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#BrokenVeil Episode 6 OUT NOW Patreon.com/brokenveil

I just learned that Richard O'Brien posted his original ROCKY HORROR demos on Bandcamp, and it just sounds like a legendary lost folk punk album. Like if you told me this was actually Neutral Milk Hotel or @evangreer.bsky.social, I'd probably believe you. richardobrien.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...

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The latest issue - Viz 356 - is in the shops now. Sorry no refunds.

Street cleaner on his phone: I don't meet like minded people. I don't meet any people. And if I do, I don't like them.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I wasn’t sure if they could, or should do it again. But they have, and they have, and it is magical.

‘I Set Up a Fake Far-Right News Channel to Interview Reform UK Candidates and This Is What They Told Me’ The Reform hopefuls were quick to condemn scandals supposedly overseen by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, without realising they were actually condemning the actions of…

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW #BrokenVeil Patreon.com/brokenveil

A pep talk in the face of despair. “Things can always get better, but it doesn’t happen via inertia. It happens because a lot of people tried.” [dansinker.com]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Short version: yes, buttons are getting worse. Long version: by and large, apps and programs and websites these days are effectively dumb terminals -- when you click a button they do no processing on their own, and instead send the data to a central server, which sends a response back. (1/4)

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Maldon and Tiptree FC owners Drewitt-Barlows charged with human trafficking

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

This is now happening. BBC Four to repeat A Very Peculiar Practice for its 40th anniversary on Wednesday 20 May. Includes a new intro from Andrew Davies. #AVeryPeculiarPractice

NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that "paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens". It establishes a benchmark for others. Can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the UK?

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

If you're a freelancer in the UK and your clients are not paying you on time, you are entitled to charge them interest. You can refer them to the Late Payments Directive. www.gov.uk/government/p... And you can calculate what you're entitled to here: dontpaylate.uk

AI's most spectacular inaccuracy about one of my books remains this effort from Musk's Grokipedia. (I have indeed written a book called 'Like a Fiery Elephant', but it's a biography of the experimental novelist B S Johnson.)

Lots of deliciously dismaying details in this but nothing sums up the billionaire mindset like “attend one orchestra rehearsal as an audience member and believe as a result that you are being groomed to become its next music director”

Ooh nice review of Broken Veil in the Observer observer.co.uk/culture/audi... @gralefrit.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social

Oh and... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWG6...

'We’re all, quite literally, inside the “walled gardens” of tech firms from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep – and, in many cases, even while we’re sleeping.' Matt Gallagher, via Byline Times

How informed are Reform UK's new hopefuls about their own party? Chris Atkins set up a fake channel, 'Patriot News UK,' and engaged in some mild subterfuge to find out.

Excellent work with Reform UK's candidates from Chris Atkins of ‘Patriot News UK’

One moment you're thinking that Broken Veil is The Esse-X-Files, the next, you're too busy shivering to think anything much. Excellent, wonderful, spooky. #brokenveil

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Delighted to see that Rob Curry's film about Doc Rowe, that great observer of British folk traditions, is getting its world premiere at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. I think it's going to be a real treat for anyone who has a soft spot for odd local customs and celebrations.

Listening to a podcast interview with David Lynch from a couple of years ago, and I think I might need to set this excerpt as my phone alarm and/or ring tone:

2026 now officially forecast to be permanent death-birth crossover year Gap will only get wider from now Migration only source of population growth - but a lot less of it than was projected last time

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The Death of Spotify, or why streaming is "minutes away from becoming obsolete"

Excellent advice, Earthlets! "The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books": https://bit.ly/4vYcU4U

Was Kenneth Connor really Kenneth Commie? We investigated back in episode 3 of PantoSplaining... youtu.be/FGxDcyvdJF0?...

Tippi Hedren with her pet lion, Neil, 1971

“Tony! You saved us all from … from doomsday!” “You’d think, right?” Dying look down the camera

New in. The National Theatre joins my Brutalist Collection. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...