R.F. Kuang, the bestselling novelist behind Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, is taking a stand with the BDS movement. lithub.com/author-r-f-k...

Our government tried to let racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans rampage on Birmingham's streets. They smeared those opposed to this as being driven by hatred of Jewish people. Now listen to what the West Midlands Chief Constable told MPs. What a scandal.

For our Dutch followers and people with access to Dutch TV 🇳🇱 Tomorrow Signal's president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in #Buitenhof (pronounce as: "BOW-tun-hoff" but we'll count "TV" as correct) It's about #signal #privacy & #bigtech 📺Nov 30, 12:10 CET Channel: NPO1 www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/ar...

He didn’t shoot children after all

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?

Booking biedt Palestijnen 15 procent korting op verblijf in eigen woning

To help celebrate this announcement, the game's developer has donated 10k CAD to Médecins Sans Frontières on behalf of Wholesome Games and in support of critical relief efforts in Gaza. Thanks, @ko-op.com!

Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Inmiddels de 1000 voorbij en counting. 👇 Delen is 👌

I curse everyday the billionaires who broke the internet and despair but then a snippet like this comes along

The most accurate prediction I’ve ever seen about anything

Incredible headline.

Yes omg yes

Also Mark Epstein states the Epstein files are being altered (at FBI's Central Records Complex, Winchester) - to remove evidence against Trump. Jeffrey had enough dirt on Trump to end his career, he told his brother. If it's not in the released files, it's removed www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.

We are basically living in the age of corporate capture in collaboration with fascists. Thats the main thread, be it in the U.S. or in Brussels.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.

I don’t know why they’d trap our loved ones in a hand-held device. Isn’t that cheap? They could be holograms, hell, they could be custom-made robots. In fact, they could be clones.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

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hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Remember when she compared the keffiyeh to a swastika? Because I do...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A Blue Jay perched along the nature trail. Their blue color comes from light scattering through their feathers and reflecting blue wavelengths, not from blue pigment. Blue pigment is rare in nature; this color requires complex molecules that absorb red light, 1/2

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Well, good fucking riddance

He’s Mira Nair’s son??? HE’S MIRA NAIR’S SON???

New Zohran loading

Yes please

Now, for the millions leaving NY

“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.” Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.

Wow, shit! Teen Vogue was doing an incredible job of it!

LEZEN DIT!!! Hoe Amerikaanse tech miljardairs de wereld (willen) overnemen, en hoe enorm f*cked Europa is... Echt geweldig onderzoek inclusief prachtige visuals van Francesca Bria en haar team!

A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

“Among the 861 children whose mothers were SARS-CoV-2–positive during pregnancy, 140 (16.3%) received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years of age, compared with 1,680 (9.7%) of the 17,263 remaining children from SARS-CoV-2–negative pregnancies.” www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants. No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry My piece www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Wie kan me uitleggen waarom iedereen denkt dat d66 links is? Waar komt dat vandaan?

Breaking: It wasn't in fact Robert Plant's mama that he was going to make sweat and groove because of the way she move

Epistemic crisis wasn’t on my apocalypse bingo card

Terwijl extreemrechts oprukt en haat en geweld toenemen, stookt SBS de gemoederen verder op. Een uur lang krijgen mensen die zijn gevlucht voor oorlog en geweld, mensen met een migratieachtergrond en moslims overal de schuld van. Walgelijk. Dit is geen debat, dit is ordinaire ophits-tv.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

Men are not lonely enough.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social: We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide. 🧵👇