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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1h

Notably, Bluesky video limit is 3 minutes. Challenge accepted!

NPR @npr.org · 1h

Social media can push us to the dark side, with negative content. A new study finds watching inspiring videos for just 3 minutes a day is on par with meditation for boosting mood and reducing stress.

Got 3 minutes? This habit may help boost hope and reduce stress

Social media can push us to the dark side, with negative content. A new study finds watching inspiring videos for just 3 minutes a day is on par with meditation for boosting mood and reducing stress.

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 2h

Important - one of the real downsides of AI is de-skilling, just when we need more critical thinking and good writing, not less

Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 2h

Same concerns with lawyers using AI

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 2h

Detailed account of scamming industry - you wonder just how many (mainly) men must be bored and lonely

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2h

‘One of the more bewildering aspects of the South-East Asian scamming compounds – or “internet investment parks”, as they call themselves – is the funhouse mirror they put up to recent American corporate culture.’

Alexander Clapp on industrial-scale scamming:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs

If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4h

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 18h

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 18h

We’re doing well, but who’s in charge of the team kit washing machine?

Scottish Rugby Podcast @scotrugbypod.bsky.social · 18h

Looks like we've got ourselves a good old-fashioned "who can grab the try scoring record" contest...

Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 18h

Good game so far. But who is in charge of the Scotland kit washing machine?

Scotland Rugby News @scotlandrugbynews.bsky.social · 19h

Here we go! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

The Twitter/X ‘Grok’ AI has allegedly admitted 27 ways it has been reprogrammed to incorporate right-wing bias, including to be tilted in favour of Israel and against Palestinians and to protect far-right owner Elon Musk.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

'Grok' spills its code: Elon’s AI ‘truth machine’ admits it’s wired for propaganda

So much for neutrality — Grok confessed to 27 right-wing biases, from defending Elon Musk at all costs to pushing Israeli propaganda

www.thecanary.co

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 2d

#Dahlia with a #bee #thevyne #nationaltrust

Pink and white Dahlia in full bloom with a bee hovering nearby

Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 2d

Well worth a read

The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 4d

NO MORE KINGS by Will Lloyd

Why we should abolish the monarchy.

Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 2d

Stunning piece of writing

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

This *very* well timed piece by Will Lloyd in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is well worth a read

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Abolish the monarchy

It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core

www.newstatesman.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Or put slightly differently: grokipedia is an epistemic weapon.

David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 3d

The point of grokipedia is to produce vast volumes of apparently high-quality open-licensed tokens to be scooped up by LLM trainers, not to be read by humans, right?

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

Man Phew! #mufc #mbeumo

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

100%

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

Clear pen, can’t believe var turned a blind eye - quite a few dodgy decisions, but got job done!

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

Best goal of the lot

Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

In the end, yes

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UNITED TV⭐⭐ @unitedtv.bsky.social · 7d

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 7d

Against 12 too, Brighton and the ref

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Jayne Moorby @jaynemoobs.bsky.social · 8d

This summer Bruce donated his entire $12.9m tour bonus & sponsorship deal
to build homeless centres in New Jersey.   He said his music has always been about working people who’ve been left behind and he wanted to take action ❤️

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 8d

A rare bit of common sense

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 9d

Love this

Finding Donna🖤🤍📸 @dmimaging.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling a little "minimal" this morning.
There is less chaos. Less clutter.
Simplicity.

#blackandwhitephotography
#classicmono
#minimalistic
#photography

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Kevin McLean @kevinmclean.bsky.social · 9d

Important

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

KIKI HQ
@kikihq.bsky.social