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they should have a conclave to decide the next 007. bondclave

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

If Stormzy’s going to say something craven and patronising about us not knowing the full context of him abandoning Palestine, there’s an easy solution: just provide that damn context. But there is of course none, beyond ‘McDonalds gave me a number more substantial than my principles’.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

As another early years specialist, these people are looking at a scooby doo villain mask and thinking 'I've done it! I've found the culprit!' They'd be outsmarted by a stoner and his ravenous great dane. We throw around the word incurious but this is a dangerous example of surface-level thinking

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

forgot that the heartbreaking episode of ds9 where kira acts as enforcer for new bajor and turfs an old man out of his house is ALSO the episode where nog and jake do the paperclip challenge with self-sealing stem bolts. star trek is such glorious whiplash

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

it's imperative that everyone works to give this guy sufficient narcisstic injury that he kills himself.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

i hate the way the BBC does headlines. yesterday, posting a picture of a non-white guy to accompany a story about a white mass shooter, with the obvious effect of allowing racist morons to validate their bigotry based on assumptions and lies--

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Some good news! UbuWeb is back! ubu.com

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

oh so you'll make a tortured pun about Sabrina Carpenter's win at the Grammys but not dare to say Charli bagged three prizes? Pathetic

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Southside cafe drama is getting a big budget* US reboot

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

brandishing some fresh-roasted tatties at my sunday dread like someone might do with garlic/vampires. you have no place here, dread! any vulnerable cranny in my psyche is entirely filled with potatoes, so get fucked!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

the weekend...time to spend hours trying to convince myself i can afford to go all-in on academia (i can't)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

AI-generated poetry all sounds like it was trained on William McGonnagal. There's a certain clunking disaster to it all--much like a famous bridge collapse on the last Sabbath day of 1879

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Alex Kurtzman is allergic to allowing Star Trek to be about anything at all

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 32 days ago • 230 comments

OpenAI: China stole our tech!! Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place OpenAI: 😡

submitted 32 days ago • 94 comments

I should add "Masayoshi Son of SoftBank invests billions into company just before they're demolished by market conditions" is almost cliche at this point

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

very telling about what the stock market actually is that a rapid advance in the efficiency and accessibility of a new technology is a cause for concern rather than celebration

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

They've spent the past 18 months desperately trying to create the appearance of massive demand for something that is now worthless lmao

submitted 32 days ago • 30 comments

You’re laughing? AI stock is crashing weeks after Keir Starmer said they can have our entire GDP to make a calculator that identifies potholes and you’re laughing?

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

Starmer and Lammy granted immunity from an ICC arrest warrant to the evil monster who murdered 3 British veterans working as aid workers in Gaza so they could discuss more mass murders and make the genocide more profitable and efficient. #StarmerOut www.thenational.scot/news/2479160...

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

why the fuck is sci-hub doing a meme coin. we're so cooked

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

if you have time, Corbyn's El Gato tribute is a lovely read. my cat died a couple months ago and I miss him so much, but it's incredible how much love they can inspire just by existing and being their curmudgeonly, lovely selves (www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/fare...)

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you to Islington Tribune for publishing my farewell to El Gato. Rest in peace El Gato, you made our house a home and made many people very happy. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/fare...

submitted 35 days ago • 89 comments

I get really really bothered by people acting like the weather isn't getting more extreme. 'In Shetland we called it a Friday!' aye, did you fuck. or, like, 'can't believe they're cancelling the trains! it's just a bit of wind!!' fuck OFFFFFF

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments