I spent the morning interviewing the Claude LLM for my Masters degree dissertation that interrogates Anthropic's claims (see Claude's Constitution) for the LLM's psychological well being. I'd been keen to hear from anybody else researching techno-anthropomorphism, marketing & psychology.

Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women is out in paperback this week! A brand new forward. The same memoir and interviews with 50+ of Britain’s most well known women with physical and mental health conditions. Pre-order here and it might even arrive early: linktr.ee/WhoWantsNorm...

Trump has managed to right royally (pun intended) piss off all the Catholics and Muslims in the same week. What major voting blocs will he pursue next?

One for you Nic, from the inestimable @anneapplebaum.bsky.social who knows way more about this than I ever will. I'm holding fire a former member of Fidesz who only left in 2024 when he sniffed the way the wind was blowing. That said, great riddance to Orbán! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don’t have much faith in a former ally of Orban bringing a liberal, open, cloud dreamy new world to Hungary.

Ah that reminds me, the stock markets are open again tomorrow morning

Ooooh, he did over Venezuela for the oil that would enable him to do over Iran for the oil.

Arggghhh! Who commissioned this piece of crap? Should you be kind to your Strimmer? Should you be courteous to your air fryer? Fuck off fuck off fuck off!!

Hahahahaha dickhead.

Holy hell

“AI has all the world’s existing knowledge”. That is complete and total bollocks. But I have read exactly that, and variations of it, on here. To reiterate: it’s bollocks. Dangerous bollocks. Frightening bawbaggery.

The next verse of The Thoughts Leaders' Never Ending Epic Poem has dropped: Verse XI “This is the rules of writing”. Real things said by people in the Public Domain mostly about AI but also just BizBS occasionally interlaced with non-PD lines. Enjoy! humabein.com/the-thought-...

Please say he’s not so mad that he’ll use nukes.

Knock knock Who’s there? A chicken. A chicken who? A chicken just crossing the road. Why? Why what? Why are you crossing the the road? To see Who’s on First. Why? No, Wise on Third. How can you tell an Ai from a human? Zero humour.

Of all the Donald Trump tweets Speaker Mike Johnson won't see, today's will be the one Speaker Mike Johnson didn't see the most.

Zero AI. He’s lost his f****ng mind.

He’s lost what’s left of his mind then.

I have an abscess in/on one of my tooth. It’s bloody agony. I’ve received 26 job rejections (plus all the ghosting). I’m scared about how much the dental work will cost, but more terrified about how long the wait will be. I’m a UK citizen in the UK. FML.

Yay! Somehow I managed to make a Democracy for Sale podcast on Apple (also on Spotify, and will try to do on other platforms) Latest episode is Alan Rusbridger on GB News. Do follow! 😊 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Disingenous interview Palantir founding *ideological* commitment & is aligned to a US administration with conception of the west which sees migration and diversity in Europe as "civilisational erasure" That's not "above politics" - Mosley can't ride both horses www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

“Big bombs that look impressive when their explosions are broadcast on TV certainly kill a lot of civilians. The recurring lesson of the last 50 years is that rarely does that deliver a meaningful victory.”

This is what passes for local journalism as published by Newsquest. www.yorkpress.co.uk/eatingout/25...

Bondi Beached.

Hegseth’s spokesperson has categorically denied the report and called on the Financial Times to retract it.

I keep reading “threat” as “treat” and my life feels loads better. In reality though…

The very latest verse of 'The Thought Leaders’ Never Ending Epic Poem' has become, it is sentient, it exists at the intersection of live, love, barf. Read on. humabein.com/the-thought-...

Good taste, bad taste? Your local AI-vangelist zealot is trying to weaponise it to make themselves sound more, well, tasteful. And, as usual, they're totally missing the point.

It is genuinely abhorrent that a major festival would choose to book a headliner who released "Heil Hitler" *less than a year ago*. The muted outcry to it is truly chilling, too. We are deep into an antisemitism crisis that too many people want to ignore or deny.

I bet you can guess who some of the biggest investors are going to be. The worst of the worst, hoping to live forever. www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

So, The King is going to be visited by Charles and Camilla then? Nice.

This feels very much like Stalin turning up at a Moscow Show Trial to keep a loving and paternal eye on the Comrade Judges so they could make free and fair decisions based ideologically on the Will of the People. (I don’t think even Uncle Joe did that) www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Let me get this right: Dad jokes, which are teeth grindingly dull, are A-OK. But April Fools’ Day, a celebration of the imagination and also a gauge of gullibility, the roots of which are lost in time, are “…so Boomer. Ew. Icky.“ (and adults saying, “Ew. Icky” to other adults is acceptable?)

Swearing is a good and natural expression of humanity untethered from artificial, class and power-based strictures. Now something more insidious is entering the censorship hierarchy. humabein.com/bad-language...

The next verse of "The Thought Leaders' Never Ending Epic Poem" has dropped. And the hard truth is... Beware of your value because the shit is… sorry shift is happening fast. humabein.com/the-thought-...

The new verse of the Dada 'Thought Leaders' Never Ending Epic Poem' is here. Constructed from actual things said in public by Thought Leaders about Ai and business, with occasional inputs from us. Part VII: Claude is your friend, he gives you candy stolen from babies. humabein.com/the-thought-...

Very encouraging news all round. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Banging a carriage return/line break between each sentence does not increase readability. To believe it does is lazy and is also a misreading of research, mostly by experts in digital accessibility who have done actual testing… more in Humabein, the place for Humabeins. :) humabein.com

Let’s Go Mets!

Trump’s been jabbering at the White House, alongside Rubio and Hegseth: “Obama chose Iran over Israel.”

Verse VI of the Never Ending Poem has 'dropped'. Real lines taken from the Ai and BizSpeak communities in the public domain, occasionally laced together with our own lines. Here's a flavour. humabein.com

King ‘Leer’ but where is Cordelia when we need her?

Bruce is correct; if someone comes offering you "agentic" gifts, then de-fenestrate them.

A new verse in the Never Ending Anti Ai Poem has 'dropped'. I sweated gin to get this done. Someone should probably read it. Share and Enjoy! as Douglas Adams would say if he'd read it, probably, possibly. That's not the point. humabein.com/the-never-en...

Read my writing because it’s good. timwrite.net

Bit of Ruskin, bit of Levin, zero Ai. Share and enjoy! timwrite.net/the-creative...

Just watched Venezuela beat the USA in the World Baseball Classic. (The Baseball World Cup… the REAL World Series) I do so love baseball. #LGM

Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

R.I.P. Len.

I occasionally revisit this place. Every time I do, I have more followers. All of them are bots of one kind or another. What happened here?