NOTES ON THE AI BUBBLE

DEATH TO THE CASINO

What is the value of an award that has to be given away each and every year ?

How good is a number one single if there always has to be a number one single ?

That's how I think about AI

It's just a new toy for the section of society who are obsessed with novelty and 'growth'

I came to a bit of a revelation a while ago:

namely, that we already have everything we need. We have vaccinations for most of the worst diseases.

We have disease resistant varieties for all our major food crops. To put it another way:

What's the point of building more homes when they're treated like pieces on a monopoly board ?

The battle lines are drawn. Fashion and tradition are the enemies. So is aspiration.

We know how to stop war and hunger, and yet they still exist. In my world -

the creative world, AI is nothing but a nuisance ... as are posh people.

Luxury is back in the charts again. Foneyness is the currency.

Activists will always need something to demonstrate against.

Investors will always need something to invest in.

My advice is - don't buy into it. Refuse to use it. Don't vote. Don't play the game.

Don't be a mug.

(Click on the corny graphics above for the best article I found on the AI bubble)

WILLIAM EGGLESTON

THE LONELY SOUTH

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MARK THOMAS

100 ACTS OF MINOR DISSENT

Ah, the joys of renting off the council ...

Last week, a leaseholder, 3 storeys above me, saw fit to leave her home with the waste pipe from her washing machine unattached

The result was that she flooded my flat and those of the two sets of neighbours above me.

The council took 4 hours to shut the water off. They helped me out by sending someone round to turn off my electricity (which had already blown)

Thank %$*# I'm a grizzled old punk who can sort things out for himself. I spent 4 days in a travelodge, while I fixed the place up again.

8 days later, and not a single word from the council - my neighbours flats still shrouded in darkness.

No wonder I sought out some Mark Thomas

to listen to on the first night I got to sleep in my own bed again.

I need some inspiration for the almighty battle ahead.

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P.s: Clapham is like gentrification on steroids these days.

They just opened a Marks and Spencer on the High St. I went in there,  looking for something to eat the other day,

and it was so twee, so hoity toity, that I thought I had landed in a garden party in Chelsea.

I was so disgusted, that I left my basket on a shelf and walked out.

There was absolutely nothing that I wanted to buy in there, anyway.

EMMA BEATREZ

CHEERLEADERS HAIL SATAN

THE IDLES

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DIRECTED BY STEWART BAXTER

ARCADE GAMES ONLINE

(BRAVE BROWSER RECOMMENDED)

More coffee-break games.
I call them that because I'm usually dead before my tea goes cold.
There's hundreds on there, but I've selected some of the better ones below
(I prefer the vertical scrolling shooters myself - and I like zany graphics)

INSTRUCTIONS :

Click on the game box to activate
Credits: Right shift key
Start: enter key
Go to bottom left of the game screen to assign buttons
(I use the Z X C V keys)

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