Alan Wood

Judge Dredd continues to be one of the most prescient comics of all time. From a story in a 1986 issue.

I think they should do a commercial where a guy is about to tell his kids a bedtime story and then his boss calls on the phone and is like "I need that report NOW, I'm meeting with the VP tomorrow" and the guy pushes an AI button and it says "third quartprer report sent!" and tells his kid a story

Wtf, BBC Sounds now has trailers between episodes, interrupting listening? That can get in the fucking bin.

Billy Bragg - Sexuality, in 1991. I was 16 but had never been interested much in singles before, I'd been buying albums for years but this was my first 7". Wish I could find it! Great song, and has Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl and James Eller playing on it, doesn't get much better!

This is mad. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

Really BBC Sport? You can't even get this right on the Women's Football page?

Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us.

He imposed Shania Law

If it was a teenager that was hacking government IT systems, they'd be immediately arrested and then be serving a very long prison sentence. Lets see the AI bros suffer the same fate.

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

This is a generalisation, however, the data industry is an embarrassment. The willingness we have displayed to relinquish our knowledge, skills, and critical thinking is worrying at best, but closer to truly pathetic. I'm struggling to comprehend how bad it has become in such a short space of time.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Laura Kuennsberg on the BBC Politics Show asked whether musicians should speak out on political subjects... Woody Guthrie, ladies & gentlemen:

Oh, Viz.

These are the AI risks we should be worried about and legislating against not freaking out over whether some poorly sandboxed security test leads to Skynet.

England 2026. Volunteers who save people from dying in the sea are being repeatedly attacked by an organised group who very much want people to die in the sea. England 2026.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

But what currency will they use?

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

Back in from playing a gig at a festival and watching some great local bands. Just in time to see the last couple of games of the US Open, great to see Rybakina win.

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

I get that 2FA is a "good thing", but I hate having to be forced to have my phone at hand all the time. I'd like some separation please!

My Duolingo streak is 2625 days but I think I'm done with it. It's become a chore rather than something fun.

"But the Cabinet Office - the part of government which leads on AI safety - said the UK "cannot simply turn AI off"." - Yes you can. It's really easy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

'No arrests made'. They have been completely emboldened. And we know how this works: they will do it again. In greater numbers. A catastrophic and far-reaching failure of policing.

I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Well, you know what to do then, America - get on with it please

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Such a common sight in eateries, and so problematic on multiple levels. The terrible damage that animal-based foods like pork do to natural ecosystems and to human health, and then on top of all that, gross waste. It's obscene. A symptom of a society totally out of touch with physical reality.

I hope the billionaires and fascists are looking at the rich outpouring of love and admiration and realising how they can never have that with the route they've chosen.

RIP Dolly. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say she was one of the greatest ever Americans. What a legacy.

From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.

So what are the benefits of being an American? Having some madman murder your kids at school? Being murdered yourself at work by a madman? Being murdered by ICE in your own street? Dying because you’ve no health cover? Dying from the shit in your food? Wake up America. You are treated like peasants

Finally got around to starting The Left And The Lucky yesterday. Engrossed already. Willy Vlautin is such a great writer.

Pretty excited about our upcoming rebrand as we’ve hired the absolute genius who came up with the phrase “working royals”.

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

There’s something just morally foul about this. Concern for a baby is used as a fig leaf to hide the real intent: questioning the cost to Britain of giving shelter to an infant. Compassion comes with a price tag when race is involved in this county now. It’s twisted. Contemptible. Utterly shameful.

What eliminated most of Ireland's forests *wasn't* the axe or saw, but livestock or too many deer preventing trees from regenerating by eating every seedling. Over 100s of years, the forests just faded away, and this process is still playing out with most of what very little is left.