I am giving an invited talk, which is very nice and flattering. But the oeganisers have put my photo through AI for the poster and it's given me someone else's chin, made my grey hair into gold highlights, and made me smile more

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Proud to say City Hall played a part in saving the Prince Charles cinema - an icon of the London film scene. My team has been in touch throughout, providing support and advice. Our cinemas, theatres, galleries & grassroots venues are what make London great & we must continue to champion them.

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Wow, I just learned that there are people who think copyright is an unequivocal evil and artists should give all their labor away for free, which like, yeah, sure, maybe if we had UBI but we live in the world as it is, do YOU work for free? No? Cool. Don’t make me turn off the comments, ISTFG.

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*not, not bot, but it’s kind of an apropos typo

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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