I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Holding up my four leaf clover for Ken Burns to adapt World War Z.

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime. And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

I sometimes wonder if Charles Fort, chronicler of bizarre coincidences & strange places, ever visited Charles Fort in County Cork. heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...

Well, that's not inspirational 😂

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

The one that got away (he had the rights for years)... Ridley Scott's The Forever War

Surveys that find British young adults have high levels of Christian belief & practice have two things in common: 1. They survey opt-in panels that accept volunteers. 2. They don't make the underlying survey datasets publicly available for researchers to analyze.

The way to decide something like this is to ask is there any chance I would change their minds? No. You would just lend your authority to a platform to give them some publicity. And WTF does Gove know about AI?! (obligatory @stephencollins.bsky.social I wrote 3 articles about fighter jets reference)

Mar 5th 1857 - Carlotta Valdes, the mistress of a wealthy man, took her own life after he cast her aside, keeping their child, once she'd given birth. 📽️📅 Vertigo (1958)

Let’s replace “my spirit animal” and “my patronis” and “my Harry Potter house” with “my tardis companion”

Mar 5th 1980 - Ted Striker, an ex-fighter pilot and traumatized war veteran, saved the lives of everyone on-board Flight 209 after the flight crew became sick with food poisoning. The date was mentioned in Airplane 2 (1982) 📽️📅 Airplane! (1980)

Earth is an alien planet...

Bring a Powerpoint 🤣

Praise be! It’s the 91st anniversary of Lucile Bogan recording surely the filthiest song in history: Shave ’Em Dry. She worked in the ‘dirty blues’ genre, known for innuendo-heavy lyrics, but Lucile was the sort of person who knew writers who used innuendo, and thought they were all cowards 🧵

Paternal died before I was born, no idea. My maternal grandfather was a cable puller on Gravesend Docks, aside from a stint of teaching PT to RAF recruits in WWII. He had to have both little fingers amputated in later years to use his hands, due to them staying curled up because of work RSI.

When you look at what Barry Windsor-Smith could do with the four colour process you're left wondering why this isn't hanging in a museum next to Monet.

No Kindles. Got it Boss.

Sad to hear Gary Leeds has died, the last remaining Walker Brother. Always loved the Walkers, and I'm partial to a bit of his solo stuff with The Rain... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZ...

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise. this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

⚠️ We have serious concerns about Dr Alastair Miller running a GP course for MECFS Diagnosis & Management for Pulse Today. Miller is: 🔹ex-chair of BACME 🔹reviewer of PACE 🔹GET researcher 🔹anti-NICE 🖇️ tinyurl.com/muvtjbda 📧 [email protected]

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

Something very funny about Trump shattering American power by running out of weapons losing an unpopular war he started for no reason. Like, we all knew this was the final season for the Pax Americana, but that’s a heck of a swerve. Hats off to the writers’ room.

Actual quote: “Unfortunately, AI models are not perfect,” the spokesperson said.

At least a couple people have replied that this is happening where they live - *and I had no fucking idea*. Y'all, we need to be louder. Yes, I know, that fucking guy got dog-walked into a war to bring on Armageddon, I GET IT, but if the apocalypse DOESN'T happen we want to be able to LIVE HERE.

By god that's Adam Curtis's music

it freaks me out that so many public figures and news broadcasts can only mourn the loss of American lives. it feels simultaneously jingoistic and condescending—as though they all think that’s the only thing we care about.

Goodnight from Ben Knight, wondering if there’s a special god he can pray too that will reward him with Aurora Monster Scenes model kits. Goodnight from Clive Farley, sleeping in a burnt out Ford Consul on Gutridge waste, surrounded spirits curious about his dreamt terrors. Goodnight from Hookland.

Paddington: Beyond Thunderdome

God, she must go through so many knife blades! I’ve tried paper cutting and it’s difficult, it takes a steady hand, a meticulous approach and real skill.

I'll be meditating on this line for a while: "From now on, the body of the case report will specifically state that the case is fictional."

Hey y'all, in case it wasn't clear, just a heads-up: This "cancel chatgpt" thing isn't principled, it's inter-corporate sabotage nonsense— one "AI" faction taking shots at another "AI" faction to try to capture cultural cachet in the face of shifting sentiment regarding one company in particular. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis

It's wild to me that governments around the world are cracking down on porn while simultaneously going all-in on this demonstrably dangerous tech

voice of experience: Spain is familiar with what happens when you let a far right leader take over, build an authoritarian state and control things until he drops dead

Hmmm. Netanyahu has framed fighting "international terrorism" (but only Islamic) as a battle between the West's "democratic values" and Satanic forces ever since the conference he held with US neocons in 1979. That was to commemorate his brother, killed in the Entebbe raid. This is a propaganda gift

today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I was surprised to discover I had an #OpenAI account. Must have registered years ago. I closed it immediately. Less than 30mins later I started receiving spam/phishing emails from US-based debt collectors who imply I owe money. Debt collectors who boast of being "powered by AI Machine Learning"

once again we fold our arms and glare at reality, mumbling things like 'bit on the nose, consider revising'.

Mar 4th 1909 - Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's end of term. Mortimer Brewster's brother, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, believes it's March 4th when Mortimer tells him to pack in preparation for moving him to Happy Dale asylum. 📽️📅 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

LOL.

when you fold the other corners it makes a swastika — but that's probably nothing to worry about

When you see, say, a book or game promoted here, do you see the artist's name? If not, ask! Let publishers, magazines & so on know you demand human-hearted art. Artists need visibility. Please, #StopTheSlop & pay humans instead! It's not hard to find artists to engage. Here's one for starters:

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank bsky.app/profile/why....

Never kill joy. Whimsy fucking matters, especially when the world is as shit as it is. Being an adult means you can put stickers on your computer, you can paint your nails silly colours, you can wear Mr. Blobby socks, whatever. Don’t ever put anyone down for doing something fun or silly.

the ai slop on captcha is so physically repulsive

Not a single thought behind those eyes. Must be nice!

Dear Apps I have noticed that many of you have decided you know better than me, specifically when it comes to notification sounds, and have now added your own unique notification sounds instead of the one I've chosen myself You need to fuck off with that shit Best, Seej