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Doctor Who. BUGS. That creepy monster thing you might remember. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe www.stephengallagher.com
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I’ve never had a ringtone as satisfying as the Danger Man theme that I compiled for myself, note by note, on my old Nokia

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"The eyes of a serial killer, but the mouth of a pensioner still waiting for his soup" -- Felicity Ward, The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Come and listen to be bang on about why people moan about inaccuracies on the cover of Tomb but not The Cybermen. There will be lots of colourful slides.

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Them: "They've announced QUATERMASS II on 4k UHD..." Me: "£60? Ouch; how good can it be? I've just spotted the old US BD at a decent price. That'll do." Them: "Seen the screen caps?" Me: "No, but look...oh, FFS..." youtu.be/WQpJFJSMXLo?...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

everything's been downhill ever since saturday morning tv turned into boring men chopping courgettes

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And this earlier, equally great thread nested within

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Great thread with some great responses

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This isn't going away. Ben Jennings in The Guardian:

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It’s actually quite dispiriting to see supposedly ‘high agency males’ acting out like petulant entitled children

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They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

I wasn't kidding when I described AI as the Radium Toothpaste of our time; the AI bandwagon is much like Radium chic, with vendors pinning it to everything and people starting to realise it's more red flag than recommendation

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It shouldn't be down to the House of Lords to prevent a government from legitimising theft, but here we are

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The UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a *fifth* time over AI training data transparency. Please watch the electrifying end to Baroness Kidron's closing speech ahead of the vote. Creators have no greater champion. 🧵 1/2

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Blackwell's have knocked four quid off the signed limited novella with a further 10% reduction if ordered by tomorrow with the code TENOFF entered at the basket. Free delivery to the UK.

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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And you’ll never guess what its founder did

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And you’ll never guess what its founder did

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I've switched off the comments... save the spam-swatter the trouble of fending off the bots that appear to have been triggered by the content. Didn't get this many on my Dracula post last week.

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Latest blog post, on the nature of creativity

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Expanding on a theme: "You sailed in blindly, driven by the excitement of your new idea, and you kept at it until it reached its form. You powered through the climb without being aware of the mountain... the labour itself was transformative" stephengallagher.com/uncategorize...

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Great piece here on AI... #PiggyBackWriters

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Expanding on a theme: "You sailed in blindly, driven by the excitement of your new idea, and you kept at it until it reached its form. You powered through the climb without being aware of the mountain... the labour itself was transformative" stephengallagher.com/uncategorize...

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Given that LLMs can't distinguish fact from fiction, eliminating works of fiction from their training would be a commonsense and logical first move

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