The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation
The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His AnimationFilmmaker Hayao Miyazaki detests being referred to as the Japanese Walt Disney. The great animator and storyteller admires the gorgeous animation of classic Disney films, but finds them lacking in emo...www.openculture.com
UK-based and UK citizen authors: Here's a petition about requiring AI firms to disclose their training data. Why on earth shouldn't they? They are ecocidal thieves wanting to hide that fact. Nick Clegg (who loves them) is a disgrace. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training dataWe ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...petition.parliament.uk“19 educational buildings were destroyed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, while about 500 classrooms, 200 scientific laboratories and 75 computer laboratories were also severely damaged. The central library lost more than 240,000 books” www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Students and staff work to bring Islamic University of Gaza back to lifeThe university is looking to continue educating Palestinians amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.www.aljazeera.comTAK, Margrethe Vestager! 👇🏿👏🏾 www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...
Gør AI os dummere? Det frygter Margrethe VestagerHun har siddet i toppen af EU og haft et stort fokus på tech-giganterne. I et nyt interviewprogram siger Margrethe Vestager, at hun frygter, at kunstig intelligens vil gøre flertallet i samfundet dumm...www.dr.dkThe stress of being poor can cause long-term damage to your brain, according to a new study. People who experienced persistent financial struggles were slower to process information and showed memory recall decline by middle age.
How financial stress can affect the brain over the long termPeople who experienced persistent financial struggles were slower to process information and showed memory recall decline by middle age.www.washingtonpost.com
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.www.bbc.co.ukAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
#StopArmingIsrael👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 “Some of the settlers are themselves part of the Israeli military. They serve in the reserves. They are armed by the military. Many are trained by the military. They’re all using US-provided arms. So this distinction is not a very important one” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
Israeli crackdown in occupied West Bank intensifies, settlers cause mayhemThe surge in violence comes after four Palestinians and two soldiers were killed in a gunfight on Friday.www.aljazeera.com#IsraelIsATerrorState
Al Jazeera EnglishIsraeli settlers set fire to Al-Rahma Mosque in Qusra, near Nablus, as Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a military crackdown following a shooting in Tal that killed four Palestinians and two Israelis on Friday.
