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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am *loving* Hammer time. I hope the EoH network finds you and Kev another project when you run out of Hammer films!

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Libération @liberation.fr · 09/02/2026

⚫ Mort d’Ebo Taylor, icône ultime du highlife ghanéen Pionnier du style forgé dans le chaudron culturel post-indépendance du Ghana et voix du panafricanisme des années 70, le musicien était revenu sur le devant de la scène dans les années 2000. Il est mort le 7 février à 90 ans. ➡️ bit.ly/4rIQBxa

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/01/2026

As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Imagine running a higher education system/country so badly that you actually can't afford, or refuse to fund, research that is *literally defined as* "internationally excellent". Stupid, stupid, stupid country.

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ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Amsterdam—View from the Window by Vasily Kandinsky, 1904 #artbots #guggenheim botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/05/2025

AI trash is everywhere, and that’s in part because social media platforms have made it profitable for people churning out AI-generated videos and photos that try to grab your attention. Great to have @jasonkoebler.bsky.social back on the show to understand what’s going on.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A two-part object lesson in how performative authoritarianism done by the left is never enough for the right.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/03/2025

"Moderate democrats worried effective politics will save the party from extinction" incredible stuff going on today friends

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/03/2025

my god, it's full of computer

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy Miette Day, to all who celebrate.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/12/2024

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/12/2024

*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Your slipper, sir.” “Where is the other one, Alfred?” “I’m afraid there’s been a mishap, sir.”

Golden Retriever sitting at attention, wearing a tuxedo collar.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is what's worse about our Gilded Age. Robber Barons actually had to work. Obviously, what Elon's ultimately against is democracy. Literally, no human on earth has benefited more from government spending. He just doesn't like the idea of government serving up anyone but him.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just filled this in. by which I mean I wrote the same answer in each box. "Total copyright protection. It's not hard." Please join me if you're not a thief.

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

There are some bakeries in France that sell 2kg round loaves, and my brother in law pretty much did the giant sandwich thing with one.

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Back when bread was baked communally, it wasn't unusual to bake really big loaves and use the bread through the week, iirc. Not sure that that would amount to a gallon.

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Drivers: there should be less traffic! Council: /takes positive steps to allow more people to travel without driving Drivers: Not like that!

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

When this popped up in my local Facebook group, there was outrage that the local council had not immediately widened all the spaces.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Every time I hear one of the Labour frontbench say anything I can’t help but also hear future Adam Curtis saying “but this wasn’t true...”

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Torching one of the last viable industries in the UK to be racist and also "save money". Real 4D chess stuff here from the grownups who are back in charge.

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hardly any books at all, really, good work, cat

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

10% off and free shipping on all of my art this weekend, just add the checkout code: bluesky wefail.art

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"Why don't pictures like this ever trend? 🙏"

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Ron Iver @ronnui.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Incredible duo—tune in folks!!

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Jacques Le Singe 🏏📯 @johnthemonkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If the Thatcher profile pic doesn't put them off, I don't know what to suggest, I'm afraid.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

As I and others like to say, if your transportation plan relies on "Cyclists can just..." it's not a plan.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/07/2024

Elon Musk is doubling down on his Mars colonization vision. Instead of questioning its viability, the NYT engaged in some more SpaceX stenography. More in the Disconnect roundup, along with recommended reads and other tech news from the past week.

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Roundup: NYT's SpaceX stenography

Read to the end for a furry ally in the Luddite resistance

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/05/2024

I’ve been looking forward to talking about BYD on the show for a while. @paologerbaudo.bsky.social was the perfect guest for it. We dig into BYD’s vertically integrated production model and how the US campaign against Chinese automakers looks a lot like what it did with Japan in the 1980s.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/05/2024

It’s always great to chat with @niedermeyer.io, but this one’s essential. We not only dig into what’s been going on with Tesla recently, but structural factors in the auto industry that explain why it did so well in the past few years and why that success was so fleeting.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/04/2024

improved it

the camera lens of HAL 9000 in '2001: a Space Odyssey' dir: Stanley Kubrick with the word bubble from the Sickoes meme added , reading

yes...ha ha ha....YES!

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