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The BBC removes BAFTAs, telecast on a two-hour delay, from iPlayer after failing to cut the N-word involuntarily shouted by an audience member with Tourette's (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-apologizes-bafta-film-award…

BBC Removes BAFTA Film Awards From iPlayer After Initially Failing To Cut N-Word From Ceremony
The BBC has apologized after its coverage of the BAFTA Film Awards failed to cut a racial slur shouted by an audience member with Tourette syndrome.

...I don't care for the term 'mechanistic'. The word 'cybernetic' is a lot
more apropos. The mechanistic world-view is falling further and further behind
the real world where even simple systems can produce the most marvelous
chaos.
-- Peter da Silva

President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-c…

Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling
The president signed an executive order implementing 10 percent global tariffs after calling the justices who struck down his signature trade policy a "disgrace."

aCAdeMiC FrEedOM. 🤡
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/mel-curth-oklahoma-instructor-firing.html

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@sjaakkeuvelaar/115950152841280812
Foto's waar je hebberig van wordt.. 😀
Dankzij social media ben ik veel nieuwsgieriger geworden naar de achtergrond van taal.
Sinds ik veel meer ARD kijk ga ik daardoor zelfs in films de verschillende regio's een beetje herkennen als ze 'in een regio spelen'.
@… @…

Elke dag denk je: het kan onmogelijk *nog* schaamtelozer, dat Trump-regime.
En ja, dan toch. En dan denken dat je er mee weg komt terwijl je eigen ministerie van justitie de originele foto al gepubliceerd heeft.

Witte Huis deelt bewerkte foto van advocate na arrestatie tijdens ICE-protest en laat haar hysterisch huilen
Het Witte Huis heeft een flink bewerkte foto gedeeld van mensenrechtenadvocate en activiste Nekima Levy Armstrong (49). Zij werd afgelopen zondag gearresteerd tijdens een protest tegen immigratiedienst ICE. Op de foto die het Witte Huis heeft gedeeld, is te zien hoe Armstrong hard huilt tijdens haar arrestatie. Op de originele foto is dat helemaal niet het geval.

I wonder if one of the issues people have with unhoused folks w/smartphones; feeling a cognitive dissonance that someone with a pocket supercomputer but flailing for basic needs (food, etc)
And…yes those two things together are F’ed up.
Guess which one should be fixed?
(Spoiler: It’s Not the📱)

It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

Die Jurry der Solothurner Filmtage ehren Edna Politi (78). Eine Filmemacherin geprägt von Exil und Widerstand
#Film #Frau #Regiesseurin

Solothurn ehrt Edna Politi: eine Filmemacherin geprägt von Exil und Widerstand
Edna Politi ist die erste Nicht-Schweizerin, die als Ehrengast für das wichtigste Ereignis der Schweizer Filmszene ausgewählt wurde.

the "woke games detector"'s ULTRAKILL problem: there are some games they don't like just because the developer is vaguely progressive and the fandom is largely queer and makes a lot gay fanart of the characters but they have to come up with some 4d chess problem with the game itself
like ah yes the game about robot killing demons in hell and extracting their blood is woke because there's a blahaj easter egg and not because there's shitload of V1 x Gabriel yao…