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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 1h

We saw you from across The Old Vic and we liked your vibe.

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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 1h

Beyond the many moral and ethical objections I raised about using AI to grade, here's a concrete one: AI grading will never be secure because of prompt injection. Simply hiding a phrase within an assignment is all it takes to bypass even the most advanced AI models.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 1d

Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 1h

The inspiration for Barton Fink perhaps?

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 21h

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 21h

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

If you remember the Iraq war, you will remember The Surge: massing troops into key cities to establish control.

Trump is describing American cities as if they are Baghdad in 2007.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Clara @claracloud.bsky.social · 23h

Todd Hido #photography

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 1d

No representation without taxation.

Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 20h

Turns out it was a middle aged white man. Awks.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Jenrick would make a pact with fascist thug Yaxley-Lennon if it got him into power. He’s a moral abyss. And the harm he does by pushing our political debate further and further to the ugliest, darkest corner of the far right is forever unforgivable.

However, if the polls do tighten and the chances of an outright Reform victory recede, then it is very possible that we could see some form of new alliance between a
Jenrick-led Conservatives and a Reform-led Farage. After all, if Jenrick is willing to get into bed with the likes of Elon Musk and
"Inevitable West" then a coalition with Farage is not going to trouble him too badly.
However, even if Jenrick does fade into obscurity, his current rise is still a highly alarming moment in our politics.
After decades in which the mainstream right of British politics has sought to maintain a cordon sanitaire between themselves and the far-right, that barrier now appears to have been irretrievably broken.
The result is that formerly moderate politicians like Jenrick, whose nickname in the party used to be "Robert Generic" due to his middle-of-the-road views, now sees a lurch to the far-right as being the only viable way for him to gain power.
Indeed far from being a disqualifier for high office, it now appears that sharing the extreme views and associations of the far-
right has become an actual requirement for advancement on the right of British politics.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 1d

Dig through the rubbish of seaside junk pits and pinball arcades, Seabrook suggests, read the shilling-shockers, and the pattern will reveal itself. English fascism hidden in the pages of John Buchan. A schoolteacher living in retirement who remembers William Joyce as a benevolent father.

Iain Sinclair reviews David Seabrook's All the Devils are Here

Backlisted has devoted a second podcast to David Seabrook's book on Kent, All the Devils Are Here . Iain Sinclair wrote about it for the Lo...

liberalengland.blogspot.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 22h

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 21h

The West Side Story creative team: composer Leonard Bernstein, playwright Arthur Laurents, choreographer Jerome Robbins, costume designer Irene Sharaff, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, producer Robert Griffith & production assistant Sylvia Drulie
📷 Martha Swope, 1957
NYPL digital collection

The group poses for a shot, all gathered around Robbins and his plan for a dance scene.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 21h

A photomat portrait of Diane Keaton holding an SLR

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu, but the Israelis gathered are constantly and consistently booing him

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine using Meta’s AI in educational contexts or having it integrated into edtech products. When it’s overseen by MAGA representatives like this, imagine asking it what Antifa means, if there is a relationship is between race and IQ or what is causing climate change.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 21h

RIP Diane Keaton, I know The Godfather is easy to dismiss as For the Boys but it doesn’t work without an actress who can wordlessly sell this moment

Kay Corleone having the door closed on her at the end of The Godfather

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 21h

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins on the set of West Side Story (1961)

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 21h

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 21h

Remembering Jerome Robbins on his birthday 🎂
📷 Arnold Newman, 1958

"He weeded out artifice and mannerism where he could. The naturalness he elicited was a particularly American style that then enriched the world of dance."
- Alastair Macaulay

Robbins sits on a stool in his 67th Street studio.

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