Mark Winkelmann

Irish men, disappointing tourists with our appearance since the 3rd Century BC

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Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

Amazing work here.

So that critique is really an unfair jab at 'pulpy' genres, but pulp genres regularly produce surprising great art precisely because they're open to experimentation. That said, I think there is a real divide here between what we might call 'expressive art' and 'functional art.'

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

Britain doesn't change. I'm rereading Holmes. It's 1887 and the Daily Telegraph speculates that a murder must have been perpetrated by refugees or socialists, and advocates a closer watch over foreigners, while the Standard blames such outrages on a liberal government. A Study in Red, White & Blue?

It's funny how AI tech bros are all like "soon AI will be able to perform all human labor" and the next sentence is never something like "and that's why we can easily move to a 32 hour work week now."

I cosign this lovely jazz piece

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

You’re not a real Hitler fan unless you incinerate your body to ash in a burning pit of kerosene. If you don't, you’re just a fucking poser.

Tempted to be glib and say I'm posting this as I hate aport but actually I'm only broadly disinterested whereas genocide really gets on my nerves. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...

Technically I have done this too. Buy that mainly as the only.placr for a bookcase is the landing outside the bedroom and I have interesting taste.

TFW a book ends with an underpowered payoff that doesn't resolve things, followed by an Afterword where the author thanks a friend/agent for suggesting splitting the manuscript into two books and here's a link to buy Book 2. You just sold me half a book. I will never read anything else by you.

Make a band bigger: The Beta Orchestra

Happy 74th birthday to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Here's LKJ's debut 12", released in 1977. Originally written as poems, Linton brought on board Dennis Bovell to help arrange the music for his rebel words... youtu.be/nyO1BLnWNa0?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #music #musicsky

An Garda Síochána has launched a public consultation for a draft Code of Practice on third-party live CCTV feeds – ie CCTV footage made by a controller who is a third party to An Garda Síochána and which is provided as a monitor feed to An Garda Síochána. Submit feedback by 14 Sept ➡️ bit.ly/4gzoTjw

I'm not sure the font freaks I know are even on blue sky. Ok so @rottenhat.bsky.social is but is this the right @paulmason.bsky.social? Frankly I can't tell from this tiny picture of someone I met irl twice, first in 1999.

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Sure lash a few quid in the hat folks.

Here's a playlist from our next MindFuzz guest DJ Callum Gallagher for September 12th. Get into it. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

NEW STEWART LEE column The climate crisis requires concerted global opposition to Trump and the fossil fuel industry, not just restrictions on corner shops selling grills www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Coincidentally, both at some point have shouted "up the 'ra!"

The Twee Party

MOVIE-COMEDY ABC Thursday, 9:30 PM. ALIEN: In space no one can hear you dream. The wacky crew of the Nostromo search for alien love, only to find out it was in one of them all along.

And which is more serious: 1) A silly campus protest 2) Someone said a mean thing Leftishly 3) Armed agents of the state murdering people 4) A political party using the state to silence dissent. (3) and (4) are very obviously a much bigger deal than (1) or (2), not that you can tell from the NYT.

On the Patreon: a single thought about a very summery movie. As ever, it's $1US to sub and gain access to hundreds of posts, and no obligation to stick around. www.patreon.com/posts/166501...

Look, Death Stars exist now, a Death Star is just a tool that people use. If we don't use it to blow up a planet then someone else will. It doesn't matter if you have ethical concerns about Death Stars, it's too late, they exist, you just have to use them now.