- Webcurios 17/02/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes I can’t help but feel a slight sense of disappointment at the fact that we haven’t, it turns out, been visited by extraterrestrial forces beyond our ken (or, if we have, we’re as ignorant of it as ever) – mainly because I was quite looking forward to the inevitable pitched battles between the inevitable Cult…
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- Webcurios 10/02/23 - Reading Time: 32 minutes Hello everyone! HELLO! One on the one hand it was fun this week watching Google’s PR fcukup with the whole ‘your AI search engine’s a liar LOL’ story; on the other, I can’t help but think that none of the serious coverage of this I have read in the media has spent quite enough time…
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- Webcurios 03/02/23 - Reading Time: 28 minutes Have you had good weeks? I suppose the answer to that will depend on how much Shell stock you all own – LOL! – but I sincerely hope that regardless of your portfolio performance – LOL! – you’re all feeling relatively content and not too burnt out from another week of staggering cognitive dissonance (my…
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- Webcurios 27/01/23 - Reading Time: 36 minutes Hi everyone! Hi! How are you! You know what, I feel…alright this week! The sun is shining, the heating is on, the days are getting longer and I have done my tax return – it’s all going to be ok! (On the subject of tax, by the way, a brief note on the Nadhim Zahawi…
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- Webcurios 20/01/23 - Reading Time: 30 minutes Jesus, it’s COLD, isn’t it? Did I used to put up with this every January? Fcuk knows how. Basically I haven’t felt temperatures like this for two years and I DO NOT LIKE IT. I am running a bit late today – possibly due to the icy cold making it increasingly hard for me to…
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- Webcurios 13/01/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes NEW YEAR NEW YOU! You look great and I love what you’ve done with your hair/wardrobe/septum piercing/new gym regimen! I, though, remain sadly unaltered, despite the benefit of a month’s absence and a whole three weeks spent not really looking at the internet AT ALL (what did I learn? That without the internet I spend…
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- Webcurios 09/12/22 - Reading Time: 37 minutes MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Yes, I know that it’s over two weeks to go until That Special Day, but tomorrow I turn off the internet for a few weeks and as a result this is the FINAL WEB CURIOS OF 2023! I am going to take a brief moment for some tediously-self-indulgent navelgazing, if that’s ok,…
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- Webcurios 02/12/22 - Reading Time: 40 minutes This week I thought I would ask GPT-3’s new chatbot to pen the opening – this is what it came up with, based on my request that it ‘write me a humorous, cynical opening paragraph to a newsletter about interesting things on the internet’: “Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the most interesting…
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- Webcurios 25/11/22 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Are you running a slight temperature? Do you feel a bit clammy? Are your glands a bit ‘up’? Test yourself, because you may well have come down with WORLD CUP FEVER!!!11111eleventy Except of course you probably haven’t, as noone seems particularly able to get excited about this one, perhaps a result of the jarring cognitive…
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- Webcurios 18/11/22 - Reading Time: 35 minutes No turkeys! No money! WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS 2022 EVERYONE! Still, on the plus side, at least it’s looking increasingly unlikely that you’ll be able to worsen your mood by spending the ‘festive’ (lol!) period doomscrolling through Twitter, what with That Fcuking Man apparently beating even the most optimistic predictions about how quickly he could gut…
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