There is a skill on creating good AI prompts, so maybe that could be seen as ‘art’? Negated, obviously, by the fact that it’s just a sea-boiling plagiarism machine.
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There is a skill on creating good AI prompts, so maybe that could be seen as ‘art’? Negated, obviously, by the fact that it’s just a sea-boiling plagiarism machine.
Because it’s wrong to post AI generated images I’ll just post the prompt: Create a picture of a small wax figurine of Donald Trump, with Kamala, Obama and Hillary taking turns to stick pins in it.
(None of which absolves AI from being a plagiaristic sea boiling machine, of course).
We had the same quandary with Photoshopped stuff decades ago. But now we just say “clearly photoshopped” in the QT. I suspect that we’ll start to do the same with AI over time. Plus, there *is* skill involved in generating good AI images. It can take time and effort to get the prompts right.
Doggerland is a car park just off the M25.
It was only valued at £500. I thought that was a right cheek. And a left cheek, too, of course.
It was the stool from Duffy's studio, so many famous arses would have left their mark (or hopefully not!)
Ha ha. They were just doing valuations of some original Duffy artwork for Sane. Plus the stool your da sat on. And of course, being the BBC, they didn’t do a ‘stool/arse - arse/stool’ joke.
Your da was just on the Antiques Roadshow over on this side of the pond. That’s just set everything back to OK for a while.
I charged my car there and the electricity was very average. In fact I couldn’t notice any difference to the electricity at Watford Gap.
You wonder whether the “you couldn’t make this today” brigade have seen recent episodes of South Park?
There are *so* many artists, both current and historic, across all artistic genres, who grew up poor. Whoever wrote that post was just making stuff up. Was it an AI bot?
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
That graph reminds me of a certain person’s signature. Just me?
I found a suitable coffin too: www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/s...
I almost didn't repost it here, though, because of the "you're".
Exactly what happened with the writers' strike a few years ago. It was shit.
This is Nigel Farage on mass deportations less than a year ago on GBNews. I wonder what has changed?
I love her quote, when she knew that she was dying, that what she most regretted were her silences.
I wonder how much succession planning he’s done. On the one hand it’s a sensible thing to do, and he is kinda logical. But on the other hand as a megalomaniacal psychopath he probably thinks he’s going to live for ever.
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He was great in Scarface…
Are they vegetarian, or do they contain beef/pork gelatine? Most do, but a few manufacturers have started to realise that they don’t need to add pigs or cows to their sweets these days.
Halt & Catch Fire was perfect. Even though I’m a UK based techie there were so many references that fitted perfectly.
Potassium? Ketamine? Sera sera? Danny?
For me it was the 2010 Brighton Festival. Brian Eno was guest curator and scheduled some brilliant stuff.
I saw that with a ‘played live’ soundtrack by Glass & co. a few years ago. That was magical.
He hoped you’d come again.
Farrow & Ball is Dulux for cretins.
Five Guys is McDonald’s for toffs.
Sourdough is just Mother’s Pride for twats. Salted Caramel is just toffee for nobs. Matcha is just… well… I think we can all agree it’s just fucking horrible.
Mostly looks like tat from The Range.
"So, why did you call this twin Richard?"
These are my favourite biscuits (this week at least), but they are useless for dunking.
I thought the same thing while I was watching Rogue Apostrophe.
Housing, vets, dentists, water companies, railways, etc. etc. The only area they don’t do this is banking. Can anyone work out why?
IMHO imported Israeli goods should, by law, show whether they have been produced by Israelis, by Palestinians, or by Israelis in occupied Palestinian lands. So that we have a sliding scale to influence our boycott.
Congratulations (I hope this was your choice, or at least a move that you aren’t upset about). Are you going to another waged job or back to more freelance stuff?
Don't I remember you saying that you hadn't done (or hired in) any PR for the Edinburgh shows? Could that account, to a degree, for the lack of attention? (I mean that nicely, not as a criticism)
A confused (aged) Brit wants to know what's all this fuss about cheese? youtu.be/g_sFI-_zZh0?...
The Octopus thing might be because they are good, but might also be because of their referral scheme. Here's mine (he said shamelessly) - £50 for me, £50 for you: share.octopus.energy/maize-hippo-...
Damn! I came here to do that!
Just checking….Are we absolutely certain that the British patriots are the people who hate British cities, British law, British judges , British democracy, the British civil service, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and large swathes of the British people?
I'm confused by the term "unapologetically British". We always say sorry. Even when we aren't. (Sorry).
Tiab Staht?
Buffet breakfasts? Posh? Yeah, compared to a sausage and egg McMuffin maybe.
Exit through the grift shop.
But no, I meant a house where I can see the sea. Fuck all that boat malarkey! The only problem with living on the coast is "where shall we go today" options are reduced by 50%. Well, unless you have a boat, I guess.
A woman's purse, no less!
I loved living in London as a student, and would walk many many miles per day. But as an adult I’m happier living here on the coast, an hour away. I find myself hopping on a train to ‘that’ London less and less. The sea is my magnet now.
