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a Pallas's cat entered a house in Ladakh, India and claimed it as a nursery for her 3 kittens. wildlife officials told the homeowners to leave the cats undisturbed. they did. the couple moved in with relatives for 2 months. we can surely expect more of these incidents as the housing crisis deepens.

And this is just astonishing --- your chatbot killed someone who was using it for medical advice and you want to say that's still a good use case?

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute

Britain is a nation of cat lovers, so why do black cats still wait longest for a home? For Black Cat Day, we look at the superstitions that keep them in rescue centres – and why they deserve better.

This was a pretty good one

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval skeletons. A thread… 🧵 💀

"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. ... To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI ... would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior" www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

The job ad was pretty amazing.

Pie Warehouse sounds amazing though

Carrion is 80% off on Steam at the moment. Highly recommend. It's basically like The Thing but you are The Thing. store.steampowered.com/app/953490/C...

Oh god. Boeing is trying to design a pilot free passenger plane. It's basically a massive drone. Hopefully it's an investor scam & won't ever actually become real. Making things is so passée that most of the economy is an investor scam now. Innovation is ~95% weird accounting tricks these days.

Timelapse: The ethereal beauty of aurora as seen from The International Space Station. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBa-...

UPDATE: In Thornton-Cleveleys, where we uncovered high levels of internationally-banned PFOA, Wyre Council has finally classed some land as 'contaminated' - a move they say paves the way to pursue polluters for the cost of cleaning up these sites: share.google/WMg3BVDbZKIe...

Delighted to post this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon as our planet's lungs breathe a sigh of relief... #Lula #Bolsonaro #Brazil #election #amazon #environment

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

Elon Musk’s AI-Generated ‘Odyssey’ Is Here to Save Western Civilization. “Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.” 🤣 gizmodo.com/elon-musks-a...

Remember she came out against the unions in the last strike.

Every accusation is of course an admission In fact, Bolsanaro allies did intimidate voters and just stopped public transport in cities so the poor masses leaning Lula have a hard time reaching voting stations At the same time, US oligarch Zuckerberg used Meta to throttle Lula and promote Bolsanaro

Lula Goes HARD

How to inspire zero confidence in the integrity of academic publishing. Like going to your GP and, instead of giving you a blood test, they take out a pack of Tarot cards.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

The comedian Tom Allen has a fun line related to this: "podcasts, or as we used to call them, Radio 4."

Time-travelling resistance fighters, decades from now, looking at this photo, saying: 'You're telling me that on this day, all of our targets were in the same room?'

having the voice actor for daffy duck & bugs bunny on your picket line must have felt like having nuclear capabilities. peace to a legend.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

I think of this video every time someone starts banging on about bringing back imperial measures.

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. All you have to do is keep your eyes open and look carefully for them... tomcox.substack.com/p/20-of-the-...

Putting the clock back on my oven

have you noticed how "innovation" became the buzzword of tech ghouls, not "invention"?

gummo 1997

Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?

The UK: no but why *should* we have 3 days of basic food and water in? What are they not telling us? Also the UK:

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Meanwhile, this is listed on etsy as "hand needle felted" It is fu**ing levitating 😠