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Joseph Cox

New: multiple sources, including executives, explain why sites like Jezebel are being shut down despite being very popular. The "brand safety" industry has created a paranoid environment where companies are not prepared to run ads next to important issues.

In the world of brand safety, black box algorithms are deciding what is safe, what is not. On top of that, some companies explicitly saying exclude important social issues.

It is not the journalism. It is the ad industry that is failing it.

404media.co/advertisers-dont-w

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Margaret Sefton

I'm trying to get a #job. lols. When I was married---20 yrs---my then husband was keen on having me at home. We eventually had a son and it made more sense. I'm glad I had the opportunity. However, fast forward---I'm now divorced and have been officially #unemployed for most of my adult life---it's tricky. I filled out an application yesterday for a #mentalhealth peer counselor. It sounds silly but ever since I heard comedian Maria Bamford talk about it on a podcast, I've been keen. #bipolar

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Joan Westenberg

Feels bad, man: how memes escape from their creators and fuel extremism.
▸ lttr.ai/AJpVP

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New airline aims to buy unused A380s for cheap transatlantic flights. No mention of a previous attempt by Laker to do the same, but I guess the market is v different now.
Climate impact is also not mentioned, but surely larger aircraft support *less* flights for the same passenger throughput?

independent.co.uk/travel/news-

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Richard Matthias

Sorry code deleting enthusiasts, code deletion just jumped the shark

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stux⚡

Messing with scammers on this scale is just wonderful :blobhappy:

Make their lives such a living hell that they may think twice before scamming the elderly

youtube.com/watch?v=xsLJZyih3A

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Low Quality Facts

Finally, a bath mat that sees the real me.
redbubble.com/i/bath-mat/Low-Q

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Ciara

“It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.”

Librarian’s remark after Göteborg Main Library was accidentally left unlocked at Halloween and 400 people wandered in. ‘People sat reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people looking books up in the database. 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged.’

Thanks to @mrsostberg for sharing this. Am sharing in English as it’s so nice.

#Libraries #Bibliotek

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Chris Espinosa

It is a good day for the American press corps to remind everybody that a decisive majority of the country, including nominal “red states,” is in favor of abortion rights and gun restrictions—NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

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Deborah Rose Reeves

This will take me a while to stitch but I thought we could all do with the reminder in the meantime (I know I could) ✊🏻🧵🪡

#Embroidery #Craftivsm #CeasefireNow

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"Hey [assistant], set alarm for 747 with some wake-up music."
"No problem, setting your 747 alarm."
The alarm: youtu.be/gyzWmOZhEFA?si=5icXpF

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Daniel Appelquist

Just made a complaint to BBC to ask them to stop giving Twitter/ X free publicity by constantly printing “X, formerly known as Twitter” in every single article.

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Denis Buckley

'the overriding message in last week’s hearings was this: don’t elect politicians who are far more concerned with their own advancement than their citizens’ wellbeing.
... an epitaph for that whole disastrous period: “It was miles away from what is right or proper or decent or what the country deserves.”'

Cummings vs MacNamara: the backstage clash at the heart of the UK’s Covid response | Covid inquiry | The Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

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Interesting review of how drag has influenced fashion and makeup.

bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9ff

One for @ryanhoulihan

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SamuelJohnson

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

Dear oh dear. Anyone favouring Irish reunification is now an extremist.

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This is from an excellent timeline by Andrew Timme (dribbble.com/shots/15410048-Te) and shows how the story plays out.
I've highlighted the section from the perspective of the future civilisation where the alogrithm is created.

That gives loads of options for either a limited series like Dark or a prequel movie.

Against a backdrop of catastrophic climate change, a scientist discovers the algorithm and creates the inversion machines. Those in power realise that this might offer a future in an Earth where the climate improves, albeit a a risk of destroying the Earth anyway either through annihilation (which we never see) or grandfather paradoxes.

Then we have a period where the baddies learn to do battle backwards, and start a war to control the machines. The war is mentioned, and there's a vast collection of "detritus" in a dedicated research institute.

Then there's the work to bury the artefacts in the past, which presumably must be multi-generational, and offer lots of scope for interesting interactions.

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Mark McCaughrean

But here’s the thing: because we have all of these older images of HH212 … we can see it moving 😱

That is, because the material is moving outwards from the protostar we can see the jet expand over time.

It’s easily visible in this 22 year timelapse that combines three VLT images from 2000, 2007, 2018, & then the 2022 JWST image.

Measuring the changes, we can determine the expansion speed as 50-150km/s in different parts of the outflow.

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Mark McCaughrean

Morning.

Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by #JWST.

We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon

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Third time watching Christopher Nolan's and I think this was the first time I really got it (though I had the gist the first and second times). I am more astonished each time at how:
a) the concept was developed,
b) timelines were interwoven to take account of the different perspectives,
c) coordination on several hugely complicated action sequences, and then
d) edited together

There are some great explainers out there, involving running the scenes backwards and forwards, with annotations. Ultimately the key point is we see the story unfold from The Protagonist's perspective, but key scenes can be viewed from other characters or even objects.

youtu.be/vvFVLYRNmsM?si=VBxZYw

I think there's a huge opportunity for a series or pre/sequel, as there are interesting untold stories about the Protagonist, Neil, Sator and the future scientist, that culminate at the Movie we saw.

I actually saw the filming of the ship/ windmill sequence whilst on holiday. Didn't know it at the time but just spotted some strange boat & helicopter activity on Vessel Finder and only made the connection when the movie came out

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Brian McFadden

The new guy sucks. brianmcfadden.org/2023/10/27/m

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