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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11h

A Thunderbirds dance on #StrictlyComeDancing and no F.A.B. jokes?

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 6d

At some point in 2017 I made this. The world just wasn’t ready…

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 7d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 8d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 8d

The Rest Is Slapstick - A Podcast which is just two people violently falling over or throwing pies into each other's faces.

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 8d

Didn't Donkey Kong beat Pacman to the Oscar for best made-up nonsense back in 1984? Bloomberg are so behind the times with this fantasy Oscar thing.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 8d

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 10d

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve also heard from multiple acting agents that private equity buyouts make their job unpleasant. The agency bloats into a blob of sports, digital, presenting, & talent to maximise ROI for the investors. Clear mission gets lost. New bosses don’t know anything about acting, just line go up

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 14d

acting industry friends know if they buy me a couple drinks I’ll start ranting about how many acting agencies are up to their eyeballs in private equity and won’t survive the coming recession. If they bet the farm on AI too it’d be another good reason to steer clear, IMO

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 10d

Y’know modern method acting does recommend seeking therapy if it gets too much.

It does feel like the Ares Lead looked up Stanislavski, Cojar, Irving et al on Wikipedia and didn’t actually read them?

"I'm an asshole because these old dead guys say it's okay" is certainly a take.

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 10d

The Birmingham Bus-Stop Rule - "If you put enough professionals from one specialism in the same place for more than 4 hours, that place will host an impromptu conference on that specialism, regardless of the original intention of the meeting. "

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 11d

I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 11d

I’m just humbly suggesting that, should the publishing industry want to tackle the crisis in reading for pleasure rates, and we have research suggesting that there’s no crisis in reading for pleasure rates amongst children who read comics, that there’s maybe a relatively simple solution right here.

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11d

I feel if you produced anything under the Rebellion IP you'd have to do a special event for press and talent.

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11d

Y'know, describing the Drukhari / Dark Eldar as S&M Colin Robinsons isn't an inaccurate take.

Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11d

I mean I also want to see Slaine as a Mythos Ragnarok style wrestling show, but y'know, with a dragon and a horned god...

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11d

Hobb's Transport. Good old fashioned English name Hobb. Nothing sinister at all.

A model of the Wicker Man, from the movie the wicker man. Approximately the right size for certain train sets or miniature games.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 11d

Realised I'd shared this with friends over the weekend, but not you.

Yes, it's a lovely old video on modelling, but crucially about 12 minutes in there's the most unhinged walk through of a railway diorama where there's vandals, death, lambs to slaughter, a bit more death and Druid stones.

1975: MODEL RAILWAYS - All You Need to Know | Model World | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 11d

Hear Me Out - Judge Dredd The Musical. Base in on John Wagner's graphic novel America; that story already has musical elements, some excellent characters who aren't Dredd (including America herself) and a hell of an ending. (And a strong start.)

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jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 14d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Have you been loving @silviamg.bsky.social 's latest novel THE BEWITCHING?

Then why not go back to where it all began ten years ago with her first novel SIGNAL TO NOISE?!

A tale of lost love, complicated friendships and magical mixtapes in 1980s Mexico City.

Buy geni.us/Dk7qbh

A flatlaid paperback of SIGNAL TO NOISE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia laid on purple and pink fabric.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 13d

Alt text:

Cover to a the classic “Shadowrun” game which classically takes place mostly in what is currently North Western US (Seattle / Portland region)

It’s a very cyberpunk sceen with subtle magical elements.

Added Text:
“MÈ AND THE ANTIFA SQUAD
BATTLING ICE AGENTS IN WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND”

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 14d

If you (somehow) missed it yesterday I have made my first ever game!

It is called "i will strangle a horse", and is a comedy choose your own adventure game with over 7660 words of hot nonsense, and is free to play!

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Will YOU strangle a horse?