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["Nicholas Courtney. Lovely bloke, Nick. Lovely bloke. FUCKING TERRIBLE ACTOR but a lovely bloke."]

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Said it before, said it again: if you want a definition of 'British' it's 'you or a very close friend have a "that time I met Brian Blessed" anecdote'.

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You said that in a sexy voice, right?

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Just shamelessly cribbing the lyrics of The Red Flag, there.

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Dr Schillace has a lovely office. I think I give good office game, too. So ... can you see: 4 Yodas Mars TWSBIs? A vintage LED bulb Glycon Something you wrote, made or drew?

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His line after the election is going to be to blame the Democratic majority and pitch a parallel universe where it would have worked out great. Dems need to get straight in and say 'things, now, are terrible' and use a lot of energy pointing out how Republicans led the US to where it is.

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I think there's been a shift from Trump wanting to win the election by deploying ICE to shoot voters; then disrupting the election process so much he can declare victory in the chaos (which was his Jan 6th plan); to saying Republicans lost because they weren't sufficient in their worship of him.

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Say you're old enough to be in Last of the Summer Wine now without saying your age.

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None of them received a hero's welcome. None of them, none of them. n-n-n-n-n-n-none of them None of them, none of them.

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It's disappointing because if you're playing fantasy not-going-to-happen politics, go wild, go absolutely out there. Spell out the pipe dream - free village greens for all hardworking Arthur Daleys. Make England Rivals Again. Bonking and booze and My Other Car's a Porsche for All.

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'Spoilers for The Crown finale: ... '

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I may have posted this already, but two of my favourite current authors chat here about genre, craft, and Catweazle, and (a) I suspect you'll like it, (b) read Sunken Land, and Private Rites. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield: The End of Everything | London Review Bookshop

The great M. John Harrison – ‘The closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard’ according to the New Statesman – returned to the shop to present…

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Prison in movies rules apply: first day, they need to find the biggest guy in the prison yard and smash his teeth out. Nationalise Space X and ban Twitter in the inauguration address. Arrest the DOGE people. Letting him keep Tesla might count as cruel and unusual punishment, though.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

This is great news, but the computer system which will fix the NHS is a myth told for generations, like Arthur coming back at time of greatest need or a giant dog on the moor. There should be folk songs and low budget movies about it. 'Millions went into it ... and were never seen again'.

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"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade

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Sounds like if they win, they'll have a mandate to impeach.

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The two markets for LLMs are rich cretins surrounded by people paid to say they're brilliant, and poor cretins who want to hear that but can't afford human cronies and are looking for a budget option.

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For one thing *of course* a telling idiots they're right machine is going to find a lucrative market. The richest people in the world, by definition, didn't need to learn stuff or read anything, or do anything, they're just bipedal debit cards.

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Once you understand that AI is a machine for telling idiots they're cleverer than clever people, a lot of the modern world makes a lot more sense.

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Hypothetically, some senile, paranoid idiot with nuclear launch codes will watch some AI slop his care assistant showed and won't understand it's not real, and will start a war or fail to prevent one.

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AI people are divided between the ones who think it'll kill us by becoming infinitely cunning, and those who think it'll kill us by being infinitely mindless. It'll kill us, if it does, because some human noblord will believe some AI generated slop.

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And the AI people have swallowed the idea that this tech will start training itself, that it will swiftly design descendants that will be massively improved. BUT IT CAN'T If it doesn't do accuracy, it can't make itself more accurate.

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The pitch is that LLMs can give eloquent, grammatical answers to any question asked. And it can. It really can do that. But it has no way, fundamentally no way, to tell if it's the *right* answer.

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AI is like that old joke where the musician says 'you hum it, and I'll play it' and he doesn't know any of the ten songs the punter hums, and the punter complains, and the musician says 'well, you haven't hummed it'.

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It's very cleverly designed, it's really sophisticated, it really is future tech. But it's fundamentally incapable of doing the job the conmen selling it say it's for.

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