You’re almost correct. Not the pandemic, but the virus itself. It causes 🧠 (and other organ) damage. theconversation.com/mounting-res...

It may sound stupid but to those who want their writing to be attributed to them and not AI, use pen and paper. Assuming that if you just wanted to copy AI slop, you wouldn't bother to sit down and copy it in long-hand. 🤭

This girl behind me on the train snorts noisily the whole time. Clearly hasn’t been taught basic manners. Nobody else does it but nobody else complains. Is it acceptable to do this now?

'Neither democracy nor republic is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, a document that nevertheless expresses clearly that governments should be established “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”' www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/demo...

For an interesting recent take on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and the weird South African executive orders by #FirstFellon (like offering asylum to white rich South Africans), here a French documentary (you might need a VPN): www.france.tv/france-5/la-...

Robert Badinter's entrance into the Pantheon tonight. Advocate for the abolition of the death penalty who succeeded in getting it officially abolished. I like how the French came up with a way to 'canonise' their most deserving citizens in a secular way.

Ich mag gar nicht daran denken, was passiert, wenn meine Eltern Hilfe brauchen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/er...

I'm stumped at migrants being 'forced to volunteer in their communities', as I heard it put today on the radio, to qualify for indefinite leave to remain under Labour plans. Does anyone else cringe at the clash of mutually exclusive concepts being expressed here? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

How does Rachel Reeves' idea to get young people into a job, even if they have to be forced to accept one, square with the ILO centenary declaration on securing 'full, productive and freely chosen employment'? UK is a signatory. ILO: www.ilo.org/sites/defaul... Labour: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Question: is it okay for a news speaker to say the suspect of Charlie Kirk's assassination has been 'caught' when everything we heard on the preceding programme maintained that the suspect gave himself up? That's how misinformation starts. #mindthelanguage

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Maybe the message of withdrawing from Eurovision isn't clear but we should also look at the message of simply nodding Isreal along, no matter what happens there. That is a message, too, and one I don't support.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Summer read 2025 Well, the summer is pretty much over, so it's really a bit late for recommendations but the world is somewhat upside down, anyway, when one takes a book like this on holidays to read because otherwise there is just not the time to read more than a few lines a day before falling…

www.propublica.org/article/wate... But, but, but... the tech-broligarchy needs water for their data centres!

I cannot add much to this. From a bourgeois nationalist turned democrat to a girl from East Germany, we share this opinion. #Lübeck #ThomasMann

La tapisserie de Bayeux date de la fin du XIᵉ siècle. Elle est donc âgée de près d’un millénaire. Sa conservation, malgré les nombreuses vicissitudes qu’elle a traversées, relève du miracle. C’est l’une des œuvres majeures de l’histoire de l’humanité, que nous devons préserver. chng.it/hJsXGXyByW

Quiet summer evening on a rooftop in Paris. #iphonography

“He (Farage) started saying I (Raskin) was the most pig-headed person he had ever seen.” I find this somewhat hard to believe as my impression is that Farage is vain enough to look into a mirror several times every day. 🤭 www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/nige...

France will establish formal diplomatic relations with Palestine, President Emmanuel Macron said today.

Why are governments all over the world falling over themselves to let US tech companies spy on the people who electing them and whom they are supposed to work for??? A petition against the German government contracting Palantir surveillance software for the police. aktion.campact.de/s/Palantir/lc

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Summer rain.

I took two pictures of the same dandelion at Gladstone Park in NW London in 2009 that I chanced upon today and put them together as an exercise in depth of field.

Friday evening before the thunderstorm. Drifting into the weekend... I wish you all a nice one.

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ki...

WTF??? I will have to unsubscribe to my @politico.com newsletters, all of them, if they go through with that. I will NOT EVER waste time on news stories researched and written by EFFING AI.

Morgan doesn't look that well compared to when he was riding high on the Brexit success at ITV in the UK. He looked much more joyful then. And I don't really care about his kind of journalism.

