So apparently the story run by the Telegraph that the British Museum was erasing refs to Palestine is quite false (ref Wm Dalrymple on Twixter) One cant help wondering why the Telegraph would shit stir to this level. Eh....

Seems like yesterday. February 1996. I went to Pembrokeshire to take photographs of the oil spill impacts for use by eNGOs. I ended up helping rescue oiled seabirds. Sometimes you couldn't see one until a 'lump' in the crude oil moved slightly. It was horrific. You never get over it.

This is blackout poetry to me

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here

I hope the person who wrote this lives on a flood plain.

Top 20, 16th Feb 1982

I JUST HAD A DOCTOR CONSULT CANCELLED BECAUSE I WAS RUDE TO THEIR AI INTAKE SOFTWARE. (I called it a "stupid computer.") I hate EVERYTHING

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Accidentally searched Piramisu. Was not disappointed.

It's just advertising content for a quack podcast by a guy with a wellbeing grift. Telling kids their phone use is the most urgent healthcare crisis when there's how many of them going to school hungry?

It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Something I didn't observe until my most recent rewatch : In the famous 'business card comparison' scene in American Psycho, despite their attention to such details as font, thickness and shades of white, none of these dweebs notice that 'Acquisitions' is misspelled on literally all the cards.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

It’s almost verbatim Nazi propaganda at this point.

Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things. This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant. You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.

And not by management or her colleagues, but by the British press as part of a years-long hate campaign now increasingly focused on harassing and harming individual members of the public

I’ve got some fab recipes recommended and my Paprika App[1] has been busy. So far this one from Rollo over in the Fediverse is in the lead www.theguardian.com/food/2024/ma..., with this via @nalsa.bsky.social a close second hotcooking.co.uk/recipes/dish... [1] Thanks @rankamateur.bsky.social !

Moore, who never managed to get elected, criticising a woman, who did manage to get herself elected. Unionism has allowed itself to be led by the loud "no surrender" element. It has left progressive politics, social issues, and reality behind.

BlueSky. I impulse-bought a packet of paneer yesterday. What should I do with it? TIA.

In 2005 Rod Liddle was arrested and accepted a caution for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. He continues to have a career in journalism because the British press is fine with violent misogynists.

In Northern Ireland, where the Equality Act does not apply, the DUP Education Minister has unilaterally banned trans kids in schoools and the UUP Health Minister has unilaterally stopped participation in the puberty blocker trials, both citing legal cases they can't be arsed waiting on.

As Jesus would have wanted.

Hilary Cass, who called people concerned about trans kids killing themselves "shroud wavers" on the BBC talking about toxic debates

An American, whose country is a mere 250 years young, and already on its way out, lecturing Europe, whose countries are thousands of years old, about the notion of ‘Civilisation erasure’? It’s called ‘history’.

Thank goodness that through our faith we banished that bright yellow orb that haunted us all through yesterday and have returned to life-giving water falling from the sky.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

Happy Valentine's Day 💘

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

I had the privilege of hearing Michael Longley read this poem at what was his last reading. Enda, his wife of 60 years, was sitting in the 2nd row listening to every word 'dawn and dusk can kiss once a year' Cloudberry kisses #poetry #poemoftheday #valentinesday

Ah Valentine's Day... A very Northern Ireland take with probably the best description of love you'll ever hear. Love and Marriage | Rewind

Always nice when Swarovski try to make themselves cool again. Because then a whole new generation get to learn they were S-Tier Nazis in the 30s/40s. "Enthusiastic funders/organizers even when the party was still banned" level. "So bad they supressed their own commissioned official history" level

I’m down a rabbit hole on the swarovski website now please send help

"Viva la Quinta Brigada "No Pasarán," the pledge that made them fight." #InternationalBrigade

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Well done Brexit. (Relieved to find, after looking at the small print, that Irish passport holders may still come and go freely to the UK. I did not renew my UK passport when it expired in 2017 and do not intend to do so.) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pffft. Red roses for Valentine’s Day? German supermarket Edeka is out here making sausage bouquets.

Everything in the world is shit but How to Get to Heaven From Belfast isn’t. Watched three episodes last night and each one was better than the last. Great craic. 💚 📺

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

We saw this with the frothing GC reaction the Elliot Page. He didn't come out as trans until he was in his 30s and the transphobic weirdos and all their sock accounts started crying, screaming, throwing up.