Paul Clammer

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Happy birthday Henry Christophe - 258 years of people spelling your name wrong! 😉

Screenshot of an Instagram suggested search feed.

Interesting exercise!

Useful thread for UK authors—like me—who had their books stolen to train AI and had hoped for even a few crumbs from the Anthropic settlement.

'Leave the girl - it's the scarf I want!'

Good? That book seems to be getting a lot of love these days?

What a wonderful essay - thanks for sharing.

Ignatz throwing a brick at Charlie Brown, drawn by Charles Schulz

For the 75th anniversary of Peanuts here’s a link to an essay I wrote about Charles Schulz’s deep love of Krazy Kat

www.michaeltisserand.com/ottimliffs

This is the alternative universe I'd like to move to, please.

I can remember endlessly trying to perfect the logo to draw on my school books. 😆

I had the 7-inch single as well!

A book: 'The Ruin of All Witches' by Malcolm Gaskill'.

I have just bought a copy based on these recommendations!

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

I would love this - I'd order it like a shot.

Such a great essay, and prompted me last week to listen to some brilliant albums I hadn't heard in years.

One of Bristol's best kept secrets: Beese's cafe, where they send a ferry across the river to pick you up for coffee and cake (or a pint). Easy to forget you're still technically in the city.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

I expect the ID card thing will be dropped within about a week with Labour claiming "It was only ever a suggestion!" but until then, why not register your disapproval (if you disapprove).

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Congratulations Manuel - it looks excellent!

Saw The Cramps at Reading Festival 1990: Lux Interior came on late and complained about someone locking him a caravan for 45 minutes, then nearly fell off the two storey speaker stack. Rushed afterwards to buy the bootleg tape, which I listened to for years – an amazing show.

Flashbacks to the my Sixth Form art trip a million years ago when we all turned up at the Louvre only to find it closed!

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO Blondie - Rapture (Official Music Video)

It means it's time to go back to the sacred texts. youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

As someone whose partner has ILR, I can't begin to tell you how frightening this racist bullshit is. Fuck Nigel Farage, his media outriders, and politicians of other parties cosying up to 'legitimate concerns'.

There's a Douglas Adams quote that I can't remember and will almost certainly mangle, along the line of 'a wit gives a smart retort on the spot, but a writer goes home and says something devastatingly clever six months later.' Don't know if that helps, mind you.

We must have been in the same early GCSE intake that had Great Expectations inflicted on them! Discovering Dickens later in life was such a pleasure, but always tinged with annoyance that the school drudge had programmed me to hate him for so many years.

Every few months I ask ChatGPT to create a bibliography of all the Lonely Planet guidebooks I wrote. Elementary stuff which is all easily found online – and it hasn't yet managed it once.

An early example of the Streisand Effect too: I think this was actually how I first heard of Massive Attack, their forced name change announced on a Radio 1 lunchtime bulletin.

This sounds brilliant. Katherine Hepburn's delivering the final line "I will have what she is having" is absolute perfection in so many ways.

We just booked tickets for this!

A 1929 tourism poster for with spring blossom in the town of Tlemcen, Algeria. A minaret sits behind an orchard in blossom, a stork flies past against a pink sky. Everything is brightly coloured. Painted by Léon Carré.

Who wouldn't be tempted to travel to see the pring blossom in Tlemcen, Algeria, after seeing this 1929 tourism poster painted by Léon Carré?

“These are dodos, and I’m sure there will be some people who say, ‘Oh, well, we don’t like them. We’re not going to call them dodos,’” Lamm said of the latest Colossal project. “Then don’t. We just don’t care, and the more you don’t call them a dodo, the more controversy you drive, the more my numbers go up. So that’s great. So whatever you want to call them, as long as you’re calling them something.”

The final word from the Colossal guy says everything: