Danny Birchall

well you have now!

"llms can write social science articles better than professors now" BITCH I DONT CARE. i literally do not care because the point of people having fucking thoughts and doing research is PEOPLE HAVING THOUGHTS AND DOING RESEARCH. the point of the work is DOING THE FUCKING WORK.

It's nearly the 25th anniversary of the NFT's 25th anniversary of punk season

Once upon a time the museum’s association yearbook used to list museums with their annual visitor figures. Is there anywhere I could see similar info in one place today?

A more truthful explanation for the Jewish organisations’ silence comes in private conversations. In those, communal figures will admit that they believe the accusations against Farage are true, but that they have made a pragmatic calculation. “He’s the coming man and right now he’s not hostile to us,” was how one senior official put it to me. They don’t want to make an enemy of a politician who, polls suggest, is heading to Downing Street.

W/ recent Gorton and Denton by-election results demonstrating the strength of the Greens, it’s worth reflecting on leaks that the Board of Deputies refrained from commenting on Nigel Farage’s extreme antisemitic comments since he was a shoo-in, but issued a statement against @mothinali.bsky.social

I've been on their trustpilot, many people feel the same.

Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.

makes me sad to think of being too old to talk about whirligigs!

whirligig! that was it, thank you!

Thinking of a war where they bomb the LLM datacentres and we're all suddenly lost for words

me too, but I'm sure I recall people having sillier names. great tattoo subject too

skysters, what are your best & most fantastic childhood names for those lobed sycamore seedpods that twist in the wind when they fall from the tree?

What the actual fuck?

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Bridgerton of Spies

A Bridgerton Too Far

thank you for your service

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

I could watch F15s fall out of the sky all fucking day long and then some more

You're absolutely right, that was an F15, a plane that belongs to one of our allies, and I take full responsibility and apologise for any confusion caused. Let's try again.

Unpleasant-looking English couple

24/7 television coverage of the world's most unimaginative holidaymakers and fish-lipped tax dodgers

heading into the eighth hour ...

today is duodi 12 Ventôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating elm

Sorry I misunderstood this - you are the maniacs who started all this

Easy -- just don't be pals with the kind of criminal maniacs who started all this in the first place.

Is that an actual statue??

Oof, I'm sorry. I think we're still in the circle's waiting room.

Asked my kids if they knew where the terms 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' come from.

"Was Marx left-handed?"

luckily there's a war with a lot of updates going on at the moment! hope you're all ok now.

A woman keeps shouting something about hot milk and I can't help but think of Deborah Levy. A medical machine keeps bleeping the same tune that should be a Sweet Exorcist track.