Ha the bonus rounds usually are. Our Quizmaster lets the losing team pick the special round for each week and she was less than enthusiastic about the subject so I presume she had a quick look at Wikipedia and cobbled something together
Oh hello! Err what colour was the star on the flag, what does yugo mean in English, in what year did Yugoslavia break up, what regions was it made up of post break up and a fifth one which Iβve forgotten. Iβm not that great on Yugoslavian history but my teammates were better
We came third and won a round of horrible shots
No Servalan but an additional round on the former Yugoslavia which I think makes up for it
We pooled our collective knowledge and also handwriting lol
Had a very @markbould.bsky.social coded women in sci fi round at tonightβs pub quiz!
Hiring a private security company to evacuate my dog from Dubai
Every so often Iβm reminded of how insane it is that this is how significant geopolitical events are communicated by the US president.
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Every generation is told this time the threat is uniquely urgent, diplomacy has uniquely failed. And every time, it's civilians who pay the price while the imperialists who launched the strikes call it liberation. It should go without saying that you do not liberate people by bombing their schools.
Screenshot of Mark from Peep Show reading βThe Beastie Boys fought and possibly died for my right to partyβ
SirΔt (2025)
Iβm so glad Jane Schoenbrun is getting to make films. Especially films with Gillian Anderson in.
Absolutely extraordinary things happening in the AI world.
Watched Possession for the first time last night and stayed up late reading this really good analysis of it. www.vaultofculture.com/vault/onscre...
I canβt believe how many friends I used to be able to make on Elonβs defunct toy app
Made the mistake of spending a considerable portion of my day on Twitter. Thereβs someone making Epsteinβs bran muffin recipe and another whoβs made a Ghislaine Maxwell compilation video soundtracked by Charli XCX. Normal reactions to horrific abuse on an emotionally deadening platform.
An example of Technopathologyβs early works π
Structural power? Never met her (screenshot from the delightful r/NeilGaimanisInnocent)
Patriarchy, as itβs otherwise known
As with the Epstein files, you donβt need a conspiracy when the root cause is multiple men hating women.
Btw the author of this βjournalismβ is in fact not Neil Gaiman, just one of the many men on the left who are normal about women ππ»
Iβd urge anyone whoβs got the stomach for it to read this really well researched piece about Gaiman. And to avoid the podcast Rachel Johnson made about it, which is an embarrassment. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Particularly enjoyed* his recommendation of serious investigative reporting on his case: a substack page almost exclusively dedicated to posts beginning with βNeil Gaiman is Innocentβ
In the midst of the Epstein media storm, formerly silent alleged serial rapist and fantasy author Neil Gaiman is making non-apologies for his non-behaviour on Instagram. Bets are on as to how long itβll take him to join Russell Brand on the Christian right because nobody else will have him.
Lol. I love Will Tavlinβs writing.
Really good article about Mubiβs evolution and the public backlash following its investment deal with Sequoia Capital. www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
Jesus fucking Christ
I have many thoughts about Pluribus and the gradual humanisation of AI, not sure how to verbalise them at this present juncture though so I have asked my friend Cha-
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Ball of Fire (1941)
