Next time Sharon goes glasses shopping she needs to bring a friend

Not me checking the prices of flights to New York and the address of the Wordle office and the times of business and googling where to buy a cudgel in New York City
Wordle 1,768 5/6

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It might have been the balcony. It was up some very rickety stairs.

One of the bigger distributors used it as a screening room for press shows up until the mid 2000s. It wasn't any less grotty, and the seats were tiny. As I recall, an architect bought the upstairs cinema bit to convert into an enormous apartment. Saw plans but don't know if it was ever built.

Heard Colm Ryder representing Dublin Cycling Campaign on the radio this morning but this is nominative determinism at its very best.

PROF. FARNSWORTH, INTO A PHONE

To shreds you say.
And his wife?
...
To shreds you say.

Are we supposed to clap? Do robots understand clapping?

Diplomacy this chaotic can only be the result of someone making unimaginable money from that chaos.

The youngest has proposed the Arsenal midfielder should expand his brand into a line of antiperspirants called Odour Guard.

Schrödinger's Strait

It says a lot about actual intelligence that people still refer to predictive, plagiaristic, pattern-matching Large Language Models as Artifical Intelligence. LLMs are not and can never be intelligent in the way they are sold, as the tech that will save us.

My then 5-year old holds the world record for the shortest time anyone has owned a drum kit

Stop calling LLM's "AI", and put your £500m into actual intelligence.

I'll be taking a look at the week's new cinema releases just after 7 on RTE Radio 1's Arena in the company of @rickoshea.bsky.social and Arlene Hunt, including Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Christian Petzold's latest, Miroirs No 3. Do tune in!

Is that you or me, Bluesky?

Is that you or me, Bluesky?

There will come a day when I stop reading Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels but it is not this day

And putting the money into the computer goose that lays the shit eggs that everyone hates

Very sad to hear of the passing of my constant teenage friend, Aiden Kenny, who some of you knew here as @aidenkenny.bsky.social; gateway to REM, Alan Moore, William Gibson, Frank Miller, Douglas Coupland, Nicholson Baker, 2000AD, all the cool shit. Gone far too soon. Thinking of his lovely family.

I've never had any confidence in any government

All politics is loco

Actual LOL at that last bit, Mícheál

Always loved this dynamic image of him directing The Mountain Eagle in 1926 - his wife and collaborator Alma Reville behind him, holding the binder. The film is now lost.

Reminds me of the time back in the late 80s we were all reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Sorry You've Lost Me

That's just...like...your second opinion, dude

Tin Castle / Irish Travellers | La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes

Discharge the cannons. We have an Irish title at Cannes. Alexander Murphy's TIN CASTLE lands in Critics' Week.

www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/2...

If you'll kindly return to your seats, we'll be landing at Dulles International Airport in twenty minutes.

If you'd kindly return to your seats we'll be landing at Dulles Airport in 20 minutes

Messiah Complex. Reason enough to drag him out of the Oval Office by the ankles and get him the mental health care he needs