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Matt Bors

One more In These Times comics section before the election
inthesetimes.com/article/comic

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M.Bjoernstroem, a Swedish mechanic/air traffic controller/one man construction company/videographer, in his latest 5 hour video where he builds a base for his new garage. for middle aged blokes.

youtu.be/W0bDzIiK91o

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Longreads

In this excerpt of The Atavist's latest, Mira Ptacin recounts Christopher Pohlhaus' plans to build a fascist training compound in rural Maine. The local journalists, veterans, lumberjacks, and policymakers weren't having it.

longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-c

#Longreads #NeoNazi #Maine

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The piece that piqued me, for and is here, introduced by Revd Dr Sam Wells at St Martin's in the Fields last Thursday.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yQHZNe

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OMG the McMaster-Carr website is an absolute fucking TREAT. In SO SO MANY WAYS.

Check it out, honestly. If you've never used it before, just go. Just click around. It is fucking *BRILLIANT*.

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@louis Are you aware of the "Ferris is Cameron's imaginary friend" theory?

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I was at a recital yesterday of some choral and organ church , and after looking up one of the composers, was surprised to find that he wrote one of those annoying viral tiktok tunes you hear all the time.

So here's Thomas Hewitt Jones a couple of years back on how that ended up going viral.

youtu.be/5BxjG0AwAT8?si=JaVlVk

And more recently how the internet / social media / AI generative music puts creativity at risk:

youtu.be/aBG3i4v9EK4

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@jon Flashbacks to the horrible Fiat Multipla.

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@jon It's very cute :)

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First time ever commuting with Mrs Davoloid to our respective new buildings at Stratford. Lovely open examples following tradition. And a thoroughly nice day.

Staff Common Room at UCL East Marshgate building. A long double height room with tables and chairs, a window to the left on the upper section of that wall, and a whole window to the right. A large concrete pillar in the right hand side of the image too. Dark wooden flooring and a large tapestry at the far wall.
Marshgate, looking down from an upper floor into the atrium, with a large revolving globe suspended in the centre. Study spaces are visible on balconies below.
Curved concrete staircases cross a curved stairwell in UAL's Eastbank building.
UAL Eastbank interior. Curved stairwell, looking out to large bright windows.
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Cory Doctorow

State-affiliated Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others; they entered their networks and spent months intercepting US traffic - from individuals, firms, government officials, etc - and they did it all without having to exploit any code vulnerabilities. Instead, they used the back door that the FBI requires every carrier to furnish:

wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s

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A stainless steel, riveted cubic vault. On one face is a giant vault door surmounted by the FBI logo. On the other face is a rusty screen door with the words NO ENTRY on it; through the screen we see a Chinese flag. Image: Kris Duda, modified https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahorcado/5433669707/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Katy Elphinstone

The way autism is currently diagnosed seems quite unreliable, to me.

I feel this would be ok if it were not generally taken to be so definitive and consistent 🤷‍♀️

A thread 🧵

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Diagnosis #Neurodivergent

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Dave T-W

This hits hard.
mixmag.net/feature/rip-daniell

"Danielle Moore believed in the idea of dancing as a deliberate act of community or a salve for personal anguish and the numerous benefits that came with moving together on a dancefloor. It was this experience that enabled a shy and otherwise under-confident woman to perform as though she owned the stage."

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Aww this is so unfair. Crazy P frontwoman Danielle Moore dies at only 52. Only discovered this chilled blend of funk, house and soul in recent years.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjvpd

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Dan Hon

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

A still of then-61 year-old Linda Hamilton holding a rocket launcher playing the part of Sarah Connor, in 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate.
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Dean Burnett (that brains guy)

What idiot called it "the plot holes in the script of Disney's The Lion King" and not "Lacuna matata"?

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JA Westenberg

The free speech shitgoblins got what they wanted, and they're still not happy.

They’re still following the rest of us wherever we go, spewing the same tired nonsense.

Why? Because it turns out that shouting into an echo chamber isn't nearly as satisfying as they thought it would be.

Today's video essay: How Twitter Became the Loneliest Reich

youtube.com/watch?v=geuyabhW85

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Back on track now.

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Just heard this overhead. What's the vertical and horizontal separation required over London? Possible near miss.

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Caught up on the closing ceremony, absolutely love , Air, Vampire Weekend, and that Kavinsky song is one of the most iconic movie songs.
Thomas Mars seemed so grateful for the fans that came to their excellent Glastonbury closer last year (billed against Elton John) so this must have been such a thrill.

Thomas Mars of Phoenix and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend singing at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony.
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