AI Companies: it's outrageous that DeepSeek has ripped off our models to produce a cheaper, inferior version Publishers: uh-huh, sure

I have the opportunity to watch a movie in full tonight, for the first time in 10 months. What should I watch?

So where did we land on Nazi-punching this time around?

The BBC sends the entire country a notification for every single murder, and every single photo the royal family put on Instagram, and I don't know why

It's usually been quite easy to see the cynical/personal motives behind whatever Musk is doing, but I really don't see it with his anti-UK stuff (of AfD stuff). What's the best explanation beyond "he's radicalised himself"?

If the average person was spending £63 a month on news the media industry would be gold-plating their third Lamborghinis

Nick Hilton@nickfthilton.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Year’s Day newsletter: the media, big and small, predicating its long term viability on the spreadflation of the subscription economy is an act of near-sighted lunacy.

12 senior outfield players older than 18 available

Tottenham Hotspur@tottenhamhotspur.com · 2y ago

Team news locked in 🔒

Do these people think the next few years are going to go well in the US

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2y ago

Conservative shadow business minister Andrew Griffith has urged Elon Musk to take another look at the Tories before donating to Reform UK, highlighting his party’s low-tax and anti-woke credentials www.ft.com/content/e0b8...

how have I ended up following a load of people who all seem to be obsessed with top of the pops. it's this a bluesky thing. I am just that far out of the zeitgeist

BlueSky has a user base with a very high proportion of people who have a history of leaving social networks that don't align with their values. That might be more of a challenge for them than I originally expected

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Yes, we briefly constructed a user-focused social media website so popular and culturally relevant we had Zuckerberg quaking in his boots, but we threw it all away to protect one weasely little bigot with a mid-tier Substack.” is that what we’re doing here, Bluesky it was going so well

This is what she should do

Anna Clarke@annaclarke.bsky.social · 2y ago

This isn't correct @thetimes.com If you built housing at average newbuild density (31 homes/hectare) across the 1,663km2 of Surrey you'd build 5.1 million homes. That's vastly more than Rayner wants to build on greenbelt.

Some people say BBC News has lost it's urgency

This summary of the Eras tour is really something

I would be fascinated to know how many non-journalists are actually even aware of the difference between the observer and the guardian (and the idea that the observer is anything other than the Sunday Guardian)

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2y ago

(probably quite a piquant view but the Guardian hadn't exactly been letting the Observer thrive over the past decade or so, so maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that a group of people who are actually excited about the paper has now bought it)

don't think anyone from politicsjoe has heard of against me! before now

post-having-a-child cultural consumption change as measured by best of lists: - Music: I have listened to most of these - TV: I have heard of most of these - Films: These are all fake and you are trying to trick me

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Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

btw the i news website - iNews - seems to be doing a Black Friday subscription sale at the moment, where you can subscribe for £2 a month for the first year (rises to £9 a month after that). that actually seems a pretty good deal

why don't people trust the media

Imagine the police investigating a stolen phone in 2024

one interesting thing about the return of links with bluesky is how many people are now using 3rd party syndication apps instead of actual news sites

The sensitivity over the possibility that BlueSky might be an echo chamber is more interesting than the idea itself

Yeah those unheard of modern artists Green Day, Missy Elliott and Kraftwerk

Senior PowerPoint Engineer@ryxcommar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025

Maybe the most interesting Bluesky vs. Threads data. Yes, Threads is almost definitely a lot bigger when you include app data (which SimilarWeb doesn't). But Bluesky is getting all the Twitter referrals, Threads is IG. Bluesky is creating a second Twitter, Threads is a new IG offshoot instead

The Sandy Hook families have committed more money to The Onion takeover of InfoWars than the literal billionaire who owns The Onion

For all the issues with voters who can't agree on the basic facts of the reality they're voting in, when the facts make this little sense, you can't really expect them to

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 2y ago

Featuring quite the most amazing moment of voter interaction I have ever witnessed. thecritic.co.uk/reap...

the success of Bluesky with an absolutely tiny team does sorta prove Musk had a point about Twitter having way too many staff

will never tire of people on this list taking it incredibly breezily: "yes I actually have revealed this BEFORE, you haven't caught me, I AM intellectually honest," as though they are the sole point of the list, and not simply representative of a cohort

Private School (and Landlord) Labeller@handle.invalid · 2y ago

In the interests of transparency I'm going to aim to also list accounts I've labeled and their schools below:

fascinating the (non-RW) people sticking with Twitter. split between people terrified they got their following illicitly somehow and can't risk the loss of status, people convinced they're fighting for the soul of twitter, and the true posters who have only ever posted for themselves anyway

tomorrow is 1,000 days since the start of the war in Ukraine. In Kyiv, there are fears for what it the sacrifice meant, with the possibility of a Trump-Putin deal on the horizon inews.co.uk/news/world/1...

'What did they die for?' How a Trump-Putin peace deal is sparking fear in Kyiv

Senior Kyiv official concedes that the President-Elect could force a harsh deal to end the war as a third of Ukrainians would now accept giving up land to Russia for peace

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working towards a future in which every team has a winning record 💪

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 2y ago

With a whopping 16 NFL teams holding losing records, plenty of franchises are paying the price for moves made in the offseason. These bad decisions are coming back to haunt teams this season. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/592...