‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug
‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug
The beady-eyed, Pokémon-like leaf sheep is far more ingenious than us land mammals
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I haven't seen my teeth for years. I'm scared to look at them in the mirror.
The Gwen Pepperoni debacle is peak BlueSky. Delusional accusation? Check. Hyperbolic response? Check. Uncontrollable accusatory spinout? Check. It's 2020 forever here baby, it's like Pleasantville except instead of the 50's we're stuck living in the cultural climate that surrounded the Imagine video
Although painted in oils, Berthe Morisot's 'Hanging the Laundry out to Dry,' (1878) shows characteristics of her earlier watercolours with which she was able to create a translucent atmosphere and feathery touch, which contribute to the freshness in her paintings.
John H. White's stunning photographs of Black Chicago, taken as part of the DOCUAMERICA project which sought to produce a visual record of 1970s US: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica
I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Economists are a blight on the world. Don’t even get me started on Higher Ed.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
Wednesday morning greetings! xo *** ‘The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it is the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.’ Ernst Bloch
Sir Roger Moore’s “Well” Wednesday: Stacey's box needs turning on and James is happy to oblige. A VIEW TO A KILL (1985)
In fact, let's set the DeLorean back to 1997, when angst about high school reunions was our biggest worry. Grosse Pointe Blank is the kind of sunny comedy in which John Cusack can kill 12 people, make up with Minnie Driver and still walk into the sunset. 4 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/05/g...
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I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...
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Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
From Obsession to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new wave of movies are ditching minimalism for retro settings
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I'm no finance guy, but it's increasingly clear that AI is not a bubble, but something far worse: the permanent detachment of the stock market from the average person's daily life and its transition from an important social barometer to a mocking representation of wealth concentration
My near-term prediction is this will be met with soft resistance (and not always principled, or at least as much motivated by unwillingness to pay and sheer indifference) initially from British civil society, and the next round fight is a bunch of lawsuits from GCs to try and force compliance.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
As an illustrator, I set myself a rule that I would not interact with any business or service that uses AI art. This is becoming increasingly difficult and even my daughter's school are using it for posters now. We truly live in hell
Gorbachev wading through a field during a visit to Kazakhstan, 1991. Photo: Boris Babanov
OMG, just chatting to this new lady at work. She’s got to be 60, and she’s really nice, she actually quoted Joe Orton, really like her — but anyway was saying that she’s got to go to her step-daughter’s wedding in Bora Bora which is this Ballardian complex meets Love Island meets The Truman Show…
I was 9 in 1986, but I remember the western world overall being an order of magnitude less dystopian even if one could isolate specific things of today that are better.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
When the US appears to be on the slide towards tyranny, how should screenwriters handle projecting possible near futures? Thoughts on Peter Watkins' effort to do this under Nixon, and on two bids to do similar in the age of Trump: Civil War and Succession. www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
The return of the 1971 film that saw Trump coming
Punishment Park, the brutal mock-doc by Brit Peter Watkins that anticipated our age of rage and recrimination
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Soft natalism: the gap between children desired and children had is a policy issue Mid natalism: in a more pro-natal environment, people would want more children Hard natalism: a series of crimes against humanity
Steven Seagal hitting impossible levels of Alan Partridge with this choice of thumbnail.
