I'm enjoying Clues by Sam. It's rather a well-constructed logic game.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Read this thread - and act accordingly.

Literally cry me a river.

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Worgle 1330 4/6* ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ ⚪⚪⚪🟡⚪⚪ 🟡🟡⚪🟢🟡⚪ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Yes!

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

I watched this a few weeks ago - it looks glorious on the big screen and (even having watched it a zillion times) still scares.

This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

Listening to the UK Europe minister calmly saying that drawing closer to the EU might reduce red tape for businesses. Goodness me! Might it? Is this perhaps why the EEC was created in the first place?! Why has no one ever told the British public this before?

350,000 attended Tel Aviv rally tonight, calling for a ceasefire and a hostage deal. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

fancy forty-five minutes of impeccable sketch comedy? here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Looks like the BBC has cut all the footage of Hozier - last night's headliner at Reading Festival - after he spoke about civil rights and Palestine.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Meal Team Six.

This is Peek Biscuit. ...and Freans, obvs.

This! #moreorless

In the ABC News report quoted here, there's a couple of appalling paragraphs, in which the statistics regarding support for same-sex marriage are completely misconstrued. In what sense has overall support 'softened' if it's still at the high it reached five years ago?

Reminds me of the excellent idea that in every episode of 'Line Of Duty' there should be a moment when one of the regulars looks at the camera while saying, "in the... Line Of Duty".

Just to be clear about what this says--not only is transition rare among the general population (<2%) and not only is detransition rare among those who do (lowest estimate is 1%, highest is 10%), but *transition regret* is only a third of detransition. A fraction of a fraction of a fraction

If you repeat this enough you will get people just straight up referring to it as this like it's the real name for the thing bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

OK - to add to the "AI-generated lists of US Presidents" fun, I asked ChatGPT this: 'Please generate an image that shows all the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with portraits of each of them' and got this...

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Turnkey battery storage system prices are down 54% JUST IN THE PAST TWO YEARS Like the industry has really only existed for about 6 years but the cost is dropping like a stone! To the point where *on an unsubsidized basis* solar+storage and wind+storage is the same or cheaper than cc natural gas

I assume Chuck Brown did some sort of takeover of the Soul Searchers in the Seventies.

Autistic girls aren’t broken. They’re exhausted from trying to fit in. Here are 6 things they often wish you knew. youtube.com/shorts/wF4rJ... Please share.

oh, OK one like = one pre-1960 horror film recommendation

Watching the new series with Keeley Hawes - The Durrells took a turn, didn't it?

Avon & Somerset Police, surely?

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.

another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week

AI is causing a veritable Dunning-Kruger *epidemic* in Silicon Valley

A lot of art galleries use WeTransfer to send me images about exhibitions and art fair presentations, so I guess this is something I also need to report on?

The BBCs Joe Inwood: "It was lots of mostly middle aged, often elderly people sitting around holding placards that say 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action'... this was about making the point that this clearly.. peaceful action is now.. labelled as terrorism"

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

This site is gold: mamdanitimes.com

I post lots of stuff for free, for your and my entertainment, and that's the way I've always liked it. I do earn my living from selling my work, so if you feel like supporting my cartoons are popular and I draw each one individually - they're not prints. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...