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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 4h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 3h

A lawyer who can’t extemporise. Amazing.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 9h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h

Surely not the miracle technology that’s going to rescue us, and Britain in particular

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

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

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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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 9h

if AI biz was started by $5 trillion stolen in armed robbery from a bank it wouldnt be allowed to continue on. but since it was made by robbing artists of $5t worth of value, its fine.

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 5h

This reminds me - on a much smaller scale, but still chilling - of that photo of a smiling, happy Priti Patel joining in an immigration raid. There is something truly repulsive in being entertained by others’ suffering, through state enforcement.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 4h

I absolutely “care if what I’m looking at is AI.” It is insulting, repulsive, and – as belaboured here of late – inherently fascist. I block it on sight. There are things I’m inclined to watch that I’ve deliberately avoided because I know this shit is in there, even if only for a moment.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 5h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 4h

That’s tremendous, Michael.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 4h

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 11h

I have a degree in English. I used it to get a job where I work on writing for worldwide brand. But, more importantly, it gave me the opportunity to study and examine our country's literature. You know, the sort of thing that makes life worth living.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

Kemi Badneoch ends her speech by saying she stands for a country "where people are judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin"

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15h

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 14h

Newsom is the absolutely pits, and hence anyone devoted to him – Kamala Harris for example – can be readily dismissed and in turn anyone still following her dwindling, inadequate wagon train is sadly deluded at best. This shit is not the alternative to Trumpism.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14h

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 14h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 15h

This is a country where 999 operators take calls about KFC running out of chicken. I can well imagine what the average complaint to the BBC reads like.

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 17h

The vast majority of audience complaints are not upheld by the BBC or by Ofcom.

Bob Vylan Glastonbury complaints upheld: here’s what viewers complain to Ofcom and the BBC about most

The vast majority of audience complaints are not upheld by the BBC or by Ofcom.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 17h

It’s Banned Books Week. This documentary is terrifying and you should watch it. It’s about the far right targeting librarians (including with violence). I know teachers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who have been targeted. The homegrown fascists use this playbook #TheLibrarians www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Missed this.
My wee contribution to the “Qui est Kier?” exhibit curated by Olivier Auvray and shown at the Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, Saint-Just-le-Martel (just closed).
Thanks, Graeme!

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Relentless(ly dull shitehawks).

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

UK prosecutors to appeal against decision to throw out terror case against Kneecap rapper

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (27) was accused of displaying a Hizbullah flag at a 2024 London gig

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

"Confidently incorrect - AI is so bad at this"

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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Ah, “Hallowe’en is Celtic, not American, bonfirey mischief nights were celebrated on these islands long before Christendom, stfu” season upon us again I see.

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ALT: a green circle with two arrows pointing opposite directions

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Again, generative AI *is* fascism.
Let’s use our “partiserrecio eno chambers” to call it out wherever we see it.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Reform UK’s Councillor Dave Poole has put out this bizarre graphic littered with spelling errors.

Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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