All Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass
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In a rave big system warfare. At Swim, Two-Steps. Free Palestine. Trans solidarity.
Pinned
Working #5: An Overtness
www.mixcloud.com
New show featuring the likes of Acheron's Reticuli, Sister Irene O'Connor and Mega Bog. www.mixcloud.com/isitworking/...
That boy ain't right (complimentary)
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 AM
That boy ain't right (complimentary)
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This is why you can't afford RAM anymore
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
This is why you can't afford RAM anymore
Cos he's a big fucking nerd.
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Cos he's a big fucking nerd.
The standard twitter account is called something like IncelCrypto88 and the standard Bluesky account is called something like Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The standard twitter account is called something like IncelCrypto88 and the standard Bluesky account is called something like Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery
To be honest brother I don't how many kaleidoscopic meditations on grief I've got left in me.
Preorder Angela Woodward's AFTERLIFE, A kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, memory, and the uncanny, where dreams, histories, and forgotten encyclopedias blur the line between life and afterlife. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366216...
January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
To be honest brother I don't how many kaleidoscopic meditations on grief I've got left in me.
Bought myself a cuddly toy because it was cute and I can do what I want.
January 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Bought myself a cuddly toy because it was cute and I can do what I want.
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Oh, FFS.
Is AI this amazing tool that we must all use, fund and celebrate? Or is it (it obviously is) a rotten cancer at the heart of modern life?
Of course this idiot used AI. He's been told to use AI by everyone from the Prime Minister down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Is AI this amazing tool that we must all use, fund and celebrate? Or is it (it obviously is) a rotten cancer at the heart of modern life?
Of course this idiot used AI. He's been told to use AI by everyone from the Prime Minister down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Police chief admits misleading MPs after AI used in justification for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
An intelligence report referred to a football game that never existed - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will make a statement later today.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Oh, FFS.
Is AI this amazing tool that we must all use, fund and celebrate? Or is it (it obviously is) a rotten cancer at the heart of modern life?
Of course this idiot used AI. He's been told to use AI by everyone from the Prime Minister down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Is AI this amazing tool that we must all use, fund and celebrate? Or is it (it obviously is) a rotten cancer at the heart of modern life?
Of course this idiot used AI. He's been told to use AI by everyone from the Prime Minister down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Went to the John Le Carre exhibition today and was pleased to learn that the greatest spy novelist of all time in addition to bleak epics of gnawing doubt and tragic moral compromise liked to doodle little animals getting fucked up.
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Went to the John Le Carre exhibition today and was pleased to learn that the greatest spy novelist of all time in addition to bleak epics of gnawing doubt and tragic moral compromise liked to doodle little animals getting fucked up.
Not taking off your puffy jacket for a transatlantic flight is absolute psycho behaviour, bloke sitting next to me.
January 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Not taking off your puffy jacket for a transatlantic flight is absolute psycho behaviour, bloke sitting next to me.
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Personal finance expert you say?
January 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Personal finance expert you say?
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We all get that the entire political and media establishment choosing Johnson and Brexit as their best option despite knowing what that meant, in their personal and collective interest, was severe Trumpery, right? I mean, it was obvious while it was happening and it seems comical to deny it now.
January 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
We all get that the entire political and media establishment choosing Johnson and Brexit as their best option despite knowing what that meant, in their personal and collective interest, was severe Trumpery, right? I mean, it was obvious while it was happening and it seems comical to deny it now.
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The Free Speech Union desperately preventing publication of their donors is peak irony.
Trans activists have hacked into the website of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and published a list of its donors online.
www.telegraph.co.uk/...
Link to transphobic media.
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.telegraph.co.uk/...
Link to transphobic media.
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Free Speech Union hacked by trans activists
Emergency High Court injunction bans publication of donors’ details
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
The Free Speech Union desperately preventing publication of their donors is peak irony.
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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The problem is that Ofcom/Michael Grade publicly warned Twitter to abide by UK law in May 2024, and then again in August 2024, and then in October 2024, and then again in July 2025, without any success. They/he have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not interested or capable of enforcement.
NEW: Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, says Ofcom would have the "full backing" of government if it opted to block access to X in the UK (but it's a decision for Ofcom)
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The problem is that Ofcom/Michael Grade publicly warned Twitter to abide by UK law in May 2024, and then again in August 2024, and then in October 2024, and then again in July 2025, without any success. They/he have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not interested or capable of enforcement.
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I trust everyone understands the sense in which I say: lmao
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I trust everyone understands the sense in which I say: lmao
This week I have mostly been listening to
January 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
This week I have mostly been listening to
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As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 AM
As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!
There are so many 70s funk/soul bands where the singles go so fuckin hard and you listen to the albums and its 80% interminable syrupy ballads.
January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
There are so many 70s funk/soul bands where the singles go so fuckin hard and you listen to the albums and its 80% interminable syrupy ballads.
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You might expect these people - seeing that the Starmer project was just swine lying about their colleagues and comically abusing their party’s processes to bully, harass, cheat, insult and expel them - might have thought: this looks really bad and quite dishonest. They did not think that, at all.
January 5, 2026 at 9:15 AM
You might expect these people - seeing that the Starmer project was just swine lying about their colleagues and comically abusing their party’s processes to bully, harass, cheat, insult and expel them - might have thought: this looks really bad and quite dishonest. They did not think that, at all.