As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Creatives don't owe you shit. They fundamentally do not owe you shit. They made something. You saw it. There was never any responsibility involved. They don't owe you a "better version" of the work. They don't owe you "less problematic writing". They don't owe you more episodes. You deserve nothing.

Given the first recorded trainspotter in 1861 was a girl called Fanny Johnson, we shouldn't be surprised many sprectral trainspotters reported at stations and alongside tracks, are female. Mislabelling as something other than trainspotters due to gender is a crime against ghosts. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

First ride out with the bone conducting earphones. (Side issue: battery only lasts about 2½ hours) I'm not convinced yet. Stereo sounds making me look over my shoulder, faster metal sounding like a tinny radio on really quietly in the next room, wind noise kinda overwhelming like any earphones.

This bears repeating

THE TWELVE HOURS OF UNIVERSAL NIGHT Leister Helmer, Wisconsinite inventor of the Universal Night Clock (patented 1954), rejected the standard observation of February 29th taking place every four years, denouncing it as a “depraved and uncreative use of... www.greaterrealityarea.net/the-twelve-h...

Stages of Decomposition

Notions, that's what you need ... If you wanna be a record breaker, yeaaahhh

Well. I've migrated my account over to Eurosky and relieved the US of its burden of care vis-a-vis my data.

Political parties in power are happy to write off losses at a council level as "protest votes" because though councils do the actual work of managing communities, only the GE and staying in power at that level matters to them. And they know people will vote for them then Democracy is a broken system

Just heard what he actually said and to whom… My lord, he is such a piece of racist shit. Absolutely incredible how toothless the US news media has become. Utterly unable to admit they have suckled a monster.

There's a particular flavour of disappointment from finding a long thread by someone who's writing you really enjoy only to find it's about some very specific things in a very specific field that you know nothing about. Truly one of those 'evesdropping on strangers' moments of parasocial failure.

I've taken the head staggers and taken the mudguards off my bike; put them away until next winter. Please do not hold me personally responsible for any torrential rain in Down and Antrim over the coming weeks, although I realise I am fully culpable.

1:59.30. Fuck me. Astounding. And the guy behind him beat the 2hr mark too, and by the looks of how he crossed the line, he wasn't just running to a pace, he was chasing hard.

However solitary the witch, it does well to remember we don't inhabit the landscape alone. Often you'll discover that some territory is shared, if not already claimed. In Hookland, sharp eyes will find which woods are walked by Fox Brides. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Scenewreckers.

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

I hope there's not too many more storms this year. I don't think Irish infrastructure can bear the weight of that many English newscasters pronouncing "Tadhg"

Bats! Buttercup Festival 3-375

The choral section of Neubauten's Halber Mensch, maybe 1989 or 1990. Because it also sounded like the apocalypse. Sadly I've never found any more of their work in a similar style, after slowly tracking down their entire discog.

War Pigs. It would've been 1986 or 1987. It sounded like the apocalypse. Fortunately I only had to ask my mate what was on the cassette he was playing.

Found myself adjacent to a conversation wherein the opinion was expressed that "...I don't know what I think about the trans debate, it's a debate that's not yet settled, unlike racism which we're all sure about now..." and I had some questions.

Well well well. Company with negative return on investment buys a talk show hosted by guys who's entire job is convincing people to give them money. #ai #IsItAScamYep

Uh huh

DUP are canvassing my street today. Amusing that my 'no thanks' was heard as 'ask me why I don't vote in any elections'.

I've just discovered a screenshot of two bars of music, on my desktop. Drawing a complete blank, I fire open Dorico and draw out the notes. Hit play. First two bars of feckin' Stairway to Heaven. If that's not entirely Rick-roll adjacent, I don't know what is.

Fun times. Mention BJ(-1) one time and my replies are full of cheerful well-phrased perky questions about my post. Blockity.

With ideas of social media driving depression and anxiety, and AI driving psychosis, does it all distil down to humans being three rubes in a raincoat? Believing hard at any opportunity?

I have never once actively sought out and listened to Bob Dylan: I have accidentally and incidentally heard enough to be quite satisfied thankyouverymuch

from my own book, it was something i made sure to note. the hospital i was born in was bombed during that horrific American war.

The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam is a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968. It was a mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. soldiers during the American War.

Tonight's neighbourhood shenanigans - spicy turfwars!

Having £11 million to spare and choosing to buy a guitar with it seems like, I dunno, like you don't have very much imagination.

Would love to see more of this. Ryanair won't follow the law until they are forced to.

And what about Tommy Dickfingers? Found him in a wheelie bin with two snooker balls for eyes.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Eating soup while drunk is fascinating because it either means you are at the absolute lowest point in your existence, or at a wedding

LIVING LANDSLIDES According to legends written down in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the slide-rock bolter is a species of alpine whale that anchors itself high in the Rocky Mountains by its tail flukes, only to luge down the slope with an open... www.greaterrealityarea.net/living-lands...

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times. Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same. Happy International Women's Day. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

I removed all game and social media apps from my phone maybe 6 months ago. I still catch myself doomscrolling through my app list frustrated that my pocket computer refuses to entertain me. It's a problem, and probably a part of another, different problem.

To this day I am still surprised that someone once thought "y'know what this refreshing fruit juice needs? Some barley flour mixed in" and that somehow we're all still "actually ok yeah, I'll buy some of that".

Watched Man On The Run on Prime last night. V enjoyable apart from that really jarring bolted on stuff about how unpopular he was post Beatles and how something something Led Zeppelin real rock etc etc. That whole Rolling Stone magazine agenda that has since been utterly discredited. And rightly so.

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

There is another war going on, here in East Donegal. So far there’s only been warning shots but you never know. So the local history committee got some money to research the location of an early Christian abbey. No ordinary abbey, however. This is St Eunan’s abbey.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

With every new headline, I become more convinced that Enoch Burke is on his way to becoming Randle McMurphy.

Danny McBride was channeling Ricky from TPB with Jesse, certainly from season 3.

The idea that "vibe coding" is anything more than a stupid name for the latest blorp of gas from a hype bubble is swiftly debunked once you realise you can't have "vibe debugging". Basically, anyone who thinks "vibe" coding can ever be a thing is accidentally admitting they know f all about coding.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has collected over £1.1 million from controversial Forest Park parking charges in 20 months and now plans to install access barriers in Kilbroney Park ✋ 🛑 Full details and local reaction on our Facebook post, which has received 80k views this weekend.