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My tinfoil hat hot take is I think the effort to get us to value views over interaction is about trying to shift agency away from the user and toward the platform. They want us to value what their algo can do over the relationships we build.

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Lots of people unhappy and/or worried about this. I’m not. Not right for everyone, but there’s a lot of renters unable to save for a deposit who could afford the monthly payments. Feels silly to lock them out.

Lotta whinging about the aussie govt's AI funding over here today. Perfect timing for whatever this lil video is:

the EyyyyyK-47.

*rubs fingers on temples* The Shire is not Norse It's the fucking Midlands Aragorn is Oswald of Northumbria Mordor is Birmingham Fuck's sake man

yeah if you give a fucking dimwit a gun they are going to shoot someone, if you give them a knife they'll stab someone, if you give them a rock they will stone someone. This has been known for hundreds of thousands of years.

what in the hume highway is going on here

Everybody involved with this movement can get fucked. And so can everybody who ever told me that opportunity doesn’t depend on gender. It was a lie when I was a kid and it’s a lie now.

i really think he could become prime binister

The fact that my cat can arguably vote for the Hugo awards strikes me as a sign that the rules should be updated to specify that only humans can vote. Because it's just a matter of time before someone claims that their AI girlfriend is a person and can vote for the Hugos.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

ok i have to do this to my 20yo nephew

I do rather feel that they are attempting to set themselves up as sovereign citizens of Catholicism which, like, we already have they're called Protestants you can break away from the Catholic Church and do whatever you want, buddy. be the Henry VIII you wish to see in the world

"Schrödinger's Schism" brb fetching popcorn.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

Today's #ArtRepostJuly prompt of 'bone' nearly had me stumped and then I remembered this impressive fella. Apparently the bony casque of the Cassowary helps them shed excess heat... we could all certainly do with one of those about now! #SciArt #Illustration #Birds #Procreate #ArtSky

Car brains will look at this image & tell you that the problem is those 2 hire bikes on the pavement. What do you mean you can’t see them? Next to the HGV that’s parked on the pavement. No! Not that HGV on the pavement. The other HGV that’s on the pavement. Yes!! Those hire bikes are the problem.

tonight's epic cottage pie was beef bourguignon with Colcannon instead of boring mashed potatoes. need to get some Gruyere for the topping next time. there are some more in the freezer for future dinners, this took fken aaaaages.

Woman interrupting me mid conversation in a theatre foyer: 'I loved you famous play, what was it called? But I've hated all the others. Including this one. Me: Maybe you should stop coming to see them? Woman: No, my husband loves them, god knows why. Anyway, good luck!

three children I know are alive and thriving because of our advances in premie care.

Reminder with everything going on that One Nation wants to change what family court sees as ‘abuse’ and how it responds to it because Pauline Hanson’s son had to face consequences after he plead guilty to dv related charges

My worry stone, gifted by a coworker years ago. I forget where it's from but it's been in five different offices over the years and keeps getting smoother and slicker. No idea what kind of stone it is.

Oh my god there’s a short with him and Hugo Weaving taking a bath??

Best Australian since Phar Lap

All good points but I think we should also be talking about the big venues and Edinburgh uni making fat stacks whilst underpaying their staff not to mention Fringe society exec dir getting £100k per year whilst we lowly comics must pay £300-400 just to be in the brochure

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Yes!! I’ve seen a distressing number of people today arguing that just because someone writes sick and twisted things, they must have perpetrated such things. That is absolutely false. People imagine and write stuff ALL THE TIME that they would not do IRL. Don’t carry a torch for the thought police.

I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...

There should be books for people who like easy books, and books for people who like complicated books. This is called "meeting demand" and "finding your audience/market" and it's how you make money doing a thing.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Summer vibes ☀️

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

aussie bluesky, what's a good brand of washing machine these days? looks like we can't fix the old one which we've had for over a decade. might need a front loader to fit in the tiny laundry.

Being fully sucked out costs extra on Ryanair, of course. Everyone knows this.

ACTUAL HARDWARE????!!!! I mean we talk about how AI steals everything but this is a little on the nose…

“Why do WE have to get rid of our rapists but the Republicans don’t?” Setting aside all moral implications, it’s because around 70% (if not more) of Democratic volunteers are women and if they get totally disgusted with the party nobody is winning any elections anymore.

My Derryn Hinch story in 3 parts 🫡

SMS: "I can't take your call right now. Finally got Mitch on the other line. I'll call you back in 20 minutes."