Knew it reminded me of something

“Is it sillier to ask someone to imaginatively inhabit the perspective of a different species for an hour, or to continue running governance systems that have driven a 70% collapse in wildlife populations in 50 years?” [Also, take that Nagel 😉]

“Big tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.” Not sure how I missed this news, or why it's not a massive scandal www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"If students [are taught] about the complexities of contemp' genomics concepts [as means] of refuting genetic essentialism, [it helps them] understand that racial disparities are not unreal, unimportant, or the product of genes. Rather, they are socially constructed." H/T @kris-inwood.bsky.social

The Bluesky account for the Barbellion Prize has changed to @barbellionprize.bsky.social Do please follow! The submission window for authors and publisher is open from now until 1st September, and there are full details on the new website barbellionprize.org

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"Substituting doctors w/ less qualified professionals [while e]mbracing technology to reduce workforce numbers is a hazardous punt based on hope & hype. Being hard but fair in negotiations is fine & expected. Being a bully & unfair is a lose-lose-lose strategy for politicians, doctors, & patients."

One thing in this screengrab is true. Guess what it is. Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well technically 'AI' can't play harmonica, but then neither can Bob so

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The film appears to be available to view in full until 31st March so 👀

Maybe someone somewhere is laughing about the 'Humphrey' ref, but that and other things in this article are actually horrifying and tell us much about this blinkered, idiotic and misanthropic government Read and 😬 www.politico.eu/article/labo...

"There were 225 cases [of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus] reported in 2025." And yet, "government announced it was eliminating funding for the GPEI [Global Polio Eradication Initiative] last week, as part of more than £6bn in aid cuts being made to fund an increase in defence spending." 🙄

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Ooh fascinating! 🍷

Franchement, ras le cul

I found this really interesting, but are the differences distinct enough when we can also say 'I am depressed' and 'j'ai le cafard' for example

Pretty much everything by Bob Dylan, but if you insist on the need for one excruciating example... Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 😬

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

The last time I went to NHM it seemed to just be full of people, as if most of the stuff you'd expect to see displayed in a museum had been removed so more visitors could be crammed in 🥱 The V&A is also just round the corner from it, and they actually exhibit things from collections there

When there are no words

Our atmosphere is powerful, complex, and sometimes just straight up.... freaky. Open and closed cell stratocumulus oscillate as ships cut through them forming tracks in the clouds.

Is the answer that, unlike actual terrorism, non-violent protest is materially harmless even when effective

Trump eating his hat here 🤠

Things in the news have reminded me of this artwork

We now live in times so 'interesting' there isn't the same space in the news for the Oscars as before

AI in research "risks a systematic withdrawal from the edges where data is structurally difficult to collect or so complex that existing frameworks cannot yet interpret it. The tools that reduce friction also risk reducing exploration." Well yes. And what's to be done about it?

Is the answer 'rich idiots'?

"Marina Abramović forays into balloon art" 👀

super intéressant

Is this why techbros are so keen on the UK - where Govs support, against public interest, cash cow utilities like water? Could Altman not just apply for a job at a water company? Why does he 'think' people will pay for 'intelligence' when a) he clearly has none, and b) he won't pay for it himself?

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I'd registered for talks about neuroscience today, but just gave up after the 2nd and 3rd speakers (both male and north American, entirely and unfortunately coincidentally, I'm sure) began by showing holiday snaps of London and/or whiffling on about how great men are... So, reading a book instead.

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"Sick lives are the product of sick societies."

🧵 and full report download link

❤️ The Norwegian Consumer Council! And not only for their adorable pronunciation of 'shitty'. "the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future... has delved into enshittification and how to resist it." www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ (h/t @ianhalst.bsky.social)

"[T]hese digital tools are portrayed as innovative and so easily attract the attention of policymakers and investors [and] could be promoted by their governments as the way forward..." Sounds horribly familiar. BUT “[i]nnovation that actually works for people has to be grounded in their realities"!

footpath - correct, well done pathway - well... footway - fuck right off!

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Matt Goodwin and Liz Truss would make such a *lovely* couple

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