Valerie O'Neill

The EU should urgently reconsider its law enforcement cooperation with DHS, FBI, DOJ. No more data sharing, no more access to EU data bases, no more extraditions until respect for the law and fundamental rights has been restored.

It must have been hard working on privacy at google for several years

Cultural transmission of animal tool use driven by trade-offs: insights from sponge-using dolphins Abstract. Although tool use offers obvious benefits to the user, the role of costs in the spread of tool use has received scant attention. Sponge tool use

Dolphins turn out to be ocean innovators in paper number 5 of our 2025 @royalsocietypublishing.org countdown: the authors look at the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, who use marine sponges as tools to protect their beaks whilst hunting on the seafloor. https://bit.ly/4qdXfKS

Grim reading 🤢

Porn in court Aylo is a Canadian company which is reputed to be the biggest publisher of pornography on the internet.

" … pornography industry associates have targeted the plaintiffs for over a decade,.. filing false law enforcement & administrative reports, posting thousands of defamatory statements online relaying disinformation to journalists, staging hoaxes... astroturfing"
john1912.substack.com/p/porn-in-co...

The political spectrum of those calling for Britain to rejoin the European Union is getting wider, now including former Conservative cabinet minister Dominic Grieve on the right and the Green party previous leader Caroline Lucas on the left:

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AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids,” @ninajankowicz.com

www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok.

Men: Just don’t.

Board of Peace - Season 1

This footage showcases how legendary the BBC Studios Natural History Unit is. They used animatronics that look like a turtle and a fish to get close-up footage of the dolphins getting high.

YouTube video by BBC Earth Dolphins Play a Dangerous Game of Catch | BBC Earth

Dolphins get high from pufferfish 🐡

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

Inside the Labour factions pressuring Starmer to rejoin Europe Caught between Donald Trump and his own party, the Prime Minister faces a moment of truth

EUROPE IS BACK

This week's New Statesman cover story is on the changing conversation about Europe in the Labour party - including among those close to Keir Starmer...

Cover illustration by Mona Eing & Michael Meißner

www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

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Mixed-Art Bild eines schlafenden Eichhörnchens in einem Nest. Hintergrund schwarz, Nest aus hellen Strichen, Eichhörnchen mit Gouache und schwarzem Buntstift darüberskizziert.

#KlasseKunst
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Joan Eardley

Ihr Stil gefällt mir, auch wenn ich es schwierig fand damit ein Eichhörnchen umzusetzen. Das ist eins meiner Lieblingseichhörnchenbilder.

@dienail.bsky.social
#KleineKunstklasse

Digital painting of a young girl with a sad face. Brown hair with red and green accents. She wears a red coat and a green shirt underneath. She holds a baby in her arms, wrapped in a white scarf. Background light yellow with a green shadow. The girl has deep green eyes and looks up. She has dark rings under the eyes. Her niuth is slightly open, the lips are orange red and stand out of the face

#klasseKunst @dienail.bsky.social

Hier noch ein Nachtrag, weil ich seit einer Woche zu nichts mehr kam: Joan Eardley (nicht zufrieden, aber wie schon mal gesagt, poste ich es trotzdem 😶‍🌫️)

Mal sehen, ob ich mich zu den anderen beiden jetzt noch aufraffen kann, wo der Monat gelaufen ist...

YouTube video by Bob Seger - Topic Night Moves

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS50...

Victoria Beckham Asks Reddit To Explain Beckham Family Feud To Her LONDON—Determined to get to the bottom of the highly publicized estrangement, fashion designer Victoria Beckham reportedly took to Reddit Tuesday to anonymously ask for someone to explain the Beckham ...

Victoria Beckham Asks Reddit To Explain Beckham Family Feud To Her — theonion.com/victoria-bec...

Sepia like photograph of a woman painting at an easel in a field with long grass by the sea next to a washing line with two articles drying

Scotland based UK artist Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) painting 'Winter Sea' in 1960 #WomensArt

Children and Chalked Wall 3, 1962-63, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (National Galleries of Scotland). Mary and Pat Samson, who lived near Eardley's studio in the Townhead area of Glasgow.

Thousands of gannets swoop off the towering cliffs of the island of Boreray, Outer Hebrides, photo by Jim Richardson, National Geographic photographer.

They never got “social permission”
The whole point of AI and the last 2 decades of “tech” is to remake the economy and society with zero social sanction for the capitalist class
Thats what the “technology” does, outside of corpo PR milieu control of the press, that’s the story, that’s the reality.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless ally

iapp.org/news/a/smart...

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.