This was inspired by Craig Majors’ post on Mastodon, when he listed his favourite Doctor Who actors. A lot of Whovians will completely disagree with my ranking, but one hopes that the fandom is generous and tolerant enough to accept that everyone sees things differently. The only time the world agreed on who was their […]
Here’s a post that summarizes generative “AI” quite well. Hat tip to Brian Krebs, posting this on Mastodon. I can’t embed the post here—maybe he has his embedding turned off. The original that Krebs cites, by David Gerard, can be found here. Like the social media websites concocted by the graduates of Prof Fogg’s class […]
A few days ago, Lucire’s Instagram account had a pinned post that we never pinned. It was a collaborative post from our friend Michael Nelson in Dubai which he posted in March. Above: Our Instagram page after Mike’s team attempted to edit the post, and we pinned our issue 51 cover to counteract the […]
Google is hiding the number of results for any given search. Google hid this under ‘Tools’ some time ago but now that link no longer works universally. I was able to access it using a vulnerable browser that let everything through, and for this blog, at least, the count is surprisingly poor. Google is so […]
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If you watch one in-depth interview this week, it should be this one: Jon Stewart interviewing Carole Cadwalladr, on broligarchs, “AI”, and a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. And no, not a single component of that title is alarmist. We have been watching the world head to this point right through the 2010s, except now it’s accelerating […]
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I had suspected Anita Dobson’s Mrs Flood had a connection to the Rani in Doctor Who, only because I was trying to make a connection between the character’s last appearance in the 1993 charity special ‘Dimensions in Time’ (which, as far as I know, is canon) and Angie Watts, who, in EastEnders canon, was last […]