Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
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Erik Kennedy
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides.
The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans.
easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
My favourite Hattersley quotes
From 1987: “For too long the mainstream of the Labour Party believed that it was possible to combat bad ideas by opposing ideas in general.”
On Tony Blair: “Since the prime minister believes in the Third Way, it is important for him to find out what it is."
Well as they say men will go for jobs even when they aren’t fully qualified but women tend to not do that 🤷🏽♀️
it has a cover <big eyes emoji>
I started typing it out as a joke, but honestly an “AI’s Impact on AI” conference is probably overdue
Astronomical ticket prices, horrendous queues, pitiful staffing, needless ID checks – and $20 beers. Fifa made the Scotland-Haiti World Cup game a woeful experience, Tommy Sheppard writes from Boston ✍️
www.thenational.scot/sport/...
4.4 standard deviations?!
To put into perspective how strong this El Niño has the “potential” to be, I plotted it on the Bell Curve/ distribution of all El Nino, La Niña, & neutral months since 1850 (over 2K). The dynamical model ensemble median forecast peak anomaly is +3.3°C in Dec 2026 1/
Dorian Lynskey
#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No.
Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are raising the alarm because continuing observations of one of our most important components in the climate system are becoming unsustainable.
I have two poems in the new issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social. One is from PINK THEORY!, coming from @milkweededitions.bsky.social in January 2027. You should be able to read it (+ four other pieces) for free if you sign up/sign in here:
RIP Roy Hattersley. A pragmatic style of politics in unswerving service of radical, egalitarian ends. A rare blend then, which would be rarer still today.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-r...
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There’s literally never been a job that I’m the least qualified for in my life than this one LinkedIn 💀😂
Tom Clark
Sassy Little Hobbit
AI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social functi...
