James Maasdorp

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Yikes. No thank you.

I remember the day my little Arsenal blog went from a few hundred daily reads to its first over-1000 day thanks to newsnow. What's it like now? Just a bunch of talksport links?

Looked fine from afar.

AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost Supported by theguardian.org About this content Aisha Down Mon 20 Oct 2025 08.00 CEST AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have voiced concern over a new era of “poverty porn”.

AI-generated images of extreme poverty now appear in their dozens on popular stock photo sites, including Adobe Stock Photos and Freepik, in response to queries such as “poverty”. Many bear captions such as “Photorealistic kid in refugee camp”; “Asian children swim in a river full of waste”; and “Caucasian white volunteer provides medical consultation to young black children in African village”. Adobe sells licences to the last two photos in that list for about £60.

In the past, leading charities have used AI-generated images as part of their communications strategies on global health. In 2023, the Dutch arm of UK charity Plan International released a video campaign against child marriage containing AI-generated images of a girl with a black eye, an older man and a pregnant teenager. Last year, the UN posted a video on YouTube with AI-generated “re-enactments” of sexual violence in conflict, which included AI-generated testimony from a Burundian woman describing being raped by three men and left to die in 1993 during the country’s civil war. The video was removed after the Guardian contacted the UN for comment.

You already know this is bad, but I absolutely guarantee the details in this article are at least 12x as bad as you think they are

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Oh man Yannick Noah got me into tennis in the first place.

Good luck with all that stuff you're dealing with

Cool.

Mate it's not 2013 anymore

This was annoyingly sensible

Been reading a long time and whenever you say it's going to be short one I do a quick scroll down the page to have a chuckle at the big lie. Feel better, Blogs!

Mine has five posts from two people.

Sympathy for my fellow "always gives people a heart attack when I start talking" brethren

"Spiky".

Wow tactically responding to opponents is "entitlement" now.

Remember 2015? PM Tony Abbott ate an onion. The Force Awakens was released. And a guy named Bill Shorten set a net zero target for the year 2050, along with an emissions reduction target of 45% by 2030. That was at the lower end of 40-60%, recommended by the remnants of the independent government climate advisors, the ‘Climate Change Authority’ (CCA). Fast forward to December 2021, nearly six years later. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese prepares to announce an updated 2030 target. Since 2015, Australia has been ravaged by bushfires, a major IPCC report has been released, and renewable energy has grown cheaper, fast. Here it comes, the fans murmured. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.

Labor insisted in their defence – constantly – that 43% is a “floor, not a ceiling”. I still find this brain-meltingly absurd. The entire point of a target is that it’s a minimum goal, not a maximum limit, or a range. It was offered like it was some extra special promise, when it just described the dictionary definition of target. It spoke to the weird corners they had to go to defend the indefensible. Plenty of effort has gone into trying to present their weak settings as very brave. In an interesting but problematically forgiving review of the Albanese government’s first year, former Labor staffer Sean Kelly writes that: "Albanese has a long list [of significant actions], but in particular points to the government’s actions on climate and clean energy, including the way they have changed Australia’s place in the world" Courtesy of Carbon Brief’s Simon Evans, this chart nicely illustrates that Albanese’s commitment puts Australia behind the UK, Germany, the EU, the US (their target strengthened since this chart was made), Japan, Canada and South Korea. On the target alone, Australia remains a laggard, and that’s before we get to everything else.

In 2015, Labor chose a 45% by 2030 target, which was the lower end of the climate change authority's recommendation. In 2021, they weakened that to 43%, and the core line with that was "it's a floor, not a ceiling" (that's what all targets are????????????)

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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

It's a hard slog keeping schtuhm and hiding pride for two hours. Applause merited.

Loving the Springboks' continued influence on world sport.

This is like how kids pretend the Star Wars prequels were good.

Ignoring the title race and foregone relegation conclusions, there have been lots of fun teams to watch this season. Palace, AFCB, Fulham in the early period, Spurs...

The conversation still hasn't quite made its way here, frustratingly. Hello gooners.

Still find the "abuse on social media" line very suspect. Many saying the guy doesn't have a social media presence.

Can someone explain matchday numbers given we've copped flak for how expensive our tickets are over many years but PSG and Real are so far ahead (Parc de Princes smaller than emirates, Bernebeu about a third bigger).

Sort it out, commercial! (I realise they have improved since the late Wenger years)

Almost zero tolerance.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Amazing Henry anecdote. I too buckled under the pressure once when I was in a media scrum interviewing Samir Nasri when City were touring Australia. Did the "objective journalist" thing instead of telling him how I really felt. What a choke.

Every time someone mentions balls I can only hear it in this guy's voice.

Wonderful holding off of Chalobah and great dinked finish. More please, GJ9. #ARSCRY

The other repercussions of the Ange situation is a bunch of Aussies declaring themselves lifelong Spurs fans and having to deal with that poor life choice while budgeting for the Bein subscription for Ange's next job at Atalanta or wherever. #TOTCHE