Fall of Freedom now has over 500 events nationwide in 43 states. MS, AL, NC, NV, OK among those we don’t have so if you’re in the arts in those states there’s still time to join www.falloffreedom.com

Three Manchester dustmen found a set of bowler hats outside an office in Market Street and decided to wear them, October 1962 (Mirrorpix).

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark

🙏🏼 Far too many seem to believe that AI represents our future (whether we want it or not), & fail to come to grips with the fact that AI is only capable of recycling the past…& almost completely on artifacts of the past gathered & used without consent. Lack of consent is central to the enterprise.

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It's been a very quiet week. As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season. So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture. Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ www.authoritarian-stack.info

AND SO IT BEGINS. Mamdani has only been mayor of New York for a few days and people are already reporting that the Subway now displays Arabic numerals all over the network😂

In a #WoltersKluwer #copyright blog by Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid, Keith asserts that mass #ALI resignations call into question the legitimacy of the ALI Copyright Restatement. Read Keith's post here for more:

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Thank you Attorney General Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov for your commitment to defend American workers and consumers from further consolidation across our industry. www.thewrap.com/california-j...

The poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action #OTD 4 November 1918 on the Sambre-Oise Canal, seven days before the armistice. 'Futility' is a memorial in Birkenhead, Merseyside to Owen and other Old Boys of Birkenhead Institute. 1/2

1st photo, All Fishermen Are Liars. Both books are great in English. Shouldn’t be any different in French.

If you fish in French, two beautiful new editions of John Gierach, forthcoming from Éditions Gallmeister.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Lyda Roberti shakes her moneymaker with Jack Oakie in this little musical interlude from Dancers in the Dark (1932). Roberti appeared in just a dozen feature films, dying of a heart attack at the age of 31 in 1938.

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Special till *1st Nov* 70% off #audiobook #usatoday bestseller #thesecretwarofjuliachild One-year anniversary & we’re celebrating!! #juliachild @readlandmark.bsky.social @1morepage.bsky.social #historicalfiction #ww2 #asia #bookclubs *LINK IN BIO*

Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart

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I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).

And if you haven't read the book on which it was based, you should.👇

“Opt-out is not consent—it’s surrender disguised as choice. No songwriter, photographer, or journalist should have to spend their life chasing ever-changing lists of training datasets just to stop a trillion-dollar company from using their work without permission.”

President Trump just raised tariffs on Canada over a Reagan ad quoting Reagan's anti-tariff views. Is there a copyright issue? The answer may depend which side of the border you're on. Full story up now on Copyright Lately: copyrightlately.com/reagan-found...

hell yeah i’m a gamer

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Timeline cleanse: Die Schöne Müllerin - Julian Prégardien & Els Biesemans on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpC...

I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:

When the average small city retailer plays AI music and tells you that this way they don't have to pay the creators, you realise that it's already too late for the music industry. The decisions they made were wrong. Still.

quick psa: if you use GDrive, go into Settings -> Manage Apps and make sure the Gemini AI horseshit is turned off. Just got a heads-up about it elsewhere, and sure enough, Gemini had been turned back on without my permission

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

'Constellations' by contemporary US artist illustrator Maggie Vandewalle #womensart

incredible

"Insurers have cited the expiration of extra subsidies as a reason for hiking premiums BECAUSE THEY ANTICIPATE HEALTHY PEOPLE DROPPING COVERAGE." There it is, folks. Once Republicans introduced adverse selection back into the insurance market, it was doomed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Lay off your copy desk, repent at leisure

Beautiful stuff, wondrous good news. An eye implant helps people with macular degeneration to see again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vital accessory for every book lover who has lost their pinkie so can’t splay the book open with it on one page and their thumb on the other 🙏

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Pamela Grace, artist and printmaker based in south western Scotland #WomensArt

That line in Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" where Thom Yorke sings "It wears me out", but he stretches "wears" to about thirty syllables, captures perfectly how I feel every time I see Amazon has delisted more of our books from sale. Sigh.

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Pocketing "wind it in, soft arse" for some future use.

Friendly fish. From a 14th-century illuminated manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (The flower of Nature). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme #fridayfish

🇺🇸 Vous avez peut-être vu une vidéo publiée par la Maison Blanche et le président américain, Donald Trump, qui prétend montrer des agents de l'immigration intervenant face au « chaos » à Chicago. Mais ce clip est truffé d'images anciennes provenant d'autres villes américaines.

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