“I just need to take a photo to confirm delivery” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Bridgewater Hall Manchester tonight to hear about my travel to Idle yesterday. Plus rude songs and comedy… 8 o’clock

The Idle Cox Trio semi proudly annouce my new tour beginning Wednesday in Birmingham

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

It's so important to include names when sharing art, music videos from people of color. Especially now. "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone "whose members were of Mexican American & Native American heritage, something heavily reflected in their songs, stage regalia, and album art."

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

“Was it a mistake, killing five journalists?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Authoritarianism in plain sight. Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak. She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.

Amazon #Echos do my head in (part 93) Vikki has an original and a Dot, with different trigger words. The Dot was nagging her, so naturally she told it to F Off. She was in the room with it, but it ignored her. The other one answered something like "Vikki's Echo Dot can't do that". A bit weird?

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

A retired headteacher was arrested for carrying an Eye joke at a march in July. To hear more about Mr Farley’s arrest and release, tune in to the Summer Free Speech Special episode of Page 94, the Private Eye magazine podcast.

tech ceo: we poured all our money and resources into creating you. please tell us how we can turn a profit ai superintellegence: i don't know. you guys kinda chunked it ngl

Slightly diminish a band: Presbycusic Leppard

"Military grade encryption" by which people mean the password input for the key derivation function for the AES key is written on a post it that's stuck on the wall visible from someone's webcam

This looks amazing: a previously unreleased live Horace Silver recording from 1965 with Woody Shaw and Joe Henderson up front! Coming in October from Blue Note.

It really is fun and positive and contains no exploding spaceships or JavaScript, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with lovely Aussie folks!

Treated myself to a #music CD. "Google Search & Destroy" by #iGod seems as relevant today as ever :-)

Am feeling a bit discombobulated today. Words I use almost daily, such as antidisestablishmentarianism and floccinaucinihilipilification, don't seem to be in either list (used or unused) in Bluesky.

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Friday afternoon tunes: "Mess I've Made", the debut album from Big Rav, featuring none other than @maddymontaquila.net on vocals & keys. Loving it so far. Paramore meets Blondie with a whole 90s pop-punk vibe to it. The album's on Spotify, Apple Music and the rest - and check 'em out at bigrav.band!

How many knees does the AI allocate per picture? More to the point, how many knees does the magazine's art director think it's normal to have?

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

The era of institutionalization was rife with horror, and deinstitutionalization + the rise of community care has allowed millions to live more independently with dignity over decades I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me

Just got reminded of this response I made 7 years ago on FB

does it go unnoticed that currently it is only one woman in prison for the raping of young girls by disgusting rich pigs??

I admit, I have yet to see Quest for Camelot. But I've listened to the songs. I mean, where else you gonna hear a duet between comedy legends Eric Idle and Don Rickles? If I Didn't Have You. youtu.be/NIpuVIXapwY?...

The Secret Behind Software Development Prioritization My latest video short for the Modern Software Engineering channel @modernswe.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/TVAGd...

At this moment, on July 20, 1969, people around the world held their breaths, waiting to hear the words "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed" as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history and became the first humans to land on another celestial body, the moon.

"Nigel Farage Being ‘Taken Seriously is Appalling’..." - @ericidle.bsky.social: www.aol.co.uk/monty-python...

#GoldenOldies "A sea of faces swims before my eyes You walk toward me giving no disguise I find no words to say say say Beautiful ending to a hard hard day" ___ Susan Fassbender & Kay Russell I still don't even know why I love this song, but I do :-)

(comic) Meaningful Commit Message

For all his bluster and bravado about making deals, Trump is obviously extremely biddable given that this happened "just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump". This is why Nvidia is worth trillions and Trump is a laughable wanker. arstechnica.com/information-...

When summer's done you can find me talking about unit tests at @ndcconferences.com TechTown in Kongsberg. A full day of Program with GUTs with a focus on C++, C and Python. ndctechtown.com/workshops/pr...

The Telegraph slammed the BBC for “championing” Bob Vylan…. But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis." Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

In ep 58 of "The AI Fix" podcast, some robot footballers fall over, we discover a pair of AI headphones that don't electrocute you, Chucky opens a hotel, Jony Ive invents a $6 billion pen, and Malcolm Gladwell fears a dystopian future full of children playing joyfully in the street.

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

“Keep your voice down…”

Happy getting rid of mad Kings Day America…. Oh wait…

Research finds using AI makes you stupid From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Congress Forgets How To Pass A Law

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony theonion.com/bezos-w...

In the latest @theaifix.show podcast I tell the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge. Frankly, it's horrific. Please look after yourselves. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...