'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

If you make a generative AI video from a historical painting, and it contains an inaccuracy, is that significantly worse than eg a historical reenactor at a history fair being dressed incorrectly for the period they're representing?

Lads next time the woke progressive left successfully captures all the elite institutions we have got to be better at it cos this time it clearly didn't work at all.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

anyone got any 'good' (or otherwise) examples of AI-generated video (broadly, slop) being used to create historical storytelling animations etc?

turns out the police are just shit regardless of your ethnicity. something people have known for-fucking-ever.

Look California has never had a good governor why would we start now

It's called horseshoe theory because the people who espouse it have been kicked in the head by a horse

Saw a poster for a film about music called Köln 75 & just assumed it was about Can's recording sessions for Landed.

The banh mi baguette - the revenge of the periphery on the imperial core!

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Chapter 1. Now on the news.

Name the band. Wrong answers only.

Do any of you English Literature–types know of examples of punning and wordplay between light or lightness in its sense of luminosity, and light or lightness in its sense of not heaviness?

Think the Andy Burnham campaign slogan needs work

broke: mm/dd woke: dd/mm bespoke: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss

Big fan of P&P but I have always found Black Narcissus weird and racist

Chris Morris was right

Welcome to Wrath Month. We have no rainbows and glitter and sideshows for your heterosexual children and drunk girlies in pink cowboy hats to enjoy. We just have the truth of the slide into fascism and who they came for first

I know this is besides the point but the picture used here is Broadway Market! Have any of these people been there recently and seen what kind of person goes shopping there

If I was minded to read a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, what would be a good one to start with?

They banned Hasan from the UK because they’re afraid that a big Turkish man might make us all collectively feel something

łup łup that's the sound of the polish

Looks like I'm going to be spending some time in Nice in peak summer season. Anyone have any PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED reccs for food/drink? I don't mind if it's fancy or hole in the wall, I just like quirky places, interesting food combinations, drinks I've not had before and that it's VEGETARIAN

Sitting next to a sad gooner on a Copenhagen train

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Love to live on an island where water and electricity is so expensive but the state broadcaster can use the plagiarism machine do something it never does in reality: invite a militant communist on the panel of Question Time

Death of Anne Crowder in Graham Greene's Gun for Sale, described from her point of view. I stopped reading the book at that point, and so it is only today that I have discovered that she did in fact not die.

Hey Catholics! Did you see the Pope’s statement on the use of AI? Time to refuse to use AI at work due to religious concerns!!!

A Kusama mirror room with no queue, and people desultorily sticking their heads round the door and shrugging ... you love to see it

Came to Louisiana to see the Danish Bacon 🥁

Maybe its just time to tell Blair to fuck right off.

An overtly Manchester-signalling playlist without a single Fall song on it? I've never trusted that Burnham.

currently enjoying an trigenerational holiday conversation about AI

see your dad's made a change dot org petition against a solar farm with an AI image

Discipline AND Punish? In this libidinal economy?

Danish hand-held food, a 🧵 Standard Steff Houlberg ristet hotdog from outside KBH central station

1830s London seems to have been crammed with Italians, many of them refugees, involved in all sorts of interesting antiquarian and intellectual endeavours. Anybody know any good readings on this?

There's never been any point in arguing with the 'gender critical', they simply have to be fought and beaten, which we will do.

I find it quite notable that the go to example for Creasy of a space that might justifiably exclude trans people is "a shelter for victims of domestic abuse." Presumably trans vicitims of domestic abuse can collectively go fuck ourselves. With """allies""" like this, who needs bigots?

same, friend

Are any of the papists sending out free printed copies of Leo's blog post?

The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

Piss of the Spider Woman

saying a small prayer of thanks that I'm probably too old for anyone to dump me because chatgpt told them to

Can't get your weft under the warp? Twill issue.

it's going to be the funniest thing ever if he gets shot in his ballroom

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Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.