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Friday! Lunchtime! Links and sounds and words (regrettably- I am sorry about the words) and games and LOADS MORE (well, some more) in Web Curios, the world's longest and least-curatorially-directed internet newsletter! Share! Enjoy! SUBMIT! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-07...

Not the point of this, but I always forget how much this track slaps

These are always full of great - or at least interesting - tracks, highly recommended

Slightly amazed that the Sky News piece on how X is set up to promote right-wing viewpoints is being hailed as 'revelatory' or 'shocking' or indeed in any way surprising. HAVE YOU NOT BEEN FUCKING PAYING ATTENTION (or, er, reading Private Eye)?

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when's bins?

This weekend, the first AI-generated song (ish - the words here are written by a real person) debuted on the Billboard charts in the US (ok, the R&B specific segment, but still). Not my preferred genre, admittedly, but I would struggle to peg this as machine music

In important news from history today, it is (although I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you) the joyful 10th birthday of this unimprovable tweet

"it's the uniquely-human creative element that will save ad agencies in the face of the generative AI onslaught"

Powerful curse here for anyone who needs it on a Monday

spotted a rather bleak epitaph on this gravestone while taking the cat for a walk - “She hath done what she could”

It's a sunny Saturday in London, and, honestly, you probably ought to go and enjoy it before The Grey returns; still, for the goths and the agoraphobics, here's this week's Web Curios: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...

Friday! Lunchtime! Link-based treats in a world otherwise full of tricks! Web Curios! Share, enjoy, DON'T BE SCARED!! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...

Friday! Lunchtime! Link-based treats in a world otherwise full of tricks! Web Curios! Share, enjoy, DON'T BE SCARED!! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-31...

In case any of you have ever wondered 'what if the decor of a newly-opened Supreme store in Dubai, but gallery?' then BOY does this show answer that question (Newport st gallery, free entry, I lol'd at least three times at how shit it is, would recommend)

Worth noting that Musk's Grokipedia - crafted specifically and explicitly to reflect his worldview! - offers this under 'race and intelligence'; Wikipedia entry for contrast. This is currently being celebrated by someone with the handle 'gas chamber expert' on Twitter

Buy the Eye

I know this clip is getting a lot of love, but the truth of the matter is that most people can't write for shit, LLMs are technically better writers than most of the world's population, and people do actually want The Machine to rewrite their words for that exact reason. I don't like it either.

What is genuinely maddening is seeing media and policymakers' time and energy being wasted on debating the question "Is it realistic to portray black people shopping at Argos?"

Absolutely subtweeting someone here, but "like a fucking Temu Kara Swisher" is my favourite takedown line in an AGE

this is a great read, and also features a photo of the bus stop at the end of my road

Introducing THE FUCKING BIBLE – bible verses, with added fucks. It is a little project that I've had running quietly for a while now. If this is your thing, then follow, repost, like and subscribe, and all that stuff.

Boxes of Roses and Whiskas for kittens, Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings" I think non white people can advertise things

It's officially crisp sandwich day! Celebrate by putting some slices of fried potato between bread and reading Web Curios, a perfect accompaniment to pretty much any lunchtime treat (except soup, which, weirdly, it pairs REALLY badly with): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...

Friday! Lunchtime! Exceptional links and FASCINATING DIGITAL CULTURE and the vague sense that everything is happening to us too much! Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! Cling on with your very fingertips as the now whooshes past! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...

Friday! Lunchtime! Exceptional links and FASCINATING DIGITAL CULTURE and the vague sense that everything is happening to us too much! Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! Cling on with your very fingertips as the now whooshes past! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...

*heavy sigh*

This is 100% one of the best things I have read all year; Daniel Koliz writes for Harper's(!) about the gooniverse and how we are all, to an extent, wanking ourselves into oblivion: harpers.org/archive/2025...

This NYT piece on women taking testosterone in later life is full of eye-opening lines and I cannot WAIT for the UK press to get hold of this trend and write some VERY NORMAL pieces about it (I reckon The Times will go biggest) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

Slightly obsessed with this picture of the Telegraph's fashion team in this morning's paper, which was presumably the best one they could choose from the entire photoshoot.

Forget the Boston Dynamics stuff, this is probably the most sinister robotics video I've seen in years (not helped by the soundtrack, which really does give "...and these will be hunting you down in the starving, irradiated future" vibes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RDp... (via @shardcore.org)

Anyone fancy making this into a webgame @mattround.com @bagpuss.org ?

I'm not saying that we're at an absolute tipping point of normalising right wing nonsense; but when Spotify is suggesting I should listen to Enoch Powell's Desert Island Discs, you can see why I might think it.

OH NO

Welcome to the imminent future, where approximately 50% of the population of the world (conservatively) has no fucking clue what is and isn't real

Paul Hollywood: what we're looking for from the contestants this week is a beautifully precise assassination - a bloodless kill, and a flawless cleanup Prue Leith: they're going to have to be really careful about DNA evidence. we don't want any traces left at the scene PH: a completely clean room

A brief update from Elon's Racist Playground - I would be willing to bet money that this is a grift of some sort, but thought there would be a few Old London Media/Tech Heads here who would be curious to know what the beast is up to

@zuckerbaeckerei.bsky.social Saw this, thought of you thethingcompany.substack.com/p/impression...

Watch this and take a second to think about the likelihood of anyone bothering to do the due diligence Drew describes. Facebook and Whatsapp groupchats are going to get VERY STRANGE (read: divorced from reality) very soon (and everywhere else too tbh)

There is a very popular 'strategist' whose work is peppered with this tell and it drives me fucking insane, not least because of the morons clapping like seals to acclaim them as a 'thought leader' (no I'm not bitter about my high dayrate consultancy era being over, not at all)

There's a slot car racing place in town that was open briefly ("temporarily closed" since 2022) and... I think I can see why it wasn't a success.

Well that's the end of the whole 'agencies are companie that make low-end ads' business model, then techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/a...

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

@shteyngart.bsky.social No idea if you'll see this, but Super Sad has been my go-to recommendation for 'novels that unexpectedly nail the zeitgeist' for about a decade now, thanks so much for writing it (and all your other novels, but that one in particular)

This is a good point - you can mock the govt for lots of things, and you should, but spending low-6-figures on 'comms' is...frankly not remarkable at all, unless you don't understand how the fuck anything works

It's Saturday, which for some of you will mean chores and responsibilities. Why not eschew those in favour of bathing yourself in thick, warm, viscous internet? Web Curios!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...

A friend of mine went to Frieze earlier and sent me this photo of what he considered the worst work on display - I think it's the implied delphine pissplay that really *makes* it