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182-year-old Automatic Candle Extinguisher

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'Di Great Insohreckshan' by Linton Kwesi Johnson poetryarchive.org/poem/di-grea...

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"You can't pour from an empty cup" Me (holding nothing): Hold my beer

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browser tabs were a mistake

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#CfP: The Politics of AI - Governance, Resistance, Alternatives. Abstracts due 11 July, symposium taking place in September in London. Part of the @BRAIDUK project Sustainable AI Futures. lnkd.in/d22s_xtz #AI

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Nick, Monique and John are launching a new literary festival called Hey! Festival 😂 Support them if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/hey-festiv...

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Exactly. Would you support the speaker if they said " ... NOT!!"? Makes you think

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You know, a cute little piece of research somebody could do is the effect of "tough on immigration" Labour on likelihood to vote, broken down by age demographics 🙃

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Next season of Four Seasons 2Fourer2Seasoner

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Jeff Nagy on Skibidi Toilet www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/fil...

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Trans people now have to live our lives in a way so diabolically cool and glamorous that the children and grandchildren of the elite bourgeois throng to become us. Their nightmare is that we steal their future. We haven't yet begun to try.

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A board game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

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Bristol! See you there? www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

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Open Press University of Sussex announces our latest publication! Our future, our voice: Designing, developing and evaluating public interest communication on a budget . Lovely to be working with Kate Davies and @jolwalton.bsky.social- congratulations to all! openpress.sussex.ac.uk/publicintere...

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Bristol! See you there? www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

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Academics, order it for your libraries! The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities 😍 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

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‘Birdsong now rang from the trees, native and imported, planted in the towns. Green lungs, greenery, nature. It was wonderful, listening to the various songs.’ Emma has also illustrated stories for @interzone.digital, including art for ‘The Barricade’ by Joyce Ch’ng interzone.digital?s=emma+howitt

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I reviewed The Winter's Tale at The Tobacco Factory for The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-winters-...

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"An AI assisted radiologist is less productive (because they re-run some x-rays to resolve disagreements with the bot) but more accurate." Cory Doctorow on automation imaginaries and realities pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a...

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Today in Do Not Make The Torment Nexus

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The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. But not randomly: it's pooled up around the bodies of the poor and the disempowered. Cory Doctorow on the shitty technology adoption curve: pluralistic.net/2025/03/13/e...

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Long Meg and her Daughters begin to cast their long shadows as evening falls. #StandingStoneSunday More... 1/4

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funny and haunting pairing of Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letter #3 with 'When The Enemy Attacks Have These Things Ready [to protect your wife and children]' in The Whole Earth Catalogue (1970)

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Putting a colon rather than a space between words in a Google search seems to change the results. Anyone know what it does?

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makes you think

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Whoa! Tracy Chapman just flew past me on the highway doing about 120.

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greenscreen.network/en/blog/with...

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Anyone know the first usages of "AI literacy" or how the term gained traction? Google Ngrams suggests 2015-ish it takes off?

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ME: puts on sunglasses REPLY GUY: actually they are anti-sun glasses

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Who has recommendations of resources, groups, or just accounts here about anti-AI activism, AI abolition, decomputing, resistance to data centre developments, legal action against data mining, interventions like data poisoning etc.? Are such resources being compiled somewhere already?

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years have passed and google hasn’t still corrected pronunciation of Māori place names on google maps but the corporation is managing to implement change the on gulf of mexico within days maps are political www.renews.co.nz/why-google-m...

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My prestigious and rigorous Baseline Award, which chooses a SFF book completely at random, this year goes to ... baselineaward.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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My paper with Polina on gender, democracy, and voting systems and behaviours in SFF Awards, published in @sffoundation.bsky.social, is available open access following BSFA Award longlisting: vector-bsfa.com/2025/02/02/g...

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The incredible essay 'Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction' by Jo Lindsay Walton has been longlisted for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards #BSFAAwards2024 in the category Best Short Non-Fiction Read: sfrareview.org/2024/01/26/m... Vote: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... @jolwalton.bsky.social

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"The idea that a thought I might have might be rejected by the immune system of the language" - Victoria Punch, at the Alan Touring Institute / Routledge launch of the Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature

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UK Gov consultation on AI and copyright closes 25 February: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

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By the way do you think it was 1) "Bro I dare you to do a Nazi salute" or 2) "Do you guys dare me to do a Nazi salute" "Ha ha sir, no"

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