🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, @murrowcollege | Journalism ethics, media sociology etc. | Committed trend laggard

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Man AI has made the world so deeply ugly in such a short period of time. Like aesthetically it’s just nightmarish
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can you tell me why this wouldn’t work exactly?
Hey @grok Can you tell me why this wouldn’t work exactly?
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For charges of this magnitude, City's owners must be forced to sell, with the club expelled from the Premier League, in lockstep with the EFL to refuse them entry. They should also be fined £830m - the exact amount they overstated revenues in that time period. That money should flow down the footballing pyramid. Not only that, prize money (£1.094 billion) was stolen. Alongside all trophies being vacated, that prize money will be used as a minimum in restitution to PL clubs. And anyone involved should be banned for life. Nothing like this can never be allowed to happen again.
Strong support for Manchester City being expelled from the Premier League and being refused entry to the EFL. And for the Abu Dhabi ownership being removed from the club. youtu.be/NjsJyay0tNM?is=S3V-…
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The set up for “yep! We’re still in this sketch” is SO good. God I’m mad as hell they cut this for 20 mediocre minutes of Update…
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Literally what’s the joke here
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most sw media frames the struggle between good and evil as light versus dark but andor strips away the romanticism. it shows that revolutions aren't made of pure, shining heroes, they are built on sacrifice, compromise, moral gray areas and brutal choices.
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Ryan Thomas retweeted
I don’t understand why British TV is having day after day on the botched execution of the torturer and murderer in America. Please let’s detach from their news cycle.
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we can all agree that making restaurant reservations and booking flights is a hassle. but what if I told you that we could make it more cumbersome but also less reliable by harnessing the power of AI?
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Expect more of this. What a lot of people fail to realise is that the Greens have historically been a coalition between eco-socialists and Tories who ride bicycles. The bike tories have basically just been told they can shove it, the coalition is over.
Babergh: Cllr Daniel Potter, elected as a Green councillor for Orwell, has left the Green party over the "Zionism is Racism" motion and defected to the Conservatives.
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Look sorry I don’t care where you stand on any of this, the idea of City playing in the Champions League then playing Buxton in the National League North at the weekend is objectively hilarious.
Senior figures within the English game are concerned #ManCity could play in the #UCL next season by winning the competition, even if they are relegated. There is no automatic mechanism to remove @ManCity from a European competition they qualify for on sporting merit. The feeling is that if #MCFC do not win their appeal and are handed a strong sanction, being allowed to compete alongside Europe's elite and receiving the financial rewards would not be acceptable. [@DaleJohnsonBBC/@danroan] bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
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Dracula weeping to this in his coffin with phone on full brightness
33 year old fruit bat with arthritis goes on morning 'flights' to keep him active 😳
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The worst thing about AI is that I can’t get customer service for anything anymore, the only way to reach out to a human for help involves breaking the AI chatbot first like it’s some troll at a bridge you gotta bypass
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Had an extremely dispiriting conversation with a young person recently. Said they just want to read books and actually learn things but they kept having AI assignments shoved down their throat by LLM-enthusiast faculty and AI “tools” foisted on them by the administration.
I am so sick of my workplace (a university if you can believe it!) force-feeding AI into everything we do - "so that you know how to apply AI responsibly". Given this technology is based on IP theft and is an environmental disaster - how about not using AI...period!!
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also this might be an unpopular opinion, and I haven't finished season 2 of Andor yet, but I do feel like it's moving so so quickly that I almost wish it'd been slowed down some and split for there to be a 3rd season. for that reason, but also bc i'm greedy and i want more
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If you were online in the 2010s you would know that the Honey badger don't care, the honey badger don't give a shit
Stoffel, a honey badger, was so determined to fight the lions next door that he kept escaping. When his keepers gave him a female partner to distract him, he used her to climb out again.
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AI is not animation. Animation, by definition, is created frame by frame and then played in sequence to create the illusion of movement. Typing in a prompt is not animating, and this should be disqualified.
AI Film ‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts’ Sets First Trailer for December Theatrical Run, Plans Oscar Bid for Best Animated Feature variety.com/2026/film/news/a…
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In every Harry Potter book, there's approximately 45-100 students that are having a perfectly normal year and wondering why Harry and his friends are constantly involved in some whackadoo bullshit that threatens to close the school and fuck up their education
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I’d assume it was left by the person who stayed there last, it would never cross my mind that it was the owners?! Get a deep freezer weirdo
I live next door to our Airbnb: We keep the fridge empty of course, and most of the freezer. A few weeks ago I bought a large tri-tip, and put it in there. My home freezer was too full. On a whim, opened the Airbnb freezer today, (sometimes people leave their vodka in there after a visit, and we have new guests coming today ), and my tri-tip is gone. So we’re stealing MEAT now? On a mini-vacation. That’s wild.
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Hosts are advised to store personal items separately from guest areas and clearly communicate available provisions, as accessible fridge/freezer items are often assumed available for use or left by prior guests. lodgify.com/blog/airbnb-ch… rentalrecon.com/host-advice-an… airbnb.com/help/article/2…
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I still can’t get over how funny it is that a grown man has the aura of an absolutely legendary 5th grader
he definitely made the kick that permanently trapped a dodgeball in the gym ceiling
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I hope the positive response to this reminds the show that they can in fact still do runners in an episode. They used to do on like a weekly basis! You can still have fun with the format! Not everything needs to break down easily into a YouTube playlist.
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