The only Olympia you know?

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.

Whoa: The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail!

This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.

It's Streisand Time, wotta thrill

Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:

bookshop.org/p/books/care...

"Does your cat know about the feminist movement"
Poster spotted in Middlesbrough, England

Lots of fun stuff being made lately using the Jetstream, the firehose of all Bluesky posts. Here’s a growing thread of my favorites. (Send me more!)

🌧️ EmojiRain - Live 🦋 Emoji Visualization It's 🌧️ emojis! 👀 Watch 🦋's emojis rain down in real-time. ✍️ Long posts = 🐌 slow fall!

I built a silly usage of the Bluesky Firehose just to get my feet wet and see what was possible. It's kinda fun to just watch. www.emojirain.lol

I'm very glad to introduce you to it then!

Email address is control@ the website address

The All Good Bookshop Your community-run cooperative bookshop and events space in North London

Did you try the All Good Bookshop in Turnpike Lane? allgoodbookshop.co.uk

Did…did a minotaur write this

I have an android and I used Night Sight

Once again, opening a new Word document I'm reminded of the time Pakistan's Prime Minister was implicated in a massive corruption scandal for forging financial documents for the year 2006 using Calibri, a typeface that didn't exist until 2007.

Accidentally said “Shirley” instead of “Siri” and now my phone is stuck in Airplane mode

Mural on a wall that spells "More radical empathy"

"More radical empathy"
Mural seen in London

If you see this, post a limbo

4 SKELTONE'S COMMEN TOGETHER TOO MAKE DA FIRST MUSIC THAT SOUND'S LIKE A COMPUTER HAVEN FUN ,AND TO THIS DAY MUCH OF DA GOOD MUSIC OF THIS SHITTY WORLD STILL SOUND'S LIKE A COMPUTER HAVEN FUN , JUST YOU AND 3 OF YOUR FREIND'S RIDEN DA TRAIN ANY WHERE YOU WANT , MEET IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWEY , RIP FLORIAN , AND DA TEXT SAYS "THE ONLEY GOOD WORK IS KRAFTWORK / DAMB ITS TRUE DA SHARE Z0NE MOTHER FUCKERS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

ALL WORK IS HARD / ALL JOB'S ARE BAD - dashare.zone ADMIN

three people with their arms round each other grinning like idiots while wearing Christmas jumpers. A man on the left is wearing a piece official Houses of Parliament merch jumper, the woman in the middle has a Dolly Parton jumper wishing everyone a Holly Dolly Christmas from our Queen and saviour Dolly and the woman on the right is sporting an official TFL Christmas jumper resplendent in roundels and featuring the iconic Routemaster double decker bus.

the moment you understand entirely why you are friends with your friends because of the perfect subject matter of their Christmas jumpers. love these folks.

It's Blue sky - the old rules don't apply: Go do some deep likes! Be nice to people on the internet!

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863

Shindig. A bit of a do. Rager. Knees up

I considered that possibility, then looked at the time and the mention of the pasty...

Yay drunk Catherine!!

I heard that they stop measuring in October 😱

Its because Ann can't stand fuckwits and tells them to their face.

May your hands not get slippy and the hot tap be much used for top ups

By which I mean on your phone

Oh mate. The only way is up. And at least the internet

Exactly. All pretence of coping is gone

A blonde lady, wrapped in a candlewick electric blanket, looks wistfully off to the side as she clutches her glass of orange wine

Just gearing up for a purchase of an electric throw and am 100% sold by this picture of a woman shuffling round her house wearing it and drinking wine