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An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. Not sure this account adds much to it though. #AltText - no AIπ«
Nearly bumped into another celeb we know - we were going to say hi like usual, but they were coming out of the pharmacy with a determinedly resigned expression, holding a box of mebendazole, so asking after the family seemed a bit superfluous.[Weβve all been there].
Funny how the Junior Associates here now know who Angela Rippon is (mind you, their temptation to ask for a selfie when she was sat on the table next to us in the pub one lunchtime was a bit of a generational divide).
Breaking UK news: now after we die our bodies are rendered for water to cool the data centre fields in Slough.
Funny how the Junior Associates here now know who Angela Rippon is (mind you, their temptation to ask for a selfie when she was sat on the table next to us in the pub one lunchtime was a bit of a generational divide).
Aye. But social media favours the former and lots of people have started living on their screens instead of on their streets.
many have retreated into the comfort of news ignorance some have been swept up into maelstrom of disinformation that makes them trust nothing
fodder for the selfish right
Hannah Arendt on the impact of government lies and propaganda
"And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."
Finlay: "As for the bear, let him return from ideology to innocence. Let Paddington be a bedtime story again"
Wartime child refugees inspired Michael Bond to write Paddington
In 2009 he penned Paddington's call for an end to children being held in detention centres
He always was "Be Kind Britain"
Paddington creator and other authors and actors send letter to Downing Street
Young RW blogger Finlay here, upset about Paddington being a symbol of British kindness.
![[extracts from an blog post by Finlay McClaren about Paddington]
This is where the trouble starts.
Because Paddington is no longer simply a lovable character in an old children's storybook, or the cultural mascot of modern Britain's twee excesses. That little bear in the blue coat and the red hat is now a national symbol, a sort of John Bull for our time. But, unlike the Union Flag-waistcoated stereotype, Paddington doesn't represent patriotic pride or the platonic ideal of Britishness, instead he's become the liberal establishment's cherished symbol of immigration, integration and diversity.
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This is the crux - AI is not some benign neutral machine helpfully sifting data, it is a product at the behest of its controller. Like a drug dealer giving out introductory freebies, the controllers want to get us hooked on their junk so they can recoup their investment. bsky.app/profile/mole...
Bluesky is starting to feel like the secret diary
βPshaw! I donβt know who half the βcelebrityβ contestants are on the last remaining nation-uniting show, which every year faces the impossible task of representing an atomised culture where nobody watches the same shows, except perhaps this one.β
Went out to sea off the north Kent coast yesterday to see the Red Sands Forts. A truly eerie place, designed by Guy Maunsell during WW2 to provide anti-aircraft fire in the Thames Estuary, now home to some Herring Gull and a pioneering adventive buddleia.
Apologists say βoh, thatβs a rubbish free one that automically summarises searches - itβll get better over time but for now youβll get better results with a specific search on a different platform.β My point is this is the first thing I see on a routine search - and itβs not just wrong, itβs shifty.
