Richard Littler

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

Only in Switzerland. Workmen having a cheeky fondue by the side of the road over the weekend. Identities obscured to protect the peckish.

"Robot beats Usain Bolt" So? 'Hot air balloon ascends higher than Olympic high jumper Gale Lark' 'Submarine can stay underwater longer than Karen Fish of Guildford' 'Lawn mower cuts grass quicker than Herbie Vorr when he's on all fours nibbling' It's a *robot*. False equivalence.

Climate protester with "I oppose this" placard [70 years in prison]. Corner shop owner with similar business name to a global tech firm [Sued for $19b]. Masked thug with illegal weapons endangering lives; and global tech firm with string of serious copyright, environmental, data & hacking violations ["Boys will be boys"].

I just got an invite from W Social, the anti-disinfo, 'privacy-focused European alternative' to X and other US services controlled by tech loons. Purportedly, all user data is legally stored in the EU & governed by European law. ID required. Anyone have any experience or thoughts about W? #WSocial

"Burnham has appointed a minister for AI" Unless her name is Sarah Connor, you can get fucked.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@deadline/deadline-hollywood-h18vdj6nz/-/a-IBwQEoqiQxqnSEJ2pcS5WQ%3Aa%3A1785433233-%2F0 "When the Doctor loses control of the Tardis, he finds himself transported to #Scarfolk, a town forever timed-locked in the 1970s. There he faces dangerous foes including a telekinetic child-owl called Roy; an overhead projector possessed by a demon, and a group of tutting pensioners"

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117058023861112124 In 30 years, you will either be a billionnaire or a climate activist that the billionaires have labelled a domestic terrorist. They seem hellbent on annihilating their own consumers. It's like a deranged cult. Fuck all of this datacentre shit sky high.

New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No #AI) on the cover. Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.

Revisiting Vonnegut, who satirised *right now* back in the mid-60s: Fascism, racism, communism & absurd, confused ideas of patriotism in contemporary USA. And how ruthless lawyers and the establishment try to frame a billionaire as insane because he wants to help people and share his wealth. #books #bookstodon

We truly live in the thickest era of human evolution. You can forgive the ignorance of our ancestors because they had limited access to knowledge, but now the sheer volume of verified learning at our fingertips is unprecedented. Being so ignorant is a wilful act of self-defeating spite.

The Goodies were a treat for kids in the 70s. Like Python for toddlers. For some reason, when I was 6, I thought that Oddie & Brooke-Taylor were also in The Beach Boys and that Graeme Garden was a school teacher appointed to look after them.

LinkedIn posts: "I handed over the running of my business to an #AI management app. Although the app has since fired me, revoked my health insurance, and erased me from the electoral roll, I don't regret a thing. If anything, I'm deeply awed & honoured to play my small part in this tech evolution. #WellingUp"

Someone asked me what it's like having #adhd. I said it can be a bit like this: Me: "Hi, Dan. Got your message. So, fill me in; what's the super important thing we need to do today?" Dan: "Firstly, it's absolutely crucial that we... [Dan's voice fades into the distance]..." My brain:

Looking through my big folder of old cinema idents, ads, and trailers, I stumbled across this one. I have to say, I don't recall ever seeing a warning like this before a screening of The Aristocats, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, or Digby the Biggest Dog in the World.

Channel 4's ADHD Myth documentary. Not sure we need to heed a psychiatrist who a) doesn't specialise in ADHD b) is a Daily Mail columnist c) Poses for photos with a stethoscope as if needing to *prove* he's a doctor (how many shrinks do you see using stethoscopes? It's a performative facade of authority)

Pre-'A New Hope'! Han shoots first! (+ original SFX shots intact!) And *such* a clean print (transferred to 3840x2160 UHD)

"I did not punch that person. My fist went rogue and did it. I am surprised as you are." - Sam Altman The spirit of Isaac Asimov is pulling his hair out. He wrote the Three (safety) Laws of Robotics in 1950. Law 1 is being broken on virtually a daily basis, and now Law 2, too. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

"There is no Dana... there is only Zuul!"

Last night's stupid dream: I was fleeing from a furious, violent rock star after his show was broadcast live to millions. Pre-show, he'd told me his cool plan to open by shouting "I am a sphinx!" As a prank, I told him that sphinx is the feminine form, so he should use the masculine form: sphincter.

The Odyssey has only been out a day and I'm already bored of the 'ackshually, people in ancient Greece were white with blonde hair' wankers. I fully suspect that the source of their information is a picture tea towel their grandmothers bought as a souvenir on a coach holiday in Corfu in 1979.

Nicely bonkers Victorian illustrations. "I dreamed that I was talking to a balloon" "We lunched beside that fallen triceratops'

#NowPlaying I feel the need for demons at the moment. Either that, or I simply sense their abundant presence (he said, whilst doom-scrolling the relentlessly dire news). Such an excellent score by Wojciech Kilar. #cinema #soundtrack

"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the footy. You can do anything" - Donald Trump #fifa #corruption

37 degrees again. Oh joy...

An absolute treasury of Victorian ads and typefaces.

#NowPlaying Loopy Steve

Painty #sketch (or sketchy paint, more like) exercise using a Van Gogh palette that I sampled from several of his paintings. Started out as Warhol, ended up more like, who, Polanski?

Hey, companies that build web browsers, include a simple, integrated 'block website' function, you cowards.

#NowPlaying When I first heard these albums as a kid, Bremen, Lausanne, & Köln seemed so far-flung & exotic. I'd no idea I'd end up living in Germany, Switzerland & a few other exotic, far-flung places. Of course, when you live there, they lose their exoticism (as if your very presence ruins them!) #jazz

Back when films had an...

Not to forget the traditional Christmas, erm, monkey? #merrychristmas

My 'misc audio' folder is like a bad charity shop...

Sorting out old stuff... Spot the kid who grew up before the advent of home video. Condensed, 45 min versions of #movies and #TV shows on record, often with narration to help bridge the missing bits. #vinyl #cinema

Apropos. Just saw this: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream

A sneak preview from Tim Burton's latest feature animation, Corpse of the Living Doll.

The sound of apoplectic popping when transphobes watching BBC's Evolution realise their distant ancestors were hermaphrodites.

(I was looking through a book of Gustave Doré's engravings for Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy before bed. Although that doesn't explain Bob Mortimer's appearance)

Another case of 'defenestritis'? 🤔 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8en38vpd3o

@cstross@wandering.shop thanks for the recommendation

#AlbumTitlePoems Later that evening, 'round about midnight, in the darkness on the edge of town, a mysterious traveller, travellin' on land, from point of departure by night train (or blue train), in the light of moon beams and north star; a fragile, one of a kind journey to the urge within, close to the edge, closer, to zones without people. #vinyl

Is Farage the misinfo Muppet starting to panic?