Dan Cooper

Lots of 6Music centrists shocked that the billionaire climate change-denying tax exile whose favorite vanity project is a Land Rover clone might be a bit of a bigot.

Now, look, I’m sorry but we have to remove your access to the flashing red light emoji.

You don’t get it back until you can be trusted with it.

‘Heathcliff,’ starring Cliff Richard.

Nothing but respect for *the real* modern day adaptation of Wuthering Heights…

Sinbad:
1. Sailor
2. Comedian
3. Most succinct version of the Bible

Deleting my dating apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way: at Farpoint aboard a starship when he appears dressed as a marine captain to put my species on trial.

I discovered this via the Public Service Broadcasting song. And the biggest shock, to me, was that this film was released in 1975. 1975!

Did Ayao forget the moment in DTS when a Hass engineer, with as much self control as he could muster, essentially said “what the FUCK are you thinking hiring that utter liability!”

‘Cos he said what literally everyone else in the world was thinking.

If "Spin and Spook" a coded way of saying Rory & Al's Big Night In? If so, I love it!

How the hell did Mandelson pass vetting for the ambassador job? How many apparently responsible people looked at that file and didn't scream holy hell?

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

I have experienced the joys of using a pressure washer. I have touched the face of god and he has smiled upon me. Time is now forever marked as the time before I touched a Kärcher, and after. The universe is infinite and we are all one, bound together in a single mind.

Honestly what is the point of having a programme that is *not* live if you are not going to use that function to aggressively factcheck the people on it?

Well, this is terrifying because
a) I did that route a fortnight ago.
b) We haven't yet invented remote elevator cars. Or a Thunderbird big enough to ferry them to London Airport.

News from 1636: the Netherlands government offers free training in the storage and care of tulip bulbs. "We have a goal of upskilling the workforce", says the Stadtholder

A lot of places in Europe could just about support cars the size they were in the 1960s. And yet car makers seem to think we're all filled with the same inadequacies that compel berks to buy these preposterous, dangerous and deeply unsuitable vehicles.

I was in France, test-driving a new electric Lexus and thought to myself 'man, EVs really are too big for these narrow, rural roads.' Seconds later, a fuck-off massive Ford Ranger swung around a blind corner and nearly ran me off the road because it wanted all of its own lane and half of mine.

Lo, as the Great Seer hath foretold:

YouTube video by TheTowerOfTheHand You poured it on a fish!

I've just thought of a valuable use of AI.

You take this clip of Hugh Dennis shouting, incredulously, "You poured it on a fish!?" and you change the wording to "You gave F1 a Best Picture nomination?"

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11 Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

You can sorta turn it off if you go into your Start Menu, but you'll still be blighted by its nonsense in some places.

The news that the BBC has signed a deal to produce exclusive content for YouTube reminds me that the BBC could and should have done a lot more to anticipate YouTube's rise in the UK and steal its talent.

OpenAI puts everything behind a paywall? I'm very sure there's at least five more companies founded by ex-staffers with plenty of VC cash who will happily let me ride for free during their growth hacking phase. And on, and on, ad infinitum.

In fact, one problem with a lot of these you-are-the-product services (Gmail, WhatsApp) is that it would be near-impossible to get people to pay for them or any alternative once the expectation of free becomes the default.

I'm equally fascinated by the people who think the world will pay a monthly subscription (in numbers 10x greater than Netflix or Spotify) for an AI product.

I suspect Gmail is the scaffolding underpinning a lot of people's lives and if Google started charging, we'd all just move somewhere else.

AI 👏 is 👏 a 👏 feature 👏 not 👏 a 👏 product.

Why would I want an AI doodad, especially a wearable AI doodad, if I already have a smartphone, smart watch (, smart ring!) and earphones that enable that connection?

It reminds me of the trend either side of 2010 when MS and Apple both raised a firm middle finger to their users and broke the UIs for Word and Pages, respectively.

One day, I'm sure, there will be an autopsy around the Met Office's app redesign. And I'm curious if any of the beta testers pointed out how fucking awful the new UI is, or if they were just as on-board with the changes as the developers were.

WHERE WERE YOU when you heard the full song? Me and everyone else on my floor of the halls of residence, watching Top of the Pops. The RAGE. People stood up. Dropped plates. Carnage