Paul Sweetman

Trying to avoid self-promotion and cheap holidays in other people’s misery ...

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@JDVance You’re nothing but a scum-sucking opportunistic fool, who knows nothing about the case and is exploiting it for your own political gain. Vile attempt to jump on the bandwagon of a tragic loss

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@StillOnTheRoad_ ‘The world’s most exciting musical personality’ … Can’t say he hasn’t got a sense of humour 🤣

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@Brightonian_ Oh ...

[Londonist @Londonist]

In honour of the Bayeux Tapestry coming to London later this year, Greggs has commissioned an eight-metre-long 'Ta-Pastry'.

You can see it in the Design Museum for free - but only this Friday and Saturday (5 and 6 June).

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@MARSH4L__ @BHAgullski Both good players. Mismanaged and under utilised imo

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@JohnRentoul Churchill's mum is said to have had a tattoo though

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@orpean6771 @barhamstash 😴

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@orpean6771 @barhamstash “Wrong. Europa didn't help us keeping Mac Allister or Caicedo. That doesn't really matter when big clubs come calling.”

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@orpean6771 @barhamstash Your first point was about retention, not recruitment, but whatever 🥱

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@orpean6771 @barhamstash Fine, but a completely different point 🤷‍♂️

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@orpean6771 @barhamstash The post is about getting players in, not stopping them leaving

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@SocietalObserve @SherzCapone00 Fuck off

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@Cod_Rob @Fergus_NBlair Not weird at all. Pointless and worthless gimmickry replacing once quality programming.

[Fergus Navaratnam-Blair @Fergus_NBlair]

The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX.

The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.

[DAILY HORROR STUFF | Michael Sellars | Author @HorrorPaperback]

For this scene in Sh! The Octopus (1937) the filmmakers pulled off a real-time monster transformation without a single camera cut.

To turn actress Elspeth Dudgeon into a hideous hag, her face was painted with a single shade of red makeup. Shot on black-and-white film through a matching red lens filter, the makeup became completely invisible.

The filter was whipped away at the same time as Dudgeon removes her wig, instantly revealing the ‘monster make-up’.

Not going to lie, if I'd been in the audience for this in 1937, I would have sh*t myself.

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[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@msloobylou Same people who go to see Kiefer Sutherland?

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@myetcetera You really shouldn’t be sharing this. Entirely unprofessional to reveal his name and - as others have pointed out - his response was to an unnecessarily snide initial email. Authors deserve better

[Paul Sweetman @PaulJSweetman]

@BrightonBuzzz "since De Zerbi signed him" ... ?!