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‘AI-Z: Conversations about resisting generative AI’ is now for sale ✨

For just £2.50 + shipping, you can be the owner of a physical zine documenting ways we can resist generative AI, inspired by conversations with activists outside of tech.

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Bridget Riley - Painting the Line With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, seldom-seen footage from the archives and a rare interview with Kirsty Wark, this is the story of a true visionary of British art.

Just noticed this is on later Bridget Riley - Painting the Line - BBC iPlayer share.google/1StgkWcszNDG...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Hi there, I’ve just signed the petition below calling for the Government to end all contracts with Palantir - the US tech firm with a terrible record of enabling human rights abuses - Will you add your name too and then share it far and wide? 38d.gs/08u

Brigit Riley - St Mary's Hospital corridor painting

Brigit Riley - St Mary's Hospital

BBC Sounds - The Interface - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of The Interface on BBC Sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... Excellent new BBC podcast on news in tech

As a boomer, I’m shocked by gen Z’s attitude towards women – something has gone very wrong | Joan Smith New research suggests older people have more progressive views on women’s rights than younger generations. This direction of travel is deeply concerning, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor ...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... New research shows older people are more liberal minded than young people today.

Can't you chat "Art books are a tax deductible expense!"?

Not as catchy I admit ...

This is the key reportage we need <hits mute button on TV news>

Curators and dates announced for Liverpool Biennial 2027 Taking place 5 June – 12 September 2027, the 14th edition of Liverpool Biennial, co-curated by Lucía Sanromán and Aimee Harrison, will be informed by perspectives and experiences of childhood and yout...

Curators and dates announced for Liverpool Biennial 2027 - Liverpool Biennial share.google/LnOxdv6FGndT...

Spring is almost here, and we are so excited to enjoy some sunshine in our garden!

Stop by our galleries to see our exhibitions Just Browsing and We Dream of Our Freedom. Get an exclusive tour of our Grade I listed building, or join us for workshops, markets & more.

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🚨 Green Party wins Gorton & Denton byelection after tightly contested race, with Labour slipping to third in significant blow to Keir Starmer.

Green Party: 14,980
Reform UK: 10,578
Labour: 9,364

🚨 NEW: Reform UK MP Danny Kruger says a British civil war is possible if they don’t win the next general election.
Source: Politics Home
#UKNews

The People vs. AI Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

time.com/7377579/ai-d...

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Ever walked around an exhibition, wishing you could pick up the artworks, give them a little squeeze?

Well now you can! Our exhibition 'Just Browsing' features a range of tactile, interactive artworks, and encourages visitors to get hands on with the work.

Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

🛶 more use than ☔

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.

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FYI the current myth of the 4-day week and AI

AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 27/11/2025 · 2h 23m

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
We should all listen and do something.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

This resonated with me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our UK public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Overcoming the horrors of Liverpool’s 1970s and 80s care system - Nu Origins Magazine While one can’t legally purchase alcohol or gain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) until 21 years of age in the U.S, turning 18 marks a significant landmark throughout most societies, allowing indiv...

“Growing up Black in the Merseyside care system.

Dr Malik Al Nasir in New York Magazine, Nu Origins, about his adolescent years growing up in Liverpool’s care system… & his recently published book: Searching for My Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #NuOrigins #NewYork

www.nuorigins.com/overcoming-t...

You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

A tough read but worth it - Tracy Emin

"Britain could take care of people wanting to come here … Instead, we’ve got a country now that’s bordering on neo-Nazi rhetoric, which I find really abhorrent.”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#art #cancer #cats #TraceyEmin

Saw the queue of cars waiting to get into Waitrose. Went home. Think I've get some camellias from garden :)

We’re leaving X.

As a charity and arts centre that champions inclusivity, we feel our values do not align with the platform.

Our X profile will stay active until the end of this month, Sun 28 Feb. After that, you can find us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, TikTok and Blue Sky.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Ring surveillance before privacy www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Don’t travel to the US for any reason, it’s not worth the risk!