I'll just keep reposting this... it's perfect.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

Morning all! Ivor remained asleep until 6am, bless him. Just had a look and we tipped 20k, which is magnificent. I’m going to repost some pix that I missed while slumbering. Thank you thank you #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I never knew there was video to go with the classic deeemented Christmas number, "The Pretty Little Dolly". Her facial expressions add a lot, as does Johnny Carson youtu.be/G0xq2K-ut8U?...

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

The handle is a bit off-putting, but this is an interesting thread about one man's journey through the incel/conspiracist/misogynist rabbit hole and back again.

I was reading an interesting post on FB about the GG and WI situation. Essentially both have been secretly fighting legal action from anti trans groups for a little while and they can’t afford to continue, according to the post. Well funded TERFs are forcing their hand.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Hi I’m Davibrimbaum, brother of Celebrimbor, I was Supervisor on Sauron’s Ring Project which included the forging and distribution of 19 rings and the “Ring of Power” which controlled them all, ask me anything

Ably translated by Trevor and Simon as "Large Door" — a sister film to Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou" ("A Dog and a Toilet").

Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.

Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.

If you read one #Bookseller article: read this: www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

You do? Oh, that's wonderful! Can you keep it for me? My name... yes, it's: J R R Tolkien.

Attention @bezza.bsky.social !

Squee! Kennedy Fisher is on the case! #thelovecraftinvestigations

Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

I think @dieworkwear.bsky.social might have a thing or two to say about him... Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?

Michael cAIne

This is a tremendous piece.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

And don't forget his Sterling work on Bill Evans' "At the Montreux Jazz Festival". youtu.be/rQUxyyzgvBo?...

Here's a link to an excellent, practical piece on Internet security. Read it!

Me doing today's Clues By Sam.

If you're reading the letters pages of old Marvel comics, you're FOOMscrolling.

It doesn't even scan!

Absolutely this! It's a marvellous book.

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Could the Nobel Peace Prize committee perhaps give Trump some sort of certificate of participation? #nobelpeaceprize

Don't be a coelacanth. Be a coelaCANh! #motivationalfossils

This is astonishing ambition: 24-hour-a-day energy from a solar plant with thermal battery storage, and enough output for 830,000 homes at a cost of $480m - that's around $600 per household!

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

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