Dr Sarah Hewitt
@s2hewitt.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow, print artist, dog co-habitation partner and computer scientist.
This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/
This is not news to anyone who has been driving for the last 10 years or more.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2d ago
What would we no longer have if fireworks were banned? Terrified pets, yet more pointless plastic released into the environment, antisocial moronic noise. Call me crazy but I reckon we can just about cope with that kind of loss, as a species.
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BUCKERS@deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 3d agoThe more I think about it, the more I believe that Odysseus is Irish. 1. Went out with his pals and didn't come home for ages 2. Wouldn't take any advice 3. Absolutely loves songs about struggles 4. His name is O'dysseus, for Christ's sake!
Spot on. The idea of 'empire' has given us nothing but flag-shagging, lazy, violent, racist nationalist-party voters.
Tomasz Oryński@orynski.eu · 3d agoI am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:
I feel I should also defend computer science, which has produced some amazing work that had undoubtedly helped humanity make so many improvements. The very thing I'm typing this on is incredibly powerful and useful. My problem is the involvement of unregulated capitalist greed.
If you have to ask that question, I don't think you understand the problem.
Lexx Stokum@lexxstokum.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat's wrong with dynamic pricing? Don't take the tollroad, I sure as hell don't!
I'm 62. Capitalism and computer science, with one or two exceptions, have combined to make everything worse and people poorer. The damage the likes of Uber, Airbnb and dynamic pricing have done is incalculable. GenAI is making it even worse.
And this is one reason why I'm a vegetarian.
Dr Stylite@columnist.bsky.social · 5d agoIt’s not been easy guys
Carl's bird photos are amazing - have a look!
Carl Bovis@carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 5d agoHi everyone. My sales have been woeful this month. 😔 Can I ask a favour please, can you visit my shop & browse. 🙏 No need to buy anything.. I'm putting this request on all my socials to see where the visits mostly come from. ❤️ Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
Which is the whole point of the exercise: to make investors money.
Isabel Rogers@isabelrogers.bsky.social · 6d agoCan't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."
Retired and I'm already having to remind myself what day of the week it is. Thought it was Friday. Turns out it's only Thursday.
Little Wren. This little beauty was really popular when we launched it, a few months ago, and sold out quickly. We’ve done another run of them and they’re now in our shop. A lovely little print at a lovely little price, only £15. #wren #bird #birdsky www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/litt...
‘Little Wren’
Small Linocut on 300gsm Botanical Ultra Smooth paper Caligo Safe Wash ink Approx 11 x 15cm (4 x 6”), unframed Open edition, signed
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The only reason for setting up a private company to manage an aspect of a service provided by an affiliated company is to extract more money for the new company owners.
For the sake of all the gods, just raise taxes, add a wealth tax for good measure (including corporations)*, and ring-fence it for social care and the NHS. Then turn your attention to tax in general and let's have a fairer spread which also closes the loopholes. *probably should be a one-off
Clearly if I'm to get things done I need to write a list and cross one thing off every day. I'm enjoying being retired, but my productivity has slowed to a crawl.
"I have no interest in reducing my impact" is the root and branch of why were seeing huge swathes of the world burning, taking all the birds, insects, mammals, fish and fungi with it. Plus pets. It's that ok just so you can carry on doing as you please? Is it so hard to give up meat occasionally?
Paul Harper@paulharper.eurosky.social · last wk.I have no interest in reducing my impact. I eat whatever I feel like eating and am more than happy for others to make that decision for themselves. Militant vegetablists are the modern day Crusaders, imposing their morality on others without so much as a please or thank you. Tedious people.
In other news, I briefly flirted with vinted. There absolutely cannot be that many new items of clothing and stuff for sale without tags. Vinted must be an unwitting* front for stolen goods. *Maybe
THE ODYSSEY By Elon Musk EMIT A RESULT, GROK, OF THE BIOHACKING ABSOLUTELY GOATED ONION-LAYERED CRYPTO DADDY HE WAS SUPER VERY GOOD RAD AT EVERYTHING, HOW HE SELF-DRIVING CYBERTRUCKED A.F. TO ITHACA AFTER BUSTING UNIONS AND DEFYING TAX LAWS IN TROY MANY NPCS HE OUTSHINED, HELLA SKILLED AT GAMING
FIFA is not about football, it's about money. The same can be said about some people involved in football including some players. The money needs taking out and giving to the exploited workers* to reduce their costs. *fans
This is a mint moth. Never seen one before. Bright home and planted a rudbeckia and it just appeared.
We MUST ban disposable BBQs, make smoking in public and in cars against the law, and consider - and I know this will be unpopular - restricting camping to licenced sites only. People simply can't be trusted and the fire risk is too great to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Just seen some photos of Ventor on the Isle of Wight. Lovely beach but it's really very quiet - tell me again why people want to go abroad on holiday?
Golden Sun. www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/sunb...
‘Sunburst’ (Colour variant). Very limited edition of 7 with gold detail
Linocut print with hand painted detail 300gsm Botanical Ultra Smooth paper Caligo Safe Wash ink, Schmincke Horadam watercolour (incl gold) Approx 25 x 25cm (Image size 18 x 18cm), unframed Limited edi...
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All this fuss about a 'technical route' in schools is nonsense. Kids get to choose from a good range of subjects which include those that are creative and/or practical already. On the whole, they get an excellent education. The problem is the same as it's always been - the availability of jobs.
