“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.”
Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to
@faisalislam.bsky.social about AI and its impact on creativity.
#Newsnight
How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...
Appalled that nobody stopped me putting this into the so-called "paper of record" (from my piece on my personal manosphere) www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Can’t we have ANYTHING nice?
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
I miss the measured, nuanced social commentary of Robocop.
Either they didn’t think about the effect of the invasion on oil and gas prices or they did and didn’t care. I wrote a paper once distinguishing malice, recklessness, negligence, and incompetence. Sometimes you get them all at once.
Scary deep dive into how dangerously out of his depth killing-for-Christ Hegseth is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc
yes yes treason etc but also can we talk about "they'll tell me things my own country won't tell me"
my man, that's called "getting played". you got played
It’s a good cover, in fairness!
If the government dropped a bomb that took my kid from me, I wouldn’t be thinking about politics or strategy. I’d be thinking about who did it, and how far I’d have to go to make them feel what I felt. People act surprised when the world gets more dangerous, but this is exactly how it happens.
The likes of Amazon, in particular, are useless at replacing covers when they are updated. The publisher has to manually go in the force an update. Usually works, after about 5 days. For a technology company, their back-end software leaves quite a bit to be desired.
Ireland will remember what International Law is on or after 18th March.
Operation Ajax: In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected PM, Mohammad Mossadegh. His real offense was daring to take control of Iran’s oil so the wealth would benefit the Iranian people instead of foreign corporations. The Shah was installed as a Western backed dictator who ruled for decades.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
We are at Dr Strangelove levels of parodic reality. Republican congressfolk doing their best to avoid the word "war" while Hegseth and Trump run around saying "You know what I love? This WAR we're having that we started and is definitely a WAR!"
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.
The gold standard of leadership.
A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other
It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3
I remember the lead up to the 2nd Gulf war very well indeed.
All the WMD stuff and the "if we don't stop them now they'll nuke us" lies.
It was absolute bollocks and obviously so, and this repeat version of it being pushed by pro Trump pro war factions is dangerous, fanciful nonsense.
Just another massive impact of climate change that most of us can’t see.
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
We are committed to peace and a stable region.
This is why we have launched Operation Infernal Apocalyptic Fire that Drives Ye to Abandon All Hope and Pray for the Mercy of Swift Death as Our Legions of Righteous Annihalation Burn your Very Memory to Ash in Divinely Sanctioned Flame.
If you want to make ghoulish bets on mass death with your pals in the group chat, off you go. But nobody should be allowed to turn it into a business
