Jonathan Bliss

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

I’m fairly certain that if we trained AI on only images produced before 1850, basically no photographs, no pop art, no surrealism etc. it would produce a very narrow range of imagery. Once we have destroyed art, writing and film as careers and only have AI we will have nothing new.

Two bystanders, including a television reporter, rescued a driver from a sinking car trapped in floodwaters in Morayfield, Australia, on Thursday. Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter Will Murray and another man jumped into the water and swam towards the vehicle to help the trapped driver.

📹 Will Murray, periodista de la cadena pública australiana ABC, estaba informando sobre las inundaciones al norte de Brisbane, cuando un conductor quedó parcialmente sumergido por la crecida de las aguas. El reportero y otro transeúnte se lanzaron a rescatarlo

@paulbernal.bsky.social You’ve made my facebook.

Oh my DAYS

The covid inquiry module 6 (care homes) report publishes today. I hope the worst health secretary we could possibly have had is excoriated. He deserves to be. #CovidInquiry #CareHomes

It's only real poetry if it comes from the Poët region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling whine.

Fly Home To South Africa, Please...

This has to be the name.

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

“Defibrillator” in ten languages: 1. Defibrillator (German) 2. Defibrillator (Dutch) 3. Defibrillator (Hindi) 4. Defibrillator (Igbo) 5. Defibrillator (Indonesian) 6. Defibrillator (Samoan) 7. Defibrillator (Swahili) 8. Defibrillator (Yoruba) 9. Defibrillator (Afrikaans) 10. Hjertestarter (Danish)

I say this a lot but when I started in the comics industry, for whatever reason, there were almost no women working as creators in mainstream comics. Quite a few in indie books and some behind the scenes. But not many with their name on the front of a DC/Marvel book. The legends had left.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a sapodilla-stuffed spider monkey - I'm starting with ‘Pennine Railway’, Simon Palmer, watercolour, ink and gouache, 2003. This pack contains four A6 cards printed on Invercote card stock. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo...

How come I am all but cashless nowadays and there are still coins between the cushions in my sofa?

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

@scalzi.com Now you can think of caddis fly larvae as auto burrito makers.

If your definition of Englishness excludes a man like him, it is your definition that needs challenging.

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Feeling smug, not only did I get the no pain no gain sequence question but came up with “a gin cocktail” as a possible 4th answer in the time.

✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

@scalzi.com I’m currently re-reading the Old Man’s War series prior to starting Shattered Peace. Just because you might have one - do you have a series FAQ? e.g. Parallels between CU and East India Company - intended or situational?

Leonardo da Vinci, Caricature of a Man With Bushy Hair ca. 1495, pen and brown ink drawing on paper

Dictators have often seen books (other than regime-authorised publications and hagiographies of themselves) as a threat. So glad this man managed to preserve his library from Assad's goons.

Have a look at the delightful replies and remind yourself that AI could never

I’m 60, I’ve now found that almost every night someone steals a small bit of my body and replaces it with something similar but non-functional.

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

It's only terrorism if it's from the Environmentaliste region of France Otherwise it's just sparkling "legitimate concerns"

Jason Arday was driven to suicide but this is what counts as normal at Cambridge. It was never about standards. It was always about maintaining white male mediocrity.

Pourquoi la France adopte une nouvelle représentation cartographique du monde

A Spider Potter Wasp (Aupoplus carbonarius), climbed athletically up and down the walls of the church at Thurgarton with its spider prey. Not so far away a stunningly, frilly, Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) hunkered down amongst the Flavoplaca ruderum @NorfolkNats

A reminder, last year The Spectator did an interview so fawning & uncritical of the Tate Brothers , that victims of the Tates had to complain to Ipso about it. Editor Michael Gove also champions the IDF & hates people of colour . The Spectator Summer Party is eagerly anticipated & attended 🥂.

#FullMoon in #August is also known as the Barley Moon or the  #SturgeonMoon Artwork by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist #WomensArt

I wonder how this problem could be solved?

BBC West Yorkshire writing a casual puff piece for Reform in Wakefield, even describing the council leader's "flowing hair". Fucking sickening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appalling article. Basically a Reform puff piece. No balance. No fact checking. Just this guy telling the BBC reporter what a fab job he's done (back with unsubstantiated numbers) & its lapped up and presented as fact. Dreadful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social I took my uncle (94) to Mansfield today. Thank you for the exhibition. He trained at Derby College like Harry Wingfield and his uncle was at the RCA with Tunnicliffe. He worked as a graphic artist for the gas board, he loves illustration, family card image attached.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26