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Tom Emery

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/09/2026
“This is the museum event of the decade, possibly the century so far. Are we really to believe that a more ethical partner would not have jumped at the chance to be involved?” @benlukeart.bsky.social on the #BayeuxTapestry at the British Museum. www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap...
We need to talk about the Bayeux Tapestry show and its billionaire sponsor. By Ben Luke. Photograph: a poster for the Bayeux Tapestry outside the British Museum with sponsor Igor Tulchinsky’s name at an equal scale to those of the British Museum and the French government.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/11/2025
Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
IWGB union members protesting on the street, holding red banners
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Never been more excited to read a review
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 20/08/2025
“The thing about AI is it’s lying, it’s telling you what you want to hear,” Sanborn said. His voice rose. “These people are so arrogant, they so believe that they have absolutely cracked it because AI has told them they cracked it, congratulations.” on.ft.com/41aGHcP
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Jim Sanborn has a secret
[FREE TO READ] The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Turner Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced: artreview.com/turner-prize...
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Turner Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa will compete for the prize
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16/04/2025
A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
Two Point Museum
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's me: I'm real museum worker Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern is a fun show. Suffers a bit from too much irrelevant stuff and info overload, but more than enough good stuff to make up for it.
Nanda Vigo sculptureAtsuko Tanaka paintingKatsuhiro Yamaguchi sculptureMary Martin drawing
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I guess the art world has enthusiastically entered it's AI slop era www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025
A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
After their Schelling Architecture Foundation award was rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle (@jamesbridle.bsky.social) addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/11/2024
@skywatch.blue has a label and a block list for MAGA accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
lHelp out if you can, or help spread the word? Every bit helps! www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...
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Donate to Help Mohamed and His Family Get to Safety, organized by Meave Gallagher
Hello, My name is Meave Gallagher, and this GoFundMe is for my friend Moham… Meave Gallagher needs your support for Help Mohamed and His Family Get to Safety
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
It pains me to say it, but on this occasion, JJ is right www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting
His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/08/2024
The Cass Review is the subject of an opinion piece for NYT today. Lydia Polgreen writes with care, common sense, and remarkable moral clarity. She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare. Gift link:
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Opinion | How a Supposedly Scientific Report Became a Weapon in the War on Trans Kids
For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
New: unraveling the Olympic boxing scandal, which has ties to a checkered organization whose president has Putin ties, was a member of an ultra-nationalist motorcycle group and is obsessed with opposing "sodomy" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection
Smears targeting women athletes trace to a sports organization whose leader has made opposing “sodomy” his mission.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
Grateful for this outraged column on the boxing gender furore by Jerry Brewer. It’s a vile bullying witch hunt. I’m disgusted that self-appointed gender gatekeepers are speculating about and judging the most intimate details of two women’s bodies in public. Gift link: wapo.st/3LOYtu0
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Column | Olympic boxing fury is all about misplaced rage and not about facts
The saga that threatened to engulf the Paris Games is scary, but not for the reasons some are spewing.
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Fairplay to the PR, I've never had an offer of a helicopter ride before...
Email screenshot reading: Complimentary invite to fly in a helicopter 23-24th May with aerial photographer Donn Delson
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morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Chrisjen Avasarala from the Expanse, with a speech bubble
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
So glad the second book is finally coming out, the first is just an astonishing achievement
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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
The Guardian:
Look we’re all trying to find the guy who did this
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 13/01/2024
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Frank Reynolds in Baldur's Gate 3
Music: Baldur's Gate 3 Original Soundtrack - Twisted ForceMods used: BaldursGate3 CameraTools by Otis_Inf.Source: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV Serie...
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Yassification has a longer history than expected
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Conservators remove ‘Kylie Jenner treatment’ from 17th-century portrait
Diana Cecil’s face had been overpainted to make her lips appear fuller and lower her hairline
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