#AI chatbot #LLMs work on a session by session basis, providing falsehoods as standard. There's no way to tell if someone's seeding specific misinformation (e.g. via prompt injection) for a defined group of users like a local electorate. We'll probably never even discover intentional manipulation.

"In this way, AI does not disrupt literary taste so much as expose its furniture." Unlike the #Granta story in question, this is excellent writing on the problems of #AI and what it reveals about genre, paratext and how we read...

Tonguing the Bilingual Space: Hybrid Love Languages in 'For Me... Formidable' (1963) While Armenian tenor Shahnur Vaghinak Aznavourian—better known by his Franglicised stage name Charles Aznavour—never fully realised his ambitious synthesis of Shakespeare and Moliére, in this essay I shall...

Just changed all our machines over to DuckDuckGo. No #AI slop searches for us, thanks.

Eco-Socialist: sounds about right! Take the quiz here: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Hang on, surely this has to be conceptual art? #PostIronyCondition

Our definition of success as a band is a teenager finding our record at a second hand shop decades later and building their inner world around it.

Given this is an established, valuable local #museum, seizure seems... unnecessary. Surely the state could have claimed ownership in situ, mandating it not be moved or sold? This show of force benefits nobody but some warehouse company they'll have to rent storage from. nltimes.nl/2026/05/18/n...

Treat yerself... and everyone else who relies on independent music journalism!

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

Solidarity to the beautiful people of Palestine. The genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' continue, although the west — even those who temporarily paid attention — have largely decided to forget it's happening. #Nakba #Gaza

"Calming stations" Not historical malpractice. This was the *current* state of special education for ethnic minority children with additional needs in upstate NY until outed on social media a few months back.

This is a great little #FolkHorror yarn — vivid imagery in there, layering of times, tanglible sense of place, Wickery echoes...

Cats (1981): A music theatre piece celebrating the effects of toxoplasmosis on the human brain.

Neo-Victorianism in action. The UK has successfully returned to the Good Old Days, at least in terms of impoverished life expectancy.

This is the same in the arts and theatre world.

Communicating with Neurotypicals, Lesson 1: Playfulness—especially from adult males—is usually a coded dominance behaviour. Check for context clues signalling physical / sexual aggression, stereotypes about 'outsiders' etc. In the example below, the context is aggressive driving...

#FolkHorror for #Bealtaine! Celebrate international workers day by supporting the hard work that goes into writing books... and making albums on Bandcamp! lunatraktors.bandcamp.com

No burn quite like the cold fire of an #UrsulaLeGuin burn.

That reminds us! We've not shared our warped version of Teddy Bears' Picnic recently, inspired by a deeply cursed ice cream van that used to drive around Margate playing it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9pj...

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

New owlbum just dropped. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social have you heard it yet?

Great news everyone: I'm getting excellent scores on all these autism diagnostic questionnaires I'm doing.

This seems like an appropriate time to mention that large quantities of eels —when paying tithes to your local fenland abbey of Norman aristocratic interlopers, for instance — were counted in sticks (25 eels) and binds (10 sticks, 250 eels).

Play silly games, win silly prizes.

Tech bros: "We've invented artificial intelligence." John Scalzi: "That's just spicy autocorrect." Spicy Autocorrect: "Hello! I've made up those legal references you asked for, and also deleted all your emails and provided a million lines of buggy code for you to fix. You're welcome!"

So you want to do voice work, but (like us) you're feeling run down, post-viral and generally overwhelmed? Humming! Humming is the answer. Also yawning! And together — yawn-humming, or hum-yawning. Try it, it's nice.

"The Shadow Contract investigates how one of the most powerful surveillance companies in the world is being handed sweeping access to your NHS data - quietly and without your consent." Listen here 👇🏻

You watched [the movies] and sided with [the narration]. None of these films taught us to distrust the perspective we were shown (apart from Starship Troopers and look how that went).

Iraq war whistleblower Dr. David Kelly's death wasn't accidental. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

We worked with Libby Bove — #MuseumOfRoadsideMagic — to soundtrack her new short ROADWYTCH, showing in two megalithic events this May: 3.5— NeoAncients, Stroud (with @weirdwalk.bsky.social, @supersonicfest.bsky.social + many more) neoancients.com 10.5— Offbeat Folk Film Fest, London offbeat.film

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.

Stuppence, stuppence, stuppence a bag!

Ageing: the condition of becoming less serious about all you were once far too serious about and more serious about all that you once undervalued.

The #PostIronyCondition strikes again: what would have been absurdist satire in the 90s is current affairs now

Your voice—your beautiful voice—sounds like no other. You could mask your voice with vocoder. You could smooth it out with reverb and compression. You could mimic some American accent. You could—but so can anyone, even #AI. #Singers, #AudioEngineers, #MusicProducers — let us feel the real thing?

Excellent work on #AI — @olivia.science et al expose the uncritical, ahistorical framing of LLMs as radically new, instead of a development of chatbot technology. (Not to mention 'language machine' thought experiments pre-dating the birth of computing, e.g. Ramon Llull's 13th C. Thinking Machines.)

A large flatbed truck pulled up outside a remote immigrant detention center north of Los Angeles last month. On the truck bed, converted into a mobile stage, a band played protest songs. Huge speakers projected them loud across the desert landscape. (cont.) www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

New Tom Waits with Massive Attack. Devastating. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

Johnny Mains - the guy behind all those beautiful horror story anthologies - is 50 today! Give him a present...

Farewell to the beautiful, inspirational #MoyaBrennan: hers is the definitive version of Siúil a Rún for us. youtu.be/OxfxbdPNQvQ?...

You know things are weird in society (and your mind) when you're wondering if you "have the right to call yourself a disabled artist"... and you were born with one eye missing, and the other with serious issues! 😅🙄

I'm alive and watching the Knights Templar and a secular leader of Shia Islam defend a sitting Pope from heretical schismatics in the Thirteen Colonies. This is the kind of statement that gets people institutionalized.

So in the Bible, the Hebrew word most often translated as 'vanity' — hevel — actually means a puff of air, with the metaphorical meanings of unreliable, useless, vain, jumped-up or frivolous things. Coincidentally, we have a word in English with most of those meanings: trump.

Recently, on a beach near Hartlepool, 150 "somethings" turned up. What were those somethings? Vintage chemical weapons! One small crack in the casing away from bursting into flames hot enough to melt metal. Fun times. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, we're on an #Easter cruise with the parents and...

So, we're on an #Easter cruise with the parents and...

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

Seems an appropriate time to share 'Whitey on the Moon' youtu.be/wtSSP8FVUGY?... #ArtremisII #NASA #Moon

An important announcement for our clients and shareholders, concerning an exciting new direction for our brand. #AI #Cyber #Entrepreneur #CuttingEdge