James Calbraith

I write books. I try to sell them, too. Mostly on Amazon. www.amazon.co.uk/stores/James...

Google AI thinks Omid Djalili and Hasan Minhaj are Arabs. Truly worth every billion spent.

Five Arabs won a Nobel Peace Prize (Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman, Nadia Murad). Is this what this is about?

I think this might my best ever timeguessr score. Almost perfect, if not for mistaking Atlantic City for Baltimore. TimeGuessr #1245 — 48,547/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,934 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1.8km 2️⃣ 🏆9,457 · 📅 4y · 🌍 2.9km 3️⃣ 🏆9,961 · 📅 0y · 🌍 2.5km 4️⃣ 🏆9,953 · 📅 1y · 🌍 479m 5️⃣ 🏆9,242 · 📅 2y · 🌍 189.1km timeguessr.com

Only Sulu and Kirk left

Somebody asked a good question, what exactly are they trying to Restore Britain to here? 1941?

Bolsonaro lost - here's why I think it's bad news for Lula 1/...

The most disastrous effect of AI is destruction of entry level jobs and small scale commissions. I can't imagine how anyone is going to be able to enter a job market or support themselves while learning in the future, unless they're already coming from money.

oh wow, good news from Serbia for a change

The only thing still surprising about US political commentary is consistency. You can call every liberal city a stinking shithole and you'll be fine, but don't you dare throw shade at a restaurant oiks like. It's as if the last ten years never happened.

Catherine Deneuve was 22 in Belle de Jour? She looks about 40 by today's standards.

Really glad I'm moving out next year, couldn't stand another ten years of EU debate in this country.

"How dare the government tell us to stockpile for emergencies."

Is Ethan Klein the new Ella Langley? Can you please stop making up people.

I love how the US President could basically institute the Purge

This is honestly quite surprising and goes a long way to explain why the French are so mad.

Basically everything that can be objectively measured. Even if some things got worse in recent years, they're still better than when I was born. People really forget how shit late 70s and early 80s were.

His bio says he's had a 'decade-long obsession with cyber crime'. This is as if a car jacking expert never heard about hot-wiring.

Couldn't figure out loconundrum.aaronc.cc today because I'm sorry but there's no way you can get from Euston to London Bridge in 10 minutes.

I like capitalism as much as the next guy, but it really doesn't help this that the wealthiest guys on Earth are also the most evil guys on Earth.

If the CEO of Lockheed Martin could, say, slow down a Saudi F-35, I imagine that would be somewhat miffed at.

Famous people just get frozen in time in our minds. What do you mean Dallas was 93, he clearly was forty-something last time I've seen Alien (which is about once every couple of years). What do you mean Sigourney Weaver is almost 80.

Wait, am I seeing this right, Ukraine pushed back *into* Luhansk at Makiivka?

Oh so THAT'S what a 'curfew' means!

I see over the summer the dreadful AI posters took over Edinburgh as well. How do the owners not see AI food is just *disgusting*? (especially sandwiches and burgers) What kind of cognitive impairment is this?

This is what happens when everyone decides to just ignore the 24/7 stream of hate pouring at us from every direction. This is not going away by itself.

It's important to pretend the French protests have nothing to do with the cost of living, because otherwise you'd need to confront the problem of everything being so much more expensive here than in France.

The parallels between the old Axis and the new Axis are very strong, in that you have one powerful Western member, one powerful Asian member, and one failed dictator who's just there because the Western guy looks up to him for some reason.

Surely if the French riots were the fault of immigrants (they aren't) that would only mean they've fully assimilated to the French culture.

The 'lived through war' thing is such a bizarre British quirk. None of my grandparents would've thought of using their experience as an argument for or against anything, and they had lived through an actual Nazi occupation.

Things British people take for granted and constantly whine about but are actually better than in most countries: - the NHS - the Royal Mail - free and safe motorways

This implies there was a time when left-wing transgender witches *didn't* hate Trump

Hey guys, everything's gonna be alright.

Love reading about emergent quasi-state structures.

Was that Richard quoting Agent Gordon Cole? #Taskmaster

What the hell England, since when do you need to pay to stay at the motorway services

Go watch Ladyhawke people. They never made another movie like it. youtu.be/CLCNqpbx--g?...

Current situation of Ukraine reminds me when Republican Spanish government was forced by 'allies' to send back the International Brigades in the vain hope that this will mean Germans and Italians pulling their support for Franco.

Fittingly, on the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings we're staging our own little Norman Invasion. (ie. waiting in Dieppe for the ferry home)

Exhibit #455637 for the 'neither Left nor Right = Right' law.

Now that we're relitigating Brexit, can we finally admit that nobody wanted hard Brexit, nobody voted for hard Brexit, we were explicitly told there wouldn't be a hard Brexit, and then we somehow got the hardest of Brexits?

That's just a virus. You wrote a computer virus and want people to pay you money for it. Ransomware.

Since 22 September, identical messages, AI-generated images and bot networks have been used to attempt to manufacture the illusion of a grassroots opposition to European support for Ukraine.

This is just more proof for my thesis that we need immigrants to save our high street.

Did William Shatner ever meet with Brian Blessed