Alex Ingram

This was fun! And a pleasure to bump into so many friendly faces.

Gunman storms stage at Wikipedia conference in Manhattan, no injuries reported The unidentified man was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...

Is social media just...boring now? Social media is destroying democracy and accelerating idiocracy. But it's also just...really, really boring.

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

*owl sounds*

Is Climate Anxiety real? - Your Brain On Climate Well... is it? Nearly half of young people say the future of the planet brings them mental distress. Not just young people either. More and more people of all ages are feeling something that feels lik...

Striking episode on Climate Anxiety from Your Brain On Climate.
For a long time people have assumed climate change would happen elsewhere, in the future. And as it dawns that it will happen here and now… that’s a shift.
But fear doesn’t lead to action.
www.yourbrainonclimate.com/1817605/epis...

Jumpers for bandages.

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

Gruber: Frankenstein!!, Perpetuum mobile, Charivari & Dancing in the Dark - YouTube

and yes, the whole thing is on there, but leave it to the morning or you'll have nightmares www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

YouTube video by H.K. Gruber - Topic Frankenstein!!: VII. Mr Superman

I should go to bed, but I just remembered the sheer ludicrousness of the HK Gruber Prom I went to years back and... I need a moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=99qA...

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

111 Strand – A Street Map In Portland Stone
at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...

Love And Glitter, Hot Days And Muzik - YouTube

HEY!

Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Music is TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD.

Blimey. Still good, though.

Let’s Go!

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As the son of a poet, I’m definitely here for more of this.

Tweet that reads: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Ten years ago today.

Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.

This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

To be fair being a ginger pervert is quite tiring so it’s reasonable to take a break every now and then.

Pedestrianising Houghton Street - LSE History Archive images of LSE until the mid 1970s show an unusual sight: cars parked outside the Old Building and along Houghton Street. In September 1975 Houghton Street was closed to through traffic.

Pedestrianising Houghton Street - LSE History. I remember when closing the Houghton Street rat-run (after a student was killed) was denounced by Tory newspapers as dangerous, revolutionary LSE radicalism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

YouTube video by Trash Theory The Most Bizarre UK No. 1s of the 1990s

Well, this has given me a few more tracks for my ‘Non-stop Nineties Nonsense’ playlist. youtu.be/YYDv6uHNv6Y

WMO GREENHOUSE GAS BULLETIN The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Based on Global Observations through 2024

This should scare the crap out of us at 423.9 ppm CO2

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2024 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨.”
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You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

This is VERY interesting, and I am 100% gonna try it for myself with other things than music:

Edmund King - we should have road pricing.
Also Edmund King - oh but not tolls on bridges.

Right...

And it happens elsewhere, eg London Assembly.

If we can’t even talk in general terms about MPs’ workload- which MPs of all parties agree is v casework- heavy and getting heavier- without a lot of responses being to assume that MPs are not telling the truth/just whinging/ working on the wrong things etc- then I think we’re in a bad place

It's Bluesky so I would like to now talk to you, with authority, about something I know nothing about.

TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...

Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

Yes, dating can be stressful but I can’t think of anything worse than relying on an AI to change how you express yourself.
Mind you, I got so bored on Hinge a while back that I made a poem out of the prompts. Which at least amused me.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

September 2025 Hello.   I am still alive.  I don't DJ anymore.  I don't fiddle around with other people's music anymore. I now lathe-cut records for a livi...

Incredibly Soundhog is not only still releasing music but even lathe cutting his own vinyl. soundhog.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...