Richard James Foster

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

Anthropomorphism Is Breaking Our Ability to Judge AI Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball asks, how should we interact with a technology designed to ‘speak’ with us on what appear to be human terms?

It's not just casual users that are anthropomorphising AI – professionals, the media, and law firms are doing it, too. What kind of problems is that causing?

My debut analysis for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Finally. A use for my warped imagination: morph Rubio into Brel & Walker.

Meanwhile. 😂

Always gold, Marc, (and Scott, and Jacques…)

Nog een cliffhanger

“If I could be, just for an hour, if I could be, for an hour, ev’ry day / if I could be, just for a stoopid hour… I’d go proactively, in a de-fen-sive way…”

Have we heard any more from Democracy Volunteers today? It would be genuinely interesting to understand more about their reports from the by-election. Pretty important too.

M’Lud @alanallport.bsky.social is fighting a rearguard action on this one… or (as the light draws in over the pitch) he’s shepherding the number 11 to stumps…

Alt text is like having a special room in the house just for making errors in; a gallery to exhibit all your hasty misperceptions, misconceptions, misattributions, mistranslations

Morning all.

Photographer Don Tonge.
Back George Arthur Street. Bolton, 1970s
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Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

I’m waiting for the Lend Lease phase.

For years Pool pushed pro-Assad conspiracies about Syria to justify a hands-off approach to how the U.S. should respond to Assad/Putin’s crimes. His rhetoric spread disinfo that helped normalize the same narratives not just about Syria, but Ukraine also. Now all of a sudden he’s pro-intervention (1)

who made this

(He’s also gurning like Shaun Ryder.)

Gaaf!

Tru dat! 👇

Just a matter of time before one of our more putinized Trumpers calls this a "special military operation"

So currently Bluesky believes Keir Starmer is going to cause World War III as a puppet of Donald Trump, Twitter believes he’s a beta cuck who should have launched missiles ahead of the Americans, and Facebook believes that video of the puppy playing with the tiger is real and not AI.

The pro-Kremlin disinformation machine does not waste a moment inserting its self-exonerating narrative into whatever crisis is unfolding.

Russia has made a sport out of targeting civilians from Syria to Ukraine. To claim otherwise is delusional at best. (1)

Transatlantic - Britain's Coolest Forgotten 60s Independent Label Independents and their impresarios like Factory and Tony Wilson, and earlier antecedent cultural visionaries such as Immediate, are rightly revered.

Great blog post on an early underappreciated UK indie label from Grant McPhee:

grantmcphee.substack.com/p/transatlan...

Always keep in mind that Donald Trump does not care about the lives of Iranian protestors or US troops. They are all just "suckers" in his game of personal glory.

Ceaușescu’s last visit abroad, on Dec. 18, 1989, a week before his execution on December 25, was to Iran.

In the same year that Khamenei began his career as Supreme Leader of Iran, Ceaușescu ended his.

36 years ago, Romanians were dancing in the streets just like Iranians. Now they have forgotten.

Over at Twitter, an assorted combo of paid russian stooges and probably unpaid useful idiots from academia are involved in another cycle of « imagine if Ru did X » about a bunch of international law violations Russia has been committing for a decade. It’s pathetic.

Rusland bombardeerde Oekraïne gedurende de afgelopen drie wintermaanden met 14.670 geleide luchtbommen, 738 raketten en bijna 19.000 aanvalsdrones, meldt Zelensky.

"Dit zijn dezelfde drones die het Iraanse regime nu inzet tegen landen in het Midden-Oosten."

Beelden van week 209 van de 🇷🇺 aanval:

Anyway, @alanallport.bsky.social, this Westminster bluster reminds me of the Dan Farson anecdote in his autobiography about being a Parliamentary reporter and him seeing WSC & Bevan tear lumps out of each other in the chamber & then walking arm in arm to the bar! Probably embroidered knowing Farson.

Once saw him speak when I was 16 or so on a trip to that there London, and a day or so later, Enoch bloody Powell speak. Both incredible speakers. Then I saw Roy Hattersley.