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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
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As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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It's telling that "engage fully with AI" is always taken to mean "embrace it unquestioningly" and not "examine it critically". As always in these pieces the good of AI is simply assumed.
A puff piece that relentlessly refuses to adduce actual evidence or to consider that any aspect of 'the other side' might have any virtue. Why publish this superficial guff? The topic deserves much better.
Universities risk irrelevance by failing to engage fully with AI
It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It's telling that "engage fully with AI" is always taken to mean "embrace it unquestioningly" and not "examine it critically". As always in these pieces the good of AI is simply assumed.
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The Daily Whitley, Cleethorpes
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The Daily Whitley, Cleethorpes
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
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November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
This is as amazing as it is unexpected.
Bat Winter: Charli xcx drops ace new single with John Cale called House
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is as amazing as it is unexpected.
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Nick Cave. Anton Corbin, 1983.
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nick Cave. Anton Corbin, 1983.
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I interviewed the awesome Roddy Bottum www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I interviewed the awesome Roddy Bottum www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Gig review for Buzz: Marissa Nadler/Wyldest, Sun 2nd Nov, Clwb Ifor Bach silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/blac...
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Gig review for Buzz: Marissa Nadler/Wyldest, Sun 2nd Nov, Clwb Ifor Bach silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/blac...
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Big thanks to Glenn Edwards and the Eye International Photography Festival for bringing such a great range of speakers to Aberystwyth last month - and to Buzz for publishing my long-read report on a stimulating weekend. www.buzzmag.co.uk/eye-internat...
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Big thanks to Glenn Edwards and the Eye International Photography Festival for bringing such a great range of speakers to Aberystwyth last month - and to Buzz for publishing my long-read report on a stimulating weekend. www.buzzmag.co.uk/eye-internat...
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Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Born OTD in 1974, Redwood City, CA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH11...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH11...
The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra on Letterman 2008
YouTube video by frunkiss
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November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Born OTD in 1974, Redwood City, CA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH11...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH11...
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The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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Also reminded today of this wistful seagull portrait I got back in October 2023.
#Photography #BlackandWhite #Birds
#Photography #BlackandWhite #Birds
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Also reminded today of this wistful seagull portrait I got back in October 2023.
#Photography #BlackandWhite #Birds
#Photography #BlackandWhite #Birds
Thank you Marissa Nadler and Clwb. A sublime Sunday evening comedown.
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Thank you Marissa Nadler and Clwb. A sublime Sunday evening comedown.
Design adorning the spoils of tonight's gig. 👍
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Design adorning the spoils of tonight's gig. 👍
Cripes @luketurner.bsky.social, that was utterly rancid from us but thoroughly deserved for you. Don't suppose I'm the first to note a distinct similarity between you and Max Kilman?
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Cripes @luketurner.bsky.social, that was utterly rancid from us but thoroughly deserved for you. Don't suppose I'm the first to note a distinct similarity between you and Max Kilman?
Everything falls apart: @steviechick.bsky.social talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton for a primer on Husker Du's rise and fall silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/ever...
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Everything falls apart: @steviechick.bsky.social talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton for a primer on Husker Du's rise and fall silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/ever...
Scrap the cap: Terri White on the damaging impact of the two-child benefit cap on child poverty silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/scra...
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Scrap the cap: Terri White on the damaging impact of the two-child benefit cap on child poverty silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/11/scra...
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This will come in handy next time someone tells me "Man shall not live by wine alone".
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This will come in handy next time someone tells me "Man shall not live by wine alone".
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