Charles Lumley

Passionate about my pets, family and LFC. Also interested in online marketing. And politics. Ooh, also sports. Did I mention Liverpool?

[Adio @Adiofreak]

Just saw an Instagram reel that said:

“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”

And that shit just fucked me up.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

So, just heard that a year 6 child has a theory that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he’d created, so he made documentaries to show off.

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

Canadian Geese RENAMED. They’re officially Donald Ducks.

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

This guy would have trusted Baghdad Bob ffs

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

When Russia's foreign minister speaks, we listen 👂

[Jeff Fabre @Jeff_like_Feff]

Interesting, because Amazon would have me believing that in order to digitize a book you have to destroy the rare first edition version of it for your AI.

(thank you Internet Archive for archiving our internet and media <3, you are an invaluable resource)

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

@joshmanders So, did it rank for his name as well?

[Kingsman @BossMed]

En parodi, som i Norge...

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

you left by running down your contract, in order to maximise your personal terms and leaving your childhood club with nothing in the bank to show for what they invented in you. Get stuffed and enjoy the decline of your career.

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

This qhole "How much I gave" just shows his self-centered world view. Do you think the coaching, facilities, training camps and everything that gave you the opportunity to develop into your best self was free? And your wages weren't free either. But...

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 Trent Alexander-Arnold: "Did the hate from Liverpool fans hurt? It hurts because of how much I’ve put into the club over the course of 20 years and the sacrifices I made during that period.

Of course it hurts, but I understand the disappointment." @DailyMirror

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

So much going on here. "We don't pay our staff to smile" You barely pay your staff at all, but thanks for posting your miserable wage levels. You want me to pay more than 10x what you're paying the staff

If you can't afford to pay your staff, you can't afford to be in business https://t.co/D0SRNuF0Cz

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

The song that instantly teleports me back to 15, 16 years of age. All the memories of teenage angst and the essence of the 90s come rushing back. A true time-travel song for me

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

A burst of guitar noise originally intended to sabotage the song became its most recognisable moment. Jonny Greenwood disliked how quiet “Creep” sounded and attacked his guitar just before each chorus, creating the explosive crunch that ended up defining the recording. The track appeared on Radiohead’s 1993 debut album Pablo Honey, produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie, and became the band’s first international hit after initially struggling in the UK. Its success soon became complicated, with Radiohead growing tired of being defined by a single song. At Rock am Ring in 1994, however, “Creep” was still the track introducing huge festival audiences to the band.

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

When the Oxford comma doesn't even understand correct punctuation...

[The Oxford Comma @RealOxfordComma]

Oh my….

[Boring Milner @BoringMilner]

I just messaged Noel Gallagher, Hi Noel, bet you had a terrible weekend, what with Rodri leaving and then the 3-0 humbling bat the hands of Arsenal in the Community Shield.

He replied, Yes James, I’m angry.

I replied, Don’t look back in anger, Noel.

He replied, Ok James, very funny.

I replied, You’ve got to Roll with it.

He replied, Ok James, leave it now.

[Charles Lumley @seocharles]

Probably one of the best surprises at the Edinburgh Fringe is bumping into these guys after an evening at the shows, in the pubs. A little tipsy, you turn a corner and this is coming down the street towards you. Magical!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The massed pipers and drummers march down the Royal Mile playing ‘Scotland the Brave” after the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥁

Absolutely glorious.

[Sam @SamCKx]

It's quite obvious that the USA World Cup was used by Infantino, in cahoots with Trump, to demonstrate to investors how much money can be extracted out of the beautiful game. The whole thing - the hydration breaks, the awful half time show - it was all a set-up.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

This is actually real:

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Incredible.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

In this machine I can scan 1000s pages a day and never destroy a book.

No guillotine spines, no ripped the bindings..

just a normal book ready to be treasured for centuries.

Any large AI company can afford this both financially and ethically.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

WTF

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.

Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.

What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.