Mark Fraser

He/him. Writer, musician and podcaster. A host of @unsungpod. Bass/vox @ohrainisaband.

[Fugazi Stan @splitmaude]

Beato pisses me off so much bc he is constantly saying shit like this but when was the last time he featured someone on his channel that wasn’t like…a YouTube guitar guy or someone else already relatively successful? Like where’s all the young bands you wanna see succeed, Rick??

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

I didn't write this fess but also this is basically me.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I have studied film at FE and HE. Seen it all: the classics, world, European, avant-garde. I can't tell anyone this, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is my favourite actor. Predator and T2 are my favourite films.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

In my head this is a Peep Show bit and Russell is Jeremy, screaming at himself at being unable to find the page, whilst Piers is Mark and is simply saying "Silly bastard hasn't even read the Bible". A+ would watch again.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

Perfect tweet. No notes.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

There is one hundred per cent correlation between people who have personalised number plates and people who are cunts.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@RMBee Reposting this shit is just boosting the signal tho?

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

A critique of Nick Bostrom's--I don't know how else to put it--incredibly dumb new paper in favor of artificial superintelligence. His conclusion is atrocious, dangerous, callous, arrogant, and genocidal, & his argument is patently flawed. I explain why below:

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

Last year I tried to listen to an album I'd never heard before every single day for a year. It was about 85% successful. I'm doing it again this year so I did a wee blog about it on my Substack.

Go read. And also feel free to recommend a record!

https://t.co/4IAxFlQ8zd

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

I work in marketing. Nominative determinism in action.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

People disproportionately choose careers which resemble their names. For example, people named Dennis are more likely to become dentists.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@SeanRossSapp As a fellow Scotsman, I'm sure he'd appreciate me saying, just as an immediate reaction, "Is he fuck?!" but it's an incredulous reaction. One borne of surprise. Fair play to the lad. LFG.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@MrEwanMorrison Says a random guy on the Internet. But hey ho. It is what it is.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@MrEwanMorrison It's not a collective. It's a person and I know someone who has met him.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@andyhmurray MSG baybeeee. Need to get yourself a vat of it. Makes everything taste approx 50% better.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

The Internet is slowly being converted into beige slop. Personality slowly being erased. Kind of like the "joined" people in #Pluribus...

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

Is #Pluribus actually about AI? In episode 5, when Carol speaks to Larry about her books, the responses are maddeningly generic. When he/they says her work is equal to that of Shakespeare, it's almost exactly what AI could/would say to a person looking for affirmation.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

The fact that the hive mind people have access to the knowledge all living humans have in their brains is also quite similar to how LLMs are ultimately an aggregate of all information on the Internet. Could this show be an allegory?

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

I love my em dash and I'm never letting it go.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@andyhmurray Rammed with screamers. The King is Dead is an all timer.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@MrEwanMorrison A conversation for another day, I supsect.

[Mark Fraser @markdefraser]

@SeanRossSapp @FightfulSelect WHAT. Soupy and the band must be buzzing. Excellent news. Sure it'll be a banger.