Just had to briefly visit linkedin and was served an april fool by a company that makes vacuum cleaners which was entirely AI-generated, and none of the many, many people commenting and sharing seemed to either notice or give half a fuck, just as a barometer of Where We Are With This Stuff

the new DRASS album, On The Hill, is out today - please listen now and listen often, tell your friends (and ideally leave it playing on repeat ) drass.art open.spotify.com/album/53ZJeS...

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Friday! Lunchtime! Something to click on while you wait for everything to magically sort itself out, and enough UPLIFTING LOLS to console you when it inevitably doesn't! Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-27...

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Along with the execrable Milo, my leftfield pick for 'most weirdly-influential person of recent times, in a bad way'

I know it's important to push back against these kinds of people, but there is wisdom in this reddit post:

Currently watching the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee taking evidence from Meta, X, Google and TikTok on 'misinformation' and related topics, and it is depressing to see how many of the MPs asking questions evidently don't understand the first thing about tech

Look, it's beautiful out there, realistically you should just save this week's Web Curios for later and go and enjoy it webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-20...

Friday! Lunchtime! Words, links and a small (ok, quite hefty actually) buffer against All The Mad Stuff - Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-20...

Friday! Lunchtime! Words, links and a small (ok, quite hefty actually) buffer against All The Mad Stuff - Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-20...

What's emerging from all this is the extent to which Farage is like the guys in the Theroux manosphere doc; will say anything for cash, doesn't give a fuck, and is effectively wanking for pennies

Worth remembering that, while these announcements present the impression of a regulator doing Important Work To Take Down Big Bad Tech, Ofcom is refusing to disclose how much, if any, money it has actually received from these fines, and that 4chan has repeatedly said it has no intention of paying...

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Of the long list of awful Instagramgraffiticunts daubing London with 'inspirational' chalk work, I think whoever is behind this one is my least favourite. HOW EXACTLY OUGHT I DO THIS???

Important points here - today's announcements amount to very little other than kicking the can down the road, and may not be as good, long-term, for creatives as they are being seen. If nothing else, another year to sort out *actual policy* while the AI companies continue to train models feels...bad

Are we following the Afroman defamation trial, where the police who raided his house are trying to sue him for releasing songs (bangers) like this?

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It'd be a terrible shame if every time Farage went to do a speech someone with a portable projector or just loudspeaker played that "oh for fucks sake you cunt" clip

On the one hand, I hate this man (Farage, not Henry); on the other, listening to him say 'cunt' is weirdly cathartic

Sometimes Bluesky is like Sanjeev Bhaskar's Indian Dad but instead of India it's autism.

I am currently 2.5h into a 12h show about work (shut up, it's ace). Presuming you're not doing the same, why not pour a similar amount of your life into the equally-worthwhile pursuit of FASCINATING LINKS, with Web Curios: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...

Friday! Lunchtime! Web Curios returns, this week brought to you by a sense of impending dread and BOXING HORSE, who will protect you no matter what. Trust in boxing horse. Also, click the link! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-13...

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The cover of 'Trouble' on this album is guaranteed to turn me inside-out every time I hear it www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaRG...

VERY IMPORTANT. The Paul Foot Award is free to enter, insanely credible and career-enhancing and judged impeccably fairly and on merit. This is how to enter www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/pau...

Just been motivated to look up my favourite song from my favourite film, because it's fucking great, and I figure not all of you might know and love Bad Boy Bubby as much as I do so, well, enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YG...

Cryptic crosswords are something I have always wanted to learn how to do, but which I have always proved too lazy and thick to actually bother. This new game from the Wordle guy is a daily cryptic clue, with hints, and it is ACE www.parseword.com/daily

@trishacode.com Feel like Tilly is ripping your vibes a bit here Trish www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V2...

You may not have thought it was possible to use a fire in Glasgow to stoke hatred and push a remigration-adjacent agenda while also, er, attempting to sell nicotine pouches to racists, but it turns out it apparently is!

Good story, this, on AI 'sovereignty' (lol), data centre 'jobs' (also lol) and the fact that the UK's approach to this entire sector is, in many respects, a bit of a fucking mess

Just looked through writing gigs on LinkedIn, half of which turn out to be training AI when you click on them. Came back on Bluesky and to find someone complaining that writers who want to be paid for their work are "money grabbing twats". Sometimes I think people deserve gen AI slop.

I wrote a thing

Zone 2 cardio. Mobility maxxing. There will be no further discussion.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Per today's Private Eye

The 'potential outbreak of WW3' thing happening over the weekend rather buried the opening of the Government's consultation into the proposed social media ban for u-16s. You can find links to all three consultations (for young people, parents and everyone else) here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Really excited to see this new invention, which we could perhaps call...'magazines'?

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IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays. The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

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Friday! Lunchtime! A special 'the racists didn't win (this time)!' celebratory edition of Web Curios, containing all the links you need between sneaking schadenfreude peeks at Goodwin's defeat face! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-27...

Friday! Lunchtime! A special 'the racists didn't win (this time)!' celebratory edition of Web Curios, containing all the links you need between sneaking schadenfreude peeks at Goodwin's defeat face! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-27...

Apologies for the X link but I can't find this anywhere else and, well, this is hands-down the most upsetting bit of advertising I have ever seen, and I think it will very much appeal to all of you on here who think AI is the devil because JESUS FUCK x.com/AviSchiffman...

Fodder for the broader 'everything is GenX's fault, actually' piece that someone needs to write

Does anyone have academic access to this, and if so would you be able to share it with me by any chance please?x