OpenAI, Google, AI media company Moonvalley and several other AI companies are collectively paying hundreds of content creators for access to their unpublished videos

In this second episode of AstroNots, Rex arrives to deliver supplies only to be greeted with a few surprises. youtube.com/watch?v=q5iq... #cartoon #cancon #Creator

Octavia tried to warn us… zora.medium.com/americas-par...

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Now that we’ve finally landed in 2025 on the morning of January 1st, it’s time to call out 7 things we should be watching out for in terms of hype and distraction - see comments for each What would you add?

The priest doesn't have time for your shit.

‘It will exist for ever’: Bluey fans fearful and excited for cartoon’s future

Getting back into playing chess. Style? Aggressive and sneaky.

Esports are booming in Africa – but can its infrastructure keep pace?

Measles killed 800,000 kids (worldwide) in 1980. It killed around 50,000 in 2022

"Banks dial back public climate targets as Trump prepares for office" by Anita Hawser for @thebanker.bsky.social: www.thebanker.com/Banks-dial-b...

NEW: WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

The Cistercian numerals, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early 13th century, are a largely forgotten number system. They offer a more compact notation compared to Arabic or Roman numerals, allowing any integer from 1 to 9999 to be represented with a single character.

Energy firms to spend £70bn to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid

Constantly thinking of this Marilyn Frye quote From @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s newsletter www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-is-...

The ‘quad-demic’ is here – and with it I have become a disease detective | Zoe Williams

Pope says he was almost assassinated in 2021 but British intelligence foiled plot

The torture of Youtube delivering multiple ads to those that use Ad Blockers because they've broken them hurts my soul

Australia’s warmest spring on record, with an anomaly of +2.08C. More at www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/clim... Almost every place was unusually warm.

"Plastics are not convenient, they are a weapon of mass destruction. If we don’t get an ambitious treaty of Busan it will be a betrayal...history will not forgive us" Juan Carlos Monterrey of 🇵🇦 on the final day of #PlasticsTreaty talks.

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

It’s estimated this building will offset 7,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide. That’s the amount of emissions produced to heat and cool about 1,100 homes in Milwaukee for a year. Environmental benefits like those are sparking a growing interest in mass timber. www.tspr.org/2024-12-02/m...

Hope is not a strategy. But, here’s the thing, I see hope as a core strategy in modern business and government. And, we need hope more today than ever. #futurist #mantra #2025predictions

Terminal of Truth - A Dystopian Experiment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUB7... #crypto #AI #memefinance

Nik Badminton, Renowned Futurist Speaker and Award-Winning Author, to Deliver Keynote Address at Optimove's 2025 Connect Conference - finance.yahoo.com/news/nik-bad...

DJing at High Notes (2057 Dundas) in Toronto today (Sunday 17 Nov) - 2pm to 6pm. Spinning Mo Wax, Wall of Sound, Grand Central, WARP and other UK deep cuts. #toronto

David Bowie, who is incredibly interesting, is the least interesting part of this video.

Join Nikolas Badminton, Chief Futurist at FuturistCOM and author of Facing Our Futures, and me as we explore why futurism is activism, why hope needs imagination, and why nostalgia is a threat to future thinking. 🌍✨ 🎧 www.singularityweblog.com/nikolas-badm... #Futurism #FutureThinking #Innovation

I love a good BSOD out in the wild

generative models like Midjourney aren't able to create images that don't adhere to harmful stereotypes,even when instructed explicitly to flip stereotypes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-

Nestlé, Danone and other major food companies commit to framework for regenerative agriculture www.agriculturedive.com/news/regener...

"Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to climate crisis [but maybe much more]" by Oliver Milman for The #Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

just discovered there's a bluesky equivalent of tweetdeck (deck.blue) gamechanger

My interview with Brianna Keilar of #CNN on the threat of stronger, faster-intensifying storms like #Idalia, which is currently feeding on a record warm Atlantic ocean, thanks to human-caused warming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8EL... #ClimateCrisis

Today is a very special episode of Mic Drop, and one that is especially fun - Making It Personal (ft. Bridget Hilton, Chad E. Foster, and Nikolas Badminton) Listen here - micdroppodcast.com/episodes/mak... Three top speakers on embracing change in life and onstage

I’m at Rush Day at Henderson Brewery. This is Canada. Karaoke time for many. Ha ha.

A scenario for the world economy in 2050 --

They were way too committed to a lot of dumb ideas at this point and just had to slap on a 5 foot long totally proprietary wiper.

how did they manage to make it even worse and put the driver’s seat even further back from the front? who the hell wants to drive from the middle of the goddamned car?

Hollywood executives stuck between wanting to devalue labor but also wanting to enforce the copyright of said labor like a starved hyena that found a zebra corpse

@badfutures.com Waymo says Austin, Texas, will be its next robotaxi city - The Verge

We are proud to announce that Nikolas Badminton’s book 'Facing Our Futures' has been selected for 2023 J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List, and featured as the "Next Gen Pick" to inform the next generation of thinkers that lead us into our futures.