RoMeLa’s first robotic art piece debuted today at ICRA2025. “Buoyant Choreographies: Harmonies of Light, Sound, and Human Connection”

Landscapes by French painter Jean-Pierre Ugarte (born 1950)

you could automate bernie sanders with a 10m parameter llm

It’s actually remarkably easy to make money in Britain: you simply look at the unfunded statutory obligations set out in law and follow them to their logical conclusions when deciding where to invest.

Obviously this is the sort of pattern of crimes of increasing severity that can culminate in something really horrible. Then people will say "this could have been prevented"

NEW: Britain ran a competition to pick a new small nuclear reactor design to invest in. Reactors were picked not just on value-for-money, but also on social value. SMR makers were graded on their ability to deliver a 'gender equal' workforce by 2030. spectator.co.uk/article/why-is…

I loved how the pirates shift between human and skeletal form under the moonlight whilst fighting in this scene, the CGI in this film is very impressive. Also Geoffrey Rush is just brilliant as Barbossa.

yes, not always. sometimes, despite its greatest efforts to the contrary, it will accidentally find itself on the side of the good guys. it has happened exactly once in history.

🔥👽 This is REALLY good! 👽🔥 "In my view, there absolutely is an adversarial actor in our world. There is a human-engagement program underway. I don't think it's the rainbow that everyone kind of hopes that it is." ~Reed (IMO, Reed Summers is an unsung, VERY important voice

what happened to Gore Verbinski? Brilliant director, i even enjoyed A Cure for Wellness

Does anyone have more of this genre of image of old and new cultures colliding

Listen. The hobbit movies, dubious cinematic merit. But I will tell you they make tremendous background viewing. If you look up from your tasks at any given time there are always some little guys up to some bull shit

The regime has given up on hijab enforcement across swaths of the cities. Stunning to see.

Dressed like a SportsDirect Paramilitary. These sights, blasted across the internet by public and private networks, are the only thing you need to explain Reform UK’s success

I cannot wait for Persians to join the free(er) world

A totalitarian police state capable of arresting citizens for online posts deleted within minutes, but can’t catch a mentally disabled man unknowingly waddling around the most heavily surveilled city in the world in uniform

Bernt Bornich I don’t want it to look like a human. Sets off my limbic system and puts me into threat mode. I just want a friendly R2D2 to do chores.

Wayne Broadhurst, 49, who died as a result of the knife attack in Uxbridge. A council binman and well-respected member of the local community. Tragic.

POV: you're a zoo penguin about to be put down