We have machines that churn out infinite volumes of communications when what we need is more silence
John Appleton
@oddbodd13.bsky.social
Poet, actor, director, photographer. A heathen, conceivably - but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
If you had to guess which club had a player running round with medieval weaponry, the horse-punchers would always be a good bet.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11h agoAmar Dedic set to escape Newcastle sanction over carrying bow and arrow
Very interesting thread on how and why this took so long. Important to understand two big constraints on victims speaking out here, alongside the embarrassment & vulnerability many feel: the threat of ruinous legal action, & a bro culture which exists in some form on the left as well as the right.
Ellie Mae O'Hagan@elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 12h agoLet me tell you about Russell Brand, as someone who helped the journalists who eventually exposed him. In 2013/4, Brand started to become interested in progressive politics. He said progressive things publicly, went on Newsnight etc. At the time I was involved in progressive grassroots work myself.
Andrew Sachs looking down from heaven, giggling, "He's behind bars alone-ah." Everyone gets their comeuppance...
Manuel from Fawlty Towers: Eventually!
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Hearing rumours they’re also closing Russell Brand Boulevard at Diggerland Kent
"Spotify, please show me Aerosmith singing Ah Shadappa You Face".
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago“The product would allow paying subscribers to use AI to create their own versions of popular songs, such as transforming a folk song into a dance track or making one artist appear to cover another’s music.”
Fairly sure that in these days of text recognition, AI and, y'know, people being able to read, posting your text as a picture is probably not a sure-fire way to prevent your enemies hearing what you have to say.
As a kid who saw the original(s) when released, I walked into PM w/much hope; and, while I can't say I was completely disappointed, the hate for it from most was immediate and widespread. 10 yr old Jake Lloyd was thrown to the wolves and torn apart. I still think Roger Ebert's review said it best -
New favourite internet abbreviation: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Rupert, we're only in dark times because the clocks went back. Keep up lad.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · last wk.Yaxley Lennon was found guilty by a jury made up of ordinary men and women who deliberated for two days. But Lowe isn't interested in facts.
The late great "Seething" Steven Wells wrote a review of a Rage Against The Machine gig in the 90s where he described how all the very expensive merch sold out within an hour and there was an entire crowd in £25 RATM t-shirts all singing along "fuck you I won't do what you tell me"...
I'd love to know what dumbfuckery made this sign necessary.
Philip Brown's wonderfully constructed photo of Neil Williams bowling in the game between Warwickshire and Essex at Edgbaston in September 1996. Here he describes the way the shot came about - espn.com/cricket/stor...
Anthony Au-Yeung's photo of a flying Tatenda Taibu in action in a T20 international against New Zealand at Auckland on February 11th 2012 was the winner of the 2012 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition
If there is a God, can He send a flood again? I'd quite like a go at ark building.
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2w agoVoters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I saw a screenshot of this and had to go and check if it was real. How can you be the BBC’s cyber correspondent and not have heard of PHP before yesterday? *And* now be talking confidently about it on the news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list
Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhat’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
Obsessed with Damascus goats lately. They look like they were created by H. R. Giger. They both looks and sound stupid as hell. An utter catastrophe of an animal. I love them.
