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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 19h

Had my COVID jab yesterday. Pleased that it was for LP.8.1, the variant that was popular in the spring. Had got the impression that it might be targeting KP.2, an older variant.

Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 19h

We'd have to think long and hard about what those conditions are, but I think they should be allowed to do more if for any given output they tell the user the training data that best matches it.

Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 19h

Call me a centrist, but I think there is a sensible middle road here. Legal clarity that scraping the internet to train models is acceptable IF certain conditions are met.

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.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 1d

A *partial* refund?

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not on Instagram, but I do follow them on Facebook, presumably the same content?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine

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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 1d

I'm increasingly convinced this is a huge driver of dissatisfaction with govt

Council tax is one of the most visible taxes that people pay, it goes directly out of their bank account and they get a letter about it going up every year

Yet bin collection frequency falls and libraries close

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 1d

I think these are different kinds of problem. It is totally believable that the optics required by a self-driving car could get enormously cheaper. Jet packs or flying cars becoming safe is much less believable.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 7d

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond

The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women

www.standard.co.uk

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2d

If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum

Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

This is a party with virtually the same number of MPs as Reform (4 v. 5).

The way the BBC is treating Reform, compared to the Lib Dems and the Greens, is a dereliction of their duty as a public broadcaster.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Another tragic accident.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 2d

Any idea what is in that vanity space at the top of a sky scraper?
Obviously, some of the height is spire or antenna, but several of those towers look like some of it is actual building.
Is it a really tall atrium?

Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 2d

In Manchester?

Am I right in thinking there hasn't been a kidical mass in Manchester this year? I've been keeping my eyes peeled.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 3d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 3d

I am always suspicious of the phrase "digital twin".

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 3d

Coefficient of thermal expansion.

Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 3d

When you are looking for synonyms, but don't think hard enough about the difference.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

UX so bad that it's illegal

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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