I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

Few individuals have had such a colossal & deleterious impact on the cultural psyche as the recently-departed Erich von Däniken. While he was not alone in fusing aliens into our conception of the distant human past, he was perhaps the most successful & the most harmful in doing so.

I do not know a single thing about soccer, but I assume that the existence of a team named Real Madrid implies the existence of one named simply Madrid, with the same relation the Real Ghostbusters had to the Ghostbusters. So, a talking gorilla in the team, flying car, etc.

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

I hate it when elected officials don't follow up on their promises.

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I agree that when we lose a language we lose an entire world-view...

...but it's kind of neat that there's a language whose only surviving texts are snake spells.

In case you missed it last night, I dug into Will Smith's "fake AI crowd" video. Nearly everyone got this wrong, and the evidence was easy to find… if you're sick enough to watch everything Will Smith posted on social media in the last four months.

The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended.

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A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

One more reason to use actual humans to do your transcription...

Near all our world leaders and media are guilty of "hamaslighting"

To this day I still think it's a shame that nobody ever registered the URL satan.church nor, for that matter, charlotte.church but at least for some time in our lives we did get steeple.church and that more than makes up for it.

Music Is Too Important To Be Left To The Marketplace A Conversation with Liz Pelly

“So it was like, okay, how can we figure out a way to capitalize on these user habits while also making the major labels happy? Which is not the same thing as figuring out [how to] use technology to make it easier for people to support artists,… the people whose work they are listening to.”

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

It seems there’s now a small industry dedicated to fixing ChatGPT disasters www.bbc.com/news/article...

King: c'mon SOMEONE must have a positive vision of the future
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?

I think I've said something like this before, but if I were making the Oasis biopic, it would begin with a scene of Noel and Liam as kids, Liam feeling sad for being beaten up just because he acted like an asshole, Noel cheering him up by playing a new song he just wrote 'All around the world / gotta spread the word / you know it's gonna be okay.' 'You know Liam, one day we are going to be Rock and Roll stars, and we're going to turn this song into the biggest song ever. At several of the early shows they play stripped down versions of the song, at the recording of both Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory they're asked if they want to include the anthem. 'Not yet' says Noel. 'Not until we have the budget to make it fucking right.' The film culminates with a painstaking reconstruction of the recording process of All Around the World, done in black and white, cinema verité style, but also imitating the famous bell-making scene from Andrei Rublev (it goes without saying that my biopic is a 3 hour monster like Nixon or something). Final scene of film is a one-take of Noel, dejected, angry at Liam, coked out of his mind, feeling the dream has gone to shit, putting on the song, the masterpiece he dreamt about since he was a kid, and over 9 painfull minutes realizing just how bad it is, just how much he fucked it up. For the last couple of minutes he is bawling his eyes out, lying on the floor, snot coming out of his nose. Roll credits, soundtracked by Country House. ― Frederik B, Thursday, 25 August 2016 00:29 (eight years ago)

As Oasis are on #totp with the interminable All Around The World, I must share one of my all-time favourite forum posts.

I am reminded of a poem I return to periodically for its final two stanzas www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58530/...

Landscape format printout with column of text in the middle and four double-sided tearaway cards on each side, with text on basic rights for demonstrators adapted from aclu.org

Rush job on a busy morning, but here’s a protestors’ rights flyer with tearaway cards to post around the neighborhood ahead of Saturday (print double-sided, flip on short edge): gem7.neocities.org/pubs/protest...

"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot"

Y'know what, Bruce Wayne, fuck you; I bet you believe in phrenology too

Here's a fun trick to play: surprise other campers by emerging from your sleeping bag with a beautiful pair of wings and fluttering away.

A cat riding in a cardboard cat house shaped like a taco van.

Looks Unfamiliar: Justin Lewis – It Sounds Like Regional Sweep Looks Unfamiliar with Justin Lewis talking to Tim Worthington about Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, In One Ear, Tommy by The London Symphony Orchestra, Orbit with Alan Taylor,…

Terence Trent D'Arby's OTHER album, Trumpton in Welsh, The Chippendales on Celebrity Squares and terrifying ITV children's programme Orbit...

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May the fourth, a good day for many of us to remember that if you’re going to throw your weird genocidal boss down a lift shaft anyway it’s always better to just get on with it and not spend 20+ years committing atrocities on their behalf first

Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵

If you read one thing this week about the state of US politics, let it be this.

Anybody up for a little story?

Back before WW2, the country of Yugoslavia (which today is Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia) had a flourishing culture of comics. American imports were eagerly devoured, but so were Yugoslav comics.

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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

Today on Eruditorum Press, Last War in Albion returns with a chapter on Sandman and Neil Gaiman. Strap in. This goes hard. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...