No Large Leo Model, but an important point: human beings should never be reduced to “productivity,” “cognitive performance,” or “mere data.” Well put, Pope Leo. Well put. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

I think it’s funny they made a machine that literally is a million monkeys on a million type writers and definitively proved that it can’t produce Shakespeare

PSA the sensible people from channel 4 put Fever Pitch on

Blog update: New Order's "True Faith" topped the NME Indie Chart and dominated the national top ten in August 87, lifting the group up and away from the cult margins. Also the finest lyrics of Sumner's career, achieved by solitary confinement. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/05/102-...

A recurring theme among folks who want Bluesky to be more like Twitter is "I want to be able to provoke people a bit without it turning into a whole thing." And I'd say, without judging that desire, that it's a very specific thing to want.

We on Bluesky are just whittling. We aren’t trying to remake Twitter. Not really. Most of what I see over here are people managing their emotions about the end of a way of thinking and being we know is over. I don’t want to be dragged back into someone else’s stage of grief. I’m at acceptance.

Understand this, as someone who has looked Lupita in the face up close, she is without a doubt a genetic anomaly. She is so beautiful that it CONFUSES you.

what if it happens today?

BRUTAL: Elder Millennial Receives Birthday Email From Livejournal

Bluesky is the most forum-like of the microblogging platforms and like its forumnal ancestors it would benefit from a siloed subforum for meta-complaints about the forum

Participate? In the discourse? Not even once.

honestly people complaining Bluesky is full of humourless scolds and Twitter is more fun... skill issue?? follow better people! "i have more of a laugh on the Nazi pedo app" says more about you than it does about anyone else

It's a good article the Liberal Currents article but I have now been reminded of the whole Aella ...phenomena On balance worth it but I had memory holed that for a reason and now I realise books will probably be written about it

Even his fucking birthday party was strewn with enough French cultural icons to be, in itself, iconic.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

good morning, West Coasters! the essay about cuck porn is good and the essay about Miller Lite is bad, if you’re just joining us

Excellent longread "So much of modern right-wing politics can be boiled down to resentment of the fact that modernity has granted many women the ability to say no to men."

I didnt get sunburnt yesterday as I put suncream on..more as we get it

12 years married today

Just bought. First three tracks all bangers

Must admit I often recommend it just for when people come back and tell me this

Trembling at the prospect of the weirdly sexual racism we'll see about a black woman playing Betty Boop

the song, "do you love me (do you love me)....now that i can dance?" what kind of answer are you hoping for? what if the answer actually were "yes"? that would be wretched

Also Middlemarch is not a sci-fi adventure about sentient wasps, Pride and Prejudice should have been number 98.5, and the opening line of War and Peace is not ‘Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen & Pour myself a cup of ambition’ and it is not spelled Warren Piece.

I like how every now and again they do something to remind everyone they’re The Grauniad

It was the best of lists, it was the worst of lists

@katstark.bsky.social New profile pic got me like who is this new Kat person in me likes ? 🙂

One thing I notice about the company's PR is how invasive it is- answering a completely different question to one being asked or whataboutery. That in itself tells its own story. And what other company goes on national radio to attack democratic leaders when they don't get a contract?

Nailed - Perfect. Got me interested in independent cinema again

this is a big reason why you see so many services shifting to usage-based rather than subscription-based billing - it’s not even that the average user is making it uneconomical for them, it’s that the heavy users are costing SO much that they can’t balance out subscription costs

software engineers get paid a lot of money, but even with fairly low inference costs you can burn through enormous numbers of tokens so fast that you begin to outpace those salaries - and if you end up having to throw out a lot of the resulting output, well, it’s not so cost effective anymore

Because speakers are optimised for stereo when holding the phone in landscape for watching videos, sound comes out of both ends. People sense this and don't locate the source of the sound towards the "ear" end, since the whole front of the phone is screen. Basically phone calls are a niche app now.

"But you can call me Clavicular."

Idgi, why are people having conversations with the bottom of their phones now even when not on video. Is there no speaker where your ear is any more? I have acclimatised to people just playing music and video everywhere out loud, and have to Let Them, and take headphones wherever I go, but idgi

Here you go! Thanks @areamancm.bsky.social

You must understand: Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class. Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.

Does anyone Balustrade Lanyard to hand 🙏🏻🙏🏻?

Neandental was right there

Okay, I was wondering how old Cronus was going to be given that I first heard about him in 2016 and TARANTULAS CAN LIVE TO FORTY?!

Excited talk about AGI paints a picture of it being all or nothing. But these are digital machines. Physical machines exist in countless varieties. Dominating washing machines doesn't mean you own ATMs, lifts or EVs. And second best is fine, particularly if it is cheaper 3/

Yes! The drugs Olympics are here! What a perfect encapsulation of this age of idiocy. as.ft.com/r/6f487339-5...

Number of universities in the QS Top 100 world ranking by country in 2026 USA = 27 UK = 17 Australia = 8 China = 5 South Korea = 5 A top five UK service sector export (c.£25bn) that we should probably support and champion more if we want to maintain an advantage.

Due to some discussions with my friend about what someone else we know knows, I've become convinced there are two types of people in this world, those who understand what a rate of change is and those who don't.

Oh, yay, I can’t wait for my teenage daughter to be harassed in toilets and other public spaces for not looking enough like a teenage girl to meet the approval of bigots. Very much fuck these people and fuck this party. Trans women are women.

HRification of politics is bad

It's great when the disclosures finally start to flow, remember the fun with WeWork too. A house of cards redux.

This is wild.

Even if you combine Space and Connectivity, that side of the business looks…fine? Not at a a $2trn valuation but it’s a real business. But AI is a black hole. Incinerating cash, no demand. Doesn’t make money even ex R&D. Just a money pit.