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That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao

a quote tweet from last year of Film Updates confirming that ted lasso is returning for s4. my quote tweet: ted lasso season 1 premiered in the first year of covid. we are not prepared for whatever this news is heralding

ohhh it was WW3

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.

child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Alex: Yes, but the task...

Odysseus: The task clearly said that nobody could help me.

Greg: That's one in the eye for you, Alex

Alex: Another one.

What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

san.com/cc/what-your...

This is so bleak.

The desire for the One Tool That Will Fix Me™️ is so strong when you've spent years burning through tools everyone else swears by.

Two (Egyptian?) geese with four tiny goslings.

First babies of the season spotted. University of Nottingham main campus.

Every time the sun comes out, I sit in it and smile and then I think of this @morganj0nes.bsky.social tweet. It's a big leaf day.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

Jigsaw lino print of a winter snowy scene. Deer behind a fence. By Jane Cowley.

Lino print of a Panda in black and white. By Elaine Lee.

Good to get to Beeston Library earlier for their Print exhibition. Last few days.

For those who are minded to do so, there's now a petition to sign too...

#DirtyBusiness

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

The whole point of people getting trains is flexibility. This will create huge problems for business travel. I bet some companies will try to push the cancel fee onto staff if they're ill on the day.

Plus £40 million sounds big but overall ticket revenues are £12 billion, so it's 0.33% of costs.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Maybe let's not give too much moral credit to Anthropic for their unwillingness to turn their unlimited theft and ecological disaster machine into an unlimited surveillance and remote murder machine.

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

I am so tired of fragile little men starting wars. I am so tired of fragile little men making policy decisions that harm us all. I am so tired of fragile little men doing horrendous harm to children and expecting us all to forget about it. I am so tired of fragile little men with their tantrums.

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest, was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes, a senior Israeli official told Reuters on Saturday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says reut.rs/4rLPrBs

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive