The late Dan Dennett on how Douglas Hofstadter was appalled when he saw David Cope's work on music generation. And similarly, much later, GPTs.

This is very strange, I can't find the "human rights lawyer" Keir Starmer's statement on the ICC warrant against Netanyahu. I wonder why that might be?

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

This might just be the best Q&A the The Guardian magazine have ever done 😂

Research and Curation across Art, Technology, and Eco-Social Change. By Dr Marc Garrett. tinyurl.com/2e62zrjd Free Download (PDF).

This brilliant essay from Marc Garrett is one of our recent National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange commissions for the NCACE Collection of writings, research reports and case studies on collaborative arrangements - and the huge social and cultural impacts they create - between research and the arts.

who introduced the brain-in-a-vat scenario into philosophy? my best candidate is jonathan harrison's wonderful and under-recognized 1967 story "a philosopher's nightmare" (jstor.org/stable/4544744), about a subject whose brain is in an "endocephalic electrohallucinator" and who

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Head over to ddosecrets dot com to learn more about the Anonymous hack on the Israel Ministry of Justice!

"The campaign to free Captain Paul Watson from his Danish-Japanese captors will be full-on, global and relentless" — Bob Brown. #FreePaulWatson

‼️BREAKING NEWS‼️ Denmark has received a formal extradition request from Japan for Captain Paul Watson, a week after he was arrested by Danish Police upon his arrival in Greenland on July 21. Denmark’s Ministry of Justice has full control over whether or not to comply with the

We are now well into a situation where in the supposedly free societies in the west you can easily lose your job for taking the same position as most international authorities.

5. Lake MacDonnell, Australia This picture hasn't been photoshopped. The vibrant color on the right side is due to a type of salt-loving algae called Dunaliella salina, which produces carotenoid pigments that turn the water bright pink.

I think this slogan probably sounded better in their head.

🇮🇱Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found. The list of recipients includes Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, and foreign secretary David Lammy👇 declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-f…

It's heart-wrenching to realise that history is so consistent with contemporary aggression. From assassination of peacemakers to racist ideologies: "How a Zionist armed group helped create the state of Israel" youtube.com/watch?v=Dxawt3…

Herbie Flowers, the prolific bassist who played on Lou Reed’s "Walk on the Wild Side" and David Bowie’s "Space Oddity," has died at the age of 86 trib.al/zJBBjVf

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