- Webcurios 09/06/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes It’s ok, everyone, you can stop worrying about the killer future AIs – RISHI AND JOE ARE SORTING IT! Of course, as any fule kno, the main reason you should stop worrying about the killer future AIs is because they’re significantly less of a problem than non-killer present AIs, which are currently being wrangled by…
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- Webcurios 02/06/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes One of the side effects of writing Curios (other than a generally unhealthy posture and attitude towards my fellow man, RSI, chronically-stained teeth as a result of approximately seventeen daily litres of very strong tea and a complete inability to ever really ‘switch off’ to any meaningful degree) is that, despite having a media diet…
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- Webcurios 26/05/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE WELCOME TO WEB CURIOS IT IS FRIDAY HOW ARE YOU? Oh. Sorry. Still, for those of us in the UK it’s yet another three-day weekend (as I believe it is for those of you residing in North America), so hopefully the illusion of freedom will cure at least a bit of what ails…
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- Webcurios 19/05/23 - Reading Time: 33 minutes I went to Alton Towers yesterday. It was BRILLIANT – honestly, pro-tip, a midweek April/May visit outside of school holidays is ideal, 10m queue times and minimal hordes – but as a result now feel like I have been trampled by several herds of variously-sized ruminants (things nooone tells you about getting old – your…
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- Webcurios 12/05/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO! Well, we have a new king, but more importantly we have NEW KNOWLEDGE – specifically, we learned that there is literally NOTHING that the UK is hornier for, sexually or electorally, than a middle-aged woman carrying a ceremonial sword. Were it possible for an entire nation to undergo psychotherapy I would be…
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- Webcurios 05/05/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes HAPPY FORELOCK-TUGGING HOLIDAY! I once worked at Buckingham Palace, you know (apologies if I’ve bored you with this before) – they used to advertise Summer jobs in the Guardian back in the day (THE IRONY), and as a result I spent two genuinely-enjoyable months working in the gift shop and the ticket office (you can…
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- Webcurios 28/04/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Hello! Happy Friday! IT’S A BANK HOLIDAY! I know that they’re ten-a-penny this year, but this feels like a good one, mainly because at no point is anyone going to try and persuade me that the coronation is A Good Thing or indeed that any of the people present at it shouldn’t in fact be…
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- Webcurios 21/04/23 - Reading Time: 32 minutes Happy Friday everyone! Unless you worked for Buzzfeed News, in which case it’s probably quite a rubbish Friday – sorry about that. (Brief aside about Buzzfeed News – reading Peretti’s statement from yesterday in which he said that he didn’t think it was possible to make a business from journalism anymore – maybe, Jonah, just…
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- Webcurios 14/04/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes HELLO EVERYONE WELCOME TO ANOTHER WEB CURIOS DID YOU HAVE A NICE TIME THIS EASTER OH THAT’S NICE GOOD. Ahem. Are you well? Did you manage to avoid either crucifixion or the acquisition of chocolate-related type-2 diabetes? GREAT! I am in something of a hurry what with having to get to lunch and it being…
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- Webcurios 31/03/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes It’s Friday, it’s lunchtime, it’s practically the holidays and I just bought Arab Strap tickets – ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD! It’s not, of course – everything’s a benighted mess and liable to get worse before it gets better or, more accurately, we all die! – but let’s pretend otherwise as we, the Web…
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