Sorry to mention it on here but I feel like I’m dealing with a modern form of insanity/brainwashing.

How is it WORSE to charge less for the same writing, work just as hard, if not even harder, and choose to no longer give money to venture capitalists?

If you're having virtual sex with a chatbot that is a product of a corporation aren't you in some sense having sex with the corporation and giving it this tremendous hold on you/dependency on their protection of your privacy (but they know all your secrets). Who wants to have sex with OpenAI?

Someone made the very good point that this demonstrates how easily AI can be manipulated to spew whatever values and truths the people behind it want and that should also be a warning about AI sources in general as well as anything Musk has touched in particular.

So scary!! It’s fortunate you were there to save the day from becoming much worse.

"In today's Observer we look into the scandalous facts behind Tom Cox's bestseller 'Fish Dreams (How My Friendship With A Trout Taught Me To Fall Love With Life Again)', including the fact he'd never even met to a trout & had in fact spent that period just going on walks & hanging out with badgers."

By people who have forgotten that people read because we love to enter the author’s world. We start with the book’s first word and end on the last. THAT’S the journey.

There are already more than enough residential buildings to house everyone in this country.

Of course, no MP would ever suggest the banning of second and third homes as any kind of solution, because that would mean they'd lose theirs.

This seems very characteristic of our era. If you make a statement about something with enough brashness and conviction - whether that statement is a sign advertising houses, or some insane claim by a megalomaniac fuckwit joke of a politician - it no longer appears to matter if it's patently untrue.

I always find it distasteful that they call new streets after the rural space or wildlife they destroyed in building them.

There's a large development half empty years after opening, in Ovingdean, near Brighton. It's called Starlings, and - guess what - there ain't any starlings there any more.

...I'd just like a noise free magazine type place to go and read things by writers I like, and support them. But I guess that wouldn't make enough $$$$/££££ for the VCs.