Andrew Cherry

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

The EoW note from my son's teacher today included the phrase "During History he has mummified a tomato..."; the tone seems fine, so I'm presuming it was intended, but it definitely has a "this is a sentence never before spoken" vibe. I'd ask him about it, but "Can't remember" is inevitable.

Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

BRB, off to start a company based on pure nihilism and hastening the inevitable decay of civilisation into heat death and mulch. Calling it Entropic.

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

Man, just imagine how much cooler and more successful Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and so on would have been if they had been smart enough to realise they needed to bet on everything. /s

Paging @cstross.bsky.social... It seems your imagination has escaped containment again...

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can't help feeling that "Sanctions criticised by target of sanctions, also by friend of target of sanctions" shouldn't really be quite such a a headline statement. Come back when you can show me teeth marks on the dog, yeah?

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.

Now obviously this is disgraceful bollocks, out of touch to a previously unfathomed depth, but the use of "cozzie livs" should have everyone class-South of Marie Antoinette storming the barricades of whatever Cotswold idyll she presumably inhabits. If this was France, things would be on fire.

Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I don't think we use the word "boon" anywhere near enough anymore. I'm not sure it's an actual lack of boons - maybe we just stopped recognising them. Anyway, do your part. Grant someone a boon!

Sigh. Right then, what's the best 1Password alternative? Reasonable integrations, mobile support, a user experience that won't make me weep Linux-UI-flavoured tears, the usual...?

My wife happened to be near the door earlier as a leaflet came through, turned out to be from Restore UK. First time she's actually gone back outside, found the person, and made them take it back, stating that even the recycling bin doesn't need that in it. Hard to argue.

New, from me. Losing a prestigious stage or affiliation is not the same thing as being censored or deplatformed, and we should stop letting terrible people pretend otherwise. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/youre-not-...

I see they're trying the usual logic-free bullshit with regard to academic freedom as they generally try with free speech. Nobody owes you a speaking platform or an academic position; you are free to "research" whatever eugenicist idiocy you want on your own dime, but nobody wants it done on theirs.

That newspapers still let bullshit like this go out should be a source of national shame and a trigger for change and real regulation. A watchdog with actual teeth is needed, not some matey self-regulation bollocks.

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

Great idea, let’s go further and have a disposable everything ban - single use stuff is a real problem, wastes resources and causes pollution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So much this that if you actually need a reminder your brain has already been stomped to mush.