Mark Brown

I've been watching the first season of Torchwood and it's really hitting me just how much of a bite out of the world global financial crisis took. More than anything textual, that's the main thing that's buffeting me.

You know what's great? Walking the south side of the Thames from Southbank to Greenwich on a damp, dark night. Mysteries and history and places mostly empty of people while you plunge backwards through the history of the city

You know what's great? Walking the south side of the Thames from Southbank to Greenwich on a damp, dark night. Mysteries and history and places mostly empty of people while you plunge backwards through the history of the city

I am beginning to realise that the logic of something that is defined as 'legacy' seeing themselves as being in direct competition with something self defined as 'disruptive' is often lost by allowing the disruptor to define what the purpose of the something being disrupted is.

The purpose of, for example, the BBC is not only to deliver recorded and live entertainment. The purpose of a newspaper is not only to deliver ads. The purpose of the NHS is not only to deliver specific profitable treatments in efficient ways.

I am beginning to realise that the logic of something that is defined as 'legacy' seeing themselves as being in direct competition with something self defined as 'disruptive' is often lost by allowing the disruptor to define what the purpose of the something being disrupted is.

The Timelords are so weird in Doctor Who because they've had The Matrix far longer than we've had the world wide web. The Master is a shit poster. The Doctor says he's left but still check twitter and LinkedIn. Borusa is a creep in the DMs. Omega is still running Facebook groups despite no face

Do you remember all of the hand wringing about bubbles Post 2016 shocks from the right? We are currently seeing what an actual filter bubble looks like with a worldwide proportion of far right folks and fellow travellers living in a confected reality that in no way actually resembles our actual one

Had a dream last night about trying to prevent many friends and aquintances from attending a lecture they had been invited to by people enacting Dennis Wheatley's secret plan for gentleman fascism. I'd my phone and wallet so had trouble getting to the lecture near Liverpool Street to spoil it

Had a dream last night about trying to prevent many friends and aquintances from attending a lecture they had been invited to by people enacting Dennis Wheatley's secret plan for gentleman fascism. I'd my phone and wallet so had trouble getting to the lecture near Liverpool Street to spoil it

You don't realise until you live with mental ill health, distress or trauma it's possible to be the wrong type of person living with mental ill health, distress or trauma Most societies haven't managed to incorporate mental ill health, distress and trauma into ideas of society #worldmentalhealthday

People love to pontificate on whether there is 'too much of the mental illness' in society and look for reasons that just happen to confirm their own prejudices about what is wrong with society. Far fewer ask what it means to live with mental ill-health, distress, trauma #worldmentalhealthday

Looked at YouTube from a non-signed in browser (Chromium) and the top 100 was like Only Fans but for balaclava nonces and Danny Tommo and Reform and Restore. It put me in mind of this very good video youtu.be/PpcP835mWEQ?...

I feel like the idea that public service broadcasting needs to go head to head with streaming services like Netflix is absolutely wrong. It needs to go head to head with whatever the shit is that gets to people through YouTube which really isn't the same problem at all.

This sort of crystalises another observation around AI for me: focus on the product, not the outcome of the product. If you just focus on output, you avoid consideration of whether the product and outcome of product is, in fact, shit.

I'm increasingly seeing AI used in ways that are closer to the adulteration of grain. The appearance of abundance, but made of sawdust. In this case a scam you are perpetrating on yourself, in other cases a degrading of quality of output to the extent that value can only be reaped by scam.