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Mae'r artist Kevin Sinnott wedi marw yn 78 oed yn dilyn cyfnod o waeledd. Roedd ei ddarluniau lliwgar o gymeriadau cymoedd y de yn hynod o boblogaidd: newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/coll...

This AI-generated Africa “map” is about as solid an effort from our chatbot “friends” as this classic

The "6 Music news bulletins have ruined the country" hypothesis given extra credence here.

It’s incredible how much fascism’s greatest weapon is liberalism’s (small l)’s lack of faith in itself

I haven't seen the docu, but you only have to look at the common comorbidities to get that #ADHD belongs to a cluster of long-known, overlapping neuro conditions: Autism, dyspraxia, dyslexia, Tourettes, OCD, executive dysfunction, sensory acuity. So, what, you're blaming Vimto & double maths now?

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.you.38degrees.org.uk

#Spain combination of high solar irradiance, large available land, and aggressive #renewable auction programs has made it one of Europe's fastest-growing solar markets. #Solar regularly sets the marginal price in Spain's electricity market — meaning that when the sun shines, prices fall toward zero.

Used textbooks were the best textbooks.

Archaeologists excavating on Triquet Island—a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada—uncovered a settlement dated to 13,600–14,086 years ago. ​

A well-written history of Jodrell Bank and a case for keeping it. (Personal pov: it's a great place to take kids, would be sad to see it go, but I don't know the budget/scientific trade-offs. Presumably keeping it would kill off some other less visible research) open.substack.com/pub/thefootb...

More Trouble in Little CheshireThe threat to Jodrell Bank could be Andy Burnham's first big testopen.substack.com

In other news: Do you know what a financial market "circuit breaker" is? It's when trading on the market goes so insane up or down that trading is instantly halted, because something fucky has occurred. In South Korea, home of two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, it just happened. Twice.

South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI BubbleThe Korean government is weighing measures to save the Korean Exchange as a massive financial panic spreads throughout the country.futurism.com

Meteoric rise. @weard.moe getting the accolades and attention she deserves. 👑 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

How this Canadian filmmaker became a star with ‘messy, brutal, insular’ five-hour movies“Castration Movie Anthology” upends the notion of what a movie is supposed to be and how it’s supposed to be released.www.thestar.com

If The AI Bubble Bursts, Working Families Will Pay The Price Which Will Also Happen if the AI Bubble Doesn't Burst

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

I grew up in a proper country, in which Gore Vidal had beef w everyone & Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for something MM said on the Dick Cavett Show ("every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' & 'the'"--honestly an all-timer of a burn). Srsly critics fighting is a sign of cultural health!

Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.

Strong Mr Jambo vibes from this Sunday Times quote here 😬 Ti wedi clywed Mr Jambo gan Kyle Gordon? Gwych, doniol, a tamed bach fel y geiriau ar y clawr hwn 😁

People are dying you selfish cunt. Centrism, not even once.

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can't get over how well the free market regulates itself