Andrew Stones

Yep. Humanity doomed.

Noting: police officers who can run!

Well, definitely (as the OP more or less states): "things can’t be improved through [the] political choices [we want to make]”

Status

Sympathies

That’s really bad news for non-fiction writers.

"Four *OR* five leaves"!?
Given SB’s famous exactitude, do you think that maybe he was messing with stage managers, in perpetuity?

Problem is not that it's a "boomer" answer: pushing back against prejudice with a different prejudice = no advance. AW’s answer is lazy, unsupported by evidence and/or a calculated dog-whistle. And, even if you choose to give her benefit of doubt, when was she last a minister?

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Graceless

New Party name decided: Recursive Socialism.
‘RS’ is also Radio Spares, who happen to have a inspiringly chunky red logo that any young apparatchik could use as a Midjourney prompt… job done. Sending my invoice by email.

Isn’t use of language both tactical and trend-driven? People say things to signal that they are part of a group, or share certain feelings. Such utterances might be only loosely related to the literal meaning of the words used; or even aimed at antagonising a perceived opponent or "other".

Damned windmills!*
Making me and by buddies look stupid!

*not ‘windmills’, obv.

Sounds a bit "supply side" biased… who wants ‘em?

Excellent, grimly cogent piece. Lots of good refs and notes. Thanks! The short BTL exchange is interesting, too. With that in mind: is there a risk that we’re mesmerised by v. performative elements in a dynamic culture, whilst corrosions of various kinds go on less visibly "behind [the] masquerade"?

Excellent, grimly cogent piece. Lots of good refs and notes. Thanks! The short BTL exchange is interesting, too. With that in mind: is there a risk that we’re mesmerised by v. performative elements in a dynamic culture, whilst corrosions of various kinds go on less visibly "behind [the] masquerade"?

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Agree, but unsurprised. Is *anyone* "evaluating the net social merit of AI"? I mean, anyone who could change anything about the roll-out? Indeed: are innovations launched for profit by private entrepreneurs ever preemptively debated in a way that would allow a target society to say "no thanks"?

'Rallying Cry (CEOs)'. Panel 17 of 50 from the graphic/text work 'Notes for the End Times' May 2025 online version. Copyright © Andrew Stones 2025. Square format panel. Grey background with white typewriter script, reading: "CEOs! To the billionaire bunkers! And death!"

'Rallying Cry (CEOs)'
Panel 17/50 from ‘Notes for the End Times’,
2025-05 online version.
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Yes, it is. Can't remember where I got it -from you? A good read, anyway.

FAO Mr T. White (it’s the alphabet wot done it).

My feminine aspect never stops taking the piss out of my macho aspect. But we get along.

Everything I "liked" in this thread I "liked" because I found it funny. Just in case anyone misunderstood my "like".

+1: posters of humorous posts who block you when you join in with the humour.
Unwritten rule: only the OP can be truly witty and who the f**k are you with your upstart comeback on my humour [or humor] thread…

"There’s a lot of nuance missing from everything you just said…" We so need to hear that line deployed. These days. Every day. All over the place.

AI will just become another way to shop. It’s the only way to create enough trickle-up income streams to fund the proprietors lifestyle aspirations.

I agree. But it seems likely that many listeners to music do not deeply care about it, and the streamers have confirmed this via the vast experiment that is "curated playlists". Those who do care abt music have always, and can still, find their way past all the recycled/samey/generic content, no?

To the narrator, the raven in the poem is a bit like an LLM. He repeatedly asks it to confirm the existence of what he yearns for (his lover; life after death). Post-Enlightenment, his yearnings are unrealistic... and the raven merely makes raven sounds, onto which he desperately projects meaning.

In a cruel twist of fate: dumb idiots misspell ‘dumb idiots’

Such aspirations!