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An AI just showed me a selection of current affairs it thinks will pique my interests.
Its chosen topics? AI is going to be running the world's biggest AI company in a couple of years, and Google have found (googled?) an AI virus that is changing itself as it replicates and spreads. 😑

Huh. If he’s been hiding all along and then they roll him out like some new messiah, we’re fucked.

This vibrant south London neighbourhood is officially one of the coolest places in the world Behold, the coolest place in Britain right now.

Well, check us out 😂
www.timeout.com/london/news/... #camberwell #toocoolforschool

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The same Republican Party that impeached Bill Clinton over a consensual sex act with another adult is now protecting Donald Trump for alleged nonconsensual sex acts with underage girls. #WWJD?

She is so stupid it hurts.
(Although she’s probably upset about people undermining the “rape and pillage” front of British culture.)

Meanwhile on Irish breakfast television.

I think most people on the internet get that ‘Venn diagram’ can mean different things. Yes, it has a technical definition. It also is a familiar, colloquial term that means ‘some sort of intersection between disparate things’. That’s the sense in which I (and many others) use it for jokes.

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

If you have unchecked enthusiasm for your burgeoning relationship with ChatCGP, this read may send a chill down your spine...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

"This case sure is a stinker"

Gee, if only there was a SIGN that he'd become a dictator, like - for example - him SAYING he would be a dictator if he was elected... 🤔

Donald Trump: I WANT MY RECORDS BACK, ELON. ALL OF THEM! EVEN THE ABBA ONES I SAID YOU COULD KEEP!

Happy May Day

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia Is $1,000 worth being the AI face of obvious scams? Rueful actors say no.

Oh look: our dystopian future is now our dystopian present. Who would have seen THIS coming?
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/r...
Before Black Mirror, this dystopia was already playing out in the '81 Michael Crichton sci-fi romp "Looker". Well worth a look (pardon the pun)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out " on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize doing this to our children. we are

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

That’s a shitty thing to do

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Our road is closed down whilst they park a 178 tonne transformer overnight.

Ooh, aah, I lost my bra
I lost my knickers in my boyfriend's car

Did Burns write that? Exactly. Timewaster.

Oh this is lovely.

Stray (video game) - Wikipedia

For the first time in my [cough, ahem] years, I spent hours playing a VIDEO GAME.
Can now highly recommend "Stray" on xbox, where you get to be a cat and do cat things whilst adventuring your way out of a dystopian sci-fi city?! Amazeballs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_(...

All negative consequences of having a government are the result of not having any negative consequences on politicians.

Pitch: Lidl Shop Of Horrors. Exactly like the famous musical, but with all the names changed very slightly, and the middle is full of kayaks.

Christo Nationalism…..

But what is the valuable tip? I can’t see it and I need to know. For science. (And eggs).