Registering to use old-school free Wi-Fi: "Age… address… mobile phone… car registration number… eye colour… distinguishing marks… waist size… number of toes… circumcision status… and I’m done!" [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Moby and Goldmember

I don't recommend setting 'tarpit' traps for AI scrapers. Because that would slow down copyright theft and increase costs for AI burglar companies. And that would be dreadful, wouldn't it? @NujParis @NUJ_LFB @NUJofficial

RT @PrivateEyeNews: Just over one month left to enter the 2025 Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism! The winner w…

Computing magazine: "AI is contributing to a worsening of what it says are already exploitative working conditions for creative workers" @NujParis @NUJ_LFB @NUJofficial

Top and tailing the Angoulême International Comics Festival awards, John Romita Jnr (honorary) and Luz (best album) on Saturday 1 February 2025. Pix by me and they're copyright.

A couple of my photos made it into The Beat's coverage of Anouk Ricard's Grand Prix win at the Angoulême Comics Festival. More awards tonight! @NujParis

Now *this* is a press office. Angoulême town hall overtaken by hacks... @NujParis @NUJ_LFB @NUJofficial

"At the dawn of time, two cavemen meet next to the monolith and one grunts: “You paint wall of cave, me give fish from river” and the other replies: “Cool. So, like Minecraft, yah?” [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Viagra Boys and a Jewish cat.

'Me, I’m just waiting for the first rubbish-collection lorry to go driverless so I can write the headline: “AI-driven refuse trucks reach tipping point”.' [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring robo-taxis, Johnny Marr, and an airport's White and Red Zones.

"One day she phoned me because her TV was not working. I told her I do not fix television sets. She then sulked for months. On the plus side it meant I no longer had to fix her PC either." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Ned's Atomic Dustbin

"Those in the UK, Australia or the US can still recharge devices Heinz-fashion: i.e. using one of 57 varieties of charging cables. Brexitland will prefer a honest British cable that uses only British electrons." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Falco!

"Just imagine: they get me to fix their computer although doing so is not my job, then they get angry about how simple the fix was, so I end up saying 'sorry'. Well, not any more." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Picard and the Gilmours.

"I picture myself as that action hero in the movies who kicks a malfunctioning machine to intimidate it into working. I tie a bandanda around my forehead and run the Printing Troubleshooter..." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Billy, Darryl and Persia.

Investigation by Carol Cadwalladr into her new employers.

"I had effectively been using the green screen to key-matte out my bookshelves with a photo of… some other bookshelves." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring pirates, angels and Sophie Lloyd in a flaming maelstrom. This is fine.

NUJ Paris Christmas dinner last night, proving that the honourable art of the selfie-stick remains alive and clicking in the 4e arrondissement. With members, colleagues, guests and - we hope - future members. Gratuitous comments about my shirt are welcome. @NujParis

Schoolkids like me would go into Tandy on the prowl for home computers on display. We would sneakily tap in the following code... 10 PRINT "BOLLOCKS" 20 GOTO 10 RUN Happier times, eh? [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Pete Shelley and Father Jack.

"The reason people find AI scary is that they have learnt from experience that the route to innovation is a queue to the gibbet." Autosave is for Wimps] featuring bad Wiki edits and a bearded man with a Stylophone (but not the one you're thinking of).

RT @efjeurope: X-odus: As of 20 January 2025, we have decided to stop publishing content on Elon Musk's platform X. We can no longer ethica…

RT @ElizabethMistry: @alidabbs Nice pic @alidabbs - and a compelling (rollicking even) read from Dean Simons. Hope someone somewhere is ma…