OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

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"Then there’s Jon Champion, a man so out of touch with the views of ordinary people he is actually trying to emulate the work of Barry Davies. Cham­pion’s commentary is the footballing equivalent of the chap next to you on a long train journey vocalising his investigation of the Times crossword."

I thought I'd get in on the action. You'll need sound up.

It can’t be a dry January if it just rains every day, can it

Something I love about Star Trek fandom is that, while it’s obsessed over story inconsistencies and continuity errors, it also finds incredibly implausible ways to retcon these errors by inventing hypothetical events that could have happened between episodes.

@rodstudd.bsky.social PRE-BOGEY making its debut at the worlds, you love to see it

I can never quite get over the fact that the British government embed spies in peaceful social justice movements. It’s so monumentally fucking sketchy, especially given how they carry on when in post. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nice one, Spidey.

Mines going to be Jeff and Zuck talking about why billionaires shouldn’t exist and then they dial in Altman who talks about why the AI bubble is going to burst

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Do you remember how shit Star Trek: Picard was. Because I do. I fucking remember. It was fucking shit.

The letter from Farage’s school voicing concerns about his singing Hitler youth songs etc have been in public domain for YEARS. Nobody in this country gives a flying fuck. It’ll only be when he’s actually in power and the country is in pieces that liberal middle-Englanders will actually go “hmmm,”

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I would just like to say to Russell Beland, Springfield, that your "John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met" entry in the Washington Post bad analogy style invitational has remained near the tip of my consciousness for 25 years and always makes me laugh.

Fuck AI slop and fuck all those that made it happen

Haven’t you heard? Being a dickhead’s cool

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

“We wish you a pheasant plight”

working at the nyt

We can’t cover the rover but we can rove to the cove

Geezer mime-busking the saxophone in Leicester Square really put on a smile on my face this evening. Just 100% pure grift, not even trying to get the fingers in time to the notes. Bravo, sir.

New awareness campaign

There should be some kind of effort to create war between pigeons and seagulls so they spend all their time fighting each other and leave us the fuck alone

whomst amongst us

Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

Honestly, what's the point of saying they have to do this to prevent Reform, when outcome is effectively mass deportations by the back door and removal of rights anyway. More people becoming undocumented, which Labour's policies guarantee, lead, because of Labour's policies, to more deportations. 4/

Covid vaccines for anyone that wants them should be an absolute no brainer. Successive governments being so disinterested in the physical wellbeing of its working age population is a fucking travesty.

This is it, really.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

he is paying for his sins

In memoriam...

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I’ve been a millennial, a geriatric millennial, now I’m a paracetamol baby!

There was a time not so long ago that being a flag-shagger was seen as being in the realm of absolute weirdos and people you definitely avoided eye-contact with. What happened!

Washington Speedboat

Can’t have awful dreams if you don’t fall asleep

One of the few things I really enjoy about modern football is turning the sound down when Guy Mowbray or Peter Drury are on

Ahh, less than 10 minutes into watching my first bit of live football this season and it’s a “Your support is fucking shit” chant audible in the telly. Lovely stuff. #CHEPAL

There’s misogyny at every level of cricket, whether you’re a fan, staff, media, player, coach, anything. It’s making women unsafe. It’s making them abandon the sport they love. If there’s no place for this in cricket, what are you going to do about it? daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/n...

Commentators talking to players during the game is the most profound evidence yet that you shouldn’t give broadcast/creative control to 5 year olds #TheHundred

I don't know if it's even hating art so much as hating *artists*. It's the train wreck of entitlement crashing into media illiteracy. I was speaking to someone after a film screening last week about how we all have that one piece of art or media that gripped us in a way that made us realise...

Step off the train Miss my air conditioned environment again