I did, but couldn't help imagining how very different the video would be if the main character was a cat.

"Manic Streeting Preacher" wins the Cringe Olympics.

Electric sheep

Second word should have been "indubitable".

Jonathan Westphal had a book about this: colour perception simply doesn't fit physicalist paradigms, but you don't need to posit Ineffable indomitable powers of awareness.

I think the trick with talking about sensory experience is to avoid falling into private sense data theory, but at the same kind account for the sui generis nature of colour, which is simply demonstrated by actual colour science.

I did end up with my own thesis, but it's not really relevant to AI. And it was nothing that Wilfrid Sellars hadn't already argued really.

Absolutely *nothing* that wasn't in a 1994 edition of "Mind & Cognition" ed. Lycan or "The Nature Of Mind" ed. Rosenthal.

The great thing about doing Philosophy Of Mind in the 90s is that all the old topics are now being rediscovered every week by people who spent the last 30 years telling us all the readings were irrelevant rubbish.

If I were CEO that's how I'd shake things up. Scrap the open plan offices, everyone gets a lock-up garage to work in. Senior managers can also have an allotment. Get back to basics.

I dunno, maybe Apple should go back to doing product development with 2 guys in a garage.

Unless "Avengers: Endgame" has them all sitting in dustbins I don't want to know.

Yeah, no sense of slow-burn, laying the groundwork for a trilogy. First episode should hold stuff back.

If I was a venture capitalist, this would be a "tell me you sacked those guys" moment.

The ideal writer for a musical about Evite would of course be Jorge-Luis Borges.

The Jim Callaghan Rock Opera I watched Rock Follies, originally broadcast in 2 seasons in 1976-7. I never saw it on TV but I liked the soundtrack albums when they were reissued in this century. I tried to watch the show in 200…

Julie Covington knew what she was doing when she ducked out of the live show, just treating it as a concept album project. Her own solo albums are brilliant as well:
discontinuednotes.com/2021/04/25/t...

I suppose it's an ironic comment on her self-delusion? The moral problem of "Evita" is it strives to suggest she was deeper and more complex than her actual career suggests.

"Starlight Express" also has a few good songs buried inside an awful lot of Radio 4 music genre parody landfill.

"Tell Me On A Sunday" has lots of acidic Brit-in-America observational twists and stabs in it.

Tim's a good songwriter. "Chess" has 2 absolute bangers in it that were huge hits.

Other people wrote them?

Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe....

Tim got quite grumpy about the fact that they were originally branded "Rice & Lloyd Webber" before Andrew got sole billing in the late 80s onward.

On the verso page: "There's stuff in here that isn't in the original film, but it totally counts and will be in the next film, so don't be a prick, don't argue about it.

Why not just a paperback book-of-film with a label on it "THIS IS CANON". There, fixed it.

Although it's not a good thing in general, I think an AI-simulacrum of Florian Schneider would be completely on-brand.

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Many reasons to not trust Palantir with our data, not least that they're clearly a bunch of fuckwits who write pretentious edgelord manifestos instead of getting on with the job.

But it would be better if one of the actual Emperors had said it, not some real estate guy who just thought he was

Marines parachuting into Lake Malawi, then seizing all shore facilities.

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Nigel getting ever closer to the Sargasso Sea dead zone where he has pissed off the angry bigot vote, while failing to appeal to any centrists.

The ironic mirror image of Blue Labour failure.