Why did none of you chain me down and force me to watch One Battle After Another before now? I am going to have to take a while to process.
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Bill Thompson
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PSA: Puntcon will be on August 16 this year. Emails going out soon.
Morning moon on Kingston st (image shows a residential street with rows of Victorian worker’s cottages either side, early morning. At the end can be seen a bigger road. The moon, slightly waning, is centred over the street.)
I've just emerged from the confessional and have some thoughts about the recent Encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas. I've called it "Doin the Vatican RAG" because I can. https://astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/magnifica-humanitas-doin-the-vatican-rag/
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There's no "I" in "AI"
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There's no "I" in "AI"
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I have just written an internal note about the Pope’s Encyclical on AI and I’ve called it Doing the Vatican RAG and I am taking the rest of the day off. https://youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?si=GWoPASyV-6ekXdMB
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
Just learned that Margaret Calvert turned 90 yesterday - her visual imagination has shaped UK national life (every time you drive...) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Calvert
Tired: this meeting could have been an email
Wired: this meeting could have been a chatbot prompt
Wired: this meeting could have been a chatbot prompt
experimenting with posting to multiple services from one place, thanks to the inestimable Gavin. Ignore this one... finding my way.
Just thinking about a much loved national institution that’s been around 100 years and faces the challenges of engaging with new forms of storytelling, changing audience behaviour, and the tide of misinformation
But enough of David Attenborough as he reaches 100- what should the BBC do now?