"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" Cory Doctorow #AIAIno
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Sweating (the assets) to the oldies.
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Art, Music and Ideas. Occasional silly pictures of imaginary modernist buildings made with Blockitecture wood blocks. I am partially sighted, so I make typos I can't see are wrong.
RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.
Not sure about any others but the list for my year contains Futuristics and Ecocatastrophe. !
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AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books
Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
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I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
Why do I see lots of Halloumi jokes incoming...
CERN@cern.bsky.social · 2w ago#HiLumiLHC: new magnets reach full power 💫 The new generation of quadrupole magnets at the IT String test facility has reached its nominal current, validating key technologies for the #HiLumiLHC. Find out more: home.cern/hilumi-lhc-n...
I think it is sad that the world is going to ratshit because some human beings want a shinier boat or a bigger house, or a swankier mode of transport. Ephemeral trophies snatched whilst we all career over the edge into the abyss.
I think we all passed the point of no return some time ago. It's now just a case of seeing how long it takes until we see end coming.
Everything this fool touched when in government has turned to ratshit. He is a one man fubar. Education, Housing, Transport, Health, Brexit. Wherever he has meddled, he has left a trail of disaster.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3w agoLeft: Michael Gove on BBC News, "Some of the PPE we ordered was deficient, that's because we were maintaining high standards" Right: Nurses wearing bin bags for PPE
I am horrified by the brutal killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE earlier this week. Mr. Araujo had no convictions and had been living here for decades, working toward the American Dream. ICE has provided ZERO evidence and has lied to us again and again. We need answers.
Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston
The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the...
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Tech Bros and Cambridge: Thiel and Orr have used Cambridge University as a recruitment ground to bring students into a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
As @countbinface.bsky.social appears to be a bit too busy to be posting himself perhaps someone else should share this (UK citizens on the electoral register only gang) ko-fi.com/countbinface
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Deeply embarrassing moment, Russia's Putin pretends to visit the Russia / Ukraine frontline. Footage filmed from a studio in or near Moscow.
Social media is a mug's game, if you think about it. Will anyone notice how many likes you got in a few years' time...
So Scientific American did an article on the hydrogen peroxide they added to the algae pool… Turns out the “expert” they got to weigh in has a bachelor in Sports Management and is named Tim. Tim has some ‘splaining to do
Ask not what Europe can do for you, but what you can do for Europe.
MAKERFIELD BY-ELECTION SPECIAL KLAXON And Aberdeen and Arbroath. Just uploaded. BOOM
We need to educate those that are thinking about voting for the fraudulent liars & thieving millionaires in the Reform party. Repost please.
There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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