Not to wang on again about proportional representation, but if we had it Labour and the Greens would have been natural coalition partners for years now. Labour’s insistence on the Greens being a threat to them is regressive and infuriating, tyfyt

Did the newsletter early this week. Because of democracy. buff.ly/zvhMAZf

We should get a parade for David Attenborough’s 100th birthday

Did the newsletter early this week. Because of democracy. buff.ly/zvhMAZf

Look if I keep posting I don't have to think about anything and if this helps me out even a little bit then I promise to try to remember to log into Bluesky so often and maybe apologise for all the things I've said about it behind its back.

Anyone who’s anyone has been shot by Jamie and not only lived to tell the tale but begged to do it again 🤩

I'm still trying to make my peace with how I didn't get business brain, and what I got instead was art brain, but—and call me a millennial snowflake if you must—I believe in a world that embraces and cares for those of us with idiotic skillsets as much as it does those with MBAs and rich parents.

Like I don't want to sound ENTITLED but I think I should be much more famous, or at least more rich, than I am.

Sometimes — just sometimes — we get a little weird with it. Because we're alive, and to get weird with it is the privilege of the living.

Here are just FOUR of the bestselling authors, luminaries of our time, whose back-of-the-book, billboard-poster, prize-announcement portraits I've shot.

I also sell prints at my appropriately-named print shop. jamiedrew.front.photography

Might just keep adding to this thread because damn I'm good.

Bluesky, we're close, right? I feel like I can be real with you. I could use some work. I'm a photographer and a filmmaker and I've been called "very good at it" by literally tens of people.

Technology should never have moved past this www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEt...

I just think that if you’re going to adapt an epic narrative poem into a film then you should remember that it’s an epic narrative poem when you’re writing the dialogue

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If only we were able to make active choices about what we read

loser shit

“Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!” Unbeatable tbh

New season of Taskmaster, updated list of Taskmaster fits, I don't make the rules buff.ly/9Y1nidf

We regret to inform you: loser shit

Going to be talking about my unbridled love for Theatre of Blood on Saturday

I get really pissed off whenever the "loads of human art is slop anyway" argument is made in relation to AI, even though I also get really pissed off when things are bad buff.ly/22G9sDE

If you like having ART on your WALLS, good news: @jamiedrew.bsky.social has finally set up a PRINT SHOP, please buy beautiful prints, tyfyt jamiedrew.front.photography

Loser shit

I've developed a new crank opinion and it is this: in a crossword, if the across word has a diacritic the down word should also use the diacritic, tyfyt

Trans people deserve to live long, fun, silly little lives and everyone who prevents that deserves to rot, tyfyt

Not to "everything's a distraction" but sometimes I feel like all the brutal and inhuman policy decisions are secondary to the fact that all these assholes are in it to get richer

The reason Russia eventually ended serfdom in the 1860s is that they relied on serfs for the military and the desertion rate was extremely high. Because why the fuck would anyone fight for a country that doesn't care about them.

The party of workers' rights!

This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate

The thing where JKR still insists that Imane Khelif is trans I think sums up her whole deal. She is past the point of being able to consider when she might be wrong; and if she can't do it about one person she'll never do it about her views as a whole

The English speaking west currently running a demonstration on the fact that democracy and extreme wealth inequality cannot coexist

Relieved to say that season two of Jury Duty is good, actually, goddammit you crazy sons of bitches, you’ve done it again

I have suggestions for an overhaul of the entire education system buff.ly/pVh3dop

these people are running the world

Jamie’s playing Wasteland 3, which has a lot of banger music in it, but this cover of The Battle Hymn of the Republic particularly goes off youtu.be/SQ2Wok70GLs?...

Watching this country lose its mind over the Greens starting to be relevant once again makes me yearn for proportional representation

We've been doing it in New Zealand forever, like, why wouldn't you want a cool bird on your tenner?

Important to note that this started to change when universities became nominally accessible to everyone, instead of just the landed gentry

We urge the government in the strongest possible terms to rule out legalising this large-scale theft. And to AI companies we say: stop stealing our books! buff.ly/cYnU2Mw #DontStealThisBook

...and represents the impact on authors’ livelihoods and the publishing industry that is expected if the government proceeds with plans it has floated that would make it easier to train AI models on copyrighted work without a licence. 🧵

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

Why is there always money for dumb fuck ideas like this and not for things that are actually useful

imo all international women should be given a thousand pounds

People saying "prove LLMs aren't conscious by defining human consciousness" are hilarious to me, like, no I can't explain that. What I can explain is how an LLM works. That's how I know it's not like human consciousness.