Bond is a literal spectre, but can still do guns and one liners so nobody notices.

Sing muse of a man who should get into the wine dark sea

A queen! She must hibernate somewhere safe to start a new colony for next year. You saved a generation!

"Does James Bond always die in service?"
"If course not! Past Bonds have gone into happy retirement. And whatever this is:" holds up photo of Connery in Zardoz. "Even one who did die in service collapsed in the office. A stroke." A pause, a regretful sigh. "We called the Bondulance but..."

Have M page through a nostalgic set of photos of past bonds and welcome the new guy to the lineage. "The people who need to be afraid of us know the name Bond, so we like to ensure he is always ready when duty calls."

Sounds like you're all flipping out.

I guess it helps having a mason around if you're putting another brick in the wall.

My deeper heresy is that the Nick Drake compilation from this series is better than any single Nick Drake album.

Fair play, she wasn't wrong. What an incredibly narrowband joke.

I'm looking forward to episode 500. Even knowing he has to conclude with the apotheosis of popular music it's exciting to see the path that gets us to Lou Bega's "Mambo Number 5."

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

It's familiar in the UK but it's antiquated - feels like a 1950s word.

Democrats are a lot like LLMs in that the things people expect them to do - answer questions accurately/politics that helps people - are orthogonal to what they're designed for - generating text that looks like a response/channeling lobbyist cash to consultants and senior democrats.

I never really asked people about it, apart from my grandparents but grandpa didn't talk much about his work because he still took the official secrets act seriously, even though by the time I was alive radar was no longer a matter of great secrecy.

It's something about living longer and stretching context - when I was young we knew the older folks in the village had lived through at least one of the wars, many of them both. For some reason I imagined that was a universal experience, but apparently Heraclitus was correct about that river.

Usually what 'why' exists is about the coincidence of records somebody happened to have been listening to and the ways they failed to emulate them. Politics has less impact than commentators often claim, technology often had more. A new effect or recording technique could have a huge impact.

Also assuming anybody on the right is dealing in good faith at any point.

It's only really in the last decade or so I've appreciated how much being a music snob cut me off from common experiences I could have shared with my peers. I've started listening to and enjoying a lot more mainstream pop.

Don't feel like I missed out on Oasis, mind. My inner hater is too strong.