This is terrifying

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

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Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

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A 59 year gap, meaning it’s just about possible some people in the photo were alive when The Shining was released. I wonder if any of them realised.

Every comms team should be gearing up for this - and AI makes it possible

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Mandolins are lethal but on the plus side I’m available for comedy thumbs up modelling on a short term basis

Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
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It’s exceptional - an actual miracle…! I can’t understand why the person who sorted it out hasn’t been made cabinet secretary

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade A visit with a family in mourning

Extraordinary piece of journalism from Tom Bartlett.
Just about skirts inside the line of intruding into family grief, but tells the story with heart and compassion, while inserting facts in the abstract as a counterpoint.
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A cigarette… smoking a cigarette

A close-up of a contents page of a OS development book. It reads: 9.4 Process Primitives 9.4.1 Having Children 9.4.2 Watching Your Children Die 9.4.3 Running New Programs 9.4.4 A Bit of History: vfork() 9.4.5 Killing Yourself 9.4.6 Killing Others 9.4.7 Dumping Core The book is "Linux Application Development", by Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan (ISBN 0-201-30821-5)

The 7 stages of adult life

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This is so very Britain in 2025. "Sorry, there's already an emergency, you can't have another one. Please reschedule your emergency and come back later"

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Yes, people will post pictures on social media of sleeping arrangements on Xmas Eve and I will once again attempt to leverage this to raise money for charity — just pinning this to my profile to head off the relentless (i.e. sporadic) enquiries

The woman helping council tenants carpet their homes Pia Honey is campaigning for social housing to come with flooring as standard.

I wrote this - about the fact that social housing is typically let with bare floorboards, and about the brilliant woman from St Albans who's on a mission to help people on low incomes carpet their homes.
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Wait, “the ordinary man/woman in the street” is a profession? What qualifications are needed? Where does one apply?

Noooooooo! The mullet was a crucial part of his personal brand

Genius. You’ve not lost it Batstone

My favourite story of how much news/comms has changed: they had near 24 hours to come up with the “John is John” line that deflated the outrage

Front cover of In Extremis, the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum

They just need to follow the same evolutionary track as the Daleks

I’d love to add more people to this, especially as it needs to be as diverse as possible.

Hit me up with those @ handles!

Not at all, great to have you aboard!

Who needs to be added to this? Don’t be shy if it’s you!

3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Top-down view.

3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Side view.

3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Framed, close-up.

3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Frame, "artful" shot.

Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.

Here’s a comms, marketing, PR, corporate affairs and adland Starter Pack - but who else is out there?

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VERIFICATION COMPLETE.
RESULTS: DIMBLEBOT IS DIMBLEBOT.

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

I like this mural in Cefalù on an elementary school: "fly like me". I would have liked to have taken my kids to that school.

Thank you - done!

Here’s a comms, marketing, PR, corporate affairs and adland Starter Pack - but who else is out there?

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