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Morning all. It’s Saturday. Inspired by the great Hiroshige’s print, here is my ‘Sudden Shower over the Humber Bridge and North Ferriby’. Have a nice weekend. xx
Wandsworth, London, UK 13 June 2025 Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.
Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.
The embassy's exterior "envelope" curtain forms an interesting abstract pattern that reminds me of the sound absorbing tiles that line recording studios and anechoic chambers. This photo shows the western-facing side.
The new US Embassy to the UK, completed in 2017, is a roughly cubically-shaped glass box covered on three sides with a semi-transparent textured Teflon "envelope" that aids in temperature regulation. Situated in a landscaped compound on the Thames between the Battersea Power Station and MI6's famous Vauxhall headquarters, it's one of the most distinctive recent structures on that part of London's South Bank.
Deigned by the Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake*, the chancery building incorporates a number of sustainable design elements, and has been generally well received (international politics aside) by staff and local residents. It replaced a mid-century modern structure (by Eero Saarinen, now being redeveloped as a hotel) in the more traditionally fancypants Grosvenor Square neighborhood.
* Coincidentally, also the designer of Penn's Levine Hall, where I once had my office.
Aside: Although the new embassy, which had been in the works for years, opened during the first Trump administration, he disliked the building so much that he refused to attend its official opening. Presumably not enough gold-leaf.
In today's "seagulls being absolute menaces" news: Gull samples man's coffee, before stealing the mug and dropping it in the sea. (An actual china mug, not some paper thing.) Could argue the gull was justified, as the man had been installing anti bird spikes on nearby houses, before stopping off at a pub for lunch. 😉
As part of Civil Discourse, Teen Vogue's partnership with Amnesty International USA, we answer your questions about activism when you're unable to show up in person.
We now have a political assassin impersonating a police officer on the loose in Minnesota, which, aside from being horrifying in and of itself, underscores the danger of the proliferation of anonymous federal law enforcement deployments from a wide variety of unfamiliar agencies conducting aggressive immigration operations across the country.
Is that uniformed person who's stopping you or demanding entry to your home legit or a psychotic vigilante seeking to harm you? It's impossible to know.
The agenda includes issues such as food security, promoting air, maritime, and land integration, transitioning to renewable energies, and managing disaster
My "Thomas Friedman talking to a taxi driver/NT interview in an Iowa diner" story:
The guy behind the counter at the Thai place down the street has informed me that his boss was a Trump supporter right up until fish sauce hit $12 a bottle and now she is furious.
La sala del Ateneo La Maliciosa llena un sábado en la tarde para escuchar a Sara de Comision Legal Sol, y al resto de compas que hoy hablamos de los 10 años que cumple la Ley Mordaza.
a lot of germans on the wrong side of history, once again..
with the warmongers for the 3rd time already. with the #nazis for the 2nd time supporting holocaust/genocide for the 2nd time.. supporting a racist cult (=zionism) for the 2nd time supporting the murder of thousands of children for the 2nd time
feeling guilty for anything? nope. i don't think so. i thought it was their collective guilt (from WW2) that pushed them to stand with israel -no matter what-, but no. i now believe they get attracted to nazis and can't help themselves... it's becoming clearer day by day this holocaust goes on..
Two weeks ago, Adams held a town hall in Williamsburg where numerous members of the neighborhood’s Hasidic community criticized the bike lane. They cited a viral video where a person riding an e-bike crashed into a young child who dashed into the bike lane from a double parked car.
An online petition against the redesigned bike lane titled “DOT: Please Stop the Murder of our Children” has more than 3,000 signatures.
Have you noticed recently A Lot Of YT videos have flashy subtitles or voice over created by A.I
Well those subtitles that most Youtubers are starting to use on their videos are A.I generated, which means those users have made agreements/contracts with A.I knowingly or unknowingly.
But what do those contracts entail?
The contracts will legally give A.I the right to access the back end of your mobile device, and A.I will be surveilling your activities and snooping on your private life. Nothing must be hidden from A.I - nothing indeed.
WhatsApp is already doing this, but all A.I generated apps that you download and work with, will become the snooper in your online life with your permission. t.me/ncnc_55/1529
Have you noticed recently A Lot Of YT videos have flashy subtitles or voice over created by A.I
Well those subtitles that most Youtubers are starting to use on their videos are A.
