60 years to the day that Patrick Troughton filmed his first appearance as #DoctorWho
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‘Yes Jamie…’. 60 years to the day that Patrick Troughton was announced as the 2nd Doctor in the papers. I know this because @David__Brunt @TelosPublishing
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It was 60 years ago today that filming on The Prisoner TV series began, with filming of some of the iconic opening title sequence in London.
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Andrew Harnik just accepted an award at the White House Correspondents Dinner for this photograph which perfectly encapsulates the Trump presidency.
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Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.
Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.
Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.
Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.
Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.
Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.
La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.
Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.
Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.
Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino has held talks with Donald Trump over the possibility of the US being given a 1 goal head start in their World Cup tie against Belgium as a “gesture of goodwill.”
"L’Ultimo Uomo Reale," a Cannes Lions multi-award winner short film by @therealreal, Lipstick and Sebastian Strasser
An AI character desperately tries to convince us he's real, as his world glitches and falls apart around him
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Absolute disgrace. Standing room only on the way in to London (for 1.45 hours) and no aircon on the way back. Stifling and health risking for £32.50. @SWRailwayAssist Better travel on a Mumbai train.
AI relight test using a short extract from Doctor Who. Original footage © BBC Studios. This is a technical demonstration of how AI relighting can alter an existing shot.
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I've lived much of my adult life with a cheat code, which is to recommend The Prisoner to interesting people you want to impress—crushes, cool bosses, writers. That time is coming to an end. But it's okay. This is the push I need to level up.
THE PRISONER ♟️Coming to the Criterion Channel in July! criterion.com/current/posts/…
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We’re at a fork in the road. Everybody on Earth should read this. All of it.
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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As the UK hits 35C it is hitting 55C in India, just a few Centigrade from causing instant death.
This is the most heavily populated country on the planet with 1.47 billion people.
More than all of North America and Europe combined.
Imagine if they all have to leave.
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India's highest temperatures in late May 2026 are around 47°C, not 55°C. mausam.imd.gov.in/pdfs/heatcoldu… timeout.com/india/news/del…


























