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Wrong Hands @wronghands.bsky.social · 3h
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy National Poetry Day!
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the kind of post that could only be written by someone with zero sense of how artistic process works or what goes into, in this case, composition. And yes, ideas are ten a penny. Ideas are easy. That's the bit people always misunderstand. This guy wants the AI to have the ideas AND compose!
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PHWOAR
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
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Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having one of those days today.
In the Park
 
In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
 
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.


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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/09/2026
‘Even the most exclusive concert series required a paying audience to survive. But the notion that in order to understand new music one had to be in the know has persisted, as has the image of the composer as specialist.’ Laura Tunbridge on Schoenberg and his influence www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laura Tunbridge · Air of Another Planet: Schoenberg looks forward
Schoenberg looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the...
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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mariam Batsashvili performs Bach, Liszt and more at the Southbank on 26 September. I wrote about how these composers were often inspired by earlier works, transforming them in new arrangements. Do have a read: bynder.southbankcentre.co.uk/asset/2bbeb4...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026
it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad we're excited about opera today because MusicDrama.net has updated again! It's the the most lesbian opera ever written by two straight men about a himbo twink and a middle-aged princess… a show about a breakup that sounds like the end of the world… Strauss & Hofmannsthal's DER ROSENKAVALIER!
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Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
The Basics Der Rosenkavalier [The Rose-Knight]Music by Richard Strauss Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Language: German Premiere date: January 26, 1911 [Image: Cover design by Frank Parisi for the 1…
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coding people invented a technology that writes code, and now they believe it solves every other aspect of life too. You don't see this with other industries, really. Imagine if somebody invented a new kind of saxophone and they were like "it's over for auto mechanics"
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bit weird given the play is written in early modern English but I'd pay to hear Ēalā Rōmēo, Rōmēo, for hwȳ eart þū Rōmēo? Wiðsace þīnum fæder and forsac þīnne naman; oþþe, gif þū nelt, swere mē þæt þū mīn lēofa sīe, and ne bēo iċ nā lenġ Capulēting.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026
Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘This is the greatest show…’ Composer of the Week celebrates some of C19th music’s Greatest Showstoppers. Today at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 'Valkyrie of the Piano', Venezuelan pianist & composer Teresa Carreño. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
making this my new email autoreply
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So excited to have finally seen the Guggenheim!
Photo of a car park with a spiral ramp in Worcester UK
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Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Visit us this weekend as part of Open House🗝️ and see our newly installed plaque honouring Francis Barber, servant, friend and heir of Samuel Johnson. Entry to the House is free this weekend. Come and discover more about Francis Barber and his remarkable life at 17 Gough Square.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is as funny as anything Ardman Animations every did.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/09/2026
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ ft.trib.al/oImlEFY
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AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Have been waiting for @hugorifkind.bsky.social to turn his hand to this! www.thetimes.com/article/5a1a...
My Week: Artificial
Intelligence*
*according to Hugo Rifkind
Hugo Rifkind
Friday September 18 2026, 10:29pm, The Times
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism: The Stephen Collins cartoon
Contemporary British political life is a rich tapestry indeed
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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026
One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the village fete cakeism stall is famous
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026
I don't think we should be giving the racist village all that attention, I think they deserve to be ignored
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a superb example of long-form science journalism on a hugely important topic The claims being made about the microbiome by some folks are not based on robust evidence, plus kooky anti-vaxxers have entered the chat, plus grifters are trying to peddle useless or even dangerous “remedies”
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Superb exposition from William Pettigrew of how slave trading (let alone the whole plantation complex that depended on it) was “enmeshed in the processes that produced the nation we know today”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm...
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Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's understandable that the Bond contributions and the later Oscar-winning scores tend to overshadow John Barry's earlier beat-boom era soundtrack work, but a good deal of it really is tremendous and here are some quick thoughts on where to start... timworthington.org/2025/04/24/m...
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Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Still listening to overblown symphonic arrangements of John Barry’s movie music? Oublie ça – here’s a look at his beat-boom era soundtrack singles…
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I managed two and a half. It’s difficult cause the pro AI people will focus exclusively on the things that are impressive - and I’m sure they are - but the fact is, there are huge, fundamental issues with every single part of this as a product.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Oh My God Our AI Is So, So Advanced & Dangerous" Confirm CEOs Of AI Companies Making Huge Losses & In Desperate Need Of Investment loom.ly/wwWgkFc
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The truth about AI.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I quite like the Belgian approach to capping political donations
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh mate.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'the Waymo effect is what happens when a technology removes the friction of dealing with another human being, and we experience that removal as pure gain – because the costs of the friction were always visible to us, while its benefits were not.'
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The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Onion’s “Who is our favourite Commedia dell’Arte character?” poll, with all names scoring 0% and “Don’t know” on 100%
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Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, “The Maltese Falcon” (1941). Fedoras, flashbacks and sultry dames do not a film noir make. So, what does? (Click link to read). crimeonfilm.com/what-really-...
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...
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Writing Should Hurt
On our relationship to pain and creativity
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Tim Rutherford-Johnson @purlis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
(Based on this: substack.com/@kvetch/note...)
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Oz (@kvetch)
One of the greatest videos I have ever seen Can verify the subtitles are accurate I haven’t seen this since my childhood
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