If Keith’s gonna get kicked, it needs to happen before the local elections so Reform don’t get to claim it.

The more I read about how ADHD works the more I realise the best decision I ever made in my life was to stay the fuck away from gambling. That shit would have fucked me way worse than booze ever has!

Only eight doors left on the Ed Balls Day calendar!

Oh Rex. You were doing so well, too. #TheArchers

Just watched The Shrouds again. Definitely rewards a second viewing. This time round I think it might actually be better than Crimes Of The Future.

I remember during Twin Peaks: The Return I was 100% convinced that “Judy” would turn out to be a coded reference to Garland Briggs, and thought it was such a neat idea that I’m still slightly disappointed it wasn’t.

Something I’ve noticed with ChatGPT at work is that for a few weeks it’s occasionally been putting in random words in foreign languages. So far Hebrew, Russian and Hindi. Given the size of Israel, Russia and India’s bot farms, are they inadvertently poisoning the training data?

When I was reading SF as a kid I thought AI would be an amazing technology that would enable humans to do shit of which we’d never previously been capable. Turns out we just get it to do stuff we could already do but worse.

Judging by the Mandelson stuff and all the Reform shenanigans, I might get into vetting. Seems like the sort of job where it doesn't really matter if you're shit at it, you still get paid.

The more that comes about about Mandelson’s appointment, the clearer it becomes that Blair has more influence over this government than we’d previously suspected. It’s the only way it makes sense.

brb renaming libraries “data centres” so they might actually get some funding.

If I was a diplomat, I think I’d take if way too personally when my country went to war. Like “look, I fucking tried my best, alright?”

Wes Streeting wants to cut welfare to boost defence spending. I mean, I get it. We won’t be able to kill other people’s children unless we starve our own first, right?

Yeah, that loop’s either sampled from BM or from his recordings for it, I’d bet on that.

That Tom Waits and Massive Attack track’s ace.

Someone should do one of those walled garden experiments to see whether one of those AI stock picker agents would have lost the farm on NFTs. I reckon it would.

Waiting for 9am so I can check out the Massive Attack/Tom Waits collab without pissing off the neighbours.

You’re so Money Supermarket, you probably think this song is about you.

Also strangely (although it’s Pynchon, so maybe “customarily”) prescient. See also- the reference to women grabbed “by the pussy”, which is just fucking spooky tbh.

I mean, just the parenthetical dates after every movie title are already funny as fuck, and that’s easier to write than breathing. Just got to the f24 stuff and fuck me that shit’s hilarious now I’ve experienced hyperfixating on the SLA.

Fuck, Vineland is WAY funnier than I remember, which was already pretty damn funny. Figure maybe I just get more of the jokes and references than I did back then. Shit, I’m gonna have to read all his stuff again, aren’t I?

Elon Musk stans are gonna be fucked when AI learns to lick boots, aren’t they?

Felt cute, might get down later. You know, just for the funk of it.

Mad how quickly “do your own research” turned into “@grok?”

Guy who goes to see Erika Kirk because he just really likes fireworks.

Just started it again today. Only fifty pages in but it's definitely one of his funniest. I remember very little tbh because last time I read it was at Waldeck Road, so it's all about 90% new to me.

The King needs to make a statement on the Middle East crisis just so someone can do the headline “We are not Hormuzed”.

I ate your plums
that you were saving for breakfast!
and you will forgive me
because you are weak on crime

He should at least sign off his tweets with "FUCKIN SLAYEEERRR" instead of "Thank you for your attention to this matter". Fucking weak-ass bullshit.

I think decades of horror movies and kickass albums have given us all unrealistic expectations as to how metal the Antichrist would be.