@melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social
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“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
www.noemamag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
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Morning all.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Morning all.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
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In this painting from the 1920s, Douglas Percy Bliss has used beautifully sequenced low tones to create a feeling of unease. The picture depicts Over Palce which was situated under the railway off Newport Street in Vauxhall. It was destroyed in the Blitz during WW2.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
In this painting from the 1920s, Douglas Percy Bliss has used beautifully sequenced low tones to create a feeling of unease. The picture depicts Over Palce which was situated under the railway off Newport Street in Vauxhall. It was destroyed in the Blitz during WW2.
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This is tasteless, as well as being quite debatably bad economics. The "mild zombie apocalypse hahaha" is thousands of families losing their source of income. And there is no mechanism by which they will be immaculately replaced by "more productive firms".
🚨 The Resolution Foundation New Year Outlook has just been published 👇
🧟 Early and encouraging signs of a mild zombie apocalypse, alongside the prospect of deaths outnumbering births from here on out ⤵️ buff.ly/wXo84d2
🧟 Early and encouraging signs of a mild zombie apocalypse, alongside the prospect of deaths outnumbering births from here on out ⤵️ buff.ly/wXo84d2
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This is tasteless, as well as being quite debatably bad economics. The "mild zombie apocalypse hahaha" is thousands of families losing their source of income. And there is no mechanism by which they will be immaculately replaced by "more productive firms".
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Robert Abele ~ Stick of Gold, 2025
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Robert Abele ~ Stick of Gold, 2025
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Milton Avery
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
February 17, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Milton Avery
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
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Jack Chambers :
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jack Chambers :
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Now loss, however cruel, is powerless against possession, which it completes, or even, affirms: loss is, in fact, nothing else than a second acquisition—but now completely interiorized—and just as intense.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
~Rainer Maria Rilke
![[Blue Bird by Sergey Solomko]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:radq5ea3mto23ckpk7qe4j4v/bafkreia5vfepyvmant3rvoqaljeolceapftdqfnrp2a4zxzp6egxmiktau@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Now loss, however cruel, is powerless against possession, which it completes, or even, affirms: loss is, in fact, nothing else than a second acquisition—but now completely interiorized—and just as intense.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...
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I feel so sorry for the WI over this; it’s clear statement that they’ve been forced into this.
I am looking forward to joining one of their sisterhood groups for cis women and trans women. I wonder how many of their members will end up choosing likewise.
I am looking forward to joining one of their sisterhood groups for cis women and trans women. I wonder how many of their members will end up choosing likewise.
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I feel so sorry for the WI over this; it’s clear statement that they’ve been forced into this.
I am looking forward to joining one of their sisterhood groups for cis women and trans women. I wonder how many of their members will end up choosing likewise.
I am looking forward to joining one of their sisterhood groups for cis women and trans women. I wonder how many of their members will end up choosing likewise.
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'Fall of the Leaves, Kensington Gardens,' (1900) is an exquisitely painted work by Paul Maitland. From the 1890s, he had been painting the London parks describing an ordinary world, places, and people he knew.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
'Fall of the Leaves, Kensington Gardens,' (1900) is an exquisitely painted work by Paul Maitland. From the 1890s, he had been painting the London parks describing an ordinary world, places, and people he knew.
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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven & Hell
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven & Hell
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven & Hell
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven & Hell
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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this is what I wrote this book for. so on a cultural level we can try to get through it as quickly and with as little harm as possible. and on an individual level: don't listen to the AI or Reddit when they tell you to cut off your OK-but-sometimes-annoying family/
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
this is what I wrote this book for. so on a cultural level we can try to get through it as quickly and with as little harm as possible. and on an individual level: don't listen to the AI or Reddit when they tell you to cut off your OK-but-sometimes-annoying family/
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
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every cloud
dances your wings
dances your wings
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
every cloud
dances your wings
dances your wings
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
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love and do not fear and all will be given. the fierceness of our love is its divinity. the sharing of this love is a blessing for the wee green things, which tremble when touched with light, and grow. this world is a treasure.
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
love and do not fear and all will be given. the fierceness of our love is its divinity. the sharing of this love is a blessing for the wee green things, which tremble when touched with light, and grow. this world is a treasure.
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I don’t do the philosophy of migration in a consequentialist register, but it maddens me when those who do bang on about the potential harms of “open borders” while seemingly oblivious to the harms of closing them: deaths, massive enforcement costs, intrusive surveillance, thwarted opportunities
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don’t do the philosophy of migration in a consequentialist register, but it maddens me when those who do bang on about the potential harms of “open borders” while seemingly oblivious to the harms of closing them: deaths, massive enforcement costs, intrusive surveillance, thwarted opportunities