I understand why men like Oliver, who've consistently mocked anti-science people on the right, sold out initially. They didn't want to blow up their careers. Taking fashionable anti-women's rights positions was the cost of doing business.
I haven’t written in a while, as I’ve been mostly leaving it to Clicky to fill the LoL’s shelves; however, I thought I’d share an interaction with Grok!, the AI engine on X, that I had earlier today. Actually, it was about Clicky’s latest post…
… X now has a feature where the user can hit a button and ask Grok! to explain any particular post. What would it make of the gif I’d chosen to illustrate Clicky’s latest post’s title? It’s not something I’d thought of doing before but I have had a couple of interesting convos recently with Grok! – one about how various commodities shaped the City of London…
*…/drag… I started with sugar because of a tweet, but Grok! kept suggesting other commodities to consider, so I kept on clicking… /exhales plume of smoke…*
… And the other about language…
*For 12 years I lived at ‘Slippers Place’ in Bermondsey… /taps ash… Makes ya fink…*
… Anyway, on a whim, I decided to ‘click’ the button and ask Grok!…
*Oh, so Letitia James stole ‘male, pale & stale’ from David Cameron, who’d nicked it from NASA. What is it with politicians and stealing? … /shakes head… *
… ‘Knitting and lifestyle’?! What? What was Grok! talking about; I’ve never knitted in my life! Mum used to knit. She was a prolific knitter, Dear Reader. All our cardies, jumpers, hats and gloves as kids were knitted by mum. I have very fond memories of her loopy cardigans and of a particular red and white checkered top she knitted that now makes me think of Croatia. And dolls clothes; my Barbie’s outfits were bespoke one-offs, knitted by Jude…
*Yeah, I see that now, Clicky – Grok! linked to a different Roobeedoo. But I didn’t see that at the time…*
… Perplexed, I asked Grok! the first thing that came into my head…
*Well, the French Revolution was a Fourth Turning for the Frogs… /final drag… and a shambles is a slaughterhouse… /stubs butt… I mean, I like your Fourth Turning Tales and shambles, Clicky, but I’ve never knitted…*
*’become compact or consolidated’?… /thinks… I heard that or words to that effect only yesterday…*
*Yes! What we refer to as ‘syncs’, Clicky, Clif High is calling ‘qualia’. Perhaps I am a knitter after all…*
Military operations but only interested in viral posts from MIL accounts? You talking about the MIL operations where soldiers paid the ultimate sacrifice? It would be an honor to PAUSE and wave goodbye to the rogue intelligence agents as I watch their ship sink. Been waiting… https://t.co/UKj1tWv3UKpic.twitter.com/wQBSW5Wo3N
Tom Kazansky “Iceman" spoke to my generation in the 80s. And in 2022, he did it again. This scene, probably, is the distillation of Top Gun Maverick. RIP Val Kilmer. pic.twitter.com/4AgUEAoXwA
Inflaming tensions that could lead to a global war, European leaders are spouting high school level bellicose rhetoric, with no regard or sympathy for the one million Ukrainian fighters dead, missing & permanently disabled – cannon fodder in the failed gambit to weaken Russia. pic.twitter.com/nLama9gVNb
A mesmerizing blue spiral appeared in the night sky in Europe caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The phenomenon was likely caused by the rocket's "frozen exhaust plume… spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky," the… pic.twitter.com/PlCtomUdsz
Apparently, a reporter from The Atlantic got into a private group chat on Signal between JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others… And, the ONLY big scoop the reporter could get from it was that they called Europe “freeloaders!” 😆😆👏🏻👏🏻👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/wRdVIwFxGt
European leaders want the US to fight Russia on their behalf ('cos they can't), rape the resources ('cos they're 'allies') for much needed collateral in order to crash their failing economies and launch their new EU digital currency ('You will have nothing and be happy'). pic.twitter.com/MbKbpK8OrJ
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