New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...

Bonnie Tyler would have loved this

lod riddle

[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.

God. I LOVE Hattie Jacques.

archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3w ago

Max Bygraves at the Royalty (3rd August 1972). Hattie Jacques joins Max for a spot of banter.

Ah bless #Outspan and the wonderful eve we spent watching #Once

Literally

I might have to go to bed just to ensure everyone else gets to see a goal

Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dickon-edw...

We are having homemade Mexican grub tonight and I feel sure that over in Tijuana, they will be eating roast beef and yorkies with a ton of gravy

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2mo ago

Given the way the Brits do Mexican food, this is a kindness to their customers.

Oh look New book

Elliott & Thompson@eandtbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are thrilled to be publishing @levparikian.bsky.social's upcoming book #Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration! Publishing April 2027. Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... #Nature #Migration #BirdMigration #AnimalMigration #NonFiction #Birdwatcher

Nasushiobara's rice paddy art returns for its sixteenth year, with two fields planted in eight varieties of coloured rice. One site portrays comedy duos "Uji Koji" and "Kaminari" with Mount Fuji; the other depicts Chika Ozeki and Rie Utagokoro.

Do me a favor and sign this. Its not that close to my house anymore, but very close to my heart.

Daniel Owen@danieljowen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't normally do online petitions, but they're proposing to build a massive AI data centre very close to my house so signing this was the least I could do. It's also the least you can do. Thank you. c.org/VSxdrNPVyc

Looks like our overgrooming dickhead of a cat, Joanie, was a bit hot this morning. Like being in the breeze with no pants on.

Going to stick my neck out here and suggest that murdering animals is not, in fact, an art.

Most magnificentest signage. Never change, Penge

Look what someone did on the shop typewriter

Wet dad city in the shop today. They are all a bit damp too.

Anyone in today wearing an Arsenal shirt gets an extra special stamp on their paper bag

Eaglessss! For my old pal @booksellercrow.bsky.social whom I miss daily.

UTTERLY APPALLING! How can Thomas Touché leave these players out of his squad: Jerry Maguire Cole Porter Emerson Lake & Palmer Terence Trent Darby (County) Sandie Shaw? Yet he takes The Rolling Stones Tim Rice and Tony Toney? Disgusting! I blame Rachel Reeves.😡 #SortItOutStarmer

Why can I think of nothing but this absolutely classic sketch from Hale and Pace ?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6201au1NE

Yorkshire Airlines

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HELLO sorry didn’t mean to shout Anyway, this coming Thursday I’m having a chat with Melissa Harrison about her ridiculously good new book, The Given World. It’s at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace and you also get a drink. Do come, and do tell people. www.outsavvy.com/event/34573/...

Who says education is wasted on millennials… Now THIS is what I call wfh

So happy for them. And I was that worried

CNBC@cnbc.com · 4mo ago

Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth

Chuffed to bits to be the guest on Helen Zaltzman’s amazing @allusionistshow.bsky.social talking about suburbia www.theallusionist.org/suburbia

Allusionist 226. Suburbia — The Allusionist

"The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all expe...

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¿Recuerdas a Clippy, la mascota de Microsoft Word? Así está ahora.

Omg the students nextdoor are having a full on ding dong about boxing and one of them is yelling Conor McGregor is the greatest and I’m thinking I may have to ring the bell and swing a punch

i kinda wanna get this to 1000 quote posts just for fun. so close!!

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Name your fav Futurama quote.