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Tom Emery
@tomemery.bsky.social
· Apr 16
A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
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It's me: I'm real museum worker
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
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Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar
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November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
Never been more excited to read a review
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Never been more excited to read a review
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“The thing about AI is it’s lying, it’s telling you what you want to hear,” Sanborn said. His voice rose. “These people are so arrogant, they so believe that they have absolutely cracked it because AI has told them they cracked it, congratulations.” on.ft.com/41aGHcP
Jim Sanborn has a secret
[FREE TO READ] The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
on.ft.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“The thing about AI is it’s lying, it’s telling you what you want to hear,” Sanborn said. His voice rose. “These people are so arrogant, they so believe that they have absolutely cracked it because AI has told them they cracked it, congratulations.” on.ft.com/41aGHcP
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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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The Turner Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced: artreview.com/turner-prize...
Turner Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa will compete for the prize
artreview.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The Turner Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced: artreview.com/turner-prize...
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A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
It's me: I'm real museum worker
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
April 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's me: I'm real museum worker
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern is a fun show. Suffers a bit from too much irrelevant stuff and info overload, but more than enough good stuff to make up for it.
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern is a fun show. Suffers a bit from too much irrelevant stuff and info overload, but more than enough good stuff to make up for it.
I guess the art world has enthusiastically entered it's AI slop era
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025
A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I guess the art world has enthusiastically entered it's AI slop era
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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After their Schelling Architecture Foundation award was rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle (@jamesbridle.bsky.social) addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
artreview.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
After their Schelling Architecture Foundation award was rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle (@jamesbridle.bsky.social) addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
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November 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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It pains me to say it, but on this occasion, JJ is right
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting
His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2024 at 12:52 PM
It pains me to say it, but on this occasion, JJ is right
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The Cass Review is the subject of an opinion piece for NYT today. Lydia Polgreen writes with care, common sense, and remarkable moral clarity.
She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare.
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She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare.
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Opinion | How a Supposedly Scientific Report Became a Weapon in the War on Trans Kids
For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2024 at 10:51 AM
The Cass Review is the subject of an opinion piece for NYT today. Lydia Polgreen writes with care, common sense, and remarkable moral clarity.
She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare.
Gift link:
She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare.
Gift link:
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New: unraveling the Olympic boxing scandal, which has ties to a checkered organization whose president has Putin ties, was a member of an ultra-nationalist motorcycle group and is obsessed with opposing "sodomy" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection
Smears targeting women athletes trace to a sports organization whose leader has made opposing “sodomy” his mission.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New: unraveling the Olympic boxing scandal, which has ties to a checkered organization whose president has Putin ties, was a member of an ultra-nationalist motorcycle group and is obsessed with opposing "sodomy" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Grateful for this outraged column on the boxing gender furore by Jerry Brewer. It’s a vile bullying witch hunt. I’m disgusted that self-appointed gender gatekeepers are speculating about and judging the most intimate details of two women’s bodies in public. Gift link: wapo.st/3LOYtu0
Column | Olympic boxing fury is all about misplaced rage and not about facts
The saga that threatened to engulf the Paris Games is scary, but not for the reasons some are spewing.
wapo.st
August 3, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Grateful for this outraged column on the boxing gender furore by Jerry Brewer. It’s a vile bullying witch hunt. I’m disgusted that self-appointed gender gatekeepers are speculating about and judging the most intimate details of two women’s bodies in public. Gift link: wapo.st/3LOYtu0
Fairplay to the PR, I've never had an offer of a helicopter ride before...
May 14, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Fairplay to the PR, I've never had an offer of a helicopter ride before...
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So glad the second book is finally coming out, the first is just an astonishing achievement
The New Yorker has an exclusive preview of My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris! Head to ow.ly/rIih50QAlGP read the full piece ❤️
February 12, 2024 at 10:25 PM
So glad the second book is finally coming out, the first is just an astonishing achievement
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Yassification has a longer history than expected
Conservators remove ‘Kylie Jenner treatment’ from 17th-century portrait
Diana Cecil’s face had been overpainted to make her lips appear fuller and lower her hairline
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2023 at 11:49 AM
Yassification has a longer history than expected