What non-creative people get wrong in wanting to use a machine to make creative things is thinking that the end result is the satisfying thing. Have you ever known an actual creative person to ever be fully satisfied with something they made? Sure, sometimes you get closer than other times, but...

That’s a really important point! One of the big reasons that technology sucks these days is that the public is no longer the real customer. Instead, the true business model is about attracting investors or seeking the whole business to a vastly wealthier competitor.

Terrifying

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

Just to add to this, yes, I am totally closed off to the perspective of AI lovers, in the same way I would be to someone trying to convince me ingesting shit was awesome.

100% I love how increasingly mainstream the stuff on the screen becomes every day.

Columnists are not paid to know things. They are paid to not know things.

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM was released 42 years ago this week. The second entry in the Indy series, and one of Steven Spielberg’s darker movies, the story behind the scenes is like a runaway mine cart… 1/50

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Starmer v Burnham

Dear Politicians. You don't make people's lives better by making a targeted minority's lives much more difficult.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

New pandemic on the way, crisis in the education system, government failing to get its act together.... what if we just started prioritizing human competence, excellence and dedicated work instead of savings? I'm sure it'd be more affordable than wasting resources and lives on useless tech

And people are outsourcing their thinking to these AI services. Human beings actively choosing the stupidest way to do things our extraordinary brains are fully capable of doing anyway.

RIP Journalism. They use to know do good at words

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits. Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices. The government don’t yet consider this a crisis. How many more jobs must be lost before ministers act?

How do you spell corruption?

Labour has 403 MPs, apparently none of them are good enough to lead the party. 'allowed back into Parliament' - he could have stood two years ago in the election. And he has another quite important job.

When Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social shared his article about why universities were in trouble and why they need investment, a Labour MP jumped in to say they weren’t a priority for her. She may be surprised at how many people are employed in universities and how important they are to the economy.

Wes Streeting prepared to resign and launch Labour leadership and UK PM bid. After days of denials Streeting wants to push for quick coronation. That won't do. He is a corporate stooge, already privatizing parts of the NHS. Silence on policies. We need a proper contest.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

The original sin of the Starmer project is it had no core values. The people around him thought they could just lie their way to power without consequence. They built no consent. At that point it's impossible to bring anyone on a journey: they don't trust you and won't listen to your explanation.

Its really saying something when you have 403 MPs, but the only person many people think should be leader isn't one of them. The whole Andy Burnham thing basically says the Labour party has 403 pieces of dead wood.

MPs:

WHAT? EH ? MR MACKAY FROM PORRIGE WAS THE FRAGGLE ROCK LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER???????

The creatures outside looked from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Remembering pioneering Composer Delia Derbyshire on what would have been her 89th birthday🕯 #DoctorWho #RadiophonicWorkshop

We have friends everywhere.

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Happy #MayThe4th everyone! A collage I did a few months ago of all the main characters from the original trilogy #MayTheFourth #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWars

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May the force be with you! Happy Star Wars day 😊 #fanart #starwars #starwarsday

Eanie, Meanie, Minie, Mo.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I'd have thought BBC News might have some idea of what consitutes as 'Breaking News' that is urgent enough to be pushed to people's phones. This is not Breaking News, its an advert for a BBC Show.

I think about this all the time.

good tweet

BBC Radio Scotland phone in this morning: Should people get back to the office and stop WFH? Are Universities worth it? May as well be GBNews at this point. I am struggling at this point to defend paying my licence fee to be fed right wing propoganda.

"The idea is that democracy is messy, so we have to hand more moral and strategic authority to the tech elite. This is Technocracy. Drunk on their own Silicon Valley Kool-Aid." ✍🏼 Catherine Menard bylinetimes.com/2026/04/30/d...

There are THOUSANDS of fresh talented writers and directors out there, all with plenty of new, imaginative, novel stories to tell. Yet the 'industry' and studios just keeps remaking and reimaginaning and rebooting the same franchises over and over again.

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I love this essay very much!!!!

So its cars? And absolutely nothing to do with the crazy amount of construction being approved by the council, or a rise in emissions because traffic is backed up because there's a road closure every two streets. Construction is one of the biggest drivers of CO2 and GCC are addicted to it.

Please sign. This is an essential arts space in Glasgow that's threatened with closure, and we've had enough spaces closing over recent years. Stop the rot! c.org/RxYLd9qps4

Maybe we should stop accepting politics on a 'least worst option' basis.

Robocop 2 (1990) Dir. Irvin Kershner

Why is it always the creatives that go first?

This! 1000000% This. ALL children should recieve the same, top quality education no matter their background. You should not be able to pay for a 'better' education.

The prospect of a minimum income for artists in Scotland being introduced has taken a major step forward, months after Ireland confirmed its pilot project would be made permanent. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2601829...