Is it art tho?

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

For a mere £1250… www.kenwoodworld.com/en-gb/p/kenw... (not quite what you are asking for but it does the same thing)

War Before Civilization - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Bef... I really enjoyed this book on the same sort of topic (but it came out 30 years ago so is it really a new argument?)

Check if your drink is liable for the Soft Drinks Industry Levy Find out which drinks are liable for the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, and how much you may need to pay.

This is an intensely targeted tax, though, not a broad-based one - www.gov.uk/guidance/che...

To what, though? I wonder if there just isn't a successor to pasta/garlic/sundried tomatoes/posh coffees/etc nowadays. Any new and exciting food has maybe six months in a niche market before it's available everywhere. The democratization of taste!

or he also plans to build another hanger on the other side, perhaps

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Studios are pathologically averse to new material. Disney is the same. It's like watching dogs gobble up their own sick.
The Return of Dog Food
Legends of Carrot Chunk
The Animated Adventures of Bile
Semi-Digested Biscuits 2049
Sick Tales 4: Back Into the Mouth
Vomit Days: A Sick Tales Prequel

It really is the best word for this. A nation that defeated fascism during WW2 and won the Cold War, only to be felled by a game show host and parking lot lawyer. Humiliating.

(walking into an academic's office) wow! have you skimmed all these books?

Tired: interpreting the actions of SCOTUS as emerging from precedent and theories of jurisprudence

Wired: interpreting the actions of SCOTUS as emerging from their status as competitive moves in a high-stakes game of Mornington Crescent

I can at least understand why Trump's army of sporadic low-information voters were nostalgic for 2019, but for six figure pundits to be like "wow, could remember how stressful and chaotic a Trump presidency could be" I dunno

Breathe Effortless people admin

We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge.

Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo.

hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

I would very much like one of these if you can ship them overseas

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Oh sure, I think the motivation was not "I have a crush on this right wing thinker" and publishing those pieces was a public good, but still!

A time for truth and reconciliation Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

Au contraire www.ft.com/content/a46c... and www.ft.com/content/f313... etc etc

Dispatches from a country slipping into authoritarianism (if we don't come together to stop it)

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

Surely "rich" refers to wealth, which this doesn't report; the question for income is "well paid"?

Storm Publishing makes three-book deal with fan-fiction writer Dylan Morrison

Storm has acquired the book, film and television rights to Fall Into You and two other queer romantic comedy novels from fan fiction writer Dylan Morrison. 👇 #BookSky

The national conversation about masculinity sparked by Adolescence should include paternity leave.
UK one of the worst in Europe, denying families support at a critical time.
We spoke to some brave dads about effect on family finances & mental health.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

I think it's actually a problem with the rules for private members bills, because it would (as you say) be quite helpful to be able to use them for a debate on an issue like this where being able to sketch out implementation is really important.

Private Members' Bills - MPs' Guide to Procedure - UK Parliament Read guidance for MPs and their staff on 'Private Members' Bills' in the House of Commons.

Private members bills cannot be primarily about taxation or spending - see guidetoprocedure.parliament.uk/collections/...

Lost count of number of people who’ve told me a) they won’t travel outside of US for fear of not being allowed back in and b) foreigners canceling plans to visit US. Those in group a) are making plans to become b). In a few short weeks, America’s soft power has been flushed down the toilet.

It's hard to say how likely all this is. But the more I've thought about it the more pessimistic I've become: Trump quite possibly does now have the capacity to disrupt the mid-terms sufficiently to ensure his continued control, if he chooses to try to use it. (11/11)