Steve O'Gorman

Sadly, I don't think this is a failure, I think it's entirely deliberate.

You don't see the corruption in power, when all they do is repeat, 'LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS'.

The relentless rhetoric wears you down, and, inevitably, you see only what they want you to see.

Interview Demis Hassabis on our AI future: 'It'll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution - and maybe 10 times faster'

Every time The Guardian publishes a hype article like this about AI, it's worth remembering that they have a commercial arrangement with ChatGPT and are not unbiased.

The whole thing is grifter bollocks.

I want to spotlight the clarity and beauty of the language Kelsey uses: the dead have a right to stay dead.

They do. We're going to need to develop standardized, universal, opt-out-only legal means to allow them to.

To allow /us/ to, for we will all be citizens in the kingdom of the dead in time.

1. The only viable government is one based on cutting the still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims.
2. Do not let the Spanish take over your country.
3. Quetzalcoatl is the one true God.

I encourage anyone who has doubts about vaccines to walk through a 19th Century graveyard and look at the ages of the deceased. As well as a shocking number of children, you'll also see way too many women of child bearing age.

Oh, come on. Keep up. Crypto is the two-years-ago scam. The current scam is AI.

I bet they'll be appreciated by spaniels and labradors as well.

Vented listing: A close arse you can hang your socks on and you could put it on washing line

Close arse #FacebookNews

Finally found a way to turn off the super annoying "AI" "Assistant" on my Adobe reader (Menu>Preferences>Generative AI). Good riddance to a pointless annoyance.

Thanks - I know what I'll be doing first thing tomorrow morning.

Space Unicorn!

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England and Wales isoline maps to show travel times from London

Road isochrone map comparison for 1830 versus 1680.

In 1830 it took 'just' 25 hours to reach South Devon by road from London; a 75% reduction in comparison with the 100 hours (over 4 days) of the late 17th Century.

#IsochroneMap #Map #UK #GeographyTeacher

There’s a petition calling for UK authorities to stop using Xitter here:
#BoycottX #BoycottTwitter

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It's absurd that rail tickets are the price they are, but in most of my journeys in the past year, I've ended up getting the ticket price back due to delays. I detect a flaw in this system.

One of the truly un-delightful things in this era is just how *many* existential threats we've got going *at one time.* Plastic! Microplastics! Trash! Climate change! All the fascism and authoritarianism! Widening inequality! Billionaires! Tech-billionaires! Their insertion of AI into everything!

'Explain a banana' sounds like the sort of question an Oxbridge admissions panel would pose to a baffled A-level student.

Bananas and the crusades

The crusaders learned about bananas in the Middle East. Trying to explain them to relatives, one writer described them as "long apples", another said they tasted of butter and honey (pretty accurate!). Bananas were said to grow on trees of paradise.

Gandalf passed my house nine years ago. Instead of carving a secret wizard's mark on the door, he put a card through the letterbox: 'Sorry you were out when I called. You missed the opportunity for the adventure of a lifetime. You have now been unsubscribed from Thorin's mailing list.'

This is quickly developing into my favourite account here. Bit of an age test, I grant you, but always entertaining.

because one was Bangladeshi, one was Nigerian, one was Iraqi, and one was Welsh-Jamaican. They fell well outside his radar. I don't know his 'relationship status' - and I honestly don't care - but 'incels are by definition far-right sympathisers' is an extremely simplistic argument.

My brother (now estranged) never had trouble getting his leg over - to the extent of stealing a girl I was pursuing from under my nose. Dad and I used to call him '007', because he got to roger more than his fair share. But he wasn't interested in my recent batch of *possible* girlfriends ...

I'm approaching bus pass age and I can *literally* count my former sexual partners on my wanking hand. I think I'm pretty intelligent, progressive, switched on, and generally fun to be with. Women enjoy my company (and I enjoy the company of women), but I'm physically unattractive. I go home alone.

it's fine for straight men to date and hook up and it is a problem that the the right pushes out so much negativity but i think the issue is that advice on 'how to get laid' is actually quite readily available from straight women, it's just that straight men don't listen to or respect straight women

Andrew and I often joke about our respective mutant superpowers: his is the ability to make trains and buses run entirely according to plan; mine is the ability to totally fuck up public transport merely by thinking about it.

I WIN! 👽

I'm heading to Cowbridge with a pal. The bus I wanted didn't run, so he's on the train we were aiming for and I'm on the one behind. (Connection in Pontypridd is very tight, so I built a wide window into our travel plan.) He's just rung me to say he's stuck outside Pontypridd: 'train failure'.

You're not going to reach incels or boys who have decided to load up on white nationalism, but there are plenty who simply don't know what healthy relationships look like, would love to be a good boyfriend/husband, and are desperate for someone to tell them how to be a man.

It’s an indefensible appointment.

A mad bugger I know, whose late wife taught me in primary school, used to knock about with Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips back when they were all youngish party animals. This is exactly the sort of tale Lyndon will tell in the pub of an evening of reminiscence.

Silly racist rioter dancing in front of a bunch of cops with riot shields 1/25th of a second before the brick hits him. The brick is clearly in frame and cock height

The silly racist is doubled over grabbing his bruised and hopefully ruptured genitals

Happy 1 year anniversary of the silly racist rioter getting a brick to the peen

A comic with two panels women experiencing loneliness. I will start a community for women in my city called lonely girls club. And it'll have instagram and a cute logo and we'll meet every month in cafes and start book clubs Men experiencing loneliness. I will become right wing