🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

How do I reduce the US political content on here? Anyone around too see this?

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ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh

This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”

Wow this is wild!

Dear Keir Starmer, Please don't "unleash AI' to try to create the mythical growth you're always on about. AI is losing money at a rate of millions of dollars per DAY. It's biggest cheerleaders live off investor money by promising Big Things In The Unspecified Future. It is flim flam. Regards, Sooz

Oxfam: During the pandemic, the ten richest men doubled their wealth while the incomes of 99% of humanity fell. They now own over six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people. Inequality contributes to one death every four seconds. This is not sustainable or just. Don't accept it.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

However hard your life is, remember that you have more dignity than the richest man to ever exist, who used a sock puppet to post this about himself.

Wondering if anyone else has been affected by any of the issues in Kafka's The Metamorphosis? At the moment I'm just putting out feelers.

[opens WaPo app] [closes WaPo app]

this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

Beyond imagination! A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars! (Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)

cool, shut it down

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them? Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

@dustyweb.bsky.social - thanks for a really interesting read of dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... Also thanks to @autonomic.zone for pointing me there!

Fred: Hey Shaggy have you seen Velma? Shaggy: It wasn't me! Fred: What?? Shaggy: It wasn't me! Fred: Guys, I think we picked up the wrong Shaggy again. Shaggy: Mr Lover Lover Mmmm

Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

Hi, I’m God. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Thanks, God

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

Streets so full for Toitū Te Tiriti. Good energy all round.

Where are my cryptic crossword people? New mini one up at cwords.neverstew.com

Get a mini cryptic crossword done this weekend! cwords.neverstew.com

Looking for recommendations on upping my cryptic crossword setting game... Will the universe send me anything?

Hot damn gitbutler.com is excellent. It's the kind of workflow that I always wanted but was too lazy to actually execute on with a CLI-only setup. Good stuff.

Oh hai www.freshdesk.co.nz , just checking how many people want to work for free in WELLINGTON? Reading the room is free, bad reputational damage is priceless! #AoNZ

What an interesting set of takeaways from The Guardian's late economics editor, Larry Elliot: shorturl.at/5WKco Not just the classic Guardian takes on everything.

Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended

I made a crossword people feed -- please follow! or pin, or whatever one does here to grab a feed if I follow you, and you're a puzzle person, you're on here if you're on here and you don't want to be, let me know. if you're not on here and you want to be, likewise

Super quick #cryptic #crossword series - just released a new one! cwords.neverstew.com