You are here I am Knot
I made this!
A cats craddle string game between two people very far away form each other...
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I'm not sure what I'm looking at
But it's enjoyable trying to work it out. The looks on the faces make it.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 7:03,
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A trove of wireless treasures
Older readers might recall something called "the radio". This site has lots and lots of old radio shows archived in excellent quality. I found it while looking for the original Hitchhikers series.
RadioEchoes.com
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 9:09,
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Nice. Thanks
A search for Blue Jam did not disappoint
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 10:10,
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Ah ha, I hadn't spotted that - great.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 10:17,
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Possibly more important:
www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&genre=OTR-Variety&series=The%20Chris%20Morris%20Music%20Show
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 18:21,
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Can't you just buy it on official BBC audiocassette like I did 30-odd years ago?
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I had all the episodes on cassette that I taped off the radio, in a box I made and decorated with pictures cut out of Radio Times.
I've also bought the CDs, but I wanted it on my phone to listen to at bedtime.
What a rollercoaster of a life I lead.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 12:47,
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My phone in the 1990s was attached to a cassette recorder, could have played it on that.
Just saying.
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I would have liked to find the Milk Run.
I remember some Osymyso mixes and absolutely filthy comedy in there that seems lost to the world.
fake edit - Never mind, some kind heart recently put the whole thing on archive.org.
(, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 18:52, Reply)
Sadly not an archive
It's some collection but they seem to heavily compress what they make available, best to upload to archive.org or elsewhere for things to be properly preserved.
(, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 15:18, Reply)
An actual link for a change
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 16:16,
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Completely AI generated Halloween Ad for Nike
Have a look before it gets taken down
Mod edit - No ai, especially from big corps
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Mex3 =mememe, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:34,
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The concept is fucking brilliant, and exactly the kind of thing Nike should be doing to stand out.
Still, fuck AI.
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Wow. That is quite incredible.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 14:31,
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Change the victims to a selection of non-white people
and It would make a bigley successful ICE recruitment promo (not that it seems it's needed).
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All those people who could have been employed making that, Nike could afford to pay them.
Fuck AI in the cock.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 8:05,
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Link to Friends Activity working again
I thought it a quiet enough Saturday morning for a shout-out. So, thank you to tubbycustard in the basement of BeefRita Towers for fixing the link (and for keeping this place going, along with many other unheralded guardians of the site. Send it some new money if you haven't for a while and can afford Anyway, ta TC. et al.
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unclepills Sixty 25th of Decembers, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:04,
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It says I have 0 friends and 1 fan
but when I click to see who the fan is, it just says "You have no friends"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:36,
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I THINK that to have friends, you have to add them yourself
I follow (friend) some 80 or so, though the majority are gone / post less these days. e.g. Fresh Water Mole. And one day, I'm hoping that Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver might pop back for a hello.
etc etc
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unclepills Sixty 25th of Decembers, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:49,
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"....deadset on conveniencing ourselves into meaninglessness...."
Speech at The Art of Tax Reform Summit 2025 - NSW, Australia.
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Happy helloweener, fellow b3tans
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 1:07,
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This was a year ago, not showing as GC... prescient.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 20:58,
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Lou Reed - Perfect Day ('72 Vocals / '97 Music)
I made this!
I first heard Lou Reed's Perfect Day as part of the BBC licence fee video which subsequently was released as a BBC Children in Need charity single.
I like listening to both the collaborative version and the 72 version but my brain always seems to expect Courtney Pine's sax solo to kick in when I listen to the 72 version
- plus Lou's voice in 72 was very different to 97 so was interested to see how the BBC track would sound with Lou's 72 vox.
Tentatively stating I made this... really just arranged / remixed.
(, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 14:30, Reply)
5 5 hours of dark electronic music to soundtrack your Halloween...
- YouTube
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 9:43,
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AI literacy leads to Dunning-Kruger Effect
tldr: Being proficient with AI correlates with greatly overestimating one's performance when doing tasks with AI assistance
Just another way AI is making people stupider
See also: Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
" The systematic downregulation of neural networks in response to AI assistance suggests that the brain adapts to reduced cognitive demands by decreasing the strength and complexity of connections required for independent analytical work"
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Consequences of generative AI usage among university students
"... use of ChatGPT was likely to develop tendencies for procrastination and memory loss and dampen the students’ academic performance.."
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 2:24,
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AI is a tool
like a car is a tool or farm machinery is a tool. Cars and farm machinery, it could be argued, have led to humans overall being less fit and incapable of working 12 hours a day in the fields, or walking miles a day just to support themselves.
