Tukoni by @dream-operator.bsky.social is a work of astonishing beauty, being created by developers and artists living in Ukraine under constant attack from Russia. I spoke to them about crafting joy under so much horror.
store.epicgames.com/en-US/blog/t...
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
The graphic comparison at the heart of inequality—us versus them, rich and poor, haves and have-nots—feels older than money itself. The forms will keep changing. The comparison will not.
Read my latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/the-geomet...
I'm old enough to remember when people were saying we were being "alarmist" about Project 2025 in the US. Britain is sleepwalking into an ultra-violent, white supremacist, technofeudalist necrostate, and no one in a position of power appears to have a problem with that fact.
>they're going to vibecode cobol
so, who's stocking up on canned food and shotguns?
Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
“OpenAI’s”. What objective opinion could Osbourne have in his role of Head of "OpenAI for Countries"? He uses Guardian as his company’s megaphone.
Wow.
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
Carul cu bere!!
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Mate, it was 1066. Move on.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
In a museum a slim man wearing a blow let hat, long black coat, black trousers and black gloves stares at a Roman or Greek statue of a naked man.
studying each other
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR
The consultation closes on Thursday. What is being proposed is dreadful. Can I encourage you to engage with the consultation and put your dissent on record?
In England, our half-time entertainment consists of a 1990s footballer earnestly explaining the offside rule, and a detailed preview of tomorrow’s match involving a Manchester team.
This is a great read on the increasing #complexity of modern computing #systems from @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com - nobody understands all the layers anymore, no one gets the whole system
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...
everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up
Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this.
It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.
I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
My mother's phone has a speech to text function and sometimes I will get a text message from her like "Hello, weather is lovely and a body has been found in the garden brutally murdered" and I have a short panic before realising she has texted me while watching Ms. Marple.
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Screenshot of my Arena collection — a grid with thumbnails representing different artists' projects and resources responding to their work
I've created an Arena channel of artists engaging in or inspired by foraging and gleaning — Yuji Agematsu, Mary Mattingly, Sarah Nicholls, Candace Thompson, Agnès Varda, Rachel Wolf — and I'd appreciate other recommendations!
www.are.na/shannon-matt...
In our current democracy, the loss of institutional memory, the distain of expertise, and the celebration of ignorance frighten me.
What makes Gellhorn’s Obituary of a Democracy so important and powerful is that she doesn’t write about appeasement as something that happens in diplomatic conference rooms. She writes what it means for people’s lives
www.unz.com/PDF/PERIODIC...
