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Ed Oldham
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Sound Records Isle of Man store manager. MUFC / SCFC. Jams
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Why does Thiel often look like he's straining too hard on the toilet / this kid?
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I went the following year, and can confirm that was similarly stacked
July 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I high-fived Usain Bolt at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
June 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Jesus wept, yes! Utter drivel
May 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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On what every single day is like now.
It’s been two months since I wrote about AI which, as someone who detests having to write about AI, feels like not much time at all. A quick look at recent headlines, however, suggests that there is little else to talk about. Consider that the CEO of language-learning app Duolingo claimed AI was a better teacher than humans but schools will still remain open in future “because you still need childcare”; a Finnish man was sentenced in Scottish court for using AI to create images of young girls being abused; Google unveiled Project Astra, an AI client that will sit inside your phone listening to everything you say so it can provide unprompted advice at any time; the United Nations’ International Labour Organization said that AI poses a bigger threat to jobs traditionally held by women than those of men; Silicon Valley Bank reported that 40% of cash raised by venture funds last year was for companies focusing on artificial intelligence; Reuters reported that data centre plans in the US are far outpacing expected demand; and Italian researchers found that, despite all their aforementioned hallucinations, errors, and contradictions, AI chatbots were more persuasive in online debates than their human counterparts 64% of the time. If that sounds like a lot of news for two months, well, I wish this were true. Every one of those headlines is from Tuesday, May 20, the same day the Chicago Sun-Times’ reading list became a major story, and the day I began writing this column. With a trickling sense of dread I realise that I could, therefore, write an article just like this one every single day, each filled with brand-new examples of AI’s constant enshittification of the media we consume, factless posturing from its creators, marketing overhype from its torch-bearers, and bovine vapidity now normalised among those who use it.
May 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Surely 'cookies' consisting of apparently nothing more gochujang pasta sauce, sugar and butter would be sloppier than the AI content itself? This ad needs to get in the same bin as that bastard Lucozade one.
May 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Check out @iwriteok.bsky.social recent four-parter on him for more insight into just how odd and dangerous this man is:

open.spotify.com/episode/47nb...
Part One: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
Behind the Bastards · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:28 AM