Jonathan Key
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- Reposted by Jonathan Key👀 “Based on available evidence, there's a 75% chance Elon Musk may have indirectly influenced xAl to prioritize discussing "white genocide in South Africa," given his public advocacy for the narrative.”
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- Reposted by Jonathan KeyTrick Sticks - momentary late seventies slash extremely early eighties playground craze literally revolving around a yellow and red pole that could be made to perform 'stunts' via an attached wire. Few exactly mastered the art. timworthington.org/2018/03/28/l...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyAgreed and the sooner we ordain dog priests, the better
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyThree months since publication of #DontMakeMeLaugh and the reaction has been more than I could have hoped. Thanks to everyone reading and messaging me about it. I’m so grateful. #BookSky
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyBrett Ewins
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyFor everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyFilmed 60 years ago today youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0
- Can’t tell you how excited I am to have Michael Cordy’s new one finally in my hand. Dynamic, surprising, enquiring. A proper thriller.
- My dear old dad decided that computers were the future, and, bless his cotton socks, shelled out the extra £30 to get the 48K Spectrum rather than the 16K he’d budgeted for.
- Advert Lucky Dip: Sep 1983: ZX Spectrum 48K RAM ad from Sinclair (more at @OldUKPrintAds.bsky.social) #zxspectrum #retrogaming (+ZX Spectrum 16K RAM; ZX81 and 16K RAM and CASSETTE; ZX81; ZX Printer; 16K RAM PACK; ZX Software - Sabotage; ZX Software - City Patrol, and more)
- New hires notoriously cause more work than they save until they’re up to speed, because you can’t trust them to do the job right. AI is the eternal new hire.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyDon't Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside: Jay Richardson reviews the new novel about predators on the comedy circuit
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyWanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyIn case you missed it yesterday, for a limited time you can buy my e-book for a ridiculous 99p. If you buy it today you could help it shoot to no.1. Look!!
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyI think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyGirls sheep racing on farm, UK, 1969, photo by John Drysdale
- More strange happenings in the Essex flatlands @gralefrit.bsky.social #BrokenVeil
- Can anyone explain this weird cloud spotted yesterday in Essex? It was low on the horizon and looked like a wave or snowy hill. Here a distance and zoomed-in view. @petergibbs.bsky.social?
- Bargain. And, even better, a bargain that's completely worth the full price you're not paying.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeySay it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
- Mr Higgs’ newsletter is always worth a read. This time he writes wisely about what is (inevitably, always) lacking in AI writing.
- John Higgs's Octannual Manual #59 open.substack.com/pub/johnhigg... @johnhiggs.bsky.social talks about AI in a way AI never will! Highly recommended, as always!
- Go on. If you haven't joined in the Padstow May Song at least once today, you're missing something.
- I'm meant to be at work, but I am sort of in Padstow (virtually); www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXv...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyMayday... Mayday... What better time to play: the GAMES OF TOMORROW.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyRecently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyNewsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyShot (1/2)
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyAren't footpaths and bridleways brilliant?
- Reposted by Jonathan KeySo, happy 55th anniversary to perhaps the finest of all newspaper headlines mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...
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- Genuinely one of the most astonishing pieces of documentary cinema. The fishing sequence is jaw-dropping.
- 91 years ago today, Robert J. Flaherty's 'Man of Aran' opened in theaters in the U.S. (on then-assistant Harry Watt's birthday!). Here, filmmakers Robert Greene and Amanda Rose Wilder argue for why the film belongs in the new canon of cinematic nonfiction: buff.ly/2ZLANxw
- Is it turning off the lights?
