Top of the Pops (5th August 1982). Kid Creole & The Coconuts are at number 8 with Stool Pigeon.
“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
#spacesky #Astronomy #NASA #science “I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.” ~ Neil Armstrong #BOTD
My generation raised on the Red and the Blue with their omissions didn't know it. What an album to discover.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 19h ago60
“Most people say that life is a matter of living in harmony and, of course, it isn’t. For me, it’s a matter of counterpoint. That’s the way I think.” Composer David Raksin, born 4 August 1912, and some of the films he is best known for.
Francesco Ferruccio Leiss Le Grand Canal vu d'une petite fenêtre du palais Baldi Venice, c. 1945
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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These migration campaigns have been coordinated using phone numbers registered in russia Hostile actors are exploiting migration to destabilize EU states while simultaneously boosting pro-Kremlin far-right parties that campaign heavily on anti-immigration platforms. Via @vatniksoup.bsky.social 2/2
Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton by Milton H. Greene, 1964 According to Anthony Lane, "the hell-raisers", Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Richard Harris & Oliver Reed, "had speaking tones so rich & nectared that the rest of us could get drunk on them as they poured into our ears."
Remember what fascism brings: death and destruction.
Nicholas Whithorn@nickwhithorn.bsky.social · last yr.2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1
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Strage di Bologna, il 46° anniversario. Botta e risposta a distanza Schlein-Meloni. Diretta
Da piazza Medaglie d’oro l’omaggio alle 85 vittime e agli oltre 200 feriti del 2 agosto 1980. Per il governo presente il sottosegretario Molteni. Lepore applau…
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Constantin Joffe An evening shot from the roof of the Museum of Modern Art Vogue, 1945
