I am pretty fucking woke tbh.

You're sure "surreal" is the word you were going for? I mean, "existentially terrifying" is right there.

it’s hard to think of a bigger grift than the claim that predictive text aka gAI is ‘conscious’ and thus “deserve rights” like the ability to vote

ok I’m watching galaxy quest for the first time and why did no one tell me that it was like…..meta. I had always assumed it was just a straight up parody

The nice young lady in the German Kebab place in Stirling apologised that I had to wait so long and complimented me on my Napalm Death tshirt.

In the pub on my own and have left my bag while going to the bar. If someone decides to steal it they will be the proud owner of 5 Star Trek TOS novels that I bought from Oxfam and a John Coltrane CD. Quite a hoard!

Name of the Rose is my favourite monk book, precisely for the long digressions about heresy and church architecture.

Save this, it's perfect.

This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is hilarious. Orange Julius will blow a gasket if he sees this.

We don’t need AI to “be creative” for us; we need a world in which there is time and space to wonder, joke and play with words. To fuck around with color and texture, to experiment with an intriguing sound, without the need to immediately convert process and artifact into engagement to stay solvent.

I organized a pack of charity Christmas cards this year. This was one of my designs. Merry Christmas!

Conversation is annoying.

I loved this essay, and yup, I love this movie.

Will the king be talking about his horrible anus like his mum did that time?

Put The Greatest Story Ever Told on the telly thinking it was an adaptation of Atlas Shrugged that I'd somehow missed, only to discover it's actually some woke period drama about some bloke called Jesus! What is the world coming to, I ask you!?

It's maddening that liberals are still trying to fight fascism with rhetoric, moral appeals, claims of hypocrisy, mockery, and by working within the system. The fascists don't care. They're not playing your political games anymore. They control the system and they're actively using it to crush you.

What LLMs do is: - mind bogglingly impressive - a technical marvel - of relatively little use - not intelligence in any form It's possible for ALL these statements to be true and all, in fact, are.

Top ten names that would make a decent baby name if it wasn’t already the name of a medical condition or medication… 10. Amnesia 9. Rubella 8. Codeine 7. Malaria 6. Paxil 5. Alopecia 4. Bonjela 3. Aphasia 2. Typhus 1. Chlamydia

Put The Greatest Story Ever Told on the telly thinking it was an adaptation of Atlas Shrugged that I'd somehow missed, only to discover it's actually some woke period drama about some bloke called Jesus! What is the world coming to, I ask you!?

A real christian nation would literally invade the united states believing they were ruled over by the anti-christ. I don't think I'd call them wrong for it either.

*gasps and clutches laptop screen* GIVE IT ME

@sturdyalex.bsky.social this episode of my podcast was inspired by and makes reference to your excellent Podyssey episodes on Aesop youtu.be/a2uECqhrwTo

Lovely to meet @zackpolanski.bsky.social tonight - got a real sense of his humanity

Plea to stop using prehistoric monuments & peoples as a sub for present-day national identities. Past peoples are not ‘ancestors’, they had no idea of the concept of a nation-state & this archipelago has seen a lot of traffic since the last ice age

Boris who?

I don't use Facebook or Instagram any more cos I like some actual content interspersed with my adverts.

This is from six months ago. That's how "unexpected" the Walliams news is.

I just wrote 6.5k words about my struggles with words.

you know this car could go a lot faster if we glued down the gas pedal and cut the brake lines

God knows I’ve seen some headbangers on the internet but anyone who’s had the Terf avalanche knows they’re in a league of their own. The intensity of it is astonishing and once they’ve contracted it, it only gets more intense. A true mass hallucination, a wildly radicalising international psychosis.

So very true. Linux itself is now infinitely more usable for 99% of people (who don't require very specific software) than the most recent versions of Windows. Linux Guys are now *the* main barrier to entry for users.

I'm old enough to have seen a version of this story repeat over multiple decades. It's old and tired. It's also very gendered. If you're counting Coldplay as a rock act, and not counting Olivia Rodrigo, that's a you problem.

FLANDRY OF TERRA (1979) Acrylic on Board - 27 ½" x 16" This illustration differed from others at the time in that I used models. 1/3

It is obscene that Ince has been forced out of his non-news, non-politics-focused role at the BBC for opinions like "trans people should not be eliminated". Fucking monstrous.

HOLY SHIT I CAN REWIND LIVE TV!!!!

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

Pete and @alexlovelessartist.bsky.social examine AI model evaluation methodologies, comparing traditional machine learning metrics with the qualitative assessment challenges of large language models. Ada establishes that Alien is a horror movie rather than sci-fi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1B...

Agree or disagree?

PUDDINGS baked, boiled, fried, steamed, iced

"We are so close to 100,000 signatures. It is not the end of the fight to determine the extent to which our politics has been distorted by Russia but it’s an important step." via Peter Stefanovic petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB

How to be creative part 2 - Mo Art Mo Problems "Achievement can only occur where there is a challenge. That feeling that you’ve pushed your abilities that bit further, you’ve created something really interesting and unique and special." open.substack.com/pub/artagain...

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

"Put simply, if you’re obsessed about doing things right then you’ll always be doing something wrong and you’ll almost certainly end up doing the same thing over and over again." substack.com/home/post/p-...

I just decided that the title of my autobiography will be "A Long Boring History of Nativity and Misplaced Trust"