The word “dildo” arose in 16th Century England, and for decades was used as a filler word in songs, much like “la dee dah” is used today. The result is a couple of old English tunes for lute and countertenor that use the word “dildo” extensively, like this one by Thomas Morley.
Some TV themes stay with you all your life. I still remember the theme tunes of the 5-minute kids’ programmes BBC-1 used to show before the evening news. Wombles, Roobarb, Magic Roundabout…loved them all. Here’s my tribute to those scintillating shorts. @CBeebiesHQ
The Conservatives have governed this nation for centuries, with some interspersed periods of Labour in power. It just has not worked, it has led our nation to a preciptous situation. We were safe and successful in the EU. The Conservatives pursued austerity even then, recognising they had placed the nation in financial difficulties. Then came the myth of Brexit, false optimism and spend their way out of it. There now needs to be some very basic and substansive thinking as we are in a downward spiral and our fundamentals are wrong. We have a long road to steady the ship, dreams of resolution will not help, we need to take action and the longer we leave it, the steeper the climb will become.
Jacob Mogg - the Tory MP - finds the time to present a 'news programme' four nights a week on GB News.
This is a clear, ongoing breach of @Ofcom rules.
Today in the committee, I asked Ofcom bosses why they do not act?
📢 Excited to release Gorilla🦍 Gorilla picks from 1000s of APIs to complete user tasks, surpassing even GPT-4! LLMs need to interact with the world through APIs, and Gorilla teaches LLMs APIs. Presenting Gorilla-Spotlight demo🤩
Webpage: https://t.co/QZrtMaYKfa
Where it all started, Maidan 2014.
With snipers all around, brave Ukrainians confronted Putinism & chose closer ties to European liberal-democracy.
EU sanctions worked: hours after this speech Janoekovytsj lost his majority, then fled.
Europe will always stand by Ukraine!🇺🇦🇪🇺
🔴 What AI is going to bring us in 2023:
1. Bard by Google
2. GPT-4 by OpenAI
3. Claude by Anthropic AI
4. Sparrow by DeepMind
5. MusicLM by Google
6. Phenaki by Google
7. Open Assistant by LAION
8. VALL-E by Microsoft
9. Gen-1 by Runway
Hold your horses!
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I had #ChatGPT write an evocative prompt for #midjourney – then I trained a #stablediffusion model on those images to create this animation.
Fractal Diffusion✨