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I swear that a Google AI Overview told me that the problematic soft drink Kia-Ora was invented by the singer Rita Ora’s father. But I don’t have photographic evidence, and now I can’t reproduce it.
(I’ve been finding large language models useful, sometimes, but you don’t want to know – it’s boring and cringey, and one should keep these things to oneself. The worst thing about them, apart from all the draining of the aquifers, is the sullying of the ✨ emoji, and I’m not convinced that the sometimes-usefulness is enough to make up for those downsides.)
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🎦 The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025). Charming, notwithstanding its glamorisation of sky lanterns which can cause fires and pose a choking hazard for animals.
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To Kemah Bob’s show at the arts centre.
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To Danny Baker’s show at the Ipswich corn exchange. I’d forgotten about my tepid review of last time. The old man talked and talked for three hours, which passed quickly and represented good value.
There was a boxing match in town, so handily there were extra trains running. The train was three trains coupled together, and the rear three-tenths of the train was so suspiciously empty that, due to behavioural science, I too squeezed into one of the seven crowded carriages like sheep.