James Frew
@jimjamfroo.eurosky.social
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This song is absolutely devastating. It has the kind of energy I remember from the first time I heard Korn's Daddy. It's brutal in a similar but unique way. Didn't imagine the gut-punch feeling I'd have after listening.
PISS unveil new track, “blocking a scene you can’t remember"
PISS have released “blocking a scene you can’t remember", the latest preview of their upcoming debut album, you made me / skin on linen.
thelineofbestfit.com
This is going to really complicate the Big Mac Index
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d agoMcDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs to discounted coffee for seniors.”
I don't know what's going on with Slipknot, but they released an abysmal track a couple of weeks ago and now are taking a terrible person (and mediocre musician) out on tour when they could give a leg up to a newer artist. Feels like this iteration of the band has lost the plot a bit.
Slipknot reveal world tour with Marilyn Manson as support act
The heavy metal band will be joined by the US rock musician during their London show.
bbc.co.uk
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
404media.co
Brilliant reporting by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social & @jonchristian.net on the Brown Brothers Media mess. I did the lightest amount of digging into this web before and it's a headache to link everything together. So I know it was must have been a phenomenal amount of work to get all this detail.
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
futurism.com
The whole point of these AI tools is control — of the state, of your thinking, of your money.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoBe cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.
so fucking tired of how socially acceptable it is, even encouraged, to film random people for no good reason at all other than clout and post it online. I cover surveillance all day every day and this shift sometimes scares me the most watch more/subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Sb...
Criterion Capital is a diseased company. I can't believe it gets away with treating people like this.
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 2mo agoYou’ve probably seen @peterwalker99.bsky.social’s story on the London flats where the temporary accommodation residents had their air con turned off in a heatwave; we had a look at what’s going on and who is responsible. www.londoncentric.media/p/air-condit...
It's really interesting that governments around the world are starting to realise the problem with relying on US tech for infrastructure. If anything good comes from 'AI,' hopefully it'll be that countries develop their own tech from now on. techcabal.com/2026/07/28/t...
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
“Burnham's priority should be to end the UK's dependency on a handful of US-based tech companies that have excessive influence over our lives," @openrightsgroup.org 🚨 Leading campaigners demand a new digital deal from Burnham
The people or Palantir: tech campaigners demand a new deal from Burnham
For too long, Britain has served Big Tech billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. We spoke to leading tech campaigners to set out a blueprint for Burnham.
citizensreunited.substack.com
*Even if* they think this is reasonable behaviour, could they not at least admit that they don't do a good job of _telling users_ that's what happens? It'd be so simple to say & act on.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2mo agoUpdated with a statement from Anthropic:
Absolutely blistering final line there.
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2mo agoAfter The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
This is exactly why private companies shouldn't ever provide essential services, and is why the state exists.
MICHR@monocerous.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis made me think of the Argus 2 electronic eyes for the blind that have become unsupported, causing users to fall back into blindness. spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-o...
[Ariana Grande voice] one taught me love one taught me patience one taught me the impact of post-war modernisation on the retention of agricultural wagons
"We were hacked by the Most Powerful AI ever seen... did you know we made it?" says AI company about to release a new model and with no verifiable details, just 'trust us, it really happened' vibes.
AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals
Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself
theguardian.com
Really disappointing. There are so many fantastic BSL interpreters, but instead we get pretty pathetic statements that the government has "published new five-year plans to improve the use of BSL." You don't need a five year plan to ge this sorted, just hire someone now?
Liam O’Dell (He/Him)@liamodell.com · 2mo agoDowning Street has commented on the lack of an in-person British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter for Andy Burnham's first speech as prime minister, by repeating a statement issued during Sir Keir Starmer's government.
NEW: A survey found that about 1 in 5 teens have used AI to generate sexual content, or know someone who has; often, that AI content depicted someone they personally knew. About 40% of teens said that deepfakes are changing the way they use (or don't use) the internet. futurism.com/artificial-i...
The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.
futurism.com
Just found out about xing.com — a professional networking site primarily for mainland Europe. Look at how nice it is! The UI is modern, it's not super slow and profiles actually look good. Why do we have to put up with Linkedin, its abysmal interface and AI humble brags? 🫥
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xing.com
Just moved my account to @eurosky.social — pretty easy to do, moves data to EU severs and generally supports the idea that not every platform needs to be in/from the US. Only took about 10 mintutes, migration guide here: eurosky.tech/accounts/mig...
Account migration instructions with EU-HAUL — Eurosky
Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure
eurosky.tech
I just read a story about Google Gemini Spark, based on Gemini 3.5 Flash with Google Antigravity. These are like bad, childish sci-fi names. Is it to make them seem cool? They read more like when Enron used Star Wars names for their fradulent companies like JEDI and Raptors.
Fantastic reporting and a really interesting read from Tech Cabal on how kidnappers manage to avoid detection even though they use phones for so much of what they do.
Kidnappers leave digital trails. Why are they still escaping?
Hundreds of kidnappings occur every year, and relatively few kidnappers are identified or prosecuted through telecoms evidence alone.
techcabal.com
