Writers of Bluesky, who is running good pitching workshops?

I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.

Farewell, Threads account.

Hope you enjoy not having air conditioning next summer so that incels can generate unlimited big titty anime girls on demand

can't believe the latest elon musk crazy shit is not trending here. TF;DR: he deleted that far-right terrorist account, then reactivated it but without its history and with search and translate deactivated.

In re:

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

For readers' reference, here are the two court cases. Hundreds of documents, more than five years. Even if you just scan the list, it's a chilling insight into what a corporate predator can put an artist through. www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766... www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...

Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

Orca also used to team up with humans to hunt whales. Random but interesting orca fact www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...

One man's echo chamber is another man's Social Science Genetic Association Consortium

We’re already in a hybrid war with Russia. Have been for years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

In the mailbox today from the Swedish government: “If Crisis or War Comes,” our guide to surviving war, nukes, terrorist attacks, climate-change freakeries, propaganda, and cyberwarfare. And explaining it to our children. First published 1961. #lifeinsweden

Feeling less invested in Bluesky since learning it’s owned by bitcoin people and that EM is being encouraged to buy it.

Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄

If Trump pulls a Truss/Kwarteng/Varoufakis move on the economy can he, like Truss and Kwarteng, be speedily ejected?

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...

Wowwww

A Tennessee Board of Education has now banned Wicked, Beloved and 35 other books as "pornography." Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal. Sex workers tried to warn you. www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...

Look at me. Listen to me: If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.

Starter packs are excellent. On the hunt for book business, EU, Sweden, and archaeology packs. ❤️

NB someone asked me for a Guardian/Observer starter pack so i can legitimately say THERE IS ONE HERE IT IS go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX PS i absolutely did not make it, credit due to @severincarrell.bsky.social i think

Sudden flood of dodgy male catfishers on Blue Sky.

Oasis reunion announced

Imagine if the media just ignored Elon Musk.

We love desperate local angles, and this is about as desperate and as weird as it gets.

Applause for Ukraine for successfully militarising chutzpah.

Go Reuters! And the New Scientist! www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

"In calls to save the wild horse, I hear a plea to protect the animal from the reality of that treasured title. An animal cannot be both wild and safe. Wildness is a violence or necessarily includes it. I can’t kill romanticization without romanticizing death." www.conjunctions.com/online/artic...

Russian disinformation contributed to riots in the UK by spreading, and perhaps originating, the lie that a recent murder by someone born in the UK was by an immigrant. Even made up a fake name. Ex-Twitter apparently helped spread the false info too, including (unsurprisingly) the website's owner.

Soooo will the UK media stop coverage of abuse in equestrianism now or will they pick up on press coverage of further scandals at the Olympics? idraetsmonitor.dk/nyheder/art1...

"It’s getting harder and harder to come up with enough incoherent perspectives to meet the moment."

This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

Four women writers who did not have a room of their own or a private income. womenshistorynetwork.org/radical-port...

Well this is grim

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

“The authors said that almost all the Nazi poems they discovered fit the current Russian context perfectly, except for a few obvious anachronisms. References to Germany were changed to Russia, but otherwise the poems were published in exact translations.” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

What should I read next? - The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush, - High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt or - My Work by Olga Ravn?

Does anyone write love letters? Between news items about Dylan writing to Hardy and Clapton to Boyd it feels like we’ve lost some innocence and eloquence along the way.

New research, and very exciting: "While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first non-human animals known to use names that do not involve imitation." 🧪🌍

Tried to use Twitter for the first time in months. Couldn’t even post anything. What an incredible genius EM is.

BEL MOONEY IMAGINES should get memed to hell and back. What a crappy way to pay your bills.

Too cloudy the one night we have northern lights…

Why don’t British people have samovars? Why do we make individual cups or pots and save tea urns for public spaces? Anyway, that’s what I’m pondering today.

Starting to notice that a lot of people don’t check news sources when they are interested in a country. And a younger generation doesn’t seem to even think about radio. Or am I getting a false impression?

Allow me to regale / regael you with some of my favourite Irish names for animals…   5. Ladybird = bóín Dé or “God’s little cow” 4. Otter = madra uisce or “sea dog” 3. Bat = amadáinín or “little fool” 2. Jellyfish = smugairle róin or “seal snot” 1. Hedgehog = gráinneog or “horrible little thing”

Why is there not already a massive lawsuit re. Boeing? Because all the airlines would have to ground the planes and lose business?

Because “growing pool of freelancers” actually means “no more essential apprenticeships”. lithub.com/publishing-m...

Before you use that chatbot prompt, you should be aware that these generative AI companies are using so much power that they're trying to get more power plants built. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Jawdropping PR screw-up from the royals. The Princess is obviously undergoing a crisis of one sort or another. I continue to think an irrefutable argument against royalty is that it’s not fair to condemn people to permanent hyperpublic lives for our entertainment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...