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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 3d

Nagham Zbeedat in Ha’aretz

For Palestinians, the Relief of the Gaza Cease-fire Belongs to Others - Haaretz Today www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

When I texted a man from Gaza to congratulate him on the cease-fire, he replied, "Congratulations to you. You'll put your mind at peace with our news now!' His words cut through the noise - a reminder that for many Palestinians, even relief has become something that belongs to others.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 3d

I hadn‘t heard of them but they seem to be members of the British polling council and the MRS - is there any reason not to trust?

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 3d

The french subsidise bakeries, we should subsidies pubs

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 4d

If your industry can't afford to pay the people who's labour it relies on, then that's a problem for your industry - not any one else! If you're only profitable when you don't pay workers, then you're not profitable.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 4d

If you became an oil state without oil, what would you be selling?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 4d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 5d

Carbon offsetting suffers from deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve says review paper from Oxford Uni

“We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 5d

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 5d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 5d

a society in which it’s not possible to live a parallel life is not a free society

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 5d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 7d

The obvious counter point is that trump like figures have emerged in most democracies over the last decade. Either there was a freak global glut of exceptionally talented right wing leaders or something structural is picking/creating these characters!

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 7d

It also ignores loads of evidence about how leaders and the media shape the public's views. It would also be a partial account but there is probably as much of a case to make that 'racism is a top down elite project' as there is for the poverty narrative.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 9d

Even having read (and reviewed!) @melindacooper.bsky.social book, I found this hugely illuminating, especially on the confusions and fantasies of class identities that underpin reactionary populist movements podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Podcast Episode · The Dig · 30/09/2025 · 1h 54m

podcasts.apple.com

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 11d

Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.

Argentine assets hit by fresh selling amid worries over US bailout

Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan

www.ft.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 10d

It's striking how no one even defends the idea that this is a good way for societies to allocate resources anymore... and yet the system is under no threat whatsoever.

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