I would say that having a car, for example, correlates with greatly overestimating one's performance when travelling distances with motorised assistance. It could be argued your performance is genuinely greatly improved, but you may well have lost the ability to do it without one. Humans offload mundane and repetitive tasks to machines at every opportunity to great benefit, but this is often associated with a reduction in the ability to do those tasks without machine help. See : Engineering, construction, design, printing, communication, medicine, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, banking, data analysis, weather forecasting, navigation, entertainment production, education, research, logistics, translation, food production, retail, warfare, space exploration, disseminating images of cats.
This is nothing new IMO
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 11:00,
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Indeed not new, but can lead to a bit of the old 'unrest'
See industrial revolution
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Indeed
Even the backlash against it is not new. See : Luddites, sabotage, Swing Riots, railway opposition, Red Flag laws, telephone resistance, ATM opposition, calculator bans, VCR recording protests, GMO crop destruction, self-checkout opposition.
How well did they work in the end, and how does history view those people?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:33,
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I'd say it's different to all those example given, in that it's not offloading mundane, repetitive, and menial tasks, but offloading higher order analytical thinking
when a task is difficult to analyse or synthesise, the user ask ai for a solution. Can't figure out why you code doesn't work? You could spend half an hour going over it in your head while getting a cuppa until you figure it out. Or just prompt the AI, paste the code it gives you in, and it either works or you prompt it again.The second research paper I linked to would suggest that the less difficult thinking we do, the worse at it we get.
Getting worse at thinking is much more consequential than all those other things you listed, both personally and for society, there's little enough of it as there is
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 12:16,
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Not different or new
Calculators (1970s-80s): Teachers and educators fiercely debated whether calculators would destroy students' ability to do mental math and understand basic arithmetic. Many schools banned them, arguing students would become dependent and lose fundamental skills.
Computers/Word Processors (1980s-90s): Similar fears emerged that spell-checkers and grammar tools would erode writing skills and that students wouldn't learn proper spelling or composition. Critics worried computers would make people intellectually lazy.
Slide Rules (1950s-60s): When electronic calculators began replacing slide rules, some engineers argued students wouldn't truly understand calculations anymore.
Socrates famously warned that writing itself would weaken memory and understanding, since people would rely on external marks rather than internalize knowledge.
Every time it is claimed that skills humans will be eroded, and the tool did change how we used certain skills, but these tools also freed up cognitive resources for higher-level thinking. Do you argue we should abandon calculators to preserve long division skills? Do you think we should get rid of writing altogether to preserve long term memory?
AI will change how we think, but we will be more productive with it than without it, just as it was with every previous tool.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 9:35,
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I reckon it's comforting to think the future will be similar to the past, with this change no more profound than those past events
But you have the last sentence backwards.
AI will be more productive without us
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 14:08,
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Except that AI isn't making us phsically weaker, it's making us intellectually weaker.
And that has far more serious consequences.
(, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 18:37, Reply)
With a car you don't have to walk anywhere far
But that does no mean you should.
(, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 14:12, Reply)
Not surprising
A side effect that authoritarians will be happy with. Then those who control the 'AI' will have a huge advantage which they can manipulate.
'AI' as a tool has plenty of great uses, where humans are too slow for instance, but replacing basic thinking skills is potentially handicapping people.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 31 Oct 2025, 15:26,
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Absorb this, B3tans
Good old Felix Coldgrave. What a legend. Dude is special.
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Thu 30 Oct 2025, 23:32,
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Crikey
I'm going to go and look him up.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 8:12,
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Affinity Studio is now free!
just launched today and will be free. for those who don't have adobe looks good. Level up fucklift creation for free.
ai features are included with a pro canva account allegedly. for that look up creatuing an account in turkey, about £16 for the year.
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I tried it but my mangoes remain mushy and unappetising..
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Oct 2025, 22:07,
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That's the problem with mangoes
They smell of shoe polish.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 30 Oct 2025, 22:12,
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Until you depend on it and then they start gouging a monthly fee...
(, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 14:10, Reply)
Seems to be a Charles Manson vid
So I don’t feel I’m missing out on much
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LP, Thu 30 Oct 2025, 13:50,
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It's a song about eating out of garbage cans.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Thu 30 Oct 2025, 13:56,
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does it come out in 1955 where everything is wooden bricks?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 29 Oct 2025, 21:42,
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Oo-hoo-hoo?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEDjEp60aE
(Is what my brain jumped to when reading your title)
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LP, Wed 29 Oct 2025, 18:39,
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Nice find! I luv seeing punk reinvented.
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DerKommissar Look how much fun we're having!, Fri 31 Oct 2025, 22:50,
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