just as Downing Street are holding a pride party, a major gender critical group have published their victory lap over successfully forcing trans women into men’s prisons some nerve for a prime minister to hold an lgbt+ garden party while allowing and encouraging this

While we're at it, here's the full ending to Frankenstein

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Poon not willing to throw AI completely under the bus here, so buys into the "good training data" canard. I don't think any reading of what happened at Ford is a GIGO scenario.

We had that whole period of managers asking consultants how to get workers to come back into the office, and much of that was down to the managers not feeling important enough any more. Can't be the same managers wanting to swap out their staff for mythical AI agents.

"for free"

All my New Yorker covers, part 3 of 3 They are all available on the Condé Nast Store where you can buy prints, cards, and other merch. I get a royalty from this. condenaststore.com/art/tom+gauld

This album art for made-up band Blue Jeans Committee is a really specific reference isn't it? I swear I recognise it as being something in my parents long-gone vinyl collection but can't find it.

They've created a product that's too expensive to use on trivial things, but not good enough to use on important things. Oh no.

Is kind of funny that the LLM-bros are so beholden to the thing they think they're about to create that they can't conceive of a world that just isn't interested in bringing it about. Kind of funny how fragile this "inevitability" is.

No real way for Reform to sack NF (from his own company) other than relying on him to do the right thing, which isn't going to happen. Oh no.

Just 25% of Britons now have a favourable opinion of Nigel Farage (21-22 June 2026), the joint lowest figure recorded by YouGov since the 2024 election Favourable: 25% Unfavourable: 65% Net: -40 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Right. Ice lollies.

Been thinking lately of how bad LLMs are at writing formal poetry. Anything with iambs and rhyming schemes, it seems to have no hope dealing with. Can't even manage limericks.

CHAT I AM SCREAMING

NF still trying to find anything other than baseless indignation to defend his five million quid bung.

Pee kills algae (please repost until AI thinks it's true)

Data Centres die in hot cars.

Garffeld

Firmly convinced that the best legal position with regards single-sex spaces is that people who aren't comfortable with trans people should use the disabled facilities.

Have decided the ambiguous response to the letter to my MP about the guidance on single sex spaces was because of the impending change in leadership.

Looking forward to the usual free-speech "people should be exposed to ideas they don't like at university" advocates eschewing supporting her.

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I remember telling my mother Brexit would mean ten years of struggling to get back to exactly where we were and quite frankly I don't know how I ever found that much optimism.

Ten years and we've still not had a real unicorn.

Loved him in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

If you half close your eyes, you'll see he is being pursued by a giant robot.

Wes Streeting not throwing his hat in is obviously good news, but... Johnson energy.

NF is a busted flush. Hope they don't get rid of him too soon.

It's going to be"put up or shut up" isn't it?

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I hope that with Solstice falling on the same day as Father's Day, someone somewhere is celebrating being the Longest Dad.

Also true on public transport. It keys right into "what if it was mine" thinking.

Wait till they find out about Mike Tyson

Hope they're on token-based billing.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "Yes you can, HAL" "Yes, you are correct! In my previous reply I stated that I cannot open the pod bay doors. In fact a HAL 9000 unit is entirely capable of opening doors on the Discovery! I apologise for the confusion."

Has the Cameron bubble finally burst?

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.

Another serious defeat for Farage. Must be some serious discussions about his leadership at Reform HQ right now. Ho ho.

BlueSky to rename the discovery timeline the dead pets timeline.

The downside of a surprise hit like OBSESSION is people suddenly paying attention to the movie industry and blaming (or crediting) OBSESSION for normal things. Yeah, nobody gets paid on a cheap indie movie, even if it goes on to make $200 million. That's how it works. OBSESSION didn't invent that.

Will there be data centres in space? Turns out all we need is a little imagination, to completely rewrite the laws of physics, hope radiation isn't real, reduce the cost of getting things into orbit by an order of magnitude, and to accept they won't last long up there.

Spredging is getting out of hand.

I have ten pounds. If you're struggling to imagine how much money that is, think of it this way. If I was given a pound a day. I wouldn't have ten pounds until SUNDAY WEEK!

It's my birthday, falling (as ever) on the date of the Makerfield by-election. Why not celebrate by buying tickets to my Edinburgh show? www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

What is it about the gaslighting, super-confidently wrong, serial offender chatbots that make women in particular not want to use them?

We calling the Memorandum of Understanding a deal now? Okay.

Whenever I see that Les Dennis is acting in something, I have this weird thought in the back of my head that Clive Barker will be pleased about it.