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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2h

Paul Krugman points out that Trump has ensured the United States will be second to China as a world power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-... The country will just have to learn to live with it, MAGA!

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 4h

I think Milton Keynes might be a better place to trial it.

Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 4h

The physics in yours is a lot more convincing too, their motion is vague and just looks wrong.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 5h

Are you saying that Rod Liddle isn't a bigot either? Or Taki?

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6h

Worse: we're going backwards. No COVID19 boosters for under-75s (except for badly immunocompromised patients) is a disaster—many people last got a booster in 2021, and immunity wanes rapidly. Some estimates suggest economic costs of £7Bn due to non-vaccination which exceeds cost of vaxxing everyone.

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 11d

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 5h

When the human rights body that is the last place to appeal is attacked for pointing this out, the bigotry is evident.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 5h

This isn't rapid reductive descent, it is observation of a Liz Truss appointee systematically excluding those being discriminated against from testifying as part of the process, while listening to the testimony of hate groups.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 21

When learning something, one of the most important resources is a person who will tell you "no, you are wrong, you are not making sense, what you are saying is meaningless," to keep you from going further and further wrong without knowing it.

Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 6h

Hang on a second, is this why Saudi Arabia is building that Line city? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lin...

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 6h

Apparently that's cheating. OK, I'll build a jellyfish tank like the one at the Monterey Bay Aquarium into my house as a replacement for the wall facing my neighbour.

a group of jellyfish are swimming in a blue water

Alt: a group of orange jellyfish swimming in a blue tank at Monterey Bay

media.tenor.com

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 6h

I'd buy Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco and shut them down.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 7h

And no doubt you enjoy the company of other bigots like Liddle and Taki at the Spectator garden party.

Two eagles are talking in their club, one with a paper the other with a cup of tea
2: Do you think the Owl is a predator?
1: Of course not. He's never bothered me
2: Exactly.
2 sips tea
2: No idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 7h

It really wasn't. It was a spectacularly prejudiced judgment that refused to hear from those affected by it. That it was welcomed by the bigot appointed to EHRC by the last government reinforces that.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Remember: You can't force a site or service to treat minors differently than adults without requiring EVERY USER to establish whether they're an adult. Which is, inherently, a deanonymization mandate, because to verify age, you must verify identity.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 13h

A while ago I made this page to compare the AI generated poetry clock with the one that collates quotes from prose written by humans. I have yet to see a time when I preferred the AI one. kevinmarks.com/clockwatch.h... (you need to scroll down the AI iframe a bit)

Clock watching
Comparing the prose clock with the AI generated poetry clock
AI 'poem':
One twenty-seven, shadows creep, /Where stories linger, lost in sleep.
Prose selection:
At twenty-seven minutes past one she felt as if she was levitating out of her body.
-Trackers, Deon Meyer
credit for prose clock:
GitHub Based on work and idea by Jaap Meijers

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 15h

Wet Leg's new video for Mangetout goes very hard youtu.be/lbc6CcZTp5E?...

Wet Leg - mangetout (Official Video)

YouTube video by WetLegVEVO

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 18h

Skyrdle 124 4/6

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 19h

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 1d

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Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring yo...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife

www.theguardian.com

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ClimateHope @climatehope.bsky.social · 1d

More evidence of what we all know: fossil fuels drive up prices; renewables drive them down.
reneweconomy.com.au/gas-and-high...

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Why are cyclists killed by drivers on our roads?
Despite Oxford billing itself a “cycling city” four cyclists were killed in the city in a two-year period

westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/why-...

Why are cyclists killed by drivers on our roads?

Despite Oxford billing itself a “cycling city” four cyclists were killed in the city in a two-year period

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

The remedy needed is converting more car parking spaces into bike parking.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

Why is it consistently bad at getting the cross cutting wrong at the end, showing noddies instead of the speaker, and saying "understood" in the wrong voice?

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