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Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

YouTube video by Netflix India The Thursday Murder Club | Official Trailer | Netflix

"I'm not worried about the cantankerous old farts."
Says the villainous David Tennant 😉

Here's the second trailer for The Thursday Murder Club, coming August 28 to Netflix.

Amazon to Shut Down Wondery Podcast Studio, Reorganize Audio Business As podcasting becomes video-oriented, Amazon is shuffling Wondery into Audible and a new “creator services” team while cutting approximately 110 staff members

Amazon to close Wondery. 110 people to lose their jobs, including Jen Sergeant.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

Very much time to stop using WeTransfer, with their updated terms that clearly state they have the right to use anything you transfer across their service, to train AI, create derivative works, basically steal and use anything you post through them. This is now laid out in section 6.3, posted below:

Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

My article about the Sonic Legacy of David Lynch is out now, published in the new edition of the MPSE magazine Wavelength. I’ve interviewed three of the sound designers who worked with Lynch – thanks so much to Douglas Murray, Randy Thom and Dean Hurley ❤️🔊

Link: digital.copcomm.com/i/1535880-su...?

An amazing video from a Black man who gets it. Here, he explains how the word "illegal" is based on a lie. A lie that the United States of America (and much of every other western country) tells. A lie built on capitalism, white supremacy, genocide, imperialism, slavery, and land theft.

Watch it.

ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.

My report:

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

A photo of a written section from a map from the forest service (which falls under USDA) has been temporarily altered to adhere to new Trump administration anti-diversity and anti-inclusion policy. A part of the wording of the anti discrimination language has been struck through, by hand, with a pen. The relevant section reads: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, (following portion in this parenthesis has a strike through line -- sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information), political beliefs, reprisal or because all or part of an individuals income is derived from any public assistance program.

A contact sent me this from the back of a forest service map they got on a recent visit. The only maps available had language that does not comply with the anti-inclusion policies of Trump's administration. It's quite something to see the erasure - and what is being erased - laid so bare.

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

Sir Elton John describes govt as "absolute losers" and says he feels "incredibly betrayed" over plans to exempt technology firms from copyright laws - telling @bbclaurak.bsky.social if plans go ahead to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying they would be committing theft.

Truly depraved to ask her this rather than simply one line point out how insane the allegation is.

Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town. The jail in Santa Fe, surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed, sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city's bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter. Ms. Jaramillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a sheriff's deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Ms. Jaramillo, who was struck by the sheriff's deputy in 2021, had once worked as a correctional officer herself at a jail not too far away before falling on harder times. She had been booked into the jail for trespassing at a homeless shelter that banned her. A police report from the crash said she had been walking in the middle of a lane on the highway.

This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

An ice cream truck rolled up at the pro Palestinian protest at Brooklyn College this week.

General opinion on TikTok and Twitter = Sus

In 2000s, NYC cops would use yellow cabs and other vehicles for surveillance. I spotted them a couple of times sneaky pete-ing in UPS trucks near protests.

BREAKING: Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Released From ICE Detention by Judge The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech.

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge.

“The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo:

zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

Bigger than you think: podcast revenue is $7.3bn worldwide The US accounts for two-thirds of it

Bigger than you think: podcast revenue is $7.3bn worldwide: The US accounts for two-thirds of it

The tragic helicopter crash last month on the Hudson River wasn’t an isolated incident—it was the latest in a long line of preventable tragedies in the New York metropolitan region’s crowded airspace.

There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Bjork performing "Army of Me" with Skunk Anansie on Top of the Pops (1995)

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

America is… cooked.

'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect body parts as disguise A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking their webs and stealing their prey

Took a break from health news to write about what has to be the most metal caterpillar of all time. This lil guy adorns itself with dead insects, lives with spiders, steals their prey AND is a cannibal. If that isn't hardcore enough, its named the bone collector. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...

Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.

This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency.

Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president

It is literal pay-to-play

Rwanda says it in talks with US on possible minerals deal Rwanda said on Wednesday it was in talks with the U.S. over a potential minerals deal, a development that follows similar ongoing talks between Washington and Rwanda's neighbour Democratic Republic of Congo.

It's weird to see this reported without any mention of the deal they made to exchange humans.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.

This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Everything is terrible now…or is it?