It must be time to post our Festive Christmas songs mash up again. This year, if you pay to download it, all the profit goes to FareShare, a charity that helps those in food poverty. spymania.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

I've stuck randomly generated conspiracies onto Matt from the Telegraph's cartoons to create "Tinfoil Matt" (Not AI, me writing templates, the good old fashioned way to do these things with a strong degree of authorship.) Follow @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social NOW.

If you haven't heard our mix of all the Christmas songs from ages ago, now's the time. We've moved it to Spymania's page - it's free to listen or download, but if you choose to pay 100% of the profits go to Fareshare, a charity helping those in food poverty. spymania.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

GOAT

Awesome stuff as ever from Swede Mason

Ahhhh, l’amour!

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

This. Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.

On the subject of BBC bias, I’d just say that I’m pretty sure they haven’t had the same kind of conversation with regular contributor Sharron Davies that they’ve had with Robin outlined below.

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Artist: Captain Howdy https://b3ta.com/board/11423637 From the 'Internet Christmas' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/internetchristmas/popular/ #InternetChristmas

Nice one, Spidey.

This took me far too long to make. If only there was some kind of machine could've done it for me…

Nvidia and OpenAI are driving an increasingly circular AI investment frenzy. But if the momentum falters, the UK’s increasingly entangled tech sector could be pulled into the fallout. Full story by the Eye’s new business columnist ‘Gold Digger’ in the latest issue.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Just saw a dog piss on one of these Uber Eats drones in Hyde Park

Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB

this is really great by @thereiruinedit.bsky.social youtu.be/4D6_IhZA9Cg?...

If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.

At what point do Starmer, the Tory advisors he's surrounded himself with, and his cabinet of cowards look at the polls and realise that keeping Daily Mail readers' obsessions and talking points in the headlines every day has been a fucking disaster?

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Now THATS a title sequence - ATTENTION SCUM (BBC2 2001) Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee, Johnny Vegas and other uk comedy legends

I’m not saying this is what I want to happen, but it does rather make the case that in order to improve British healthcare, we need British politicians to get all the major diseases.

An advertising spend of £2bn puts the industry's bleating of "you'll destroy jobs if you tax us more!" into context. They're fucking rolling in cash.

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/

While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

They are HERE! Ordered 250 (optimistic) 70 have already gone. If you’d like one of these www.infinitebacon.com/shop/p/nerdl...

A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.

why can they not just fix it

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Vote Labour

OK. All done. Pedants? I'm not interested, this is MY Doctors. If you are interested in an A2 print I've decided to knock the price down so that it's £60 plus postage (assuming I get enough interest to make it worth my while) Let me know here or in DMs if you are interested. Probably print 10.

Stephen Collins in today's Guardian.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

I've just seen the spliced Trump footage on the BBC and I'm not surprised he's annoyed. That's clearly been edited.

"Trump has sent a letter to the BBC..."

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

I still love pointing this out every so often.