic for this was not already abundantly clear: BOYCOTT GOOGLE

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Quite an important bit of context on the Equality Act sex and gender ruling today (taken from the press summary rather than the judgment proper, as it’s much more succinct – but it flags the relevant pars in the judgment at the end):

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It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison without due process is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.

submitted 14 days ago • 90 comments

Never forget.

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

I do wish that Trump administration's rejection of NASA's previous commitment to adding women and people of colour to the ranks of the Moon-walkers when America goes back there had got as much coverage (and criticism) as the six-woman Blue Origin zero-g jaunt.

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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 16 days ago • 176 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 16 days ago • 108 comments

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

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