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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 9h

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 7h

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Robert Redford Knew That Winning Corrupts

His decades of work explored one theme over and over: the hollowness of the easy victory.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 1d

Carmela soprano in the “some pulp” scene: but you like small beers

Tony soprano pointing to a can of Modelo instead of a carton of orange juice: I like a few small beers

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 11h

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Spooky Ana 🤘👩🏻‍🎨 @anageorge.art · 1d

Every so often I come across this in my camera roll again and I immediately post it

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13h

screw it I'm retweeting praise

Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 13h

Really really good one this week, kids.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13h

Banged newsletter out a couple of hours early because I'm busy all afternoon and don't want to be overtaken by Events.

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 13h

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway, in case you missed it, some wondering from me about whether Kemi Badenoch has ever actually read Terry Pratchett

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Has Kemi Badenoch actually read Terry Pratchett?

She claims he’s her favourite author, but his books have a few lessons for her

www.newstatesman.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 13h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14h

you want to celebrate British culture but you also call English a 'rip off' degree. for goodness sake. nothing these people say is credible.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 14h

The difference between this and when the housing bubble burst is that afterwards, houses you could live in and use as houses actually existed.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

I just think, both at an intellectual level (it means you oppose ID cards and then announce measures that require them) and at a 'how politician should present themselves for votes', that Badenoch just viscerally and indiscriminately hates Labour is a bit of a problem.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17h

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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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 18h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 17h

A lot of people want to take pride in being British and its history, and all the privileges that come with it, without ever taking on its debts.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17h

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 17h

Jenrick reminds me of Vance. Cynically moving further to the extreme right out of opportunism and happy to fully embrace it despite any past opinions.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

I mean it fails as an understanding of the simple value and meaning of this one human life that is all any of us get on this benighted planet.

But it *also* fails as a basic analysis of where the British economy is thriving and how to support that for desperately-needed growth.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

Not to mention performing arts! The UK has some of the best talent in the world in film and TV. Not just actors but producers, lighting, ADs, makeup, costume, casting. High-end production companies come from around the world to make stuff here. Performing arts is a *massive industry for Britain*.

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