You might want to mute @laurenmillar.bsky.social and me for a few days, it’s going to be unbearable

This is the best feeling.

I guess when you think about it 'Muppet Christmas Carol' does make sense. Just surprised is all.

In Skyfall (2012) Bond (Daniel Craig) goes to a garage and drives out in the Aston Martin DB5 last driven by Bond (Sean Connery) in Thunderball (1965). It's not a fucking documentary.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

We’re just innocent men

oh wow

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

How much was the lemon he just sucked?

It always comes as a shock to see one's work properly fact-checked when one is not used to it. I started to wonder, is my surname really spelled '–ar' at the end? Could I find my birth certificate? Wonderful to read so attentively, though, and so seriously. Once at least.

Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

I think that this might be the greatest fucking thing I've seen in my life

Harold Offeh, Head of our MA Contemporary Art Practice is an artist engaging with the world through the possibilities of play. In his first solo retrospective, Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet at Kettle's Yard, Offeh looks back at 20 years of work. www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the November Pogrom or the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of violent antisemitic attacks which took place across Germany on the 9-10 November 1938. The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms. 🔗 buff.ly/COGS9AJ

Labour Party: We must be the worst politicians in any Western democracy. Democrats: Hold my be… *drops beer, steps on broken glass, bleeds to death*

Only one episode into Pluribus and already hooked

lol she got his ass and he knows it

How he can be reffing a Brighton match defies belief

You’d never know that this ref was from West Sussex

I wish pundits and co-commentators would stop describing it as ‘being clever’ but rather ‘cheating’.

#WATCH | The Israeli army sprays sewage water on homes in the West Bank. Do they ever run out of ways to humiliate Palestinians ?

An interestingly critical review of Parr’s work

If you think he's going to make a sequel then you've another thing coming

It seems that Ballad of a Small Player is another bad film I've seen this week.

Why the Humanities are Important: an ongoing series

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Lee Dorrian has had quite the glow-up

Exactly right. To be fatalistic in the face of this is negligent, at the very least. I wonder if the thought of being accused of legal culpability might focus the minds of a few VCs, or Council members.

Extraordinarily, the BFI player on my TV has been updated and now it is even worse to use. And still no watchlist.

If you think he's going to make a sequel then you've another thing coming

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Does anyone know what the legal jeopardy is for a UK institution to encourage people, for whom it has a duty of care, to use a tool if it then causes them grievous harm? Negligence? I mean, obviously it's morally wrong.

Sam Altman should be charged with murder.

I love him even more

Cy Twombly, By the Ionian Sea, Naples 1988 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137298

I love them

Fanny and Susan (Sukey) Howe, c1945

Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’ on.ft.com/3JH3iYW

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem

What a queen

Also, my younger daughter (Sixth Form) told me yesterday that they recently has a consultation on AI use in their school, and at the assembly on Monday to present the results, the teacher in charge said, 'So I've gathered your submissions, put them into AI, and made a video of the results.'

Met a friend (and former colleague) today who teaches in an art school and he told me that a lot of their undergraduates refuse to engage with any tasks they're given if they involve the use of AI *in any way at all*, so even if they don't have to use it but the tutor has.

Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI | Official Trailer 🌹 ✨ Mark your calendars! The first-ever TV series from Wong Kar Wai — visionary director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS — will premiere exclusively on our streaming service, The Criterion Channel, on November 24 at 8pm ET.

I enjoyed this show enormously, and while I hope you enjoy the photographs in the thread below, they cannot do justice to the lusciousness of the paint. But, it is a rather small show, and it is also rather expensive, so if you are thinking of going, do check if you are eligible for a concession.