saw this AI "summary" today this is getting stupid

Good news, we noclipped through the wall in one of our strongrooms and found all this empty space ready for more archive storage! We'll be expanding our shelving capacity as soon as we've found a way back to the front desk.

There's a story about the mix for Carpenter's "The Thing". So they're playing back the reel with the Blood Test Scene for Carpenter and the team and as the scene progresses, there's this slowly building rumbling sound... /1

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“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

just wanted to give a quick shout out to my favorite wikipedia page, list of fictional computers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Once I had this thought it was impossible to unsee #strangerthings

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration

actually galactically mindblowing

Carcassonne.

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I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Knockin' On Heaven's DAW

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

All our collaborators get paid within a day of invoicing. It's really not that hard.

lol 👑

Morning river walk mood apollorecords.bandcamp.com/track/ageisp...

I for one welcome our new overlords

Year of the Fire Horse

The worlds most hopeful dog (Yes it’s closed)

"[Anaesthesia dreams] are very different. This is new... We really think this is some form of consciousness." themicrodose.substack.com/p/dreaming-w...

Makes sense that the man who stole from Satoshi Kon's work multiple times would make an animated series with a plagiarism machine. (clip via @ani-obsessive.bsky.social )

Communication device - made from clay, wood and plastic. (5 cm's long)

And they all gathered round and listened with wonder

Sorry to see Mark Tully has died - he was very much an old-school gentlemen reporter, immersed in the region he covered. His is a very 20th-century story that I suspect looks alien and in some ways troubling to modern eyes, but he was really devoted to his craft and to India

Self-care is important thanks for your honesty

Can you imagine just waking up and looking like this? With no effort whatsoever? He doesn’t even shower.

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1875.

if you ever type the words "anti-nazi slop" a robot hand should come out of the computer and point a gun at you until you say "jk". and if you don't say jk something else happens

Men are having a normal one I see

Similarly, I’ve never asked my fucking dishwasher.

never a truer word spoken

this is magnificent. Do read the whole thread

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Merry Christmas, little buddy. Sorry about everything

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Never in my life have I had a dream as good as the one @blogmywiki.bsky.social dreamt last night.

“I was talking about the Green Man, but he wasn’t having it. He said: ‘Well, it’s got horns and it’s demonic.’ My husband had to actually step in” The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey….. @helleborezine.bsky.social

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

The Ghibli offices right now.

Honestly relieved to have this finally cleared up: the Denisovans - a group of ancient humans - are not the same as the maverick unshaven darts player nicknamed “The Heat”

Somnambulant ~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)

Seems kind of urgent

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents🧵

‘Tis the season…

"These yur ghosteses!" 🖤

this should be a new option on every streaming service - and it could be magnificent choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start

My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science. You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).

⚠️ CAUTION: GHOSTS CROSSING ⚠️ First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!