I think the biggest drawback to the whole "he couldn't send an innocent into the lions' den" argument (apart from the fact that only really ever worked for the Dirty Dozen, and then only just) is that it makes Jimmy Savile an even better candidate for ambassador, if only he'd kept his health.

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(And to be frank, I'd say your banner gives mine a run for its money. The route I'd go down, I photographed that well)

Thank you! It's Blackheath Road, from Deptford on the way to Blackheath (obvs) in SE London, and I drew it about... 4 years ago? Bit after lockdown, for certs.

It has to circle the launchpad three times to make sure its wires don't snag.

If this prick wasn't in a gown and a big chair in parliament, swear to god he'd be shuffling up and down the road, talking to anyone in their garden as long as they could stand, popping to the corner shop now and then for microwave liver and bacon for his tea.

Some lonely in a mancave, wanking himself into the consistency of raw meatloaf, still has more dignity than this aberration.

And profoundly insulting to people with dyslexia too. "Does your physical disability mean you can't reach the top shelf? Here, have a trampoline that works 80% of the time."

I think it's how they identify to each other, like pampas grass in the porch. a box of OMO in the lounge window.

From S08E04: The Deadly Mantis: [Tom as Radio news announcer's voice] "This just in: the colonel's advances were rebuffed once again. Sweaty hands slapped away; breasts remained unharmed"

Not like Sam was carrying a high powered rifle. You'd really like to control for variables, a gedankenexperiment like this.

The anti-Winston Wolf.

One more and you'll get to my like, Elizabeth. Looking forward to it.

One day my whining at the people at the till until I get the 10% discount I so richly deserve will bear fruit. Until then, I take comfort that I'm the change in the world I want to see.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

If you take away the ahem spontaneous ovations (fair fucks, they're really selling it), he sounds nothing else but peevish. Not at all the rolling preacher style he imagines in his head. Take away the reaction, reminds me when someone dropped the laughtrack from the Big Bang Theory.

A little salt, but no saver.

The man does fill out a donkey jacket in a pleasing way, true enough.

He is a JOY. Rocky Horror REALLY only starts when he's coming down that lift doesn't it? No disrespect to Susan or Barry, obvs.

Connie (I know it was short for connection, but come on, ad people aren't slow to pick up on allusions) might deserve a mitigator like 'just', if only by comparison: I'm hard put to think of any product or service has AI's blend of existential dread and Clippy.

I mean, that's all advertising though, isn't it, and as such has an enormous amount of financial weight to it. Especially in this case, when AOL were trying not to break, but create, a market in the UK.

Published!

What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

Thank you to Andy Wills www.andywills.info for inviting me to his SI (Advanced Studies in Human-Centred AI) — and furthermore, for being up for me completely disagreeing with so many mainstream views on HCAI! Great reviews too.

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

I mean in the sense of,we'd have died out as a species having just such a restrained, cramped definition of a family. But like I say, the spitefulness more important than the science here.

The salient thing is that hateful people get a say in our lives obvs. But it's a biocultural anthropological fact for as long as we've been a species, long as we've made tools, long as we've been breathing and eating out the same tube in our necks, a family has ALWAYS been more than that.

Caravaggio's long cultural shadow, there.

Not even one 'VTEC just kicked in yo' in the comments. God knows what they're teaching the littluns nowadays. Dispiriting, but then again, where were we, the gatekeepers of tradition?

Best not miss out on your beauty sleep, then.

THIRSTY for the free discs they had on the front of the magazine. G Police!

OTOH, (and as I said on that twitter) "they had to say the internet was a conventionally good looking woman in a bob and a tight fitting dress called Connie (!) to sell it. Don't hafta do that if your product is walking off the shelves, IMO."