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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

no goal - just wanted a sense of relative engagement before I wrote it down in a column

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2h

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Is the Conservative Party dying? – Plus: What the Manchester terror attack means.
@joshglancy.bsky.social joins @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

#ukpolitics #OGWN #podcast

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10h

unless you're in Falmouth in a couple of weeks I think I'm currently out of book events! there will be more I'm sure

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10h

yes but while I acknowledge that when I post the link myself it feels kinda shitty to do it when someone else is kind enough to share it

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10h

this will literally haunt my dreams

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

he is, but this is a game in which people who know they're clever often end up going "therefore I can spot traitors" when no, no they can't

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

I assume people say it all the time they just don't put it on tv because these people are not Canonically Clever like Fry is

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

"the greatest detective who ever lived" did he live though

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

I've watched like eight versions of this game and this is the first time anyone saying "remember guys by definition we know NOTHING and all suck at spotting liars" has made the edit

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

is anyone else slightly taken aback at Stephen Fry talking sense on this game? sort of expected he'd be tripping over his own Cleverness more

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12h

WHICH OF YOU MONSTERS IS "CHOOSING" RATHER THAN MAKING THE OBVIOUSLY ETHICALLY CORRECT CHOICE AND BUYING BOTH BOOKS

Barney Stringer @barneystringer.bsky.social · 14h

Now you don’t have to choose! Both of

@jonnelledge.bsky.social History of the World in 47 Borders, and

@lewisbaston.bsky.social
Borderlines: History of Europe in 29 Borders,

are 99p on Kindle at the moment. (Only 2.6p per border…)

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12h

A good day! Hampton Court to Staines. Plus faffing walked about 15 miles. Over five (I think) walks over the last couple of years we've done the Thames Path from Erith to Staines. It's good!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Barney Stringer @barneystringer.bsky.social · 14h

Now you don’t have to choose! Both of

@jonnelledge.bsky.social History of the World in 47 Borders, and

@lewisbaston.bsky.social
Borderlines: History of Europe in 29 Borders,

are 99p on Kindle at the moment. (Only 2.6p per border…)

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Frankensorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder that the best defence against authoritarianism is ALWAYS absurdism. It doesn’t matter how natty your jackboots are, nobody looks scary when oppressing Creatures.