Dave PhD

Many of the artists featured in our exhibition 'Just Browsing' use traditional, craft-based techniques in their practices to pay homage to the places they call home.

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Ivy Kalungi’s ‘The Hair Shop’ explores Black-owned hair salons, and features interviews with those who visit the salons, and includes objects and materials that you’d find in a typical hair salon.

See this film as part of our exhibition, Just Browsing. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

substackcdn.com/image/fetch/... I’m not on instagram but this was shared on Substack

These then evolve into: turning up to work even though you're retired. And you're not getting paid because you're RETIRED!!

Thoughts and sympathies

This #MuseumShopSunday, we're excited to launch two new products in the Bluecoat Shop ✨

We commissioned artist Ellie Hoskins to design a new range of t-shirts. We also have a new ceramic decoration featuring a hand-drawn design of our building.

Shop now: https://shop.thebluecoat.org.uk/

WhatsApp flaw allowed researchers to scrape data of 3.5 billion users Researchers uncovered a flaw in WhatsApp's contact discovery mechanism, allowing them to enumerate over 3.5 billion active accounts.

WhatsApp flaw allowed researchers to scrape data of 3.5 billion users cyberinsider.com/whatsapp-fla...

"It’s a beautiful exhibition that breaks down walls in a really kind way."

Head to Art in Liverpool's website to read a new review of Lou Miller's 'We Dream of Our Freedom'.

https://www.artinliverpool.com/features-old-posts-archive/reviews/review-lou-miller-we-dream-of-our-freedom-at-bluecoat/

I shall wear a lanyard with "Art" on it when I venture out in Liverpool

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"If you walked into the Bluecoat this winter, you would almost definitely leave thinking the art world was a safe space for you and that you were part of it."

Huge thanks to Art in Liverpool for the lovely review of Just Browsing 💙

Read the full review here: www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

I love @normeisen.bsky.social. He just said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that the orange felon "has all the follow-through of a tsetse fly." 😆😆😆

‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse

Cory Doctorow is hot 🔥in the Guardian this morning…

Uxbridge Dictionary Definitions

Whisky - something like a whisk

#uxbridgedictionary

Extract from Trump's Ukraine peace plan

"Берлин вернется в советский сектор "

#trump #trumpIsARussianAsset #putin #ukraine #peace

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Ahead of his time and Doctorow’s prediction is already happening …

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

#russia #russiareport #ukpol #interferenceUKpolitics #reformUK #bribery #fbpe #putin

Cat asleep on its human's lap

I could go out gardening. Or maybe not.

#caturday #gardening #november

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Good analysis

Hope you filled in your delay refund request 😊

Radical idea!

The "release the files" bill is the one that really deserves the name "One Big Beautiful Bill".

My mum had vascular dementia

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Antonia Ruppel is teaching Greek for those who know Sanskrit. Very cool.

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music

Dick Gaughan is a British folk music legend but his music is being held hostage by a rights vulture called Celtic Music

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

#folkmusic #dickgaughan #musicrights

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Resist eating UPF or they will kill you…

Ironically it looks like that link was taken down by the Cloudfare outrage - cue yet more outrage ✊

We had a town-wide adrenaline rush when the local Post Office shut down unexpectedly for "operational reasons". Even made BBC local news. Fears were allayed when it reopened yesterday :-) hash tag headlines in local newspapers

WRONG 60% OF THE TIME: ChatGPT. Gemini. Grok. Perplexity. Copilot. DeepSeek Premium models, $20 to $40 per month, performed WORSE than free versions.⁵ Higher cost. Higher confidence. Higher error… |... WRONG 60% OF THE TIME: ChatGPT. Gemini. Grok. Perplexity. Copilot. DeepSeek Premium models, $20 to $40 per month, performed WORSE than free versions.⁵ Higher cost. Higher confidence. Higher error ra...

Comparison of the current LLMs without Claude.ai

Josephine Baker at Home: 21 Photos of the Legendary Showgirl in Her French Châteaux The St. Louis–born Jazz Age star (and spy) built a life in France, where she raised 12 children and collected a panoply of exotic pets

I didn't know most of these things about Josephine Baker www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jose...