This is what ‘AI’ is for. More of this please. And less of that other thing.

At this point an extinction-level meteor strike would be a mercy.

Petition to rename AI as artificial conversations. I dunno, just trying to think of something that might help get us out of this hole.

Move fast and break things is only ethical for things that can afford to be broken for a bit. Which excludes most public services. By all means move fast and break Netflix. But not a benefits payment or healthcare system.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Taught us indie kids how to dance is right. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Who knew Trump still had any lines to cross?

For my content design folks. This is why our jobs matter and why they aren’t as easy as they look.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

I hope this tanks Ray Ban’s brand.

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The BBC and the NHS might need colossal reform but god we’ll miss them if that’s used as an excuse to dismantle them.

This BBC crisis worries me more than it should on the surface. Because it implies our key institutions are already more captured by the far-right / MAGA than it looks.

You know you’re a shit leader when you can’t even resign over the right thing.

Delighted with the New York result. But New York is not Clacton any more than London is Clacton.

Now watching. Crikey this dialogue is pacey. I’m exhausted!

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

Last outing for this street name warning.

Eww the Bluesky app icon has gone horrible. Important news given everything else in the world is fine.

Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?

Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?

Hall of fame entry in the shit toilet signs category.

Trump’s childish pettiness has no bounds.

AI slopping Brad Pitt into Daniel Kaluuya’s body in a movie about white people stealing black people’s bodies is 🧑‍🍳💋👌

“No, I don’t see any need to pay for a designer”

But what if I *like* cultural incoherence? Cultural coherence sounds terribly dull.

I can’t say ‘this’ enough times for this ⬇️. LLMs are amazing. They can do amazing things. But they’re useless-to-dangerous for the things most people are using them for. Let AI solve complex drug discovery problems and whatnot. Don’t use them as friends or therapists or encyclopaedia.

I may or may not walk five hundred miles And I may or may not walk five hundred more Just to be the man who may or may not have walked a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door - The Disclaimers

It always comes down to this in the end.

I’m so tired

@timclare.bsky.social hugely enjoying your book! And delighted to see my pet deck (merfolk) get a mention alongside @tolariancommunitycollege.com in the CCG chapter 🧜

Go home Merriam, you’re drunk.

Perfect summary, 10/10 no notes.

If it looks like a snake But it lives in a lake That's a moray

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane” is a neatly economical summary and not enough people are using it.

I guess humans have always been this credulous and it’s always led to bad things (see: centuries of religious wars). I just wrongly thought we’d got a bit better.

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I have been shouting at the radio about this every half hour so far today.

Well I never. (I did.)

BBC news: Reform is proposing an inhumane and economically disastrous policy but we’re just going to state the policy and move on. Donald Trump is spreading lies that endanger pregnant women and we’re going to repeat those lies verbatim and ‘both sides’ by quoting the NHS, rather than ignoring him.

Gosh there’s a world of difference between ‘wouldn’t work’ and ‘shouldn’t be attempted even if it would work’.

As predictable as it is reprehensible.

If the BBC just report this plan verbatim and don’t challenge Reform on the practicalities or consequences then I want to know why not. In this headline-only micronews environment ‘X says Y’ is a menace that they haven’t adjusted to.

What’s great about content design done by humans is that you can get high accuracy _and_ accessible jargon-free simplicity.

So uh, Charlie Kirk was Judas?

Multiple impeachable offences on a daily basis.

Looking at my timeline it looks like this is a bad day to not be as hot as Robert Redford if you’re looking for any attention at all.