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alexanderhay

@alexanderhay@mastodon.social

#Writer of #horror, #fantasy and #scifi #fiction. #Shortstories and (eventually) #novels. Dank Goblin. 3,605th most popular account on Mastodon. Will talk bollocks about #Metal and #Warhammer all day. #WritingCommunity

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alexanderhay, to random
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Shall I watch seven political parties slag each other off on the BBC, or continue listening to quality doom metal? Decisions, decisions...

alexanderhay, to news
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Quelle surprise. But what's worrying is how apparently 'tech 'n meeja' savvy young people are so easily taken in by propaganda - err, I mean 'hype and marketing'.

"...Very few people are regularly using "much hyped" artificial intelligence (AI) products like ChatGPT, a survey suggests...

"...But the study... says young people are bucking the trend, with 18 to 24-year-olds the most eager adopters of the tech..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511x4g7x7jo

#News #IT #AI #LLM #Technology #UK

alexanderhay, to news
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CAWWWW blimey!

"These #Crows have counting skills previously only seen in people

"The #Corvids are the first animals other than humans known to produce a deliberate number of calls on command....

"...The researchers also... could` predict the upcoming number of crow calls based on the sound of the first call, suggesting that the birds planned the number of calls in advance..."

(A literal case of 'Counting Crows'?)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x

#News #Zoology #Ornithology #Neuroscience #Birds

alexanderhay, to news
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It's bad enough that stiffs you more than 10% for cash transfers (a particular bugbear for us writers), but they're now also going to enshittify the whole process, selling our personal data to boot.

Which raises the question - why isn't there a #`FOSS equivalent of PayPal? Is it possible?

https://mastodon.social/@Techmeme@techhub.social/112518486590001007

alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the .

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

" later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

alexanderhay, to UKpolitics
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By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

alexanderhay, to microsoft
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Oh, fuck off.

"#Microsoft's #AI will be inside #Minecraft, and other #Xbox, #PC games: new #Copilot features will search your inventories, offer tips and guides..."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-ai-will-be-inside-minecraft-and-other-xbox-pc-games-new-copilot-features-will-search-your-inventories-offer-tips-and-guides

#News #Gaming #Computing #LLM #Enshittification

alexanderhay, to CosmicHorror
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"The Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant 2024: RESULTS!

"And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for: The moment when we award #Muppet #Toys for being visually unappealing!"

https://toughpigs.com/ugly-muppet-toy-pageant-2024-results/

#CosmicHorror #Comedy #Images #Hauntology #Cursed

alexanderhay, to uk
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Oh look. #Section28 has just returned via the backdoor, which is how a lot of unpleasantness takes root in the #UK these days.

"...Government sources told BBC News about plans to ban sex education for under-nines in [#England], as well as teaching about gender identity, on Wednesday.

"Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the new guidance would ensure children were not 'exposed to disturbing content'..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-69017920

#News #Education #Trans #Transphobia #UKPolitics

alexanderhay, to news
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It's #PterosaurPtuesday, so time for a PteroNews Dump.

"...A unique species of flying reptile, or #Pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of #Skye...

"...Scientists were surprised to find a pterosaur from this period - they were thought to mostly live in China.

"...The creature - called Ceoptera - is the second pterosaur found on Skye..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68207021

#News #Pterosaurs #Paleontology #Science #Fossils #Scotland

alexanderhay, to Eurovision
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Another year, another Eurovision. Here follows an increasingly inebriated series of shit-posts as I cover the most contentious contest in years.

#EuroDrama #Eurovision #Eurovision2024

alexanderhay, to Eurovision
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One question - if #JoostKlein is found not to have broken any law, does this not mean he's been cheated?

