This is amazing, the bill proposes amending the New York General Business Law to require supermarkets, grocery stores, and other food retailers to reduce the total price of goods purchased through self-checkout kiosks by 10%. www.forbes.com/sites/briand...

Self-Checkout Regulations Spread As NY's A11501 Signals A New Approach

New York's self-checkout bill could force retailers to offer a discount. The outcome could reshape automation strategy as retailers already rethink self-checkout.

forbes.com

I know it’s the way things used to be but the guardian’s recent habit of doing album reviews over a week before a record comes out so I get excited but then can’t listen immediately seems a bit intentionally anachronistic

Even reddit is saying don’t try and search for the Perez Hilton incident out of curiosity so I thought I’d pass that fyi on

Great company, great lads, love them having their grubby hands in everything and giving nothing back to society via tax, let’s give them more contracts!

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

theguardian.com

Just got two fruit flies with a single clap. Might start a YouTube channel.

RAIN!!!

Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain [HD]

YouTube video by Colour Bar

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Average length of time since release for the top 20 albums this week - 301 weeks.

This feels like the setup to a horror film where a pop star does a deal with the devil so she can curse other pop stars via seemingly innocuous gifts of food but in return has to marry a podcaster

Michael Cragg@mcragg.bsky.social · 2d ago

‘Tate McRae says she has received one of Taylor Swift's sourdough loaves’

The album is possibly not going to be top 20 in its second week which is harsh. Feels like the marketing has been fumbled, it’s clearly not an outright commercial album but she seems to have pretty much jettisoned all her newer fans, this is like her pre-brat chart antics

Mint Royale@mint-royale.com · 2w ago

Got to give it to her, Charli XCX has made another brilliant album but it’s definitely a brilliant little album and pretty melancholic. Love the last track with David Cronenberg. Real sense that she’s feeling life is catching up with her on that one. Much better album than the singles hinted at.

Really liked Petal #review

Candy Flip’s ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is the definitive version

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Absolute lols to see that Infantino is losing so badly that the next thing will probably be for all the associations to vote him out completely. Another grifter bites the dust.

I would say the answer is because there is a layer of society now with so much money that they don’t even bother with due diligence or thinking about stuff because they literally can afford to bet on everything, and even if they occasionally lose big they generally win much bigger

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

My mum has just sent me this picture of Dunwich in Suffolk on fire and that’s a lot of smoke

This story about anthropic (and other ai companies) just bulk buying millions of books - including old rare, out of print books - then chopping the spines to make them easier to scan and then destroying them once they’re scanned is just so fucking bleak and depressing

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

In French but this article seems to me to be saying Kavinsky has died?

Never imagined in my teens being told that we would reach peak creativity and educational achievement, and would halt encouraging people to be further educated and instead just everyone becomes a plumber because “computers”. What are we doing?

From the Warp socials - looks like a Druqks reissue is coming. I remember being up in Sheffield and being told by someone at Warp that Aphex Twin had sent in an album of piano pieces that was rejected. A wee while later an album of piano pieces interspersed with fairly standard drill'n'bass landed.

Excellent thread

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

Bill Oddie dying has really taken the shine off all your birthday messages

Tumbleweed Rolling Through Desert Landscape

ALT: Tumbleweed Rolling Through Desert Landscape

static.klipy.com

30 years today since Wannabe hit number 1 if you want to feel old etc

Creating tv formats via random word generators now

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

BBC has announced Race Against The Tide, a competitive sandcastle building competition hosted by Iain Stirling.

I can see both sides of the debate, I am growing as a person. And I got paid twice for it, instead of not at all.

Stanley getting reflective? Loomer wondering if Ukraine is worth helping? Who’ll be next of the constantly aggrieved and charmless grifters to start setting out their “I wasn’t that bad, honest” stall, just in case it turns out they’ve bet on the wrong horse

Just been dissatisfied with disclosure day on so many levels but the murky colours and constant lens flares don’t help do they

This remains the greatest video on the internet. youtu.be/aGguPXnnw6E?...

Black history month on BT sport

YouTube video by Sultan Iqbal

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I did not realise they are remaking Possession with Margaret Qualley in the Isabelle Adjani role. I like Marge but that seems a wholly unnecessary remake, you’ll not better Isabelle so why set yourself up to fail?

Yet again, bluesky proves itself useless for music as one of the biggest artists in the world with a huge online following releases a new album and there is zero timeline bants. V poor.