Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
The url seems to be dead🪦
Icons for innovation and for circular transformation
New Post: Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
German language film poster
New Post: LF2025 What Marielle Knows curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Film poster for The Secret Agent
New Post: LFF2025: The Secret Agent curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
🎉 New preprint alert!
Delighted to share our new paper: “Creative Industries and the Circular Economy: A Reality Check Across Policy, Practice and Research.”
🔗 Read the open-access preprint at lnkd.in/eWjdTGia
A film poster
New Post: LFF2025: Ballad of a Small Player curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
London in autumn seen from a bridge over the thames
Updated Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
London in autumn seen from a bridge over the thames
New Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
A large poster for the London Film Festival
New Post: An unusual autumn curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...
"after a long slumber, signs are emerging of an entrepreneurial awakening: the number of tech start-ups in Europe more than quadrupled in the last decade to 35,000."
cf the House of Lords report on UK's need to support innovation (incl. creative industries)
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
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The poster for the 52nd Telluride Film Festival has been revealed, created by celebrated cartoonist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.
The Telluride Film Festival runs August 29 – September 1, 2025.
SINNERS fucking rules, a vampire dance epic about muscled gangster twins taking on capitalism and living corpses, where history haunts through song and dance; beware of evil Irish jigs and threats of assimilation. just a stomping, bloody dream of a big budget genre movie. loved it
" On April 5th, a 54% tariff goes into effect on a wide range of goods imported from China. For those of us who create boardgames, this is not just a policy change. It's a seismic shift. At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can't absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We've done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely. Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math. Some people ask, "Why not manufacture in the U.S.?" I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn't meaningfully exist here yet. I've gotten quotes. I've talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren't."
Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
"Bold, defiantly feral and immensely entertaining"
SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜
🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now
🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight
#SisterMidnight
Do you work in the Creative Industries? Do you supply the Creative Industries? Help the Centre for Sustainable design understand what the Circular Economy means to you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/bskysocial
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
This feels so relevant right now.
Join our webinar on the Circular Economy in the Creative Industries on 26th Feb. Read more at https://buff.ly/4aVoaVF
Perhaps it’s for the ultimate stay at home holidays?
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Prince Charles Cinema is a cultural landmark from London. Losing it would be a tragedy. Sign the petition to save it here.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Just love Curzon Wimbledon.
My review of A Real Pain (dir. Jesse Eisenberg) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
Fascinating thread about food deserts and big bix retail in the US, effective laws to stop them, and what happended when these were overturned. A big part of food system history in UK too... but laws to ensure competition between big players not enough.
My review of On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (dir. Rungano Nyoni) is up here: amp.theguardian.com/film/article... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
