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

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · May 26

Oh fuck off.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 9h

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Wednesday 8 October 2025
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The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Wednesday 8 October 2025

North Bridge fire, Gaza protest, new school planned, a year of roadworks in South Queensferry + popular shanty night rolls on

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

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

If they can get this to work in people, it’s huge.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 13h

🧠 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 🧪

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

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 9h

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Wednesday 08 October 2025
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Wednesday 08 October 2025

Flotilla activist rushed to hospital, Homeless Project Scotland update, George Square statue restoration first look, holiday train disruption, Douglas Street flat plans and more...

The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 7 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 1d

The London Minute ⏰ Tuesday 7 October 2025
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Students plan 2pm walkout for genocide protest, phone-snatching gang busted, new Tube station entrance opens + inside Gilles Peterson's Finsbury Park townhouse

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Tuesday 7 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 1d

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Tuesday 7 October 2025
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Tram-Trains meeting, weight-loss jabs stolen from chemist, new Fringe website (in 2027) + new Nobles owner revealed

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Tuesday 7 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 1d

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Tuesday 7 October 2025
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Council "culture of secrecy" says whistleblower, late university student's death to be probed, man accused of Graham Wright murder, mould reports rise 500% + Scotties in the City

The London Minute ⏰ Monday 6 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 2d

The London Minute ⏰ Monday 6 October 2025
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Nearly 500 more protesters arrested, Castle Square evictions, Richmond allotments could become graveyard + 'Soho House for dogs'

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Monday 6 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 2d

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Monday 6 October 2025
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Tour de France cost doubles, appeal to save Southside community group, 'farewell' Nobels bar, pets parade for Greyfriars Bobby + look inside Botanics' restored Palm Houses

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 6 October 2025

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The Oikofuge @oikofuge.bsky.social · 3d

Just happened on a marvellous turn of phrase in Ken MacLeod's (@amendlocke.bsky.social) short story "The Vorkuta Event".

The once-adventurous and vigorous paleontologist, now an aged emeritus professor, is "more Quatermass than Quatermain". 💯
I'll cherish that!

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 2d

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 6 October 2025
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Great Scottish Run, row erupts between council chief and charity, building collapses amid Storm Amy, bus driver hospitalised after crash, new city cleaning campaign + the first hospital gamer

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Weekend edition: 3 - 5 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 5d

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Weekend edition: 3 - 5 October 2025
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Waverley protest, festival fears, new shops for St Stephen Street + is the 'Water Lantern Festival' in Inverleith Park actually happening?

The London Minute ⏰ Friday 3 October 2025

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 5d

did you seeeeeee? :D

CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Aaaaaaah! It's live! Well, the preorders are live! 😃

The re-release of HEART OF STONE, first in my Old Races universe series, is nigh! New cover art! New print editions along with the e-books! New new new! Shiny shiny shiny! So excite!

Preorder at Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZMH/?tag=mizkit-20

The lovely new cover for CE Murphy's HEART OF STONE is in rich greens and yellows, featuring a stained glass window with gargoyles settled at the bottom. Cover art & design by Fakel Barros Studio.

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 5d

The London Minute ⏰ Friday 3 October 2025
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Museum demolition plan, 1,500 protesters pledge to risk arrest, new Piccadilly line trains update, Richmond Park deer warning, Peckham conker champs + last dance at Soho’s G-A-Y bar

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 03 - 05 October 2025

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5d

Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 5d

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 03 - 05 October 2025
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Emergency flotilla protest, Great Scottish Run events cancelled, Commonwealth Games pre-sale tickets, family to collect late student's degree, archaeological dig discovery update + The Weekend Guide

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 2 October 2025

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 7d

Open AI is proud to announce that it has finally brought into being the foreboding information environment that will doom us all, from Carl Sagan's classic work - The Deamon Haunted World 🤗🤗🤗

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 6d

Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October.
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Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws.

Cover copy reads: THE GREEN MAN’S WAR

For a few years now, the Green Man has sent Daniel Mackmain to resolve clashes between ordinary people and the supernatural world. Dan has found allies among folk from myth and met other humans who can see the uncanny.

He has also made dangerous enemies. Someone has decided to put a stop to this interference once and for all.
Dan and his friends are about to find themselves in the firing line.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 6d

Charles Darwin returned from his voyage on the Beagle #OnThisDay in AD 1836. His experiences on this trip influenced a book he wrote 23 years later. It was kind of a big deal.

📷 Falmouth Art Gallery / Newquay Zoo Darwin 200 partnership / CC BY-SA 4.0

🏺 #Archaeology

Granite plaque with black writing that reads 'Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, arrived at Falmouth aboard the Beagle on 2nd October 1836 and departed on the Royal Mail coach from this site'.

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 6d

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 2 October 2025
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Tractor driver killed in M8 crash, yellow weather warning for Storm Amy, Penilee Nursery may not be relocated, man hospitalised after pub machete attack + archaeological dig found by workers

The London Minute ⏰ Thursday 2 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 6d

The London Minute ⏰ Thursday 2 October 2025
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Exposé at Charing Cross police station, Smithfield and Billingsgate markets update, new DLR trains begin, Selfridges slump + a look inside 'London’s most eccentric home'

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Thursday 2 October 2025

Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 6d

The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Thursday 2 October 2025
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Elsie Inglis statue approved, Bruntsfield cafe controversy, Leonardo loo legal case + Leith Collective’s winter coat exchange opens