I loved Aiken as a kid, and it would be nice to see her work have a revival (not that it's ever disappeared, but it deserves some renewed prominence). And her intelligent alternative history is great for getting kids - and adults - to reflect on Britishness, Englishness and historical contingency.
Needed Lizzy. Peaky Blinders without women is a fanboy caricature.
Start with season 2. The women come into their own. I watch peaky blinders only for the women.
I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
Old b/w photo of Lucile Bogan. Image shows a Black woman with a bandana in her hair and beads round her neck. She is looking off to one side, and smiling
Praise be! It’s the 91st anniversary of Lucile Bogan recording surely the filthiest song in history: Shave ’Em Dry. She worked in the ‘dirty blues’ genre, known for innuendo-heavy lyrics, but Lucile was the sort of person who knew writers who used innuendo, and thought they were all cowards 🧵
So very there
USA and ICE right now
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
Henry Muck
I thought he was now called Matthew Badloss?
She's talking about law, but it applies to AI in general. Academic research, tech writing, medical analysis, you name it.
When the bubble bursts, it's going to be a huge honking mess. Think Hindenburg.
Found him. Ta for the tip.
Eh? Garius who?
# Happy crowdsourcing sigh #
99p bargain today. Yum
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
Hello so delighted for you. And us.
So AI provides unreliable information, creates mediocre work, enriches billionaires at everyone else’s cost, was created by plagiarism, and is environmentally completely unsustainable. But other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
My final reflection on what I learned about Figure Skating. The women are more skilled than the men. Misogyny reacts by making the bit that needs brute strength - the jumps - worth more so men score higher, but that means men fall more which is worse. In a sane world jump scores should deflate.
Tell me about Benjamin Shroats...
Tell me more about Benjamin Shroats.
Except the lowest and highest scores are discarded. Tell me more about Benjamin Shroats.
What was that about Ilia Malinin?
Proof or it didn't happen
Kyle Bassinga, 21, was found hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Police quickly ruled it a suicide, yet most such acts occur privately, not in public. Why is the mainstream media silent on this? We need answers and transparency.
There is a third type, of course: people who say "AI will probably never get so smart that it meaningfully, or even efficiently, replaces human labour, but tens of millions of people will still lose their jobs because there is currently a $10bn hype machine telling every CEO on earth that it will".
I approve of your James Spader focus but I had my eleventeenth rewatch of sl&v today amd it continues to be my favourite film ever.
Brilliant in every way
The purpose of pickleball should be to find the pickle /coat
