We are now at the date of the dark cyberpunk future as dreamed of by Rodney in Only Fools and Horses, in which the global megacorp Trotters Independent Trading, run by Del Boy's evil son Damien, orders the US President to declare war on China.

Gotta admit I'm getting a lot of schadenfreude from the freakouts about Claude's watermarks and the horrifying idea you might actually have to do your own work to get credit for the work.

New: Proton CEO Andy Yen just cancelled the company's 're-interviews'. Comes after our investigation yesterday The re-interviews would have been about how workers were using AI, with the clear implication you might be fired "He has a rebellion on his hands." www.404media.co/protons-ceo-...

Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

The move came after 404 Media published an investigation into how Proton CEO Andy Yen was aggressively pushing AI across Proton despite security concerns and the culture of fear he has created.

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Has noted dated at all* and is still a track I will happily listen to in its entirety *I realise this may date me

Trëy@quiksnowboard7.bsky.social · 2d ago

#MusicHistory On this day 1974, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk released their 4th album, Autobahn, one of the most influential recordings in the history of electronic music. Album's centerpiece is the extraordinary 22-minute title track, which occupies the entire 1st side of the vinyl.

Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time. It is excellent. They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.

For MapTap players: There are a few spaces going in the Bluesky Tap Room group which I run with @lewisbaston.bsky.social. If you fancy joining, here’s the link. First come, first tapped! www.maptap.gg/join/fcbb05b0

Bigbamboo 🇪🇺@bigbamboo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thanks to @alexvont.bsky.social for hosting the Bkuesky-group! It's a lot of fun. 🙏

Instagram is really spoiling me tonight

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Perfect Halloween weather tonight - a chill in the air, pockets of mist, gibbous yellow moon low in the sky - atmospheric accompaniment to multiple dad taxi runs through picturesque villages

Former ancient historian here, my particular area of interest was the fall of the Roman Republic, which arguably did in fact have a lot to do with far left protestors, so well done Matt Goodwin, stopped clock & all that, just 2120 years or so out in your timing

"Claudia, my share of the money will buy 40 underprivileged children Piña Colada tier membership of the Amol Rajan Connection"

Gen X here, all I see is flat white dressing up as caffe latte

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lmao Gen Z are dressing as Millenial Optimism for Halloween

I have successfully upgraded my home mesh network to wifi 7 and achieved 500mpbs downstream in all parts of the house, when I shared the joyful news with my wife her eyes glazed over and she said that’s nice dear, but I know I’m a behind the scenes domestic hero 😇

Übrigens zieht Cem Özdemir wegen Drohungen gegen seine Person und seine Familie von der privaten Wohnung in die frisch renovierte Dienst-Villa des Landes BW. Das war komischerweise kein Titelthema im Spiegel.

Özdemir zieht aus Sicherheitsgründen raus aus der Stadt - Baden-Württemberg

Acht Kilometer westlich des Stuttgarter Zentrums liegt die Dienstvilla, in die Cem Özdemir bald umzieht - aus Sicherheitsgründen. Was für ihn gegen ...

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Absolute legend.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:

Even biscuit makers from Tournai have to pay attention to the soap opera in the White House.

C'est du Belge @polbegov.skyfleet.blue · 4d ago

”C’est le grand danger avec Trump” : pour Desobry, la biscuiterie tournaisienne, c’est “l’après-midterms” qui inquiète

rottenandgood.substack.com/p/ugly-milks... Happy Friday.

Ugly milkshake duck

I wrote about Elon, X and twitter, fascism and myself, and gave a defence of hatred. I have been trying to write this blog post for 3 full years.

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I went to Twitter HQ in San Francisco years ago & they had this in a framed triptych on the wall. ❤️

Every morning for four and a half years I’ve woken up to new stories of overnight Russian atrocities. Yeah my feelings towards Russia are not shall we say softening.

Traitors have cocked this up haven’t they? Right at the finishing line. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s the most British thing ever.

Cool cool cool coolcoolcool

The Mirror@mirror.co.uk · 5d ago

People up to 65-years-old could be called up to fight in any upcoming major war after the age bracket for the Army Reserves was extended from 55 earlier this year.

Never felt so seen by a budget

Planet Earth with David Attenborough except swap one national treasure for another and one planet for another #WOWForever youtu.be/VxTWMv5h-JE?...

World of Warcraft: Forever | Planet Azeroth EP. 1 (ft. Bill Bailey)

YouTube video by World of Warcraft

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cannot stop laughing

Absolutely this for the billionth time.

Hugh Sykes@hughsykes.bsky.social · 5d ago

And a great day for the British government to consider if it's right to continue using Elon Musk's X/Twitter, as one of their main platforms for making public announcements, & come over onto Bluesky instead. If they stay on X they are funding Musk's funding of thugs. @downingstreet.bsky.social

We should have had some Yorkshire Tea and Haribo before posting this 😅

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be? (Would you ‘like’ or rt this one please, so it doesn’t get buried 🙏)