Outlets like the Mill (and similarly down in London outlets like The Londoner and Londoncentric) are incredibly important independent, thorough, and ethical outlets.
It heartens me a lot to see pieces like this.
This from the Manchester Mill is so incredibly important.
Being not just open and apologetic about when they get it wrong - but also thorough and transparent in their introspection is what makes these outlets so refreshing in the current media landscape
manchestermill.co.uk/a-note-about...
It's so easy to fix.
Just make it br(a)inw(a)ves with an S and put the A in the middle!
This is niche but the Telegraph are running an ad on the tube for their puzzles with a word circle - the copy says something like "less brain fog, more.." and then the word circle says "brainwave" with the N in the middle
BUT THAT'S NOT HOW WORD CIRCLES WORK
THERE IS NO N IN WAVE
Why has noone invented single serve screw top beer.
I think there's a market for that.
I know Budweiser do one but it's not designed to really reseal.
Alex Garland rarely misses. One of the best filmmakers of his generation imo.
Not sure why 28 years later is getting panned so hard by audiences.
I was blown away a bit by how moving it was. Like a Ken Loach kitchen sink drama with zombies. Really extraordinary stuff.
Yeah the ending is absolutely nuts and tonally a total 180 but I sort of enjoyed that.
The idea that shit jokes about Brummies will be the real shibboleth to distinguish humans from LLMs
And actually, it's not very good at doing puns/wordplay either. Probably the weakest area for it.
I find that reassuring that shit jokes are the final frontier for human language emulation.
Genuinely quite surprised at its inability to do this. There must be plenty of linguistics stuff it's scraped and trained on to understand how vowels shift and can sound similar/different in regional dialects/accents, and construct a joke with that. But it can't do it.
Absolutely delighted to report that ChatGPT cannot understand or create new black country/Brummie accent jokes (e.g General: "we didn't come here to die"
Private: "no we came here yesterday")
The new Pulp album is obviously great - but this bit from the Guardian review of it perfectly articulates why I love Pulp so much.
Just remember "MoHoCoLoGo" like you're a Doctor Who rhino.
We effectively nationalised that steelworks because it was so vital to defence and industry - at great cost - and rightly so.
This would probably be similar magnitude of cost with much higher political gain. Seems a no brainer?
I've not thought this through - but could it be a thing of pretending you won't acquire it so avoid assets being overvalued and then swooping in once a fair value has been established? I don't really know how this stuff works end to end.
Admittedly it does consistently surprise me how salient of an issue the water stuff is - but it could be such an easy win.
Genuine question - the point here about it costing £100bn is not true right? If/when Thames Water collapses, the state can acquire the assets for pennies on the pound?
Still would probably cost a couple billion but imo almost certainly worth it with huge political capital gain?
DPD delivered a parcel to the wrong address
No way of doing instant chat if it's already been delivered
Phoned up - they can't tell me where it /has/ been delivered because of GDPR.
Absolute red mist stuff for me. Hate computer says no stuff with the force of a thousand suns.
I think it's better than most of Chibnall's stuff but I think...my god I think the Flux was better than this?
[Doctor Who spoilers]
I am and will always be the resident Doctor Who apologist.
That episode was...
So much mental stuff happened that would have sent me into a tailspin on their own in previous episodes and I...
I just don't care?
They have a McGuffin they need and they overcome several increasingly silly obstacles to get it in increasingly ridiculous ways - that's the MI formula we know and love so not sure why they felt the need to pad it out! Just give us the set pieces!
The new Mission Impossible is so brilliant. The beginning exposition is a bit of a mess - but once they've told us what the McGuffin is it goes 0-100 and doesn't let up.
Several moments where I literally gasped and slapped my face - 10/10 film even with the nonsense first bit.
I actually hadn't clocked the updated lineup!
It's these sorts of cutting edge, finger on the pulse updates that make me a Londoncentric subscriber.
I smell another Paul Foot nomination on the economics of food suppliers at niche festivals...
Also does nothing for us on district heating who have had our prices whacked up by +40%.
The price cap needs to include district heating and it's preposterous that it currently doesn't.
The mini version of this is the cheese-on-toast stand at Sea Power's micro festival making a massive loss.
The mystery of how this could happen is quickly answered by the fact they were charging £6 for basically Cathedral City on Hovis.
If they charged £3 they'd have made a killing!
Nathan Fielder's second series of The Rehearsal somehow doesn't miss, again.
Genuinely genius docu-comedy that elevates the genre. Again.
This is asbestos 2 electric boogaloo.
Nuts.
Genuinely agog at the Paul Foot award nomination about the lead poisoning scandal
I can't believe this isn't a bigger story
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