It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.

So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

RIP the great Martin Parr

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

🎵 Endure yourself It’s later than you think 🎶

Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu. This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...

RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Love that it's still exploring

According to Lammy we no longer have a right to a jury trial And we won't be appealing against convictions we may accrue That's bracing to say the least

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Right, I've pulled my finger out and got my cards sorted. Hand drawn A6 greetings cards. So un-ai they aren't even printed. Every one a unique work of daft art. Order now in time for Christmas, just not too many or it'll hurt my hand! happytoast.co.uk/cards/

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Policing women on their femininity is not good. In the '80s, as an activist my hair was short. It made sense, living in a peace camp with only cold water to wash in, and it meant police couldn't twist my hair when arresting me I was challenged in women's public toilets. It's not a nice feeling.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Endless journey cards by @tomgauld. Green version available here: laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall-... A great postable #Christmaspresent for all ages. These 12 picture cards can be arranged to form 479,001,600 different landscapes! Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne.

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The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.

I want so badly for people to understand that you can still be an irredeemable creeper even though everything you did was legal. The "illegal conduct" circle is *inside* the "awful conduct" on the venn diagram, not the other way around.

Recently discovered I have a natural affinity for lurking. The shadows are the best place to lurk, obviously, but you can also lurk in a field, or even on a rollercoaster. It's all about state of mind

People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.

LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Our eldest's new school uses a library tool that claims to give 'consistent, reliable and objective' measures of book difficulty. We've discovered it is hideously, hilariously inaccurate. It believes: - First Prize for the Worst Witch (6.2) is harder than Dune (5.7). ... 🧵

"You're gonna need a bigger bookshelf" The Very Hungry Great White Shark is available now! www.lulu.com/shop/happy-t...

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

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Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

Parents, eh? Bunch of amateurs if you ask me

it appears my arch-nemesis, me from yesterday, has struck again

RIP renowned Italian film poster artist Renato Casaro. Considered one of the most influential Italian poster designers, Casaro leaves behind a legacy of hand-painted artwork for thousands of films, including such classics as Conan the Barbarian, Octopussy, and A Fistful of Dollars. He was 89.

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!

RIP Brian Patten

It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate. youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ

Scampi for my real friends, real pee for my scam friends.

If you're into the 1920s/30s and art depicting common people's lives and night scenes of New York, you'll love the art Martin Lewis (1881 – 1962) made. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... Here's a small selection of his work;