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #News

alexanderhay, to Eurovision
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Between you and I, this #Eurovision entry is now odds-on to win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK02e3U4Q9U

#Eurovision2024 #EuroDrama

alexanderhay, to news
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"....All the while, Biden will need to bear one thing in mind. What is good for Netanyahu is good for Putin, and therefore for Trump."

https://archive.ph/FGPoH#selection-2292.0-2292.1

alexanderhay, to Scotland
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It would be the bleakest of ironies if the Scottish Greens helped get TERF-tastic #KateForbes into power as #SNP leader, don't you think?

"#Scotland's #Yousaf will resign as first minister, #BBC says

"LONDON April 29 (Reuters) - Scotland's first minister #HumzaYousaf will resign as early as Monday, the BBC reported, after the possibility of him winning a vote of confidence this week appeared to dwindle over the weekend..."

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/scotlands-yousaf-set-resign-first-minister-uk-media-say-2024-04-29/

#News #Scotland #Politics #Gender

alexanderhay, to Warhammer
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And so the Female Custodes shit-storm drags on, as grown men sob about gaslighting and betrayal... And semantics. Lovely semantics.

Naturally, this is a siren call for far right grifters like Sargon and The Critical Drinker. All the usual dogwhistles are blown.

But now anti-semitism enters the play, as the nudge-nudge, wink-wink comments about Blackrock (whose CEO is Jewish) demonstrate.

These are Nazis making hay, and neckbeards falling into line.

alexanderhay, to news
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Thanks to the antics of my local MP, we have a by-election soon, which means lots of election material being spammed into our letter box.

Apart from the Labour candidate's pamphlet looking like BNP material via all the flag-shagging, the one that stood out was from a 'Non-Political' political party.

And when it started ranting about "the woke mind virus", I knew this was yet more far right populist bollocks.

But then, isn't that UK politics in general these days?

#News #UK #Politics

alexanderhay, to news
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The #MarkMenzies experience doesn't just stop at getting held hostage in a flat and begging a pensioner for the ransom money.

No, the drama is even more INTENSE.

"...In 2017, the Mirror reported [Menzies] had been quizzed by police over claims he got a dog drunk in 2015. He denied the allegation to the paper and said that he was cleared by police...."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68841840

#News #UK #Politics #Dogs #Fylde #Blackpool

alexanderhay, (edited ) to random
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The #CassReport does have a certain "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" vibe about it. Or to put it another way, conversion therapy ahoy!

#TERFs will, of course, be wanking furiously over it. But it also means young people will be ignored, for their own good, of course.

#CassReview #Cass

alexanderhay, to Warhammer
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If anyone's interested, the owner of Coat D'arms miniature paints is thinking of retiring and wants to sell his business.

SOO-OOO-OOO, if you've ever wanted to own your own acrilyc paint business, here's your chance!

#Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Art #Business #News #CoatDArms #Miniatures

alexanderhay, to random
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If I hear one more idiot refer to the 19th Century as 'the 1800s', I will start bashing them over the head with a history book.

alexanderhay, to news
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This is a bit like saying vomit is not dinner:

"Artists who use AI are more productive but less original

"An analysis of work posted on a popular art-sharing website finds that users who adopted generative artificial intelligence tools increased their output, but saw a drop in novelty..."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423087-artists-who-use-ai-are-more-productive-but-less-original/

https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae052

#News #AI #Art #Research

alexanderhay, to KateMiddleton
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Could the cryptozoologists just do the decent thing and find the elusive creature known as ''? At this stage, I suspect she is purely mythological, and a blank slate upon which our present culture projects its fears and suppressed desires.

Either that, or she's getting divorced.

alexanderhay, (edited ) to fantasy
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There's someone in the Dull Man's Club who claims their hobby makes them incredibly boring.

But what is that hobby? Making historically accurate armour and weapons for #SylvanianFamilies figurines, of course!

And that, fellow pachyderms, is not boring.

https://www.instagram.com/knights_of_sylvania

#Toys #Craft #Fantasy #History #Wargames #Cute #Crafting #Animals

alexanderhay, to harrypotter
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Why does this read like someone's embittered ex is writing the headlines?

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