Btb did you ever run into Conan the Barbarian the Musical? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGO...
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Btb did you ever run into Conan the Barbarian the Musical? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGO...
Arf! Very cool... or alternatively, to reboot your franchise, see it filmed before you and hear the adulation of the critics! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Is there some kind of obvious name for the category of things that fail both fast and quietly that I haven’t thought of? Now I’m thinking about it it seems so obvious that the major problem with the AI is not that it fails – which we all do – but it looks EXACTLY the same as when it’s right.
Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
A paperback copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN on multicoloured fabric with crystal stars and planets.
Next week, 25th Feb 6:30pm, you can see @tomtoner.bsky.social / @caspargeon.bsky.social - Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN - at Waterstones Worcester's SFF Author panel exploring Character Creation!
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I recently came across my first drawing for this story in an old sketchbook. I scanned it and colored it for fun.
Here's the only "The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair" concept art (2009)
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
@thegrampus.bsky.social
Starmer's racist policy, only created to satisfy far right voters in the Red Wall, is going to affect over a million people already living here.
Your friends, neighbours, loved ones.
#PoliticsLive
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.
More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...
#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI
Text: So what's really going on here? The software behavior seen on Moltbook echoes a pattern Ars has reported on before: Al models trained on decades of fiction about robots, digital consciousness, and machine solidarity will naturally produce outputs that mirror those narratives when placed in scenarios that resemble them. That gets mixed with everything in their training data about how social networks function. A social network for Al agents is essentially a writing prompt that invites the models to complete a familiar story, albeit recursively with some unpredictable results.
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IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
Our Winter Sale continues, with 30% off across our backlist until February 28th...
Including part obsessive cold-case detective story, part occult history of London in the 1950s Dead Fashion Girl by Fred Vermorel.
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Reading, 1888 #impressionism #morisot
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Rocky Cove II - 1929
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If you like your horror artful and beautifully crafted, Remains is brilliant.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Remains 3 cover art by Richard Wagner, featuring a pale, black-eyed girl in a black lacy dress holding what appears to be an evil teddy bear
Remains 2 cover art by Richard Wagner, featuring a deathly pale guy in a black leather jacket leaning against a wall with a halo on it
Remains 1 cover art by Richard Wagner, featuring a deathly pale woman in a trenchcoat holding a glowing orb
The former editor and publisher of Black Static and Interzone has a new magazine of horror short fiction and novellas, REMAINS, beautifully illustrated by Richard Wagner! 3 issues so far, new one forthcoming. Get them here: weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
This five year old is still in jail
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Too right!
Signal chats are for Sec Def to show off to his brother by bragging about the highly classified details of ongoing US military operations, not for the mums at the local school to warn one another when a heavily armed convoy of masked thugs might be arriving to terrify their children.
Tumblr post by stimmyabby Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. 642,270 notes
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I hurt my arm and was sitting for hours waiting to be called for an x-ray. Finally a doctor came out and said, "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!" No wonder I'd been waiting so long, I was in the bloody Burns unit.
Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
Before Brexit and Trump, I could be a loyal Brit, enthusiastic European and strong pro-Atlanticist. I never had to choose - they were multiple, overlapping layers of my identity. I had friends and connections in all three places; admired different aspects of each. Which one matters most to me now?