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyBreaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyIf this time travel experiment works, I should be able to go from here and now and reappea—
- Genuinely excited that Michael Cordy is back with a new thriller. The whole of Manhattan is brought to a standstill. Something weird and wild is happening. (No, it's not about tariffs). Released on 8th May.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyChrysalid, Chrysalis, Crystal internationaltimes.it/chrysalid-ch... Linda Black
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyThe thing I find myself saying to AI-pilled coworkers lately is: "It's probably about as useful right now as it's ever going to be." Which sounds to them like a wildly pessimistic take. Which, I think, is telling.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyHello! 👋 I’m Gail, a one woman design studio, based in #Manchester My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and stationery. Go on, have a nosy gailmyerscough.co.uk
- I used to enjoy dropping made-up metaphors (like "paste the tree to see what happens") into business meetings. Looks like it's time to up my game.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyChrist alive. We’re all doomed.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyIn the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.
- Garen is labouring away at the long-awaited followup to The Rainbow Orchid. As he implies, AI art, aiming to "save labour", removes the possibility of creating a labour of love.
- A blog post on drawing cars, challenging myself, and why art is art and AI isn't ... www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi... #comics #drawing
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyA blog post on drawing cars, challenging myself, and why art is art and AI isn't ... www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi... #comics #drawing
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyGlen Baxter
- One pope at a time
- Reposted by Jonathan KeySORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyGolden lane at sunrise. Taken in Glastonbury on one of the lanes near Glastonbury Tor.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyOur final "One Step Beyond": "Un pas adelante" by Luis Antonio Diaz. Not only did he translate the title, but he added lyrics (which despite my constantly improving Spanish, I just can't make out -- Please reply with them if you can). #ska #bluebeat #Mexico
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- Reposted by Jonathan KeyNetflix was once thought to have killed regular TV, but these days the streaming service is starting to resemble a plain, old terrestrial channel. filmstories.co.uk/features/fir...
- Speechless
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyMPs will soon vote on crucial changes to the Data Bill, which could protect writers' rights in AI Email your MP + ask them to support these amendments which would strengthen copyright, protect writers + make AI firms more transparent about work they've used creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
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- Amazon could have literally put Phoebe Waller-Bridge in space for that fee
- Lara Croft's long-awaited #TombRaider TV series looks to have hit the buffers at Amazon, and won't be happening, reports suggest.
- Reposted by Jonathan Key'Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy" and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' Tech bros are sociopathic exintinction events aided by demented power-needy govs bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyAd we put in the Village Voice mid March 1975
- Diplomacy 101
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyOoh! New Brian Eno record just dropped (with vocals by Beatie Wolfe). I love Eno; his music is simultaneously haunting and yet uplifting... which, strangely and pretentiously, is what I desperately aspire to achieve with my art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwB6...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyThe (completely made up) New York magazine feature that became Saturday Night Fever. Illustration by James McMullan
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- Reposted by Jonathan KeyOne man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyRIP Mike Berry. youtu.be/jTzk6q-V5ss?...
- Yeah, so you can't remove that AI gimmick from WhatsApp.
- This is a good list
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyFor anyone who missed the queasy feeling of watching the line on the Johns Hopkins COVID tracker trend up every five minutes, here's one for people disappeared by the Trump administration.
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyKit Williams' Masquerade - high concept puzzle book with post-concept album artwork which saw an obsessed nation literally haring around with compasses and shovels on the hunt for an actual literal golden hare. Suitably bizarre backstory too... timworthington.org/2022/05/23/l...
- Reposted by Jonathan KeyKurt Vonnegut man
- Milligan & Ewins always conjured the wildest, most entrancing, punkiest worlds of wrongness.
- 2x Brett Ewins and Peter Milligan collects two stories by one of the great UK comics duos for the first time. Rooney's Lay shows the space age and sleaze colliding in newly wild ways, while in the disquieting In The Penal Colony, they unforgettably adapt Kafka's story. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
- Reposted by Jonathan KeySomehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens
- Reposted by Jonathan Keythe reporting on it didn't really do it justice. the way he talks about race and class diversity, and how you build a shared identity through connection, is a message we don't hear enough of people in his position. everyone who works with young people in the UK today should watch this
- I cannot recommend watching this enough www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
