Blimey - Global News are reporting Sarkosy’s conviction and aren’t asking Farage his opinion. Wonders will never cease.

Look, I know us actors need to have as broad a skills set on our CVs as we can, to make us employable, but I honestly don’t see why they think an Equity or SAG/AFTRA member was responsible! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why don’t we just call LBC the NFC? Nigel Farage Corporation? Every single news bulletin I’ve heard today has been all Nigel Fascist. The only voice heard other than the news reader. For FIVE bulletins. Autism. Jimmy Kimmel. Swans. NONE OF THIS IS NEWS.

It’s now 11.30 and the frog faced five homes fascist is STILL the top news story on LBC news. Every single news break he is the only person whose opinion they post at the top of the news bulletin. How is this “balance”? Does he have something damaging on the owner? WTAF is going on?

FFS. Global Radio & LBC WHY ARE YOU PLATFORMING NIGEL FARAGE AGAIN!! This is utterly insane. The entire blasted 10am news bulletin is all about what the five home owning frog faced fascist thinks. About autism & sharia law FFS. THIS IS NOT THE NEWS. Stop this now.

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

Having great fun as Game Control for Dash12 in London today — hope all the players are having a blast too!

And yet again, who is it Global Radio ask to comment on the Mandelson situation? Is it the Leader of the Opposition perhaps? Or maybe the leader of the 3rd largest party in the House? Or the 4th, 5th or 6th? Not it’s Nigel “5 Houses” Farage. Have they got him permanently in a studio just in case? 😡

@mrjamesob.bsky.social this is the Good Fight clip that last caller was referring to. youtu.be/S4pSp3Km6Mw?...

If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.

If you search for "She Rides Shotgun" on Amazon right now, instead of my novel you get a row of AI-generated bootlegs. Man you just can't win in hellworld. (Don't buy my book from Amazon anyway, but also fuck these slop-peddlers to the moon).

This jumped out at me with the story about the PD that shared an AI-edited photo of a drug bust. I’m sure they didn’t intend for the AI to manipulate the stuff they seized, but it still slopified everything on the table by default. www.vice.com/en/article/c...

Absolutely must read for anyone who still has any idealistic perceptions of LLMs. Had a few similar experiences myself. I know it's Substack but the content is too important.

And now @classicfm.com are doing it. Do no other politicians talk to Global News? Or is it that Global News don’t bother to talk to any other politicians? FFS.

And an hour later Farage is the only person being interviewed on online safety. Why are you so besotted with him? What about balance??

Morning @lbc.co.uk - why do you have Farage as the only comment on the Canadian statement re Palestine? Why again? Why do you platform him over and over and over??

Hey @lbc.co.uk why are you asking Nigel Farage his opinion on Rachel Reeves & his opinion only in news bulletins? Where is your balance? How often do you quote Ed Davey (72 MPs) or someone from the Green Party?

Well this is interesting! www.theguardian.com/technology/2....

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. For the whole aitch v haitch thing. Thank you!! 🙏

Never in doubt! 💙🖤🤍

Well of course Austin Healey would think that exceptionally harsh. It’s just what he would have done. It’s still wrong though. Come on you Bath!!

Come On You Bath!! Feeling excited but slightly sick! 💙🖤🤍#bathrugby #COYB

I can now reveal that I am delighted to be the voice of Little Miss Brave in the new Mr Men & Little Miss Mini Adventures, in two new episodes released today. There’s a standalone episode for Little Miss Brave & she also turns up to help Mr Bump with his leaky roof!

Hey Nick Clegg - your AI industry looking like it needs saving, or should we indeed just let it die? news.sky.com/story/voiceo...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m sure you won’t remember but we spoke on air a couple of years ago about whether you can copyright a voice and what AI could already do. Please read this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

This AI voice is, in fact, ripped off from a wonderful actress and voiceover artist called Gayanne Potter, who you will have heard on many ads over the years. The AI company are using her voice without her consent and without paying her. A disgrace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Donald Trump is no longer the most powerful American in the world... #LeoXIV

I’m not Catholic but was interested in watching the new Pope speak. Until the BBC used what seemed to be an AI instant translation - robotic and lifeless and oh so loud. Truly abysmal. I had to turn it off.

Today my Alexa thinks I’m in Chelmsford. I’ve had an ad for Boots in Chelmsford, starting with the phrase “Hey Chelmsford” & an ad for BP telling me my nearest one is in Notley Cross (which is in Braintree). I am in Bow, East London, 35+ miles away. How is this targetting of ads in any way progress?

Yet again, news media decide that the one person who should be consulted for a soundbite about Trump is someone just 4 MPs in his party. Hey @lbc.co.uk - why not ask the Lib Dems? Or even someone from the opposition if you don’t want a government spokesman? Why continually platform Farrago?

Anyone in Brighton this evening, come along and see us, it’s going to be fun! And if you can’t make it then check out the podcast instead! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

Of course it is. Because there weren’t enough non-white/non-male people in the room to point out what would happen. Or else they weren’t listened to.

I got up extra early (& I’m NOT a morning person) so I could watch the Severance finale before getting spoiled but O. M. G. That was SO worth getting up for. That was utterly bloody epic. And great 60s jazz for atmos too. Don’t make us wait another 3 years @benstiller.redhour.com, pretty please?

I have no idea why Duolingo thinks this is a useful sentence. Where on earth would you ever use it?

Great piece on how a late diagnosis of ADHD affected one barrister.

I think Alexa might need to brush up on her rugby knowledge, as even when you get quite specific she gets very confused. Her final question almost finished me off! #6Nations #SixNations #WalvEng

Dear Marketing Departments. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in asking whether I’d like to opt out of Mother’s Day emails. But. My mother will be just as dead next year, so doing it every year rather defeats the point, don’t you think? This is by no means the only one.

Everytime I have to sign an NDA for a voiceover job, this pops into my mind! #severance

I’m not worried about AI just yet part 75 (aka the salesmen are overselling the product again). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So when someone says feeding this tech the work of all the artists on the web is just like an artist learning from other artists, either they’re trying to deceive you or they don’t understand the technology they’re such huge fans of. No artist ever just scans in content and spews out a remix. 17/

Don’t know who’s in charge of the volume for the PA at London Stadium, but the test just now for tonight’s West Ham match v Leicester was bloody loud!! I know as the crow flies I’m only about 400m away but I still shouldn’t be able to hear it clearly inside a building with all the windows closed!

The government's AI consultation is deliberately overlong and jargon-heavy to discourage responses. You don't have to answer every question! ALCS has a guide to the important questions and how to interpret them, which means you can fill it out in about ten minutes: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

I’ve been rewatching the first two seasons of Hacks on Now TV & have just started the long awaited season 3. Is it just our household being shown the Ruggable ad every single blasted ad break or are there no other ads on the platform?

“But the small single play that allows a writer to be themselves or rather – crucially – to become themselves is increasingly rare. A writer’s loss is an audience’s loss too…” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI

More Hot Flashes out today, with some amazing #Menopause Monologue performances in each episode. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

I think we’re safe from AI just for the moment at least. I’m sitting in Hackney and have just been served a “smart” radio ad on Classic FM encouraging me to join a Nuffield Gym in Didsbury, Manchester. I’ve never even been to Didsbury. 🤷‍♀️

Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...