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Last saw Hockney's work at Saltaire a few years ago. Honestly, it was a mixed bag. But I also got the feeling he was making art for the purest reason, for himself. Some enterprising yoof was encouraged to make art.

AI/LLMs use nukes in 95% of simulations. www.kennethpayne.uk/p/shall-we-p...

Labour really doesn't want to lose that fascist, racist vote does it?

Deliberately obscuring AI generated content to hide it from people that don't want it is the same as hiding meat in vegetarian foods. Don't.

If you ever need motivation, remember that Adrian Chiles has somehow managed to get and keep his regular column in the Guardian. If you ever feel your ideas are useless, trivial, or as uninspired as an "isn't airplane food horrible" joke, know that somewhere there is a home for it.

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

Hey, yeah, I know twitter, Elon and Starmer are to blame for this mess, but let's not ignore the gleeful way the media report these incidents like the day that a dog turned up in the playground. Some grown up journalism would be nice.

I'm led to believe that the Prime Minister has actually issued a statement about last night's pogroms. But in order to read it you have to have an account on the combination far right propaganda/child abuse image website run by the US billionaire who has called for a fascist coup in Britain.

And if this government really cares about protecting children. All children. Then age checks are fine, I suppose, but banning X would be a massive step in the right direction. Of course they won't, because money.

Yeah. I left twitter the day Elon took over. But I didn't judge those who stayed behind. I get it, money. Social contacts. Sure. Now, however, I do judge. Every politician. Every celebrity. Every artist, comedian and academic. I'd you are not actively boycotting it, you support it.

Sometimes the point of art is that nothing happens. Sometimes the point of art is that it is difficult and inaccessible. Sometimes the point of art is that there is nothing to "get". These are not failures of art, but failures of the viewer to understand what they are looking at.

Despite all the ACAB rhetoric, everyone on the internet really wants to be the police.

RUSSIAN SECRET ANTI-GPS WEAPON REVEALED AS ‘END OF DAYS’ OPTION In 2024 scientists became puzzled by a second long interference in the GPS signal that spread from the NE US as far as the Polish border, Svalbard and North Africa. They soon noticed it was not just GPS, but the GLONASS, Baidou and

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Mandatory ID registration for every app developer? This is a dream for censors and a nightmare for privacy. Protect the open web and open mobile. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org

And yeah, I'm using the terms "media" and "consume" a lot today and I hate that. Books and read. Films and watch. That's character counts for you. Still, infinitely better than using the term "content".

And I think that represents a broader shift from media being about stories to being about the "consumer". Partially, I blame video games. Make the player the hero. The main character in their own story. The upshot is that media starts to become less of an empathy engine and more of an ego support.

Universities in 2024: it's all about community engagement research. We need to help support communities and community led work. Human interaction is meaningful and artistic expression is vital to the communities in engaging with their own narratives. Universities in 2026: Fuck that, AI is so cool.

Signed copies of ‘These Isles: A People’s History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales’ recently at the excellent Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Romiley.

That seems to be its own modern pandemic, consumers of media demanding versimilitude, rather than suspending their disbelief. Once saw a bad review because "there's no way someone could have made that journey in just two days, it would take at least three... Ruined the book for me".

Not just that, but he such a knack of saying, "yeah those guys I worked for were evil, no one told me, but now I've left, and stopped enabling them, I can totally see that."

Reminder that The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI

Ok, a thread. It's interesting that theatre is permitted to be resistant to this... Audiences treating their art as "content' whilst other forms of art, especially in the UK are actively encouraged to *become* that sort of content for the sake of "engagement". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think I might have to repost this daily instead of wearing an A-Board and hanging out in the town square. Beware, the end in nigh.

I love that people are like "Hollywood hates this new boom in indie films"... Not knowing that the system is still profiting massively from those films and that we have been here several times before as part of Hollywood's marketing cycle.

I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

We lost our way the second computers stopped being beige.

The survival of the left in the UK depends on a three party coalition of Lib Dems, Greens and whatever Labour turns into. The fact these three parties are more concerned raking chunks out of each other rather than fighting the real opposition highlights a tactical weakness and short-sightedness.

Lou Reed & Metalica's, LULU, is actually an artifact from our adventure into Bizarro World where they became The Fall and Mark E Smith was their downbeaten roadie. Other than that, that particular dimension was a utopia... still, it was enough to make us want to leave.

"Someone once said that if your mum can do it, it doesn’t have value" Wild unchecked misogyny in the Guardian today. Also, who the fuck said that, Roberto? I'm pretty certain it was you, just then. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Why is it always the privileged arseholes at the top of the arts sector that are demanding we "collaborate" with a technology that is based on the theft of our work and the colonisation of our employment? It's because they are not the ones threatened by it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

When I talk about what made me an artist, I often talk about the social influences and the access I had to books and art. But if I'm being really honest, it was Deluxe Paint II.

There's an image I can't shift. The British media chasing behind at the back of a riot, forming a line so that there is no retreat, all whilst saying, "look how awful this is".

Guys, maybe platforming Farage for years because he makes good telly wasn't such a good idea. If decent humanity and civic progress is dull, I want to be bored to death.

Innit weird how Coked-Up Rioters For Justice weren't lobbing street furniture when an actual serving police officer raped and murdered Sarah Everard?

This week's movie marathon: * Cool Runnings * Silent Running * Logan's Run * The Running Man * Run Lola Run * Chicken Run

I'll make it for £50. I mean, you just phone me with a question and I'll make up a bullshit answer, but the results are similar.

I like automatic message deletion because it stops people holding me accountable for the things I say and do. I wonder why they use it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you really want to appreciate something, like feel like you know it on as deep a level as possible… draw it. But remember to take your time.

AI is the high-fructose corn syrup of content. It's the mechanically reclaimed sausage filling of interaction. If you are a company that serves this to me, I can only assume you have contempt for me.

You should all be aware that stand up is the hot thing for live art right now. What that means is all the unfunniness of live art but with the "don't criticise my work it's who I am" of live art. Basically, a lot of middle class kids doing an "isn't airplane food awful" routine with smugness.

Just saw, "I can sing and act and I've just started with stand up... I'm a polymath".

They changed some default settings to stop kids being exposed to porn, and now _I'm_ *SUFFERING*. Although I do like the idea of referring to children as the "small demographic".

My favourite thing today is that whilst illegally scraping darkweb book archives like libgen, Meta probably included "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams in their own AI models. Good luck unpicking that you theiving dicks.

Are you referring to the book ‘Careless People,? The one Meta don’t want to see publicised? #CarelessPeople

My favourite thing today is that whilst illegally scraping darkweb book archives like libgen, Meta probably included "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams in their own AI models. Good luck unpicking that you theiving dicks.

Today in the Guardian, why this middle class thing we do is actually very hip, and you wouldn't have heard of it before.