Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI The firm will take data from the way employees work for its artificial intelligence models.

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The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965) | British Pathé YouTube video by British Pathé

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go geoff

Wrights & Sites - A Mis-Guide To Anywhere provocations for reader-walkers to make their own exploratory journeys wherever they choose

wrights & sites' most encountered work, 'a mis-guide to anywhere', turns 20 today and is now free to download from our website. a utopian project for the recasting of a bitter world by disrupted walking.

'you’ll never have to buy another guidebook again' - the times.

mis-guide.com/a-mis-guide-...

anywhere you can walk slowly down the street without being shot at by western contractors. anywhere you can reorganise buildings without permission. anywhere you can stand still without being questioned. anywhere you can find abandoned beds. anywhere the movie you always wanted to see is playing.

Was super dear 💗💗

🩷 indeed
wish @deeheddon.bsky.social + i could be there too

at the getty later today

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Cigarren - Kurt Schwitters YouTube video by Chratherton c.

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my university interview record from 40 years ago

it's dark and stormy way out west

Alyn Smith: Dependency on oil is ludicrous when Scotland won the green energy jackpot An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,”
#Scotland
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30 workers. 12 hours. Three actors. One critic... Maddy Costa enjoys having her assumptions upturned when she puts in a shift at Quarantine's takeover of BAC

Quarantine's takeover of Battersea Arts Centre puts a frame around the world's activity and chaos, Maddy Costa writes. From BAC’s balcony to the streets and shops of Wandsworth, the shows bring us up against the romance and reality of community, of what 'normal theatre' and 'normal people' are.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

hadn't really noticed that supermarkets pipe music in the background until yesterday, when, in tescos, many of the customers not only sang along to manfred mann's 'the mighty quinn', but started dancing too

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

they surely are.

Thoroughly depressing discussion on Kuenssberg about university funding. Plans by the opposition to introduce cuts to arts degrees arguing that they don't provide a financial return to the individual. Blatant populism. Imagine if all government spending decisions were done on that basis!

Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time.

Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Text reads: What could a city look like after capitalism?

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Review quote reads: 'Truly global and deeply humane... Oli Mould proposes a radical urbanism that draws on past, present and future visions that could reshape the world.'

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. Gravel background with blue sky. Review quote reads: 'A much needed antidote to the daily escalation of urban authoritarianism and the existential threat of planetary destruction.'

Publishing today!🏙️

In a world of environmental degradation, inequality and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital.

@olimould.bsky.social takes readers from strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and Solarpunk, revealing how communities are making a new kind of city possible.