Full time 9-5 work has left the UK with some of the highest working hours in Europe with some of the lowest productivity. However, we can't change it, because our society is ordered around misery as an indicator of value. The 21st Century marches on without us.

The 4-day trial has been a success almost every single time it's been tried, anywhere in the World. Worker happiness goes up, illness and loss of time due to sick leave (particularly mental health issues) decreases, and productivity usually stays the same or increases.

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl. it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement. it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them

It's time.

Happy Holidays from Sparks! 🎄✨

Big thanks to everyone who's applied for a table in the week since this went live! The form will be live for 3 more weeks (until Jan 15th) so you have some time after Christmas to get yours in 🙂

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

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Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.

Garbage today from Rangers, as they fail to do anything in a 6-pointer yet again. Back down to 4th, where we belong on that showing.

15 mins to go and one of those games where you can tell Rangers could play all day and not score. Shown up as a very limited side today, in dire need to reinforcements, in every department.

Just looking at Hearts second goal there. No team can concede goals like that and expect to be anywhere near. An absolutely appalling goal to lose. Butland's been great for us this season but that's the kind of embarrassing mistake that explains why he's here rather than at a big EPL club. Ooof.

Rangers two down at half time, all their own doing, sloppy errors leading to both Hearts goals. Rangers should have scored, but Miovski stupidly tapping in from an offside position when the ball was going in anyway. That's probably it for this one, we don't have the goals in the team to get back.

AI sloppers are trying to get you to breeze past the theft part because wealth has always been built on stolen resources and they can't understand why we won't just let them get away with it this time.

Part of me thinks it's a tragedy to see people duped like this. But generally, if you're willing to vote for a party whose only real policy is racist scapegoating, you'll end up getting what you deserve. Sadly, you'll also inflict your barren future on the rest of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge game today as Rangers face their toughest challenge away to league leaders Hearts. Record at Tynecastle isn't bad, but I expect Hearts to come at us from the off. I'd take a point today, but a win puts us right back in it, which even just weeks ago I would have laughed at you for suggesting.

Seeing apparently smart, well educated people saying stuff like "My friends have done some amazing things with the labour they stole" is really quite something. How do you fix a brain-hole quite that large?

Depressing that this is a legal scholar spouting vapid termslike "advanced prompt engineering" and acting as paid courtier of the labor theft and destruction machine despite a feed indicating they know how bad it is & the negative economic & environmental consequences.

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

I've never been into boxing but this new thing of just lining up a parade of complete ballsacks to get battered in public is winning me over. Do Boris Johnson v the Lying NHS Funding Bus next.

All those trillions wasted on the Cold War when all Putin really had to do was buy the Republican Party. People in Europe need to get their heads around how bad things are likely to become when Nato's principal member is in messaging lockstep with the Kremlin.

Comic pals 👋 I’m on the look out to chat with artists who do sequential work in an anime style for a potential project in 2026. Please hit me up or share if you have any recommendations.

It’s finally Christmas.

Rebecca Lucy Taylor doing the lords work

Hee hee, I just a found a vid of my old metal covers band King's Ransom (!) playing in Kilmarnock. We're doing Blackfoot's Queenie (Every Man Should Know) here. 1990, back when I still had some puff! 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZj...

Happy 9th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".

In 1985, I saw Mountain (!) Mamas Boys, Blackfoot, UFO, Scorpions, Meat Loaf and Deep Purple all on the same day. Quite mad when you think about it. In the piss soaked mud pit of Knebworth, but still. I was 16 years old, it was all still possible.

A million % me.

Oh hi 👋 it’s me

There's a period in rock history when Rush were pretty much untouchable and I'll tell you when that was. It was from side two of Hemispheres to Signals. 1978 to 1982. A period of almost ludicrous virtuosity.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I’m enjoying us all sharing how we DON’T NEED AI FOR CONCEPT ART

Im still looking for work as a comic colorist (Especially because I want need to buy PC components ASAP before they quadruple in price (｀；ω；´))

It is definitely a "do not go outside" day in Falkirk today. Tragically, I do later have to go outside.

Thanks so much to Matilda Battersby and the Bookseller for featuring Deathbound in this great article! Viva audiobooks!

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

In this white paper, it is only intellectual properties and licensing opportunities that are cultivated: not the creators who produce them nor their relationships with the publisher; not the ecosystems that review/promote/sell/exhibit/distribute them; not even the audiences who read them.

I've had a good read of this now, and although it’s clearly not aimed at us I do have some thoughts on it. Buckle up, lads!

We can do even more.

I don't think this is right, it just seems plausible because what's true is insultingly stupid and appalling. I think the truth is that even now, Keir Starmer and allies believe themselves to be 100% in the right, and the stupid hogs of the electorate to be ungrateful for all the good things.

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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

Ooooof. This reads to me as a top down report from people looking to the avarice in our sister industries like video games and instead of wanting to protect against it thinking ‘how can we get in on that?’ Don’t worry, I will elaborate