That fire we made such a fuss about turned out to be a rainbow. – Kenji Miyazawa 本職？ 人間だ 。
climate change will manifest as a series of people giving condescending explanations of disasters to those living through them, getting closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one being condenscended to
Jason CareyIt's not abnormal. It's a paradigm change.
car brain as an explanation for everything undefeated
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
Bobby NightengaleJhomnardo Reyes is going to the Orioles for Dean Kremer, per source.
The platonic ideal of a prog rock musician is basically “he and his model wife exist only on mung beans and aromatherapy. His favourite activity is driving at 200mph”
This is sort of fascinating but also sort of meaningless. This is actually a map showing which countries consider suburbs to be part of their cities. Hence Britain having “2” and Australia having “5”.
Brilliant MapsHow Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have? Sort of crazy that Canada and Australia have more than the UK. Or that Russia has more than the US. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/cities-ov...
You bolt awake in the Strangers Bar, you are not online, it is 2024, you are James Cleverley and you have changed your mind, the future cannot come to pass, you must learn to count.
Acrobat has offered to turn a PDF of an airport parking ticket into a podcast. Can’t imagine it would be a great listen.
By now, it seems that #Spain has been very able to manage the crisis, and no other member states were negatively affected in any way. The reactions from Italy & Co. have been truly shameful. This is how you destroy trust and solidarity in the EU.
Lorenzo PiccoliIf the concern is Spain’s capacity to manage an exceptional number of arrivals, there are other ways to respond, including supporting Spain, without restricting free movement across an internal Schengen border.
BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.
One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.
completely lost it at this, oh my god
Neon Genesis Ewangelionthis piece is absolutely amazing. whole lot of words to say nothing new. i actually love it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
reading the Southport Inquiry into the murder of 3 little girls (+ injury/trauma to many more), and the murderer's online history, and it's noticeable that they literally single out X as the only institution/company that refused to cooperate.
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing?www.digitaldigging.org
To cross threads here with this bloke and Zoebread; there is something about how internet culture, and particularly video, has incentivised people who are twats to record ordinary people without their knowledge and be dicks to them for the cheering masses which needs addressing
MichaelActually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.