Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow
@salutethepig.berlin
Porcine things. Bring about an anarcho-syndicalist world. Move slow & make tasty things; with hob & knife & bubbling ferments. Missing Kent seas. CO₂ 314.8ppm. Sober since 1st Sep '24 “We are all Palestine Action". Help Gaza https://www.map.org.uk
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." 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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I love this man’s words. But for “stochastic parrots”, alone, he shall truly enter the kingdom…
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 13h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
"This is for the people who understand that a vacation is the least interesting version of travel. The ones who want to feel a place rather than chase a trend. The global citizens who already know, somewhere in themselves, that home is not a fixed coordinate." Riiiight. We only charge $1K a day...
@taras-grescoe.com loved the night-sleeper map in this piece www.highspeed.blog/r/2227e61b?m...
Back-on-Track
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Today I learnt that there's a tomato varietal called a Huntingdon Black. There's also the Huntingdon (Fitchett) Pie. But did you know there was once a breed of pig locally, called the Huntingdon Black Hog? Have a read here and be amazed... salutethepig.com/the-black-he...
Technically this was the music director, and as a former 26-year-old theatre music director, I get it
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
This is a lovely bit of writing on food, anxiety, marriage, the 'vagaries' of the US immigration system and love and joy. Oh and trying to get a Green Card*. via the @gourmetlives.bsky.social team. gourmetmagazine.net/72-hours-ciu... *(SPOILER alert: they made it, but read the piece already!)
Street Eating in Juárez
And some big news about this magazine…
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Why am I not surprised to hear that Anglian Water's internal monitoring system proves conclusively that the 12hr+ outage actually only lasted 11.5 hrs. Any other details (taps not working, their own engineers updates etc) are simply wrong. Expropriate them. Or burn them all down & start anew.
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
"Stop all outdoor activities". Unless you can't. So, you might die. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
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I should have mentioned that I get 500 Waso points if you sign up (which I believe is a fiver in our money) using that code, but I'd honestly recommend them, their quality and service even if you don't use it! :)
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I realise we don't syrup-shame around here but that one, bottom row, far left? Maaaate.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother example of Reform UK having zero control… Reform reject calls to sack cabinet member over ‘offensive social media posts’
Please sign this if you can. UK supermarkets throw away tons of perfectly edible, in date food and drink every day, they should be donating this to the needy. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... This insta account reveals the waste daily www.instagram.com/food_waste_i...
Petition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donation
Everyday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong, and that food that is safe to eat should not end up in bins...
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Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.
What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
This writer, reliably, makes me laugh. And also think differently about a subject, when reading her writing. That combination is one that I find in many of the people I follow here. salon-thebite.beehiiv.com/p/i-was-a-fa... @ashliedstevens.bsky.social on @beehiiv.com so what's not to like?
I was a farmers market failure
I knew how to want everything at the farmers market. I just didn’t know how to shop there
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s vile national security minister, arguing — having previously defended the fine and ancient cultural practice of arson — that spitting on Christians is just an old Jewish custom. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
I had no idea Quag's was still going; I ate there a few times in the mid-90s but had kind of assumed that it'd died a(nother) death. But now I need someone to cook me a proper Steak Diane, table-side.. quaglinos-restaurant.co.uk
Quaglino’s | Iconic Restaurant & Bar in St James’s
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I'm posting this (a) because it's by the great team at @weareravenous.com and deserves your attention* and (b) so I can post a picture of my almost identical robot model. www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance... *(can I pitch now, please?)
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The reservoir shown in this article is not far across a few fields, acorss from where we live. It is as low as it appears there... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
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Stop promising us the good stuff, dude. I mean that’s our dream, right?
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...