As someone reliant on subtitles, I found this very deep dive into the technology, economics, business and artistry of on-screen text very interesting daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

This is indeed the correct order. If you stan ESB you're a walking red flag.

Yikes. Not just Pacific nations like Tuvalu planning for existential climate threats

Unprofessional Semi Emergency I need 2 voice actors for a very short spoken role (theres like 6 lines) as I need to have a finished animatic for the 3rd Dec. Zoey the Runaway Need a femme va who is comfortable with shouting and screaming and Clementine, a soft spoken transwoman

Q: is there a term for using an unusual but not technically incorrect construction (e.g. "the data are") _for the express purpose_ of stumbling the reader and drawing attention to that paragraph?

1. Use a password manager to create unique, complex passwords 2. Don't use SMS for 2FA if at all possible: use an app or a hardware key 3. Never type your password into a site that's been sent to you as a link you weren't expecting 4. If your phone number stops working, go straight to your provider

From the other side, the obvious Q is why stop at one 'writer'? I think it's entirely possible you could manage a whole roster of AI agents pitching and 'writing' articles.

> "most progressive tax system in the developed world" > taxes earnings not wealth (* tbf I don't have a sub to FT so it's entirely possible the author addresses this)

"There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is" is an incredible quote www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

not sure which I find more interesting- that Goldiee is just one persona of a content farm steadily building up its credentials, or that a young journalist switched to churning out AI articles in desperation. A troubling reflection on the industry either way.

A very telling word in this BBC article on the latest vibes-based UPF field; what does it mean to have 'good' in a food? What is the unit of good? Is UPF simply a moralising frame of food choices? (yes)

The latest UN World Urbanization Prospects is full of interesting tidbits: * Jakarta replaces Tokyo as the world's most populous city (42m) * 81% of us now live in towns and cities * Urbanisation is expanding faster than population growth :( joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

when you need an artistic reconstruction of a woman mating with a goose scene do you like, hit up Behance or what?

Really enjoyed this feature from Starre Vartan on the many benefits (and surprising costs) of having two X chromosomes. www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

‘We said we wouldn‘t be involved [in a documentary about sequencing Hitler’s DNA] if it was going to be sensationalist’ sister 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 www.newscientist.com/podcasts/why...

Anyone know why AMA Journal of Ethics is suddenly closing? “Breaking Bad News” journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/brea...

Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.

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There’s much discussion here today regarding James Watson being a dick in #science, regardless of his DNA success. If you don’t want to emulate him, colleague & I developed the Collaborative Charter for Scientific Endeavours to enhance collaborations Link here pureantarctic.org/a-collaborat...

Horrifying stories are emerging from el-Fasher www.bbc.com/news/article... I just made a donation to @unhcr.org; if you’re able, please consider supporting their work

Cabbage Patch Kids? www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

4 days of seismic records from a seismic station in Jamaica shows Hurricane Melissa roaring towards the island. Hurricanes increase the amplitude of ocean waves which beat on the coast and sea floor. These produce Rayleigh waves that can be seen as increasingly thick “wiggles” in seismic records 🧪

RIP Dick Taverne, a tireless campaigner for science and someone who was always generous with his time when it came to supporting young science nerds (including me) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hurricane #Melissa expected to make landfall in Jamaica today, flooding in Kingston already visible via Copernicus GloFAS.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Letter to the local community from asylum seekers living in overcrowded hotels: "Coming to the UK, we have lost a lot of things in our past life. You should not judge us by our appearance - our inner selves hold mountains of worries and sadness. Many of us have left families behind."

The EU experienced its worst fire season on record in 2025 - over a million ha burned, most of it in Iberia. I mapped every fire on the peninsula over the summer, using viirs satellite data.

I don't know why anyone is treating this nonsense as a serious idea www.space.com/space-explor...

Such a strange choice to spend several hundred words blaming a poor immigrant for his death, instead of reflecting on any of the underlying conditions that led to this tragedy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Boeing 737 reportedly hit by space debris at 36,000 feet, though no confirmation yet viewfromthewing.com/new-cockpit-...

lol

this is interesting: prosthetics controlled by using patient's own body fat as a waveguide for microwave(!) signals www.b-cratos.eu (researchers find human flab can support 32 Mb... I've played Quake online via worse connections)

this story skips really interesting avenues - shady marketing! obfuscation! gov't malfeasance! to centre on a wealthy, expensively-educated woman who racked up $50k of debt on frivolous crap using pay-later apps and then just... paid it off and was fine? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...

Every night has a super moon if you think the moon is super

And how will US professors line their pockets if they can no longer make the $175 textbook they wrote required reading for the semester 😉

Related point: is this also the death of the reference book? It seems very likely textbooks, user manuals etc will be replaced by agents, so what does it mean to write a textbook or user manual in 2025? (Or rather, how do you write specifically for an audience interacting via AI agent?)

Has anyone written something good on the role of journalism in an age of AI/agent search? Page views are crashing as readers turn to AI summaries for their info. Does this mean that the future of journalism is writing content easily digestible by AI crawlers? Are journalists all stringers now?

Great opportunity for someone to pitch a British version of El Paquete Semanal to the Churchill Fellowships [@churchillfship.bsky.social].

Guys the other side of the U was all I had. Don’t take this away from me

The Churchill Fellowships are now open - £££ to "spend up to two months discovering innovative ideas from leading practitioners worldwide, either through international travel, online meetings, or both" www.churchillfellowship.org/become-a-fel...

Also, can any #herp nerds suggest what snake left its overcoat in my garden? [NE Spain] Aesculapian maybe? #snakeid

Looking forward to this! Do join us

Can any geologists tell me why the earthquake in Afghanistan has this interesting shakemap? Why the concentric circle at the edge - why isn't the amount of shaking a straight linear relationship to the epicentre?

very much enjoyed Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social, a lovely book about robots, identity, community, and biang biang www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Not the main point in this, but one notable fact is the absolutely pitiful rates paid for what are ostensibly big, deeply reported pieces: £500 for a piece that apparently would involve a solid week away reporting, £75 for another feature. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

2025 is on track to be the worst year for wildfires in Europe in over a decade (perhaps worst on record). Climate change is deadly real.

Are you a journalist interested in humanitarian affairs? x.com/eu_echo/stat...

Hire me and Maddie Hickish, we don’t miss retractionwatch.com/2025/08/13/g...

From the archive: The Congo decided the outcome of the Second World War. But its pivotal role was intentionally erased from history, and this debt has never been repaid. www.bbc.com/future/artic...