Don’t worry. As a beginner your bagpipes will sound just as terrible as an experienced player.
Not as disappointing as his root vegetable crisps. They were effing horrible. He was a damn fine actor but he should have left the snacks to Walkers etc.
His films were great but his root vegetable crisps were horrible shite!
I once saw one in an electrical goods showroom. To be honest, it was a bit meh.
Fine actor, but whatever possessed him to put his name to a range of root vegetable crisps? They were fucking horrible. He should have stuck with thespianing.
Petra Tegetmeier only died in 1999, so it’s not /that/ far from living memory.
So they should still be playing Gary Glitter songs on the radio? (ignoring arguments about whether those songs have merit - the fact is they did get played before he was exposed).
Yeah, we’ve all been guilty by association. It’s the knowingly so that I was questioning. I wasn’t being sensible when I suggested renaming - it was more of a thought experiment, wondering how it would affect people’s choices. Did you answer the bit where I asked if you’d still use a renamed font?
Would they still choose to use it, just because it looks nice? Indeed would it affect your own use of it if the name was changed?
That’s great - a conscious choice. But I suspect most of the people who choose to use one of Gill’s fonts (probably just selecting from a massive list offered up by their computer whilst creating a document) will lack that awareness. That was my point about renaming the font peado-sans.
All forms of discrimination are horrible. Unforgivable even. But there’s a special level of revulsion reserved for people who commit child abuse, and especially those who have sex with their children. So I find it hard to compare Disney to Gill.
At least nobody can accuse you of using the paedo’s fonts from a place of ignorance. That you knew and yet still used them purely for their aesthetic value is important.
I just don't think enough people know about Gill. They even named a bus after him in Brighton until I pointed out what he'd done, that bus was quickly renamed. I think if more people were aware the usage would fade. Would you deliberately use one of his fonts?
I wonder how much use those fonts would get if they were renamed Paedo Sans etc? I agree that the fonts are iconic, but when people originally chose them they were unaware - the details came out much later. I think their iconic status has much to do with timing.
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You should be more concerned that a popular range of typefaces is named after a bloke who had sex with his kids. And his pets.
I though you could get arrested for ‘self love’ on a bus…
“You’re fucking nicked mate!”
The singer might have been Belgian but the song was in French so I think it fits the French songs remit.
Can we have an edit button please? You can do that and then retire, basking in the worldwide glory you’ll receive.
A bit confused here. On their ‘Equal Earth Projection’ examples Canada is an island to the North of the USA, with sea between them. There’s a shedload of alternative map projections available which are better than Mercator (in some respects), but they all retain land borders.
His private army should all wear raspberry berets!
Ça plane pour moi
Ian Huntley - white Ian Watkins - white Levi Bellfield - white Wayne Couzens (police officer) - white Michael Stone - white Peter Sutcliffe - white Steve Wright - white Harold Shipman - white Beverley Allitt - white Robert Napper - white etc Vile criminals come in all colours - white, black, orange…
Was your relationship with your employer as healthy as the one with your wife by any chance?
Spearfishing.
Cathedrals have sod all to do with city status. Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton… loads of places are cities without cathedrals.
She’s just getting warmed up for while you’re away.
That’s a bit of a pisser.
This argument (and all depreciation calculations) assumes that people buying new pay the sticker price. But nobody does. You can also save a huge amount on a brand new car, and get the exact colour and spec that you want.
It needs big banks of batteries near generation, and then smaller battery systems near to the consumers. Very local. At the kind of substations that serve a few hundred houses - there’s usually room. This would massively reduce grid loading.
Yeah. That’s why everyone thinks you’re weird.
“Say what you will, school diners make you ill, and Davy Crocket died of Shepherd’s Pie…” (To the ‘out of town’ theme tune - but maybe that was a local south coast tv thing).
Is this a fess from 20 years ago? A vet appointment costing £36?
I think “be scared” would win in an A/B test though.
I’m guessing “be scared” is better click bait than “this story is bollocks”. (Well, to most people anyway. Those like us perhaps less so.)
I take it the gigs have started selling better then?
Very easy to misread that title…
Don’t forget that Putin sees Alaska as Russian, so from his point of view he’s meeting Trump on Russian soil.
Yup. More pylons (sod the NIMBYs), and much more battery storage. Both big battery facilities close to the generation and smaller ones distributed near consumers. It’s bonkers that by now all local substations don’t have a stack of batteries in them. There’s usually room.
I’d agree with you if it wasn’t for Pulp. Their new album is right up there with the stuff they were making many decades ago.
Take a lesson from Marilyn Monroe. (But not the Mr President shit - that's just cringe).
Thank you for helping my brain.
The actions of the Israeli government have massively harmed the crusade against antisemitism. Them playing that card whenever they are criticised just devalues it. And if they keep devaluing it them unfortunately next time it's *really* needed that word will have lost all of its power.
I've heard you do that before, but can't remember whether it was a video here on BSky or whether you did it here in Shoreham. Damn my mouldy brain. But it only remembered the words, not the location.
