RIP Robert Duvall. An incredible catalogue of work that people will revisit for generations to come. So it goes.

"...and that concludes our intensive three-day pitch to your employer and/or government"

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

This is such a brilliant and withering dismantling of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the entire Fennell schtick open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Threaddd!

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Just to reiterate that all you need to know about UK class system is that Lord of the Flies is read as a comment about human nature and not about how inept and bullying public school boys can be.

i often think about this review

Unbelievably infuriating that this is how these swine are finally going to deal with the long Labour ratfucking campaign in which *the same people* deliberately put their thumbs on the scales in a general election campaign.

Graeme from Dogs Behaving Very Badly is just Keir Starmer for dogs, isn't he?

Roses are red Vermicelli is thin

I see Wes Anderson directed this

this is a metaphor for waking up and logging on

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Gump Roast is on Channel 4, and might be in the running for Worst. Simpsons episode. Ever. Except that it ends with this. youtu.be/swpdhGPXeUk

To make your Emerald Fennell name just combine your favourite gemstone with your favourite misspelled vegetable. Mine is Jasper Carrott.

Jason Statham is set to play Jason Statham in Jason Statham Stole My Bike, a new action-comedy from Bullet Train director David Leitch. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Thinking about the old Cracked thing with Michael Bay's "The Great Gatsby" today for no reason, no reason at all. web.archive.org/web/20130122...

Ghost is on ITV and it's still great and it's only just struck me how much Tony Goldwyn looks like an evil Michael Cera in this.

Just a couple years ago it was "have fun being poor," "your job is going away, you're being replaced loser," "you better reskill because this is the only thing that matters now." So yeah I'm hostile to the idea and I think everyone into it is a thief and a loser

According to The Wannadies, Ewan McGregor's middle name is 🎵 ME ALWAYS AND 🎵

Holy shit. Ro Khanna fucking did it. He just went up there and read the six redacted names into record and threw down the gauntlet, challenging conservatives to join the fight against the "Epstein Class." Did we just see our generations' "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" moment?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

Dude The guy that wrote this news article was fucking DONE aftermath.site/steam-machin...

voice on tape: HELLO DIPSHIT you: oh no. i got captured by Mean Jigsaw voice: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME. OR ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING POOR you: Mean Jigsaw stop

Yes, that is certainly one way to describe what has happened there. Another and more accurate description would be “teamed up in secret with the press to launch an insane jihad of hatred and destruction against his colleagues, working to ensure that his party lost to Boris Johnson’s Tories”.

us millennials & gen x don't want to say so but atm it's probably K Pop Demon Hunters. The dust may settle differently in a few more years but in terms of its surprise impact & showing gatekeepers the rewards that can come from risks & new IPs I think it's that.

*Bruce Springsteen recording early demo* Everything dies, baby, that's a fact/ But maybe everything that dies someday comes back/ Put your chain mail on, get your crucifix ready/ We’re going to fight the Dracula of New Jersey

As a fucking parent TALK TO YOUR FUCKING KIDS THEN. Worried they'll see porn? Talk to them about porn. Worried they'll see gore? Talk to them about gore. Worried they'll get groomed? Talk to them about red flags and cultivate trust with them so they won't feel they have to hide things from you.

And you won't be able to do anything about it because all that time ago, you signed away your likeness to some AI image software to see how you would look as a sentient chess piece or whatever the fuck it is you're all doing this week.

In 2-3 years, you will see a video advert which you are in. You're drinking the latest flavour of PringleJUICE™!, the new drinkable crisp. You watch yourself devour it, lick your lips, pat your belly and then shout "I'm full to the brim of this juuuuicy Pringle™!".

Guillermo del Toro must be bouncing that the fucking Minions beat him to making a Lovecraft movie.

Ed Balls "People say McSweeney was the man who transformed Labs prospects from disaster to victory" @hackneyabbott.bsky.social "This idea that McSweeney was an election genius ignores the figures.. in '24 the Lab vote was more or less the same as '19. What happened was the Tory vote split"

NB there is no Labour Liz Truss

I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever

I'm on one of these...!

MMMBop (4,4)

Three layers of this that made me laugh so hard: 1. Coronation Street is now on Disney+ 2. They have it listed as “1960-2026” 3. It has a total of five episodes, all from last week

That ChatGPT thing going round Instagram where you ask it to create a photo of you based on everything it knows about you is making me want to tear my hair out.