Alex
@alexmoreland.co.uk
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The essay itself is here, if you want to read it. (And if you consider it award worthy, I'd be extremely honoured):
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Neither Girls Nor Friends: the Artificial Woman in American Science Fiction
How might we conceptualise an AI girlfriend who is neither girl, nor friend, but comrade?
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December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The essay itself is here, if you want to read it. (And if you consider it award worthy, I'd be extremely honoured):
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show does. With incredible lead performances from Matt Smith and child actor Rafael Mathé. Our review www.thecustardtv.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show has. - The Custard TV
Throughout our lives, we all make mistakes. Sometimes they’re tiny little things that niggle at us for as long as we remain conscious, preying on our insecurities and anxieties. Other times, we don’t ...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show does. With incredible lead performances from Matt Smith and child actor Rafael Mathé. Our review www.thecustardtv.com/the-death-of...
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Sea Devil Chappell Roan be like C-O-D-T-O-G-O
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Sea Devil Chappell Roan be like C-O-D-T-O-G-O
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My life and career serve to define the precise limits of financial success you can find with the improbable racket “your favorite critic’s favorite critic.”
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Get more from Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn on Patreon
Criticism, Comics, and Things That Don't Start with C
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December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
My life and career serve to define the precise limits of financial success you can find with the improbable racket “your favorite critic’s favorite critic.”
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
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Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
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My review of Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp is now live at Strange Horizons!
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
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I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp
Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air presents a welcome pick-me-up in a reactionary wasteland.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My review of Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp is now live at Strange Horizons!
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
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* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms
Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
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I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
That's me in the corner..
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
That's me in the corner..
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
That's me in the corner..
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
That's me in the corner..
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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A whole bunch of things here that I hadn't really thought about. Apparently no one in government has, either.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
The government has no plan.
www.theatlantic.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A whole bunch of things here that I hadn't really thought about. Apparently no one in government has, either.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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'Dr Who in our lounge!' Tom's flying visit to one family's lounge made the front page of the Coventry Telegraph back on the 15th of November 1976. Deadly Assassin 3 was the episode he was keen to catch.
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
'Dr Who in our lounge!' Tom's flying visit to one family's lounge made the front page of the Coventry Telegraph back on the 15th of November 1976. Deadly Assassin 3 was the episode he was keen to catch.
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[La Roux if she was a blue whale]
I'm going in for the krill
I have a blowhole, not gills
I'm hoping you'll understand
I'm going in for the krill
I have a blowhole, not gills
I'm hoping you'll understand
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
[La Roux if she was a blue whale]
I'm going in for the krill
I have a blowhole, not gills
I'm hoping you'll understand
I'm going in for the krill
I have a blowhole, not gills
I'm hoping you'll understand
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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Next part of my chat with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson for Down Cemetery Road is now live in @radiotimes.bsky.social. Thoroughly recommend checking the show out now on Apple TV.
www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/emm...
www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/emm...
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Next part of my chat with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson for Down Cemetery Road is now live in @radiotimes.bsky.social. Thoroughly recommend checking the show out now on Apple TV.
www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/emm...
www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/emm...
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
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I liked Adam McKay’s Vice, honestly. Christian Bale was good in the role. I can admit that now
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I liked Adam McKay’s Vice, honestly. Christian Bale was good in the role. I can admit that now
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Big week of interviews so apologies for the spam. Spoke with Ballad Of a Small Player screenwriter Rowan Joffe about bringing Lawrence Osborne's work to life. The film is on Netflix now.
www.flickeringmyth.com/exclusive-in...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Big week of interviews so apologies for the spam. Spoke with Ballad Of a Small Player screenwriter Rowan Joffe about bringing Lawrence Osborne's work to life. The film is on Netflix now.
www.flickeringmyth.com/exclusive-in...
www.flickeringmyth.com/exclusive-in...