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Glenn C.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

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On hatred.

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

April 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS

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In surely unrelated news, the Tony Blair Institute was given $200m by the owner of Oracle, a major AI player.

Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · Apr 2

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

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April 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Glenn C.

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Looks like no one told the team from "the gastronomic capital of the world" that Liam Rosenior is the only one cooking right now 🔥

RC Strasbourg's list of Ligue 1 results since 15th December 2024: a 3-0 win away to Le Havre, a 3-1 win at home to Auxerre, a 2-1 win away to Toulouse, a 1-1 draw away to Marseille, a 2-1 win at home to Lille, a 1-0 loss away to Rennes, a 2-0 win at home to Montpellier, a 2-0 win away to Lens, a 0-0 draw at home to Brest, a 1-0 win away to Auxerre, a 1-0 win away to Nantes, a 2-1 win at home to Toulouse and a 4-2 win at home to Lyon.

March 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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despelote ⚽ OUT NOW!

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⚽ despelote is coming May 1st to Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 & 5, and PC - launching alongside the start of #LudoNarraCon! 🙂

Get ready to be immersed in the streets and parks of Quito.

February 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Glenn C.

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Massive opportunity missed by Strasbourg to go deep into this season's Coupe de France tonight, not that that's particularly surprising given that BlueCo couldn't care less about whether the club actually wins any trophies as long as we act as Chelsea's French youth academy 👍

February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Glenn C.

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"In the context of the LFP's empty promise to schedule Ligue 1 McDonald's matches a month in advance when other countries (i.e. Germany, England and the Netherlands) have already put this promise into action, clubs are being left in the dark."

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February 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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Neel Shelat

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USL Dunkerque have just come back from 3-0 down in the penalty shoot-out against Lille to reach their first Coupe de France quarter-final in over 50 years. Once again, cup football remains unmatched.

February 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM