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"The Freedom To Be Free." ~ Hannah Arendt ~ Hoping for a better world for us all...🍀 Vera ☮️ Philosophy, Literature, Science, Politics, Art, Movies, Music, History.....WW11

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2h ago

How to Extend The Life You Hate. All airport books, rolled into one.

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 31m ago

Flows through the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river, are the lowest they’ve been in decades, exposing rocks, old shipwrecks, a WWII bomb and even the remains of an extinct species. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

The Danube river is so low that Nazi warships are emerging

Europe's second-longest river is carrying less water than it has in decades, revealing shipwrecks and shutting down nuclear reactors.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 50m ago

New York photographer N. Jay Jaffee (also known as Nathan Jaffee and Nat Jaffee) A. Altman Furriers, 1950 (from Forty Portfolio) #Photography #NewYorkCity

Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 6h ago

Ferdinand Knab, German painter, 1834-1902. Arcadian landscape, 1894. Oil on panel. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Art History

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 6h ago

Best Bond villain. Wrong answers only. 🎬

Dr. Strangelove: Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove

Alt: Dr. Strangelove (1964) Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove, wearing sunglasses. 🎬

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David, Host of The Cold War@coldwarhost.bsky.social · 7h ago

Best Bond villain. Wrong answers only.

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 14h ago

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone." Joseph Conrad, (1857~1924) Heart of Darkness (1899) 📚 #BookSky

The black and white book cover for the "The Heart of Darkness" (1899) a novella by Joseph Conrad, showing Captain Charles Marlow dressed in all white standing on the deck of a Steamboat anchored on a river in the African interior; there are crew members on the Steamboat on both levels; there are trees in the background.

Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. (Wikipedia)
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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · yesterday

"Miss Stellwagon says advertising makes people who can't afford it, buy things they don't want, with money they haven't got." (Joan Blandings) "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948) 🎬 #FilmSky

The original U.S. movie poster for "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948), featuring head shots of the three main actors, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy & Melvyn Douglas set on a blue background.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it was an adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig. The story follows a married couple who encounter constant problems after their purchase and remodel of a home in the country.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Morning all. Photographer Oscar Marzaroli. Boy and Pram, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, 1964.

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 3d ago

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Frying Pan Alley, Spitalfields, London (1902) 📷 Jack London

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 5d ago

'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd (Manchester Art Gallery)

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" (2002). 📚 #BookSky

Collage:

The book cover showing the title in lilac and the author's name in green for "Kafka on the Shore" (2002) by Haruki Murakami; there's a small black bird on top, and a larger figure of a man in black holding a black umbrella, he is casting a shadow, and a cream cat is at the end of the shadow.

Haruki Murakami (1949) with his Cat June 1985, Photo by Asahi Shimbun.

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2002).
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5d ago

‘The Girls on the Bridge.’ #Painting by Edvard Munch (1901) #art

@glastomichelle.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lammas blessings from Glastonbury Tor. It was a beautiful morning and lovely sunrise. Lammas means "loaf-mass," and marks the very first grain harvest of the year. Lammas/Lughnasadh A few photographs from this morning.

Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ledmore River, Assynt. Pic: Damian Shields

RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Matchbox, 1 August

Sweet woman in traditional peasant garb, yellow bag carried on her back. Japanese characters.

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss." Pericles (Act 1, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSky

Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 5d ago

Impressive to combine AI stupidity and basic ignorance so deftly.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 7d ago

Queen's Square, Belfast (1955) Bert Hardy

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 7d ago

Anyone intoxicated was not allowed to borrow a book, and anyone behaving in a disorderly manner would be fined at least five shillings per offence. #BookSky 📚 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Library book returned after 150 years, $28k fine waived

A NSW library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the 150 years since it was borrowed.

abc.net.au

George Wachsmuth @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social · 7d ago

Patti !

Because the Night

YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic

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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 7d ago

"What the imagination can't conjure, reality delivers with a shrug." "Well, there are many angry and ignorant people in the world. They seem to be breeding in record numbers." Dalton Trumbo: Bryan Cranston. Trumbo (2015) 🎬 #FilmSky

The movie poster for Trumbo (2015),
showing Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) at his typewriter with a cigarette in his left hand. The rest of the cast is shown in smaller pictures underneath the title.

Dalton Trumbo is a celebrated screenwriter with many successful films to his credit. However, things change when he is blacklisted from Hollywood.

Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas, and David James Elliott as John Wayne. The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and is based on the 1977 biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.[5]
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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · 7d ago

I read this essay by Dr. Glen Barry back in 2013; and it has stayed with me ever since. If you can find the time please read it. We are having these extremes of weather for a reason...🌊🌎 theecologist.org/2013/oct/27/...

Ecology is the meaning of life

Dr. Glen Barry tells the Ecologist why he believes that ecology is far more than just the study of life and its environment......

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · last wk.

“Embrace Mediterranean life” * *Wildfires bsky.app/profile/rola...

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.

Nighty night.

Judith Monroe @judithmonroe.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know, talking about the insect apocalypse doesn’t exactly scream hope & healing. Here’s the thing. If every little insect matters, then every little thing we do to help matters too. The native plant you put in. The pesticide you decided not to use. #InsectArt #InsectDecline #HopeAndHealing

Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · last wk.

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." ~ Edward R. Murrow ~ #McCarthyism #HistorySky youtu.be/bf6fhMlxjMk?...

March 9, 1954 was when Edward R. Murrow exposed Joseph McCarthy the bigoted racist hate monger

YouTube video by SyndicatedNews

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · last wk.

Is there anything that more exemplifies the anti-intellectualism of the current age? AI companies like Anthropic are buying rare books, breaking the spine to allow for fast scanning, then shredding them... even if they're the last copies on the planet. (Tweet 27/7/24. Full text in ALT)

Hedgie
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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗
12:18 AM · Jul 27, 2026

JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · last wk.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekDForDark Deansgate Castlefield Manchester

A low angled photo of a long pedestrian bridge at Deansgate Castlefield Manchester that leads to the train station.
The glass panelled bridge has a 'cage' over the walkway made out of black tubular metal.
There is a man wearing dark clothes walking along the bridge towards the station.
It is dusk and the bridge has a row of lights shining onto the rain soaked floor.
In the distance are several tall tower blocks that are partially covered by mist

Bernd @dabutterbrot.bsky.social · last wk.

'Im Hafen' #FotoVorschlag 📍 Åstol | Schweden #ClassicMono

Eine Hafenanlage mit Sreg und Bootshäusern, die Giebel an Giebel nebeneinander gebaut sind. Einige Motorboote liegen davor im Wasser

Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · last wk.

NEW Snow leopard expert Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi recommends five excellent ecology books, from a study of the Serengeti lion to one man's search for a most elusive owl. fivebooks.com/best-books/e...

Ecology

Five of the best books on ecology, as recommended by the snow leopard expert and conservationist Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺@hubbubbub.bsky.social · last wk.

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'A masterclass in betrayal': The British double agent who defected to Russia and taught enemy spies

Kim Philby's defection to the Soviet Union was made public on 30 July 1963. In 2016, the BBC broadcast previously unseen footage of a lecture he gave to the Stasi.

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