ukpol (rubbish)
BBC, 2026-07-29, "Farage's by-election in Clacton officially confirmed": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwylzxw7p52o
Notable quote:
Green Party MP Hannah Spencer said: "We get to spend the summer watching Clacton, a farce of a by-election where one of the candidates is a joke character filled with rubbish and the other is Count Binface."
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/
Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.
Excellent @jasonkoebler piece in @404mediaco about the cultural shift in real-world and online flyers ...
... as people start posting AI-generated ones that all have the same bland creepy look
https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/
(unpaywalled just in case: https://archive.is/pNTQh)
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Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/060.html
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