NEW - 'My Deepfake Nightmare'
For The Modern Mann, I meet Cheryl Bennett, a PE teacher whose life was turned upside down when an AI Deepfake video went viral which falsely showed her using racist language whilst leafletting for local elections
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Nine years ago, I interviewed Gavin Bain - whose story the film is based on - for The Modern Mann.
The real tale involves a bit more death, and was obviously a bit less Hollywood-linear, but the spirit of his plucky adventures remains intact!
Listen:
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Absolutely loved #CaliforniaSchemin - a funny, fast-paced, endearing British film of the kind we supposedly don't make anymore. Two great young actors playing the leads too.
Wow my mobile livestreaming setup is pure sex
Therapy
How 'World Book Day' Descended into Dressing-Up HELL
- from ep416 of Answer Me This!
#worldbookday #worldbookdaycostumes
#childrensbooks #stressedparents #AnswerMeThis
🎧👉https://pod.link/208516732
Thinking this Mother's Day of all the Mums who have their kids removed - and all the grandmothers and foster mums who step in to help.
(Check out my interview with Karina on The Modern Mann)
Names are Sunny and Maple. That's hot off the press, my son decided this evening!
Welcoming two new members to the family today! Thanks to National Animal Welfare Trust Watford who were lovely to deal with😻
If people cried laughing as much as they use the cry-laughing emoji the world would be a happier place
Incredible that we'll soon have data servers in space, yet nobody can apparently put the app to buy railway station car parking in the same app where you can check train status and buy train tickets
For my Times Radio show tonight... as it's World Book Day: what book recommendation would you suggest for our world leaders?
This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with here...
Apologies to Times Radio listeners but you are stuck with me covering this week. Join me each weeknight at 10pm. X
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No matter how many times I see it, I will never get used to old men in the locker room hairdrying their genitals
Have started channneling Davina whenever my wife calls the car and my kids are in the back.
YOU ARE LIVE ON SPEAKERPHONE, please do not swear
Wee Willie Winkie... DECODED!
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Another nursery rhyme busted wide open on #AnswerMeThis...
#nurseryrhymes #scot
Every time Spotify email me a Get Tickets link to a gig that's been sold out for months I think their technology is failing, surely the opposite of their intention and an easily fixable algorithm
Tantalising
ChatGPT confidently bullshitting incorrect answers gives strong 'public schoolboy at Oxbridge interview' vibes
This is Robbie now.
In this month's edition of 'The Modern Mann', he tells me about his agonising rescue, his complex surgeries and his long road to recovery.
He explains why his experience left him shaken but not angry, and how he got himself through the hardest moments 👇
🎧 pod.fo/e/38cf33
This is the rescue effort.
Locals clubbed together, improvising tools from what came to hand. The prognosis was not good.
This is the guesthouse he had been staying in, before and after an earthquake of 6.9 magnitude destroyed it.
The quake, in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains in September 2023, caused around 3,000 fatalities.
Robbie was in bed inside the hotel.
This is Robbie Greatrex.
He spent six hours trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake.
Unable to feel his legs, unsure he would emerge alive. 🧵
61 years ago today, Malcolm X came to #Smethwick.
The industrial suburb of Birmingham had recently gained a grim reputation as ‘the most racist town in Britain’... 🧵
Wait, The Muppet Show is back on Wednesday? How have I just heard about this, this is the news I have been waiting for since 1986
What would YOU do if #TaylorSwift gave you a wax-sealed envelope?
#waxseal #waxsealstamp
Andy Burnham: BLOCKED!
Olly Mann: ACTIVATED!
Join me from 1pm on Times Radio...
I rarely get invited to have my photo taken so of course when I do it is for a broadsheet piece about middle class people who shop at Costco
This is Alok; a high-flying CFO, who fraternised with the world’s richest men.
Anon letters sent to his boss, Masayoshi Son, accused him of corruption.
Suddenly, shadowy “shareholders” emerged from nowhere, and a smear campaign quietly derailed his career...
🎧 www.modernmann.co.uk/new/moneytrap
