reading one of this guy’s books atm (alien clay, adrian tchaikovsky) and it’s very good but I looked him up and I want to congratulate him on the effort he’s put into looking like a guy who writes hard political sci fi

tbf this would absolutely be something british sci-fi writers in the 60s would come up with. it’d be a short story called like ‘for whom the cursor tolls’

eh start seizing their nuclear bases

Jesus christ. The Birzeit University raid was over screening a movie about Hind Rajab?! Fucking monsters. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

Great start. Now rename it for Sonny Rollins! (cc: @jazyjef.bsky.social)

I waited all day to try out adding free jazz to the combat in a Soulslike game. Imagine it with a different game world and aesthetic. But still imagine. Butchered version of Newfoundland by AMM. #gameaudio

I tell you what, one day, and hopefully very soon, this wee baldy cunt is getting his shit rocked so hard he’ll be able to see round corners. you cannot be like this and expect your shit to go unrocked

if there’s ever a turnaround in all this, there’ll have to be a society-wide adjustment in how we view ‘conservatives’. like, ban their organisations, legislate the shit out of their speech, remove them from media positions. sorry but them’s the breaks

addition to muted words

I'm in New York. Climbed up the Statue of Liberty yesterday. Here's the inside of her face.

We have learned that Sex Matters - the anti trans group whose activities you are obliged to fund through your taxes - is being investigated by the Charity Commission. goodlaw.social/j4r1

the thing with miller et al is they can throw their national weight around as much as they want, it's never going to actually satisfy them. they'll always be hated, pencil-necked incels and no amount of greenland is going to change that

Post-rock supergroup Pullman (members of Tortoise, Come, and Rex) returns after two decades with “Bray,” a fuzzy, ambient-noise single from their upcoming album III. klofmag.com/2026/01/pull...

‼️ Aberdeenshire Council had declared a 'major incident' - with more bad weather on the way. 🚗 Please check on local travel advice, and do not travel unless necessary 🤝 Look out for each other: check-in on vulnerable friends and neighbours if you can 1/2

Join me for a listen through the new album, 'Early Songs, Of Late', on the evening before the release. Hopefully see you then! Martin x 15th Jan 10pm - RSVP here: mjohnhenry.bandcamp.com/merch/early-...

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

it’s weird how people say this about neoliberalism but not about, e.g., populism, conservativism, liberalism, fascism or a load of other political terms that don’t really have dictionary-definition meanings. they’re all still useful terms, and neoliberalism is actually one of the more well-defined

Saidléar: 'The corporations behind those AIs are complicit in these crimes if they do not have the adequate controls... 'These nudification functions of AI, together with other nudify apps, seem to serve little rational purpose other than to allow predators to abuse women and children online.'

Dr Clíona Saidléar: 'Anyone generating and sharing a non-consensual image is committing a crime. Anyone who has been affected by online deepfake abuse can report it to the Gardaí or hotline.ie and can reach out to receive support from their local rape crisis centre.'

This morning Rape Crisis Ireland has called for a ban on AI 'nudification' functions which can (and have) produced sexual images of children and adults. RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'

the gritters are out in scotland and I'm glad to see the GOAT named gritter CREEDENCE CLEAR-ROAD SURVIVAL is back in action www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

what would happen if I got grok to post an image that said ‘I support palestine action’

Oddballs. Serial Killers. Bodies in the Clyde.

I don't think I can remember a technology in my lifetime that's prompted governments to basically suspend existing law -- copyright, obscenity, incitement -- like genAI/LLMs. they seem prepared to gamble everything on it. feels quite final.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

I don't know Alex, would banning AI image technology have an effect on the AI growth zones that your party is so proud of, and annoy the companies you want to set up there? Is that why as a party you're so reluctant to do anything about the problem despite saying stuff like this?

the situation in scotland is: labour was, prior to 2024, very much on the back foot; they deployed an election narrative that it was imperative to 'get the tories out' and that the only way to do that was to vote labour; scottish voters have now realised they were sold a pup and are livid

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labour were quick to attack polanski over wanting to remove ourselves from nato and work with European allies instead, turns out polanski predicted the future and was right this entire time, maybe everyone should listen to him more, doesnt speak like a robot either

Whilst you read articles like this on how to keep warm during this cold spell during a cost of living crisis, I just want to remind you that energy companies made £30 Billion a year in profit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the nhs is very far from perfect I know but the experience of having a minor thing go wrong with your health, getting a same-day doc appointment, being given a script and picking it up for £0 at the chemist across the road still has a little taste of utopia to it

right well apart from music per se I am a bit of an amp/electronics nerd to the point I once got my box of valves out at a dinner party and showed everybody my favourite ones

Here's my list of essentials in the order when I first properly listened to them Johnny Marr Robert Smith Jay Mascis Neil Young Diblo Dibala Kat Bjelland Tom Verlaine David Pajo Richard Thompson Ry Cooder Gets me up to being aged I think 23 but I am not cutting any of them

folks, as a highlander originally I am very concerned by the lack of attention on national news in the UK to the snow situation: it is severe, prolonged, & affecting all services. many communities are snowed in. several main routes are blocked. this ought to be national news.

somebody asked so I’ve laid out my position clearly (I hope) here

today’s music theory epiphany: the I-IV-iv sequence uses the same tension note as in the harmonic minor scale (and you can also play a major II instead of a minor iv)

hear me out

I've used it, it can do throwaway prototypes and scripts. putting anything it gives you into production would be professional misconduct. the 'skill issue' is ... elsewhere

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Lovely review of Hattonrigg Pit Disaster single at ITM? Xx www.isthismusic.com/martin-john-...

somebody actually replied to THIS POST with 'the uk isn't in the eu' lmao

never ever trust 'free speech' people. NEVER.

if you reply to me with 'but that's the eu, the uk left the eu', immediate block. read the fucking post.

astonishing how state organisations can just throw people in a cell for having ‘plasticine action’ tshirts but when their pet billionaire is generating nude images of your kids it’s uh yeah we’re looking into that

yeah I don’t think he cares about that boss

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

do you think it is worth pointing out at all what the response would be if a Muslim politician said Allah told them to remove human rights

a 'counter narrative' to the production of child sexual abuse material? what ... what even is this??

It’s wild how Venezuela was attacked and all the news cycle is about Greenland