It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.

Anthropic C-suite folks are ridiculous, but unfortunately also empowers to impose things on others based on their batshit views. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex... Short 🧵>>

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

If you’re going to waste column inches waffling about brooches in the shape of beetles, at least mention Janna Kavenna’s novel Zed about a UK takeover by a Chinese AI company known as Beetle, complete with BeetleBands, BeetleInsight and 24/7 surveillance.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

🔥🔥 We're very proud to see Dr Sally Hoare from the University as one of the bright sparks (ahem) who helped discover humans had been able to create fire much earlier than previously thought. Read about this amazing work here 🎇

*New Post* In my latest post I revisit the subject of witchcraft in Shropshire and discuss its historic and folkloric legacy. This is my most comprehensive study of the subject so far! I hope you enjoy! nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/01/witc... #witchcraft #history #folklore #witch

The CFP for #CRSF2026 is now live on our blog crsfhome.home.blog! The theme for this year's conference is Systems and Entanglement 🪢 We're so excited to see everyone's abstracts and proposals!

What happened to Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine? Years of back issues for sale in my local charity shop.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Cigarette manufacturers shouldn’t be getting all this money, we should be growing our own tobacco with tax payer money!

1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

Academic intros that go hard

🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access. Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso

I was so focused on jumping out of the way to avoid being hit by a left-turning car, that I was very nearly taken out by a left-turning Deliveroo rider — who also wasn’t giving way to pedestrians and thus was unprepared when I was forced into his path last night. #HighwayCode

"There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics," Musk says, conveniently replacing the word "me" with the better-testing "everyone."

Superb commentary from @niedermeyer.online omfg we are so screwed…

Difficult to understand why #bbcmidlandstoday thought an OB inside #CoventryCathedral while an actual remembrance service was going on was an appropriate course of action. Actually disgraceful…

Bless your heart, Jade Bird…

Looking forward to #JadeBird at Manchester Academy tonight…

"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math." "For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."

Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.

Reposted to celebrate some excellent copywriting that presumably is still being done by a human being…

Talking seriously about hijacking into robot bodies via VR is the most real-life sci-fi thing I've typed out this year.

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out our recent blog post all about 'The Embedding' by Ian Watson and a fascinating look at how the author explores linguistics alongside science fiction. Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO #livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction

Nearly here…

Pre-ordered. Can’t wait. A writer of immense talent. 84k still haunts me.

October is my favourite month…

The unironic use of the term ‘AI Slop’ by the NY Times and by @kevinroose.com on Hardfork.

Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.

10 horror movies to get to know me by: Gothic Alien Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) The Hunger The Wicker Man (1973) Psycho Eraserhead The Sixth Sense M3gan Crimes of Passion (1984)

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

On a train being held five minutes out of Euston due to an evacuation of the station.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Vale Brian Patten. The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.

Yes, yes, I’m woefully late to the party, but HOLY SHIT, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is the ultimate lying on the beach holiday read…

Cats of Venice

“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward. Should not that movement be jealously watched, and checked while we can still check it? And is it not necessary for this end to destroy the more advanced of the machines which are in use at present…” Samuel Butler

this exists it is called thinking

Patrick Boyle has just been demonetised by YouTube for his Epstein Birthday Book video. #PatrickBoyle

Morning… www.thetimes.com/article/38f3...

I haven’t visited an actual website for months. I’m tired of being kettled into an increasingly smaller collection of platforms and AI slop search results. Can you build your own search engine that just finds web pages on topics you’re looking for? I miss the original AltaVista. #enshittification

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Cats of Coste