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Huh. TIL

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know that the colourful ghosts of Pac-Man all had a different personality? Known by Western audiences as Blinky or Pinky, their original Japanese names reflected their behaviours in the game. Celebrating his 45th birthday today, read more about the famous little yellow circle on our blog.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

submitted 11 days ago • 123 comments

"That academic workplaces are often toxic environments is hardly news." This is a deeply fucking depressing sentence and we can all do better.

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"How's your Bell & Howell?" The older man smiled. "It's fine, Frank." "Good." Still such a stunningly wrought piece of journalism. Write that, ChatGPT 😏

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"On the extreme left and extreme right, they kind of meet up with that same self-righteousness. Comics are in the middle, farting and pissing and jerking off. If you're going to be totally politically correct, it's like being a Nerf vibrator. It doesn't seem to work well, doesn't seem to stimulate."

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

1976. A masterclass of a TV interview with Harlan Ellison on excellent form, by Welshwoman and Neath legend Mavis Nicholson. Ellison was a tricky one to question, but he seems to warm to her as the chat progresses. I love that clips like this exist 😍

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

No question misinformation in the social media space is problematic But there's also misinformation coming from leading consumer brands like Virgin and Renault They continuing to advertise using green claims the Advertising Standards Authority told them not to www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Lmao

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

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'David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, stumbled on a document labelled as an unofficial copy of Magna Carta from 1327 in Harvard law school library’s online collection.' Hmmm: 'stumbled on'? No training, rigour or methodology involved in the find, then.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

We're gonna call it "The Running Man". Catchy, no?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets out

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you're still on Audible, you can abandon it with ease using OpenAudible. It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required. openaudible.org

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Well done Leeds Uni PR Team. A headline to be proud of...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If disclosing research funding sources or amounts makes the funder uncomfortable, it's a red flag. These aren't companies you should be doing business with.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

All this media pearl-clutching about Kneecap. Like Slowthai didn't hold up the fake severed-head of Boris Johnson on stage in what, 2019? Trying to wheel out another fake moral panic about "gangsta rap" this silly season? They need another dead cat to swing about. Smoke and mirrors, May 1st

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: No one under 18 should be using any social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

#Kneecap: "Statements aren't aggressive. Murdering 20,000 children is though." www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Tried watching #Beastars on Netflix to distract my wonky brain. Only a few eps in. DAE wish he'd just eat the rabbit and get with Juno? C'mon Legoshi, do wolf stuff...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

♥️ Just an absolute MENSCH. In every single way. This guy could've been VP (at least). But nooo, you lot wanted the bankrupt-two-casinos guy with the wit and stage-presence of a distended rectal cavity

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is fascinating because there's two types of people responding to this exchange, and they both think a different person "won" it.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I am very excited today to publish @arobertswrites.com's essay "What Lies and Threats" - looking at nationalist myth-making in Lord of the Rings, especially for Gondor and Rohan. Read it for free here: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-...

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

A 100-word email generated by ChatGPT requires .14 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity - enough to power 14 LED lights for an hour.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It was Quinoline Yellow E104

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

🥚🐣🍫

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

They're not a crew. It's not a breakthrough. It marks nothing. This isn't about anything other than the wealthy enjoying themselves.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

OK, some good news. The last government tried make new anti-protest laws specifically to stop this guy embarrassing them. You can't take legal action against someone because they make you look silly. Man's a hero.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is all crushing doombait now. I don't want to feed my soul with this, any more than I'd subject myself to brainrot on TikTok, fake highlight reels on Insta, conspiracy theories on Facebook, endless hate on X, or teenage angst on Tumblr. The social media experiment was a failure.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

These two are always good value, but this morning's episode is very funny. When someone laughs so much they can't get their words out, it's contagious. We need all the joy we can find, these days...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

submitted 53 days ago • 15 comments

He tells her that the US is not the totality of the world, she refuses to understand and claims that it’s 15% of China’s trade. The way he delivers the next line is so sublime…

submitted 51 days ago • 29 comments

This (and some of the comments) is an interesting read

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British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments

It’s official: Stunt performers are getting their own Oscar, starting with 2028 show. Very hard faught win for stunt community and will add more blockbusters to the telecast…

submitted 52 days ago • 74 comments