There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
ft.com
Dan Swinhoe
@danswinhoe.bsky.social
Journalist: Senior Editor at Datacenter Dynamics. Previously IDG, CSO Online. Midlander. Metalhead.
No FIFA Peace Prize winner has ever done this before
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 8mo agoThis all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
RIP Cecilia, who clearly wished to become an internationally famous artist while holding a cursed monkey paw www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname
bbc.co.uk
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Heather Stewart@guardianheather.bsky.social · 9mo agoHere's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Spectator is just a few columns away from endorsing Advance UK
Steve Anglesey@sanglesey.bsky.social · 12mo agoLost for words at this Jonathan Sacerdoti piece in the Spectator
You couldn't make Trigger Happy TV today. Not because of woke. It's simply that most of the audience wouldn't understand that the loud guy with the big phone was doing something bad.
So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about. As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump on Intel boss: "He walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States. We do a lot of deals like that. I'll do more of them."
Today I learned Victoria Beckham's album was the fifth most expensive ever recorded for some reason?
It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot. tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
Turns out that AI-generated summer guide printed by the Chicago Sun-Times was made by magazine giant Hearst. We spoke to them. www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
The Chicago Sun-Times said "we understand this is unacceptable for us to distribute."
404media.co
There are certain things that AI is particularly and notoriously bad at and this is one of them.
Rachael King@rachaelking70.bsky.social · last yr.This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?
Rachael King@rachaelking70.bsky.social · last yr.This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
This might be a sleeper among the stuff Microsoft showed at its 50th anniversary event: Quake generated entirely through AI. www.theverge.com/news/644117/...
Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake | The Verge
You can now try out Microsoft’s new Muse AI model
theverge.com
A lot of investigative reporting relies on @archive.org, which is an invaluable resource for journalists of all stripes. But don’t sleep on the alternatives. The coverage provided by any.run or @domaintools.bsky.social isn’t nearly as comprehensive but the pair can fill in crucial gaps.
🌨️Here's a long feature from me on efforts to build a subsea internet cable directly through the North Pole. This is a project which could have big upside for connectivity, but also comes with myriad problems. It was a fascinating one to research: www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...
Poles apart: Building the Arctic's first subsea cable
Could going directly through the North Pole finally deliver the Arctic Circle an underwater Internet cable?
datacenterdynamics.com
Apropos of literally everything … time to reflect on this post from a year ago.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3y agoBillionaire board members feeling peer pressure to take drugs with Elon because if they don't they think Musk will be angry and cut them out of his companies and life. The world is so stupid.
name a more iconic safety engineering duo than Boeing and Elon Musk
Agree with this (unsurprisingly) - it's such a bad habit, wastes huge amounts of time and you just look a bit worse when it comes out. I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2y agoWell @stephenkb.bsky.social is bang on here
The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
theguardian.com
Today I Learned. Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
Lemon pig - Wikipedia
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Alex Plante 🐀👑@aplante.com · 2y agolemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.
![A cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:
1
THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him.
Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading:
OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England
FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!
FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]:
Can I have a selfie, Harry?
2
FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?
3
HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘
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*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]
5
[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]
6
[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]
[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED
HOLLAND:
Goddamn it
7
HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?
8
HOLLAND:
Tim Davie!
TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?
HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?
10
TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond
HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?
11
TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…
M-must we keep killing… so many…?
HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…
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HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibtcfluywrhxbnpooa5dcxr526hq474qcbio63di5dbctszzacezq)
