There were already too many novelty “premium” decks being made, but now with AI we can make them quicker and even worse!
15.04.2025 14:38
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There were already too many novelty “premium” decks being made, but now with AI we can make them quicker and even worse!
It never fails to amaze me how bad google’s AI search is. This is an unambiguous question with the answers clearly indexed many times on the web. Hamish Blake has not even been on the show.
There is no tax on importing American books into the UK so a 10% tax on Americans importing British books is not “reciprocal”, it’s just a new tax (on Americans, not on the UK). A small point, more expensive books are a drop in the ocean, I feel very sorry for American businesses and citizens today.
A book standing on its edge with blue marbled paper in the covers and a leather bound spine.
A detail of a page of the book showing a magician on a chair. There is a bold purple ink stamp on the page which reads “HARRY HOUDINI COLLECTION.”
The closed book lying flat on a surface with it’s bottom edge facing the camera. The same stamp as the previous image is visible on the page edges.
The book opened displaying the front endpapers. There are three stamps, one the same as previously mentioned. The second says “THE MAGICIANS CLUB”. The final stamp says “Presented by….” After this last stamp the name Harry Houdini has been written in neat cursive writing.
Just bid farewell to this #magicbook once owned by #Houdini. Lasted 14 mins on the site before someone snapped it up! Most of these were stamped after HH’s death, but this one was presented by HH to his friend Will Goldston, probably in 1911, for The Magician’s Club library. #magichistory
Ai guys have re-invented the Mechanical Turk, but the twist is it's really bad at chess.
Google Screengrab for the search “spoonerism example” • Al Overview A spoonerism is a humorous slip of the tongue where the initial sounds of two words are switched, like saying "fleece ball" instead of "bluff face".
AI is so shit
The meme by amii.illustrates where, in the first panel, a cartoon man says “stop immigration so we can take care of our own”, and in the second panel a child says “I’m starving” and the man replies “fuck off”, except I’ve changed “immigration” to “gender affirming care”, “our own” to “neurodivergents”, and “I’m starving” to “I’m neurodivergent”.
i see wes streeting has reached Phase Two.
Jay Chester, 42, has always loved baking as fun, low-pressure hobby, made the inexplicable decision to turn it into a not-fun, high-pressure job.
As a few comments have said in relation to receiving ADHD diagnoses, receiving my Autism diagnosis has significantly improved my life and working prospects. I can make my own adjustments with some context and understanding, even while in a society which resists accommodating the neurodivergent.
Fallen into the “Eurovision stand-in rehearsal” YouTube wormhole. Amazing to see session singers and dancers often do better than the real entrants for no audience. Glorious surreal nonsense.
That’s true, total lack of effort!
Imagine trying to flog a “book” about how AI can improve your magic act with a cover demonstrating quite clearly how limited AI is. It can’t even draw aces without getting confused between a club and a spade.
Something I wrote back in April (just after BBC’s The Assembly aired with Michael Sheen) about autistic people on screen melting people’s hearts. And how it’s all a bit nuts.
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This pod is great.
Bizarrely parachute games appeared because of a huge surplus of unused army parachutes after WWI.
To heck with AI and Cybertrucks. They stink.
Did you see we launched Opera Corn?
Opera Corn is the future we were promised as kids.
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Great minds think alike, Jeremy Hardy used to say this (minus the balloon) “I want to be scattered, not cremated, just scattered”
If you use AI to produce the cover of your magic book I’m going to assume you’ve used it for the contents and I’ll be reluctant to stock it. Everyone judges books by their covers, despite the saying.
Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)
now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums
You should be able to take your dad to an autism assessment for Father’s Day. A bit like how you’d treat your mother to a full body massage, or an afternoon tea
That doesn’t have the name and address of their EU based Responsible Person unless I’m missing it, so it wouldn’t meet the most crucial (and annoying) GPSR requirement.
Two separate AI answer bots are convinced that because I’ve got a weird surname and I’m a writer I must be a combination of two relatives who were more successful writers (both long dead). Will be very handy to see if anyone attributes their books to me in the real world now!
I see we're Neville Chamberlaining this whole thing then (real ones know)
I guess so, there was a whole culture of novelties based around “drunks” being figures of fun, but that’s fizzled out.
The strange context changed over time too, they were originally “bleary bloodshot eyes”!
I did end up finding a non-shady business (they had been doing this sort of work before the regs, they didn’t just pop up): www.ia-uk.com For one low-risk product group like yours it’s around £480 a year. They were pretty good useful and communicative too.
Finally got a 1st edition good enough to reprint properly.
