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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Found a thing I'd put in a safe place today, I've been looking for it for on and off for about 10 months. Searched every where except the place it actually was 🙄

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

When they say "you must embrace AI" it's cause they have a financial stake in it. They spent billions and their new business models are reliant on it. They don't want to lose their money. I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

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Gonna put this on a sandwich board and wear it on the street while ringing a bell like a town crier: “AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” he continued.”

There is no thinking going on here. The reason an LLM can answer a factual question is because someone has posted text on that specific question. The reason they are such good coding buddies is because people have posted immense numbers of code snippets (and that code is so strictly grammatical.)

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

Whenever I see something “powered by AI”

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

This COVID outbreak is no joke, gang. Lots of folks turning up positive. Time to * Get that new Vax if you can * Stock up on masks * Stock up on COVID tests - they are selling out * Make a battle plan to take care of yourself if you need to quarantine * Avoid larger events if you are vulnerable

#HeritageCrime News Police in Cambridgeshire have relleased CCTV images of four people they wish to speak to in connection with July's arson attack on a replica roundhouse at the Flag Fen visitor centre.

Had the best time at @scribelounge.bsky.social Live last weekend, brilliant to be there in person with so many writing pals. Massive thanks to the whole SL team and all the panelists. What a fabulous event!

Research 2025. Have had to order a second hand book because the moment anything from Before The Internet becomes part of a controversy From Internet Days, you can no longer find any other information about it online by searching. The now floods the past completely. History gets buried.

Is a dragon plaguing your land? A fix from medieval Wales: 1. Dig a hole, fill it w/mead, & cover w/a sheet. 2. Wait for the dragon to tire itself out & turn into a pig. 3. Let the pig fall in the hole, get wrapped in the sheet & drink all the mead. 4. Capture the drunk pig in a chest & bury it.

This is a fantastic health breakthrough.

Adviser to UK minister claimed AI firms would never have to compensate creatives

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

AI is 10 friends passing the same $5 bill back and forth between each other but every time they get it they say they earned $5.

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

Hello everything sucks right now and you might be wondering what you can do to fix it. The short answer is the same as it was last week: Help people. Build community. And fight the attempts to divide us.

Didn't get the alert again.😱 It's never gone off on my phone. 😱 Was in a very busy supermarket at the time, very few phones went off. 😱

The Magazine interview about my recent screenwriting contest win has just been published. www.creativescreenwriting.com/creative-scr...

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Hey fellow authors! File your claim now to punish this AI company from stealing your work without compensation. If we punish them hard enough maybe "theft-as-business model" will stop. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Time to cough up, jokers. We killed NFTs and we’ll do it again.

Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Technology, Innovation and Science, has been tricked. He's been bamboozled by a Mechanical Turk; a device that answers "What would be a plausible answer to this?" to every prompt can teach you nothing. It KNOWS nothing. It cannot, by design, engage with truth.

One of those moments where you realise part of the problem is that one of the people in charge is as smart as a bowl of mashed potatoes. Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology: "ChatGPT can be a very good tutor." So he doesn't understand how it works at ALL

My smart watch just activated a message on my phone, saying that I am currently very stressed and should pay to listen to their calming music app. Ok... But my watch is on the table plugged into the charger and the bluetooth is off. I think it may be telling lies in an attempt to get money. 🙄

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds

Exclusive premium newsletter: I have the details on how GPT-5 works. OpenAI's new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains. www.wheresyoured.at/how-does-gpt...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

If you use Firefox: Go into Settings, in the search bar type "Sidebar" and select "Show Sidebar." At the bottom of the sidebar, click "Customize Sidebar" (the little gear icon) and un-check the "AI Chatbot" box.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

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"‪It's lipstick on a pig and the pig is drinking all the water and utilizing enormous electrical and processing resources." GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. And yeah... not all users think that's the case.

Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so). "PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase

Delighted to announce that my script Millennium Eve has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Contest.

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 1. Love what you do. Nurture it; give it the time it needs to grow. Don't force it to be something it doesn't want to be. Don't compare it with its siblings. Feed it what it most needs. Don't lose the joy in your writing. Because if you don't love it, who else will?