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species.
Can anybody read what it says on the morale patch on this guy’s helmet? It’s a black-letter “NS” with a lightning bolt, and though I figure “National Socialist” is a *tad* on the nose, such is the tenor of our moment that it’s not actually out of the question either. (Photo by Sinna Nasseri for the New York Times.)
The cartoon that came in from the cold: For George Orwell, there was nothing pro-American about Animal Farm. The CIA, however, had other ideas. theguardian.com/culture/2003/m…
For George Orwell, there was nothing pro-American about Animal Farm. The CIA, however, had other ideas. Karl Cohen tells the remarkable story of how US intelligence secretly funded a landmark British movie.
LYRICS:Your Mother’s Funeral It Cost Us Six Billion Pounds Paid For By The People Who Are Worked To The GroundDuring This Fuel Crisis You Live In Bliss With ...
As the U.S. pushes for a nuclear deal using the attack as leverage, Israel seeks to make any agreement unnecessary by targeting Iran's nuclear program. Will this lead to a clash between Netanyahu and Trump, testing the limits of Israel's power?
#Palestine / UN: Total Internet blackout in Gaza hindering aid operations
The United Nations reports a full internet blackout in Gaza severely hindering aid operations and access to critical information for civilians. Lifelines to emergency services have been cut off due to the ongoing Israeli attack.
#ClimateDiary Just for the record here: what Greta Thunberg and the rest of the #Madleen crew are doing is climate activism too, of course. I will never forget or forgive that awful FFF Germany statement on here (never retracted, as far as I know), denouncing Greta and supporting Israel. As Greta explains hereabd we have all said many times: it is all interlinked #FreedomFlotilla #Gaza
Greta Thunberg and Yasemin Acar speak to Talk to Al Jazeera from the Madleen, a ship sailing toward Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla. Carrying aid, the a...
Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research. This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally optimal solutions within seconds for problems that were out of…
What do you cal a "protest" that makes no demands? Sponsorship by Walmart heiress should include a footnote for the worst exploiter of labor No Kings Yes Billionaire Oligarchs. theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.
This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.
Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:
(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when you’re not using it.
(ii) Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.
#Footage that has survived over 30 years, saved largely thanks to Dale Vince, who funded the digitisation, and who took on the role of outrider on the day. Some once familiar faces and voices here, Mo, Phil and Don, now long since passed, brought back to bear witness to the shameful barbarism of that day, ‘the worst police treatment of people’ in living memory, for which there was no public inquiry, but about which we will neither forgive nor forget. thebeanfield.co.uk/
When millions opposed mandated medical experiments ZERO human rights groups stepped up.. many including ACLU demanded public compliance but now when there are ZERO demands show up like it's a Superbowl party & celebrate your right to demand nothing. RT: mastodon.social/users/QasimRas…
Happy No Kings Day!
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.
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American financier Don Wilson invested $100 million in Trump family bitcoin project, Trump Media & Technology Group, through his company DRW Investments - just nine weeks after an SEC probe into his crypto business Cumberland was dropped by the Trump administration
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home shortly after 2 a.m.
– Repression and Resistance: 40 Years from the Brutal Police Violence at the Battle of the Beanfield to the Suppression of Environmental Protest
– Today is the 40th anniversary of the largest and most violent peacetime assault on civilians in modern…
La France championne de la protection des océans ? Par-delà les effets d'annonce, la macronie s'était il y a trois ans employée à torpiller toute avancée à Bruxelles.
Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.
The embassy's exterior "envelope" curtain forms an interesting abstract pattern that reminds me of the sound absorbing tiles that line recording studios and anechoic chambers. This photo shows the western-facing side.
Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Deigned by the Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake*, the chancery building incorporates a number of sustainable design elements, and has been generally well received (international politics aside) by staff and local residents. It replaced a mid-century modern structure (by Eero Saarinen, now being redeveloped as a hotel) in the more traditionally fancypants Grosvenor Square neighborhood.
* Coincidentally, also the designer of Penn's Levine Hall, where I once had my office.
Matt Blaze
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •this sounds like a good architectural pattern to follow...
Instead of architecting our cities and buildings against homelessness, we should architect against billionaires with poor taste