Lloyd Wood

I am not sure that the way out of the AI bubble is hoping that General Artificial Intelligence arrives and uses its beyond human capacity to work out how to make enough money to pay everyone back.

Old London Bridge | A 17th-century Masterpiece Claude de Jongh’s masterpiece, one of the most popular paintings at Kenwood, provides a unique record of Old London Bridge and the architecture of the city that would be engulfed in 1666 by the Great ...

that would have been Old London Bridge.

The Millennium Bridge is going to need a retrofit.

www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places...

smiling woman dressed in black coat(?) leaning on metal stair railing with folded hands, apartments, stairway, city street just after a rainfall, bright sun

Portrait of
Toni Morrison

Jill Krementz
photographer

February 13
1974, NYC

Another great sad cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social

He cannot be housed in the Tower.

There are too many school groups visiting the public exhibitions.

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

A History of Stargazy Pie, England's Strangest Christmas Dish Stargazy pie is an odd-looking invention—a dish where fish gaze up at the sky from a buttery crust—but it's more, too. It's said to be born of famine.

on Stargazy Pie. Which I don't think featured even once in Doc Martin.

www.vice.com/en/article/s...

All Woman Half Biscuit.

Politically, even The Beloved's Hello only got as far as Jeffrey Archer.

I can't think of any other songs that namecheck Gordon Brown.

Do not choose Pancake Day.

Seen on that other site...😆
What's really in the Epstein files!

The 6 voices behind HUNTR/X from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ stuns for Variety:

• Arden Cho & EJAE — Rumi
• May Hong & Audrey Nuna — Mira
• Ji-young Yoo & Rei Ami — Zoey

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Godly imperfection. A mono photo taken inside St Paul’s Cathedral in 2024.

#B&W #photography #photo #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

Snape and Emma add some realistic drama. Pity about Mr Bean, though.

Three British guys walked into an American bar. The decision led them all to lasting love | CNN A chance encounter in an Alabama bar between a young Brit and a young American led to two more chance encounters, three transatlantic love stories and three weddings.

but... the (debatably) worst part of Love Actually, man!

it's for that time of year...

@charlesarthur.bsky.social

edition.cnn.com/travel/three...?

black and white illustration of skeletal death about to leap onto a tobogganer's sled. The tobogganer wears boots, an anorak, and a fur hat and grasps a rod in one hand.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb

"we're listed above the yoga!" does have a "Spinal Tap should be ABOVE the puppet show!" vibe to it.

The Sisters of Whittlesey.

Babylon 5 | Full Episode | The Gathering: Season 1, Episode 1 | Beyond Infinity YouTube video by ClipZone: Beyond Infinity

babylon 5 is now free on youtube and ppl should definitely watch it instead of starfleet academy www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

The more I watch Stardate 90210, the more I miss the morals and ethics of Odo.

I made this up for his first run....

America elected their reflection; saw it, and are horrified by it.

Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV Wish someone warned me about the software.

...and here's the article again, but behind a different paywall!

www.theverge.com/tech/877396/...

@charlesarthur.bsky.social relatable.

(my mother and her friends are all complaining about Samsung software upgrades on phones, changing the interface and adding games, apps, and something called Bixby. it's all Do Not Want.)

How Chris Dane Owens Finally Turned His Campy ‘Shine on Me’ Music Video Into a Feature Film — 15 Years and Millions of Dollars Later Chris Dane Owens' 2008 music video, which gained a cult following for being filled with '80s fantasy cliches, is now a feature film.

@mjhibbett.bsky.social Have YOU considered turning ONE OF YOUR MUSIC VIDEOS into a FEATURE FILM?

EMPIRE QUEEN is OUT NOW.

(Bonus mention of Dr DOOM)

variety.com/2024/film/gl...

middle of the music section, middle of the road, middle class, middling.

you've got it MADE.

it's not just improving copper extraction, you know.

there's gold in them thar hills! (also a paywalled Wired article on same)

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

This researcher found billions in ‘invisible’ gold in Jo’burg’s mine dumps At 26 years old, Steve Chingwaru uncovered 420 tonnes of gold in buried mining waste. Now everyone wants to hire him.

it's not just copper - they'll reprocess gold mine tailings again and again to eke out profit

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Copper - Works in Progress Magazine Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth.

On copper. via Charles Arthur's Overspill.

it's not just copper that gets this kind of treatment - the mine tailings around Joburg were cleaned up and chemically processed to get at any remaining gold.

worksinprogress.co/issue/the-di...

why is there a locker door behind a locker door? (middle left sticker)