This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

The media's really just going to bounce over the fact that at Trump's meeting today they said "we've been fighting antifa for a hundred years, since they tried to stop us in 1930s Germany" and everyone nodded along, huh

If my family life consisted of outsourcing the care of my children to an entourage of maids, nannies & other staff before shipping them off to a boarding school, I would simply stfu about ordinary families being 'disconnected'

See, we don't need AI to make us clueless in the face of manufactured falsehoods 🤦🏻‍♂️

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

I find it increasingly funny that hit pieces on @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk are essentially who would choose to vote for someone with crazy radical ideas of spreading wealth and equality for all. Why would anyone want to protect the planet. Won't you think of poor landlords!!

Israel getting control of a large part of the Gaza strip as part of a 'deal' is like the Simpsons kids saying 'stop, he's already dead'.
I imagine Ukraine are deeply concerned right now.

I feel the need to draw everyones attention to this truely cursed bit of polling

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This article takes facts which have already been posed in the most flattering way and exaggerates them to the point you'd think it was a Daily Fail piece. Astonished the Herald allowed it to be published.

archive.is/3bIUV

There's no point trying to placate or argue round the Right, the best thing is to abandon them fast and see how little talent or skill they have left to push their agenda.

Why do you think they love AI so much? Because most creatives have a conscience and won't help fascists.

“The government doesn’t value the gaming industry,” I dunno, we’re living inside their massively multiplayer alternate reality game with loot boxes built into character creation and mods coming out every week to address admin bugs flagged in crunch but never fixed, I think they value it fine.

Imagine the number of bartending and tourism vacancies this would create in Scotland...

This is bigotry taken all the way to fascist ideology.

Nasty, hateful, ignorant, and racist.

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The IDF are problematic for a number of reasons – mass murder, other war crimes – but I'm disappointed to see they are also poisoning the digital commons:

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum's 3D models in propaganda videos theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

#opendata #dataforevil

In 2015, it was obvious to me that stopping Eastern Europeans from entering the country was a cipher for deporting black & brown people that have been in the UK for generations.

I knew that because people were literally saying that out loud at the time.

This is not news, this was the next step.

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.

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

it's so funny seeing one of blueskys engineers unironically do

"Oh you hate AI, replace AI with a minority. Not so funny now is it?"

What do they have in the water over there

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.