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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1h

Once again finding it to be true - “inspiration exists, but it has to find you working” ... be doing the thing, and you discover the new things in it.

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 2h

About 50 working days until Christmas? Yikes

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 5h

So… smartphones for teenagers are going to be *banned* in schools, but *mandatory* everywhere else. Got it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.com

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, noes.

Oh, no.

Who could have predicted this would ever happen?

We did! Everybody did!

You know how I know? Because we said this.

Everybody said this.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, feels aspirational at this point

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 20h

Its the modern day version of the white man's burden. Colonialism and empire building at its best, using the same arguments of empires of yore as Karen Hao so eloquently put it in her book, Empire of AI.

This IS the side to fight against, not the side to join in service of some larger goal.

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

English water companies will be partying hard. What a joke

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 3d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 1d

Trying not to be a doomer but the doom is pretty noticeable

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Go Scout the pom!

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

no! things are looking up...

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Even when there is no Nigel, there is a Nigel. Amazing.

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

A skim of the news, and everything looks really bad except a) the pubs thing and b) the gold thing. Otherwise: Ugh

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Buttony buttons? *faints*

Colin @htmlandbacon.com · 1d

Always great seeing the thinking around potential design changes on govuk frontend github.com/alphagov/gov...

[Experiment] Added 4px corner radius to all buttons by mia-allers-gds · Pull Request #6315 · alphagov/govuk-frontend

ImportantJust an experiment/ do not merge As part of Scope brand related design work the team has decided to explore the idea of adding rounded corners to buttons. Design considerations I've ...

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

none of that sounds good, Dan

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 1d

Which do you think this is? I'm leaning Donkey

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

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.

buff.ly

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 2d

You must stop

Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 2d

Wanted to see what quicktime player v1 from 1993 was like, so booted a virtual mac but it didn't have a movie file handy, so rendering an infini-D raytraced swimming pool animation i recreated on it.

Realising that, like i did in 1993, this is not a fast process.

Screengrab of infini-D rendering a raytraced swimming pool on a virtual Mac LC iii in a browser.

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 2d

Addicted to number go up vibes tho

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Lord Hræfn, esq. @xneardark.bsky.social · 2d

As an aside:

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 2d

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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