zebra stripe drinking + ‘chud’ the convict
from chat donations to praying for probation Is there anything greater than seeing a pal bolt awake after a boozy night out like a wobbly Nosferatu hellbent on finding anywhere appropriate to hawk their guts up? Maybe I’m just an arsehole. You might not glean the same level of sadistic pleasure...
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can ai humble itself + twitch mogging mutants
can AI stop waffling with such chest? Is there anything more irritating than getting a response from an AI chatbot that you know to be complete bollocks? Ask your shitty Alexa Echo voice assistant any question more complicated than ‘what’s the weather looking like?’ and there’s a great chance it’ll reluctantly...
plague cruise + mj fanaticism
couldn’t moor, two stars If this was a monster or outbreak movie, it would only end one way. Just stay well out of range of Trump’s missile capabilities. If you were unaware, a luxury cruise is currently hovering around Cape Verde unable to moor due to the rare and deadly virus...
ballroom bunkers & dating ai bobbleheads
never waste an assassination attempt. Trump has had more attempts on his life than Jason Bourne, and he’s determined to turn the latest into a major dub. Following the recent assassination attempt in the Washington Hilton hotel, heated questions are raging about competence, systems, and how a man strapped to the...
death of posting + catholicmaxxing
when something dies, the flies come out Plenty of people still reckon that bots will drive people offline. The Dead Internet Theory truly sprouted legs with the mainstream explosion of AI, and the suggestion that bots will soon account for more online activity than those born of meat and bone isn’t...
zero backlash for trump + bieber’s laptop sesh
genocide is one thing, but ai slop?! Can we circle back real quick? I wasn’t somehow duped by AI? Perhaps I dropped off and had an obscure dream that sunny Tuesday lunchtime? Nope. I just triple checked, and Trump did proclaim that ‘an entire civilisation will die tonight’ on his Truth Social....
big tech is guilty + kanye is… forgiven?
rage against the machine! Silicon Valley is reeling and the future suddenly looks marginally less dystopian. Kudos to the jury who just delivered the huge verdict at an LA court. We’ve seen Zuckerberg coast through court cases too numerous to recite, but the latest proceedings will have drudged up that pit in the stomach created after being dragged through the ringer in the Cambridge Analytica trial. The Meta boss no doubt entered...
ai on a leash + gen z’s age gap paranoia
get your own sh*t! Try to distinguish between a genuine Studio Ghibli image and something thrown together in 30 seconds on ChatGPT, we dare you. Generative AI platforms have become so fast, polished, and culturally omnivorous that any visual style can now be coopted. It’s good clean fun when making crude memes for the group chat, but the implications for people who earn a crust in creative industries are grim. Why buy...
social media is toxic for clicks + banksy revealed
what? Nah I never knew that, never knew that The BBC must be terrified of whistleblowers at this point. But the latest exposé hasn’t come at its expense… it actually gets the honours of spilling the tea on someone else. Canaries have come to the BBC with a case concerning Meta and TikTok, and their supposed amplification of toxic content for clicks. Given Zuckerberg is already in court batting off accusations...
why the obsession with gen z + viral auramax just dropped
lady, hear me tonight! 🎶 ‘Why you so obsessed with me?’ asked Gen Z. ‘How long you got?’ the Guardian replied. The news outlet recently wrote a comprehensive story outlining why people, particularly from the commercial world, are so obsessed with Gen Z. ‘Is there something different about people born between 1997 and 2012, or is it all just marketing nonsense and hysteria,’ the intro reads. Let’s see what expert analysis they came up...
