Today's soundtrack is Soar by Earth Ship. Nicely heavy and noisy. I picked up the album on beautiful red vinyl while in Berlin some time ago, and I kind of forgot to get back to it. But I am enjoying it now! https://earthship.bandcamp.com/album/soar - they describe themselves as doom/slud…
64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa
"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol
A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S. #UnitedStates
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/
Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres
Tim Lichtenberg, Oliver Shorttle, Johanna Teske, Eliza M. -R. Kempton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 h…