Immortal life advice

Season 2 of 'X-Men '97' is off to a great start, with the first 3 episodes available now, and then a new episode every Wednesday. These 3 episodes quickly bring the audience up to speed with the scattered groups of characters as they all contend with Apocalypse across different time periods.

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

If you're a movie star who's saying "over my dead body will i allow my voice to be used for ai," you better get it in writing.

Enjoying 'Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee (Australia)', which is a very funny comedy panel series that features a lot of 'Taskmaster' alumni (UK, Australia, and New Zealand versions). Oh, and also, Demi Adejuyigbe from 'Game Changer' in season 3.

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Never have I been more sure of my AI beliefs lmao. Everyone who can't hack it anymore loves this shit. For the laziest amongst us

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Celebrating Mel Brook's 100th birthday by finally catching up with 'Young Frankenstein' (pronounced "Fronkonsteen"), which he co-wrote with Gene Wilder. A loving parody of classic 1930's horror movies that actually reuses a lot of the original lab equipment props from the 1931 'Frankenstein' movie.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

I'm old enough to remember when the IDF blew up a Gaza hospital after October 7th and if you said "Israel did it" you got called a hateful antisemitic crank. Soon it was "yeah they did it by ACCIDENT" followed by "yeah they did it on purpose and it was GOOD!" There's no limit to what is accepted.

It's currently 28°C here; dry heat is one thing but the humidity makes it so much more unpleasant when the sweat just isn't evaporating.

As someone with a childhood fondness for Bionicles, that is indeed the correct response.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

nothing happened 'to' him. he took that fairly united party and told whole sections of it to piss off. banging the anti-immigrant drum won zero votes and alienated many. he was all blunders. centrist is a blunder

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

“Covered five British prime ministers” doesn’t carry the same weight on a journalist’s CV as it once did.

That huge generation majority and then two years of essentially Conservative government, a hammer on immigrants, a terrifying rollback of trans rights, a government terrified of Spectator columnists. What a wasted, wasted opportunity. Good riddance.

This is why you shouldn't "just" use it for *anything*. I mean. There are other reasons. But those reasons -- the environment, the ethics, etc -- require people to give a damn about something outside themselves. I go to this one when I think a selfish reason might be more motivating.

Oh my god they're trying NFTs again actual brainless industry off your local CEO

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

How's this for metaphor for the state of England - ancient and amazing, but fucked about with to keep it looking as it did in 1900, which meant it couldn't protect itself from climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If your header is just unapologetically repeating what some oligarch says, it's not journalism, it's propaganda.

No matter what you try and teach a Hollywood executive, it will always come away with the most facile and least useful interpretation mortally possible. It’s embarrassing. There are literal children who could have a more nuanced take than “film give money when Internet give spooky.”

Juzo Amon from 'Lost Judgment'. Even by the standards of the traditional secret super boss fights with the Amon clan in the Yakuza games, Juzo Amon has a very cheap moveset (eg, stunning you and moving a good distance away to regenerate health) that really draws out the fight and makes it a slog.

Absolute bars here:

'Gargoyles' was a show I missed out on as a kid (we didn't have the Disney Channel at home), but when I found out about it in college, I watched the series and thought that it was just brilliant. I know that it's currently on Disney+, but I'd like it if we could get a proper boxset release.

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

British journalists do love to ban anything that annoys them and never give any thought to implementation, enforcement, punishment, consequences for violation, and those rules never applied to their employers.What does it mean to mandate real names when they regularly write about "Tommy Robinson"

Catching up with the season 3 premiere of 'My Adventures with Superman', which continues to be delightful.

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

Last day off from work; enjoying part of the morning with coffee, 'Smartypants' on Dropout, and building some of this LEGO SEGA Mega Drive console set that was recently released (£35 RRP). This set also comes with alternate pieces so that you can have the SEGA Genesis branding on it.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

The UK Government has moved faster to destroy the online communities of teenagers than it has to limit the power of a foreign white supremacist to launch race riots in the UK's cities and spread child pornography online

Phone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine. All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.

In what is probably my first James Bond videogame since the 'From Russia With Love' adaptation for the PS2 (which had Sean Connery but not the rights to SPECTRE), I'm now playing '007 First Light' and loving it so far. Past the tutorials now, which have been integrated into the story in a fun way.

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

It's striking how other than the clear rejection of consent, the *other* huge feature of generative AI is that it is allowed to fuck up in much bigger ways, for much longer, that would get a human fired.

Out doing some travelling today, and rereading the excellent 'DC: The New Frontier' miniseries (via the DC Compact Comics line) on the train.

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Eternal shame on everyone in this picture for lining up behind this racist piece of shit.

humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up

Enjoying my 4-day weekend with a hot breakfast and replaying some of 'Persona 4 Arena Ultimax' on the PS4. Similar to how 'Persona 3 Reload' included some elements from P4AU, I'm curious as to what (and who) else gets added to 'Persona 4 Revival' from the various spin-off games and anime series.

Don't worry, FIFA will pay the city of Los Angeles in exposure.