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Self-driving cars are definitely the biggest risk for an AI apocalypse. Half the population already cares more about them than humanity.

Self-driving cars are definitely the biggest risk for an AI apocalypse. Half the population already cares more about them than humanity.

Always a good day when a new Fiction Desk anthology arrives, but all the moreso when I have a story in it 🥳

Always a good day when a new Fiction Desk anthology arrives, but all the moreso when I have a story in it 🥳

Finally, a worthwhile Instagram ad

Finally, a worthwhile Instagram ad

Dreamed I was watching Breaking Bad and Gus Fring breaded and fried two guns so he could ambush a business rival. Criminal that this never...

Dreamed I was watching Breaking Bad and Gus Fring breaded and fried two guns so he could ambush a business rival. Criminal that this never happened in the show tbh

Is it just me, or does the water mark on this tap look like a lil frog pal? 🐸

Is it just me, or does the water mark on this tap look like a lil frog pal? 🐸

Children’s TV pitch: Grace Petrie’s Amazing Machines. They kill fascists, and they’re machines. This would by my son’s ideal...

Children’s TV pitch: Grace Petrie’s Amazing Machines. They kill fascists, and they’re machines. This would by my son’s ideal television programme.

A few words on 'Salt Lick' and 'The Moustache', two very different books I enjoyed in similar ways...

A few words on 'Salt Lick' and 'The Moustache', two very different books I enjoyed in similar ways https://markstaylor.uk/books/2023/05/salt-lick-lulu-allison-the-moustache-emmanuel-carrere

Cut my assignment down to the wordcount limit without removing the entirely unnnecessary Simpsons reference. I assume that this is worth...

Cut my assignment down to the wordcount limit without removing the entirely unnnecessary Simpsons reference. I assume that this is worth significant extra credit.

Someone has nicked the box of bike maintenance bits that lives next to our bike shed. 0/10 for thievery effort, 0/10 for thievery ambition,...

Someone has nicked the box of bike maintenance bits that lives next to our bike shed. 0/10 for thievery effort, 0/10 for thievery ambition, 0/10 for financial reward. But at least they'll have a clean chain.

I have resolved my problem of feeling stupid for always looking for an L and R on ear defenders by stuffing some headphone drivers into this...

I have resolved my problem of feeling stupid for always looking for an L and R on ear defenders by stuffing some headphone drivers into this pair of ear defenders. (For my wife, whose long covid comes with sensitivity to noise.)

Repeatedly watching the 'Dad Baby' episode of Bluey until it goes off iPlayer and we have to return to the censored corporate...

Repeatedly watching the 'Dad Baby' episode of Bluey until it goes off iPlayer and we have to return to the censored corporate bleakness of Disney+

(This is of course a trick question, the Metropolitan Police are happy to arrest you whether you have done a crime or not.)

(This is of course a trick question, the Metropolitan Police are happy to arrest you whether you have done a crime or not.)

I wonder, if you 'express regret' after doing a crime, will the Metropolitan Police accept that and not arrest you?

I wonder, if you 'express regret' after doing a crime, will the Metropolitan Police accept that and not arrest you?

Searching for 'obsidian table' and reflecting on how incredibly boring the information I am looking for is compared to the dark...

Searching for 'obsidian table' and reflecting on how incredibly boring the information I am looking for is compared to the dark ritual purpose implied by the search term.

My four-year-old has just coined the phrase ‘vehicles of prey’. Sharing in case the urbanists out there need a new term for SUVs and the...

My four-year-old has just coined the phrase ‘vehicles of prey’. Sharing in case the urbanists out there need a new term for SUVs and the like.

Coronation/UK politics/obvious jokesGlad to see that Keir Starmer will be pledging allegiance to the King today, thus committing the next...

Coronation/UK politics/obvious jokes

Glad to see that Keir Starmer will be pledging allegiance to the King today, thus committing the next Labour government to abolishing the monarchy.

Terrible results at this dentist but they mean well

Terrible results at this dentist but they mean well

Making a Starmer-style pledge to vote Labour today (telling the canvassers I'll do it so they leave me alone and then doing something...

Making a Starmer-style pledge to vote Labour today (telling the canvassers I'll do it so they leave me alone and then doing something completely different in the polling station.)

I wondered what would be included when people my age started posting awful nostalgia copy-pastes on Facebook but they're just posting......

I wondered what would be included when people my age started posting awful nostalgia copy-pastes on Facebook but they're just posting... the same stuff as their parents did. Apparently there was no bottled water, swearing in pop music, or canned soft drinks in the 90s? I guess this is my generation's banal equivalent of baby boomers who think they lived through World War II.

(On reading further this was in fact an attempt to give me a bit too much credit.)

(On reading further this was in fact an attempt to give me a bit too much credit.)