The slow creeping dread of realizing a blog post was written by an LLM
new blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...
Announcing: Tools for Creativity at the School For Poetic Computation
I'm running a class for the School of Poetic Computation! It's about making creative tools. Nick Murray is going to be my assistant teacher. Applications are open til Monday 10th August! Let me expl...
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Do you ever wonder where your blueberries come from? Another banger by @zisiga.bsky.social: projects.propublica.org/blueberries-...
Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?
Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?
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makes you think, maybe bigfoot just had a congenital spine condition
“As part of this work, the British Library’s Universal Viewer team has also applied IIIF-based functionality to enable users to switch between the visible light, ultraviolet and infrared images of a single folio in the same canvas.” www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life
New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.
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“ask yourself constantly, am i winning?” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/palantir-chore-coat/687686/
how are we feeling about Widow’s Bay? I’m two eps in and not sold yet but I could be convinced
So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.
Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though
Finally went to the new Tokyo Central in Emeryville and something amazing happened
“EPA played no role in the determinations set out in the statute and specifically vested in the President. Any requests sent to the EPA’s electronic mailbox were forwarded to the White House.” https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails
These weapons are toxic, especially to children, who breathe more rapidly, pulling in more contaminated air than adults relative to their body weight. --> my latest, with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo agoNEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.
Today we are launching a new podcast! As a certified cynic, the line “investigative journalism is an act of optimism” got me.
Jessica Lussenhop@jlussenhop.bsky.social · 3mo ago👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵
Very cool to see SND award @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org's collab on grazing in the West a Bronze Medal. "The judges praised the cohesive, minimalist design, highlighting the elevated use of typography, illustration, and photo-stitching..." tinyurl.com/8tsjhfxp
Nagel is fine, but I will just say, with no trace of exaggeration, that if something tries to cite Mark Fisher at me, I’m shooting it with a gun
Very funny that you can get a Pokemon to start working in Pokopia by staring at them
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
