“We are now living in an autocratic capitalist utopia that won’t allow counter-ideological positions to exist. It is considered unpatriotic in this capitalist utopia to have democratic parties and networks share power.” - Prof. Richard Braungart [PayWall Removed]
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“The cuts, which are being set in motion before the former top Google executive Matt Brittin takes over as director general next month, represents the biggest round of BBC job cuts since 2011.”
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"She dressed in black from head to toe; rarely, if ever, was seen without her signature black eyeliner; and slept in a pair of black combat boots to be ready for action. She smoked Cuban Montecristo No. 5 cigars and treasured Penguin Classics books." [PayWall Removed]
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"I am an artist, and 2022 was the year when I first started to see knock-offs of my work. It was not my work exactly. It was instead a strange facsimile, as if done by a none-too-talented teenager on tranquilisers, all my lines and blotches reduced to rote."
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"An Indigenous-led research program called Ekwǫ̀ Nàxoèhdee K’è uses a mix of traditional Dene tracking techniques and Western research methods to study the herd, their habitat, predators and industrial disturbances." - Photos&Story by Pat Kane [PayWall Removed]
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“BRUSSELS — The European Union’s main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.”
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"“There are fewer channels greenlighting fewer shows, and it all seems to be moving unstoppably to the bottom,” said Mark Cronin, a longtime reality producer and one of the creators of the “Below Deck” franchise for Bravo." [PayWall Removed]
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"For as long as young people have dreamed of careers in the arts – as novelists, painters, poets, musicians and other species – they have had to measure their dreams against their economic circumstances."
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“It’s frozen,” said an air force detachment commander, “frozen shut.” [PayWall Removed: by Norimitsu Onishi with Visuals by Renaud Philippe, Reporting from Cambridge Bay, in Nunavut, Canada]
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“Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It’s the future of them,” Quinn wrote, adding that “by removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.” [PayWall Removed]
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“This moment as a photographer is terrifying, the chance of getting a well-exposed, sharp image from a moving vehicle in complete darkness is like winning the lottery.”
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"It’s just rich folk with limited life experience, pumping money into rich folk with limited life experience. The art world feeds on nepotism, privilege and the bank of mummy and daddy. There’s definitely a glass ceiling for working-class artists.”
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Leaving aside Bezos for the moment, In other news olympic sized "dick"... “It is possible to achieve a temporary, visual thickening of the penis by injecting paraffin or hyaluronic acid. Such an injection is not medically indicated and is associated with risks.”
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“The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) says in a statement that it understands the Post has laid off all nine of its staff photographers and half of its dozen photo editors.”
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“Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own,” Baron said. “This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
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"It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality... an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne."
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
“A civil trial launched by The Narwhal and a photojournalist against the RCMP began with both sides fighting over whether her high-profile arrest at the 2021 Wet’suwet’en pipeline standoff was part of a concerted campaign to limit press freedom.” [No PayWall]
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“The authenticity and credibility of our news report is always paramount, and the tools for detection are vital for our work. Still, currently there is no tool that unequivocally verifies images.” [PayWall Removed]
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/i...
“We asked the country’s most talented photojournalists to turn their lenses on people and places that don’t normally see the limelight, so that we could be reminded of our strengths and the beauty of community.” [PayWall Removed]
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“Whoever designs the tech, designs the image. With higher levels of control from tech companies – including embedded auto-processing that we cannot turn off – we begin to get narrower limits for us to express ourselves through our photos.”
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"...the entire ecosystem will experience a knock-on effect financially. What about your fellow composers and creators? But also what about the generations to come after? Are we fucking this completely, just to make sure that we can pay our mortgages now?”
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
“He slicked it up a bit with this rather gaudy colour. We all have our timings in life and Martin was the man who came along at the right time.” Don McCullin
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The Welsh Vietnam war photographer Philip Jones Griffiths campaigned against his admission, saying: “Anyone who was described as Margaret Thatcher’s favourite photographer certainly didn’t belong in Magnum.”
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"I bring a four-litre jug of water and a complete change of clothes for when I’m done a session in the field... I start by pouring the contents of the jug over my head and washing away as much of the chaff as I can from my eyes and face." [PayWall Removed]
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Gen X isn’t just a time period; it’s also, as Rushkoff writes in “The GenX Reader,” “a culture, a demographic, an outlook, a style, an economy, a scene, a political ideology, an aesthetic, an age, a decade and a literature.” [PayWall Removed]
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“It’s an enduring working-class tradition that I would never want to disappear, it was born out of community and the responsibility of looking after those around you who need help."
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“It’s pretty quiet at the moment. There was a very concerted effort undertaken by prize-winning photographers to try and stop the film from being seen and an intent to make sure the film wasn’t distributed, which didn’t work, either.” [PayWall Removed]
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