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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 6h

I look at books and movies where the climax is 'press or insiders reveal the true horror that's going on and *that stops it* as so quaint and naive these days

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9h

journalism is dying for economic, technological, and cultural reasons, but most of all it's dying because the bad guys can't even be bothered to hide their dastardly deeds anymore, because nothing happens when they are revealed

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, my favourite t.A.T.u. song

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 13h

So true! Do not expect wealth creation, prosperity or competitiveness if decisions are not climate proof.
Prof Stern and @dpcarrington.bsky.social on a very timely message.
Worth reading, specially by all those looking for excuses to delay climate action.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13h

Climate action is the only economic growth story of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern

- Fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 14h

a man is laying on the floor with his hands on his face .

ALT: a man is laying on the floor with his hands on his face .

media.tenor.com

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 15h

Got Cure tickets for next summer - for two days after I see System of a Down supported by (!) Queens of the Stone Age. That will be quite a week.

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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · 17h

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

Jared Leto was great in Requiem For A Dream. As far as I’m aware, that was it.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

Yiiiiiiiiikes 😬

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 3d

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Trump Litigation Updates @trumplitigation.lawfaremedia.org · 4d

NEW: A federal judge in Illinois has granted a temporary retraining order which prevents federal agents from using force against journalists. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,1 their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 4d

Good

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d

Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" with Sora (Mrinmay Dey/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 6d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 4d

The discrepancy in "must-have qualifications" is particularly interesting. The liberal expert must have "comfort engaging with complex political content" while the conservative expert must have "comfort with ideologically diverse material."

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting job ad, for a Peter Thiel-backed company, that involves trying to make sure AI models serve liberal users with liberal perspectives (and yes, there is an equivalent ad for a "conservative politics expert") www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

LinkedIn job ad for a "liberal politics expert" to work for Mercor in Germany

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 4d

I'm looking at a Temu ad where they've basically melded the head of a nine-year-old girl with the body of a woman in a swimsuit, and I'm just like, what has happened to this world

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Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 4d

Police arrest man based on his ChatGPT prompts. Did they issue a warrant to OpenAI, did company give notice to the accused? How was the prompt “found?”

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 5d

This week's TGR is about AI's limits - please share with anyone who needs reminding! youtu.be/UNCG52ZcMKo?...

3 Things NOT to Expect from AI

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 5d

Fabulous news!

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 5d

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 5d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

therecord.media

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 5d

Yup. I’ll be offloading my Squier Jag now - one in, one out, and I only need one shortscale. This is also my first guitar with a 7.25” fretboard radius, and so far so good!

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