In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

I've always wanted an answer, but I never dreamed it was This good!

Wow... I've read her letter (which she wrote using AI 🤮) and allll the comments underneath it (including her many many clarifications of said letter), and it's so unintentionally hilarious. 🫠 My reply to her:

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Great piece by @chuckwendig.bsky.social

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

The Inequality in Hollywood is SHAMEFUL.

unironically a good idea

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

I am style I am grace I am

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"

I've seen over 700 Pre-Code movies, and hands down Sing and Like It (1934) has to be the funniest so far. A cast entirely made up of character actors, which may have something to do with how good it is. But the script by Marion Dix and Laird Doyle is chock full of gems I'll share in the next days.

When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.

Rob Reiner will forever live on in his quotes about the orange shitstain clown sitting in the Oval Office. Was proud having him as a member of #Resist. RIP dude.

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

Finally someone else saying it.

This is my favourite of the pieces we've published to date. It's something that needs to be said far more loudly and far more often.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

From Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Even more of a mensch than I knew - produced John Sayles and Richard Linklater, as well as the only good Stephen King adaptations and the only good romcoms not by women (The Sure Thing and The Princess Bride) as well as with women ( When Harry met Sally and the Before films ). TY Rob Reiner.

🚨 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

2026 is to be the year of Chaos

men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”? baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years “more airtime” is hilarious

Sapphire and Steel have been assigned...

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

terrifying if true! Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns

*Hair styling*

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare." - Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938

Hey fellow old people! C'est la Vie by B*Witched was released in 1998. 27 years ago. 27 years before 1998, the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was released in 1971. #spéirghorm #LateLateToyShow

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...

Just seen the most brilliant satire in years - The American Society of Magical Negroes. I howled - want to make it compulsory viewing in schools. Will buy physical copy before it gets disappeared.

Just... a little snack snack...

Top 3 book of the year. Avoid amazon if you can. Discount is on ALL ebooks

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be. You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Suspending music courses will have a devastating impact on musical life at the University, as well as future courses, job, and career opportunities across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands 👇 Read our open letter to the University

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people. If only there were a word for such a party.

You would never know from any reporting that men are much more likely to be the victims of violence from strangers

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.