Mick

hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons

@davidbix.com please can you watch the AI documentary “Ghost in the machine“ if you haven’t already. www.pbs.org/independentl... Also available on YouTube in the US.

youtu.be/VLkbx5U7EVU?...

“I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.

The loneliness epidemic makes people very, very susceptible to anything that makes nice, friendly noises at them, which makes those noises dangerous in the same way heroin is dangerous, and for the same reason

there's a pretty simple connection here 1. humans become good at what they practice doing 2. outsourcing to an AI or even other people, means you have stopped doing the thing 3. if you stop doing the thing, you will stop improving, and, long term, get worse at it (cont.)

Really tried of the genre of bsky discourse that goes: "Here is an incredibly pointless thing I use LLMs for, now please bsky be normal about it." >>

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Elmo knows where you live! 2. Open wide for some Soccer! 3. I see you’ve played knifey-spooney before! 4. Oh, didn’t I? 5. That’s the joke

I don‘t normally comment on celeb deaths, but Tim Curry was always fucking brilliant in everything and it’s very sad news that’s he’s passed. RIP.

Professional wrestling crowds 🤝 @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

#Clacton

A bit of a more unique post: The site's ChatGPT source prevention screen!

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.

Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything. And the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

On the right wing's love affair with AI slop. It "lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagement." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...

“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.

2019: planting more than 49 trees is impossible and dumb 2026: building 200 data centres in a year is the least we can do to maintain democracy

I wrote a bit about Spenge, but mostly about the World Cup: www.30yardsniper.co.uk?p=1391

Enough 'pure cold rage' for ya Nigel?

I was talking to my gender critical friend the other day and she said “I want to kill you” so I said “respectfully I disagree” and she said “i bet you’re plotting terror against me right now” and I said “what makes you say that” and she said “websites” and I said “oh” and then she shot me, amicably

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory > But there’s a difference between an observation about the past and a law of nature, and the optimists consistently confuse the two Some people need this phrase tattooed in reverse on their foreheads so they read it in the mirror every morning

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

The industry response to this will be “they’re just doing their jobs” but speculative digging like this is quite obviously bin diving, an attempt to dredge up *something* that will stick.

Match directors that show children/people crying in the stand during games should be flogged

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Oh right, he’s not taking Palmer either…

Stoked that Thomas Tuchel has been reading my blog! www.30yardsniper.co.uk?p=1334

Haha, fucking hell. I hope the Greens win that by election.

“Why should anyone care about reading something nobody cared enough to write?”

Hah, must be weird to win the title without playing a game, hah

“Student loans are fair, actually.” FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF TO FUCKING FUCK YOU ABSOLUTE FUCK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This reads like Man U is a rescue centre for unwanted goalkeepers

Shocked at Shay Given’s whataboutery on MOTD, shocked I tell you.

Starmer: CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF RACISM WE NEED

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

I’ve really got to commend anyone who can be arsed to do anything

Statistically, we always lose when FLEEEETCH is commentating #ATLARS

looking forward to it so much, I turned off replies apart from the people that already agree with me

While we’re on the subject of CBeebies, Moon & Me gets shitcanned from the weeknight schedule but The Clangers stays? Get in the bin. Obviously Night Garden is untouchable but both my kids immediately zone out when Clangers starts.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: COLOURBLOCKS IS SHIT