MFW Curran

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

If it's getting harder to spot an AI fake maybe the solution is to stop using those sites? Maybe we should return to physical media like CDs Blu ray and paper books? Physical media is like everything else that's physical - it's better than digital in every conceivable way #AIfakes #physical #digital

Every time I see a Microsoft 365 Copilot advert I am SO glad I don’t have the kind of life that would need me to use Microsoft 365 Copilot…

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

Or, for the same price, buy 200 socks, turn them into sock puppets and be the president of Sock Puppet land. You'll get as much fun from that as an iPhone Pocket, and I'd say look less of a fool.

There isn't an event or fashion statement that sums up the 2020s better than the iPhone Pocket. Truly the most pointless, tasteless invention for technology and fashion since the mankini. But you know there will be iDiots who will buy this. Point at them, kids, and laugh. #consumerismadness #apple

ISSEY MIYAKE Ond Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of "a piece of cloth,"lits singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.

i think i’m having some kind of neurological event

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Must be frustrating when you post your April Fools joke almost six months ahead of time by mistake

It’s not a cult

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society

Artice on the next James Bond movie: "Insiders said Knight is working with director Denis Villeneuve, best known for Dune, and heavyweight producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman, who was behind the Harry Potter and Paddington series. The new 007 film – the 26th in the official franchise – is not expected until 2027 or 2028."

Initially read this as a reference to a single movie, "Harry Potter and Paddington".

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Elon musk supports evil ass rape candidates

It's not like humans are immune to bad writing. There's just this 'out' now, where AI can be blamed. There are a gazillion reasons why the Beetlejuice sequel doesn't work, but these are similar to Wednesday's 2nd season. What's the story there?

Seems? No, there is a common occurrence of #AI being blamed for terrible #screenwriting. After a dissapointing second outing for both #Wednesday and #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice, audiences are asking if the writers were under the influence, or was it a problem of sequels. Truthfully, how do we know?

Following my return to writing, it's too early to attend #WorldFantasyConvention2025 but wishing all the best to everyone who's going, hope you have an amazing time!
There are some to-dos for me next year that include renewing memberships lapsed to #BSFA & #HWA, & a return to the convention circuit.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

An event like the #EnhancedGames, where athletes can steal victories by using drugs, could only exist in a time where #BigBusiness stamps on morality and no longer tries to hide it. Musk, Trump, D'Souza and on and on, like clowns in our circus tent.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Going out on a limb and saying a UK civil war is not inevitable.

Teslas v hatchbacks

Just stockpile these. To be handed out at will.

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality: for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it wisely”
@terriwindling.bsky.social

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Taken from Art of Imagination (Robinson, Weinburg and Broecker) essential insight into publishing fads ( #Writers, take heed). This is why #Horror died in the 90s:

Another day, another fake account. Why do they do it? I mean, it's a certainty that you'll be found out. Is it really worth the effort masquerading as someone else for a few hours? Is your life really that worthless? #fakeaccounts #bluesky

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

A problem for all #writers out there: as a reader, I have so many unread books on my shelves that I'll not read them all before I die.

How, as a writer, would you convince me to buy another book?

How would you convince a reader like me to buy YOUR book? #readerbehaviour #writing