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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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hadn't really noticed that supermarkets pipe music in the background until yesterday, when, in tescos, many of the customers not only sang along to manfred mann's 'the mighty quinn', but started dancing too
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
they surely are.
Thoroughly depressing discussion on Kuenssberg about university funding. Plans by the opposition to introduce cuts to arts degrees arguing that they don't provide a financial return to the individual. Blatant populism. Imagine if all government spending decisions were done on that basis!
Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time.
Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Text reads: What could a city look like after capitalism?
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Review quote reads: 'Truly global and deeply humane... Oli Mould proposes a radical urbanism that draws on past, present and future visions that could reshape the world.'
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. Gravel background with blue sky. Review quote reads: 'A much needed antidote to the daily escalation of urban authoritarianism and the existential threat of planetary destruction.'
Publishing today!🏙️
In a world of environmental degradation, inequality and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital.
@olimould.bsky.social takes readers from strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and Solarpunk, revealing how communities are making a new kind of city possible.
new nationalist political parties launched by Tory MPs today:
. Recriminate
. Refridgerate
. Repel
. Remote
. Referenda
. Relapse
. Rectum
'how does a mountain form?' the toddler passing me in the street repeatedly begs of his mother
with kathy hinde and her hydrophone on exeter quay
super refreshing to hear so much thin-on-the-ground, razor-sharp sanity from @drjogrady.bsky.social on #bbcqt
Would have been good to balance this additional infrastructure money in the arts with funding for actual artistic activity.
Béla Tarr
21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026
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