In the 90s Europe put a levy on CD-Rs which was paid to the recording industry because they might be used to copy music. AI companies should be made to pay in a similar way. Music streaming is <8% of revenue. Library lending ~2%. Public art resale <4% Etc

I worked on a project that got my boss arrested by the Vatican for extorting the Pope.

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

Can we elevate Andy Burnham to the lords so he can stand for labour leader?

This nan wrote an article in 2006 about how there was too much government interference and regulation in business. In 2007 northern rock kicked off the financial crisis and had to be rescued and nationalised by the UK gov. Guess who was chairman of Northern Rock at the time...

The winter Olympics feels like a whole bunch of post pub bets and dares. "I bet I can get down that hill on a tea tray faster than you can" "That's nothing, I'll could do it with my mate sat on my lap"

27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

Stats from this article substack.com/@lakshyajain... Twitter is a nazi propaganda machine.

This isn't a Epstein files revelation. Thiel has been saying this out loud and in public for over 15 years. "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" [Votes for women has] "rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron." www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...

Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.

“this moment requires you not to worship your own life anymore” audience is stone cold “this moment requires you to put your life between them and their targets” audience erupts i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before

RE Previous RT. It also depends on medium/long term market sentiment. If private equity buys up the cheap bonds, and they go back up, then it just transfers wealth from European governments to billionaires. What really matters is risk of US default. Which would be crazy and unthinkable...

I am, once again, begging people to find out what treasury bonds are and how they work before arguing how “we hold all the cards” and “can call in the debt”

I don't believe in appeasement. But... Couldn't we just put a danish flag up in Alaska and let him bomb that for a bit and he'd be happy. It wouldn't even have to be a danish flag, it's not like he'd even recognise it.

All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬 He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

Hooking up with someone random at the club, getting back to their and your phone is already logged into the WiFi...

Imagine living in the Hallmark Romance Universe. You've got a fulfilling job and life and friends in a vibrant bustling place, and then some monstrous entity yoinks you right out of your life to the middle of bumfuck nowhere thousands of miles away. And then, starts *fucking with your mind*

I had no idea our pornography was subject to Canadian content quotas to begin with and I have so many questions

That guy in the pub is gonna be offering you cheap snails next week.

Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist? Mamdani: I've spoken about -- Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

The irony of using Hitler's DNA to explain his behaviour... www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

Can a person really be considered devoid if culture if they can name their five favourite spy planes designed by nazi engineers?

A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour haveigotphobiaforyou.com

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

Mamdani: "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as every other New Yorker. And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more."

My parrot is already an expert in dolby atmo.

I'm not American, so didnt known the context of the recent nazi tattoo thing. I'd googled and found a different senior politician with (alleged) nazi tattoos. And only just had someone post the actual name and discovered that not only is this a different one, but this guy is a democratic?!?

I don't know how to feel about this

I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds. All labor is skilled labor.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I think Being There (1979) starring Peter Sellers is absolutely perfectly crafted.

Slightly diminish a band Prince

Wouldn't, if anything, deleting old emails and photos increase water usage in the short term? These are all going to be on colder storage (ever tried viewing old photos on FB and had to wait rather than them juat appearing). How much extra water can they be using day-to-day?

This 💯. But also thinking back to what I read as a kid. I read the classics when I was already an sf fan. I read the classics off my grandparents bookshelf and I read them *as classics*. For a young/newer reader interested in the classics I have 3 thoughts on how to approach it.

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

I hear both transphobes and normal folk talking about Testosterone as a performance enhancing drug and Estrogen as performance decreasing drug, and that's dude centric and not true. T and E are both performance enhancing drugs for sports. They just enhance different aspects. Let's talk powerlifting

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

If anything is going to convince me of ai sentience, its spending the evening having a very public meltdown on twitter and then trying to walk it back the next morning by blaming it on something you ingested.

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

I ok with these people living in luxury, and their children and grandchildren living in luxury. I don't think they should wield unfathomable political and economic power.

Trans man, and church volunteer, was asked out by preacher Venessa Pinto He politely said no She harassed him He reported her to the Bishop of Leicester, Martyn Snow The Bishop investigated Jay, accused him of witchcraft, and demanded he face his abuser www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amused watching an old episode of CSI from 2000 and they're doing printer forensics without using the printer tracking dots which existed since the 80s but remained secret until 2004, well after this episode.

The Beatles discovering nirvana in India was closer to Kurt cobain's death than we are.

Interesting debate on decoupling electricity from gas (that is much more technical - both engineering and econ - than most simplism on the subject would suggest btw - but Adam has deep insight) I will add a couple of other responses in 🧵 below…

***LEGALLY BLONDE LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'Legally Blonde' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.

🏳️‍⚧️ FAQs 🏳️‍⚧️ Based on legal advice from a team of equalities lawyers, including a KC, we answer some of the pressing questions raised by the Supreme Court. The law is uncertain – but it’s almost certainly been misstated by the EHRC and ministers. goodlaw.social/bf2d17