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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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“Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR.”

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Just been reminded of one of my favourite stories from the old days of television. Dag Hammarskjöld, UN secretary general, was due in for a Panorama. Before he arrived, they needed to line up the cameras, so floor manager Albert Stevenson, later a distinguished LE producer was asked to step in.

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Likewise, though it helps a lot that I've *finally* figured out which other classic BBC mid-80s use of the same gag it's been reminding me of all evening... 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoW...

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Martin Fowler: a Hamlet for our times. #EastEnders

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2025 marks 20 years since the second series of Look Around You was first broadcast. A great spoof of early 80s Tomorrow's World, the cast is a veritable who's who of British comedy talent, including Olivia Colman. The attention to detail in both series to the look and feel of the time is amazing.

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Never clocked that BBC Cymru had gone the extra mile on this… Bravo! youtu.be/6PceKfRb4Vc?...

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Superb idea.

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This excellent thread backs up something I've been saying for a while: the BBC needs a drama strand to replace Inside No. 9. - 13 episodes a year, half an hour per episode - Writers new or at least new-ish to television - Economical staging. iPlayer, and BBC Two at 10pm before Newsnight.

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I watched Threads for the first time the other night and I’m going to pursue a slightly different talking point here: it’s really fucking good and it has such a specific, British tone, verisimilitude and sensibility that our milquetoast indulgence of American corporatism has all but lost.

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PSA for UK viewers: THE STRAIGHT STORY is on Film 4 at 4.10pm tomorrow afternoon (Sunday 2nd Feb). #FilmSky #DavidLynch

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Hey Bluesky, we know Virtual Murder was never repeated or released in the UK, but was it ever shown anywhere else in the world? Can we find out? Share this post and let's see if anyone comments if they've seen it outside the UK!

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I’ve watched this over 20 times and there’s something new to enjoy every time

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I've just re-read this McCann piece, and it's very odd - by the time I'd finished reading about Jack Douglas doing everything he possibly could to help an ailing Terry-Thomas - the room seemed to have got terribly dusty. This is a beautiful piece. www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

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Do you remember public information films where children were warned that it was up to them to not be killed by farm machinery and industrial plant? That’s what “the red tape” does. Stops kids falling into stuff. Transfers the burden to the people making money from it. Red tape’s great. More please!

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Oh my. Strangely, I’d never heard of this before. No actual TARDISes involved, but it does feature a glorious dose of Maximum Darrow. 🥰 Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1980. archive.org/details/the-... #TanithLee #PaulDarrow #Blakes7

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A great, nuanced - and evidence-based! - take on the subject with some great practical takeaways. “All this has sown widespread fears that the online world [we] inhabit is […] lowering our IQs. Which is a disaster because another thing that can significantly impair cognitive function is worry.”

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In ‘Local interest story of profound importance you might not see on streamers news’ news, ITV have commissioned The Hack, a dramatisation of the investigations into phone hacking by the News of The World and the murder of Daniel Morgan. Written by Jack Thorne, it stars David Tennant & Toby Jones

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Fascinating. ICYMI @simonjackbbc.bsky.social BBC’s Business Editor discovers why so many believe the prime responsibility of #business is to increase #profits+maximise returns to #shareholders. He shows how the consequences have enriched many people but devastated many too.

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Every word of this tribute to David Lynch by Eileen Jones tracks: "That’s the rarest power in filmmaking, the power that makes people cinephiles and film critics in the first place — they want to understand why they’re so overcome by visions they can’t immediately grasp in rational terms." #filmsky

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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So, to recap: the suggestion is: the UK creative industries grant open access to all their historic and future work and IP, without payment, to the brains behind a nascent industry that just tanked $1tn in a couple of hours. Sure. Seems great.

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