this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war

such a great ep

Meta facing new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after investigation by Swedish newspaper found workers at Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using toilet:

Can't recall many times where a stadium was so loud that the endzone camera was shaking at the snap

This is Tom Brady's true legacy

Nothing to Lose but Our Mains The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of...

"There is a perversity to its very existence as an economic good: water falls from the sky, for free, and its daily availability is crucial to human survival, yet it is everywhere subject to the convolutions of political economy."

@sammyfeldblum.bsky.social on Thames Water and the politics of water

The Bears didn’t punt

10 offensive drives
3 touchdowns
3 field goals
4 failed 4th downs

Lloyds CEO Charlie Nunn latest banking boss in line for huge bonus hike Barclays, HSBC and NatWest shareholders already approved big pay rises after post Brexit loosening of remuneration rules

Lloyds Bank CEO latest banking boss in line for huge pay and bonus hike to £13m.

Last year Barclays boss got 45% rise, HSBC 43%, NatWest 43%.

Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA

“The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.”

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Lucinda Cowell, Hepcat Carolers, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1983

Lucinda Cowell, Hepcat Carolers, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1983

Brian Zick, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1980’s

Brian Zick, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1980’s

Goodreads 2025 Year in Books Check out My 2025 Year in Books on Goodreads!

new record. plz add me.

Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 48 books I read in 2025! www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

Lead developer of major Scottish carbon capture project to sell stake Decision raises questions about project’s future and fuels concern over declining industrial base

who could have guessed it, there's no money to be made in capturing carbon

brosmer, buddy.

incredible quote lol

SLUGGO LET’S NANCY KNOW THAT HE KNOWS BIG WORDS SLUGGO: UPHOLSTERER MASSACHUSETTS KINDERGARTEN FRANKFURTER DELICATESSEN LIVERWURST BIG WORD WEDNESDAY

BIG WORD WEDNESDAY

Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex

Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry.

Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”

72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.

Ideological capture when the left do it: You're forced to attend a Zoom call once a year to tell you why you should be nice to a demographic you think are weird

Ideological capture when the right do it: you collude with an organised group to push an agenda over the course of time that harms people.

Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.

First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.

www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

really awesome episode

People who rarely interact with anyone even resembling an average skilled worker claim some bullshit

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.

LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

Top 10% by income now getting half of all consumption

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.