Ahh... GACO? Not always maybe but chickens out, anyway. Interesting... www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...

My inspiration to photograph the tidal swimming pool at St. Malo, Brittany, is this photographer and this particular picture.

Brittany is beautiful. There’s no two ways about it.

Just thinking: what happened to the big beautiful Tesla Trump bought from his then DOGE chief?

Saturday evening in Paris. Straight from a 2022 iPhone SE, no filters (just some straightening) and DEFINITELY #nogenAI. This world is amazing enough for those who can tear themselves away from their screens. Enjoy! Even on a screen. 😘

Watching a documentary on @artefr.bsky.social about the Pet Shop... Boys? Shouldn't we call them 'Pet Shop Geezers' by now? I ADORED them back in the 80ies. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

"Sure, you can give ChatGPT a set of increasingly detailed prompts; adding complexity to its summary of a scientific journal or a podcast, but at what point do the prompts get so granular that you may as well read the journal entry itself?" newatlas.com/ai-humanoids...

My exhibit at the Quinzaine de la Photographie at Villa Fulbert in Chartre. The important message is in the description. 😇 zenfolio.page.link/71DRC

Watching part of First Felon's military parade, I have to say that in Civil Defence camp at university in East Germany, us students were better at marching in step. 🤦‍♀️🤔🤭

A couple of signs I saw on the web I thought were cool.

JUST IN: Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

This is a sneak peek at the pictures I will be showing in Chartres at the Quinzaine de la Photographie from Saturday onwards. I can safely post this here in advance, seeing as nobody is looking at my posts. Sometimes it's comforting to hide in a big crowd. 🤭 thepictureangle.com/fillafulbert...

I am showing a few pictures in the collective exhibition 'Quinzaine de la Photographie' at the Villa Fulbert in Chartres from 14 June - 29 June 2025. Anyone in the area is welcome! :-)

"At the heart of all these tragic stories is an important question about cause and effect: are people having mental health crises because they're becoming obsessed with ChatGPT, or are they becoming obsessed with ChatGPT because they're having mental health crises?" futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

"UK government accused of 'gaslighting' as data bill deadlock with upper house goes on 'Sad to see a Labour government chuck creators under the bus,' Baroness Kidron tells Charting Gen AI ahead of decisive AI transparency debate in the Lords tomorrow" grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

Frankly, this assault on copyright legislation is something worthy of the Tories. I would never have expected it from Labour, never mind a lawyer as PM, even less a former Director of Public Prosecutions, main focus: human rights. I am officially disgusted. open.substack.com/pub/fairtrai...

I remember some people talking about this case as supremacist and a precedent favouring white straight men. Just out of interest, since when have women (black, white, CIS, LGBTIQ+) been "members of groups that historically have not faced discrimination"? 🤔

For once, we were told in advance what the lights on the Eiffel Tower would mean. But help me. This was supposed to be blue-red for the colours of PSG. Except if you are ‘behind’ the Eiffel Tower (a whole new idea since the Paris Olympics).

PSG just won the Champions League quite convincingly. And Paris is as one.

Evidently, that's a lifetime licence for MS Office '2019'. Which will stop being supported in how many years? One? Two? We are in 2025, aren't we? 🤔

@ec.europa.eu, how can a European institution put out for tender a contract to agencies on the private market for provision of interpreters, demanding the interpreters to have EU Secret clearance when there is no evident way for freelance interpreters to acquire said clearance? 🤔😳

I had a spat on LinkedIn when someone said the environmental cost of a fairly comprehensive AI query was ethically justifiable as it was about 40-50 coffees a day or a mile in an EV. For one query, I replied. Then I got accused of autism-bashing. Go figure. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

I'm glad that the Romanian people came to their senses. Pity the sore loser is an election denier. When will the EU make sure that countries breaking the acquis as soon as they got admitted, can get excluded again?