Pessimistic reading: the green paper is so broad because the secretary of state has no interest or grip on the brief so this spits out as 'IDK, you tell us'.

the bit in this that makes me bristle is the idea that the bbc should be making content for youtube - because they know that youtube keep a cut of the monetisation, right? so they're saying that the british public should fund content that makes a private company more money?

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

What a story.

Happy 100th birthday to legendary actor, comedian, and hoofer Dick Van Dyke. Watch his moves in THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW all day on Pluto TV Classic TV Comedy: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

'Hello. Your Prime Minister speaking. I've nothing to say about a baseless foreign attack on my colleague, Mayor of London so why not ask me about bus shelter conservation in Sheringham?' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this killed me

The Disney AI deal pretty much confirms the direction that I thought big studios would go: make themselves purveyors of IP for the machines. In their minds, it’s a way to generate money without pesky actors or directors or critics.

This cat is entirely innocent of all Christmas-tree related crime. There's no evidence that the tree simply did not fall over by itself and the cat just happened along afterwards.

The ”Women fight for Conrad Veidt” slogan was very real and used to market the formerly German, newly-minted British film star, recently released after being detained by the Nazis

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."

THE CAT AND THE CANARY, a delightful old dark house mystery, included plenty of thrills. Tully Marshall falls victim to the classic murder mansion blunder-- never ever hesitate to say the name of the probable suspect!

In the future, we'll have flying cars and nuclear fusion and nanobots that cure cancer! The actual future: 😑

Brilliant piece by @mjrobbins.com on the Oxfordshire rubbish dump - and what it says about the failure of state institutions and rising sense of lawlessness. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/rubbish-mo...

The only Die Hard discourse worth your time is “Die Hard is Alien from the Xenomorph’s point of view”.

seeing older art of breeds really drives home the horrible things we've done to essentially good little beasts. this little guy has a snub snout but definitely not as flat as some of the poor little guys have these days

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."

Tonight! Premiere 9pm. 📽️ Directed by #JeanLucGodard BREATHLESS (1960) starring #JeanPaulBelmondo #JeanSeberg New-wave crime drama in French with English #TPTVsubtitles

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their first proper team up, DUCK SOUP (no relation). They play, ahem, gentlemen of leisure on the run from the forest service, which is attempting to press the homeless into fighting fires. The basic plot was later remade in their talkie ANOTHER FINE MESS.

Late to my own party - should have mentioned ages ago that I'm delighted to have story wrangled on this worldscreen.com/tvkids/spotl...

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

A government that keeps talking about how bad its inheritance is but really hasn't, at any point, absorbed just how bad its inheritance is. (Which has partly led to it making its inheritance *harder* to fix in some places)

Bloody hell. After 3 successfu years, I’ve just lost #Whamageddon and it’s not even December.

Interesting (if you have #LongCovid) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

The Inquiry report states that by October 2020 the government was sufficiently well aware of the scale and severity of #LongCovid and should have incorporated the risk of LC into decision making, as well as communicated the risk of long term sequelae to the public. They failed us.

An Australian, tasked with explaining this to people from another country: "Yeah, nah. Can't."

We begin today with a content warning: this dispatch from history is not for the faint-hearted. However, if you wish, do please join me for the tale of the Sun King’s anal fistula and the three-hour operation performed on it without anaesthetic on this day in 1686... 🧵

THREAD. I love old Habitat catalogues & managed to get hold of all the 70s ones before they got v pricey & collectable. Flicking through them, I wondered: "What are the true stories of the lives of the people in these photos?" So I decided to write those stories. You'll find them in the alt text.

#LongCovid in The Independent today about the new #teamclots paper that shows clear biological abnormalities involving microclots + immune activation. Let's unpack the findings 👇 1/

Just been reminded of the Crackerjack team attempting XTC’s Making Plans For Nigel, which I’m sure Andy Partridge would agree is the the definitive version youtu.be/n5LrRlR2Epo?...

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Boosting this for the not-up-ridiculously-early-on-a-Sunday crowd. Creatives! Can YOU donate an item to the #Creatives4Sudan auction? Could be signed books, original art, a phone call talking about how to get into your industry, or [insert your idea]. Funds going Emergency response rooms in Sudan.

I think we all know that the Ai rewrite of the New Testament as prompted by studio algorithms and audience test screenings has Pilate pardoning Jesus, apologizing for the misunderstanding and crowning him King of the Jews at the royal palace. Also, add a hot love interest for the Savior.

chicago pope been reading up

Coming soon! Premiere Saturday 22nd November 9:05pm NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Classic Italian comedy-drama directed by #FedericoFellini Original Italian with English #TPTVsubtitles

Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:

“Words are more important than wisdom,” said one privately. “Numbers are more important than wisdom,” thought the other to himself. And they grew to dislike each other more and more.

#BanjoAunti here with “Poor Rosy” What I love about this tune is that the shifting major to minor key illustrates the multi-layered nature of these people’s lives back in the time of enslavement.

This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

please, tv writers, i beg you stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!

My last word on the matter

At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves

Utterly shattered, so watched a 1963 ep of Sergeant Cork on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. It's talky, the sets sometimes creak and the odd lines is fluffed but it delivered a cracking detective story covering corrupt MPs, pornography, prostitution and women's rights, *live*, in under an hour.

We are annoyed by the BBC because it in fact embodies precisely what it is to be British now: Cursed by a legacy of institutions & led by a whimpering class of fearful idiots constantly harassed by a hostile media.

I really shouldn't share bad ai, but the fact that they're pretending to have animated it all by hand is extraordinary. Anyone who has done digital animation will be flabbergasted at the audacity.

applying for jobs again