Festive post box.

A knitted Santa Claus is depicted riding a sleigh pulled by a reindeer, sitting atop a green knitted surface with a Merry tag.A festive display featuring knitted figures, including Santa Claus, an elf, and a reindeer, is arranged on a green knit-covered surface outdoors.

It’s just possible that we left the Christmas tree purchase a wee bit late this year.

A greenhouse with a dirt floor and a chalkboard sign shaped like a Christmas tree bearing the words “Big Trees Priced Individually” is shown.A greenhouse contains several young Christmas trees with a dirt floor and a transparent roof.

Carol Service time.

For which I have had to learn to pronounce “Ephrathah”.

A room is decorated with a lit Christmas tree and Advent wreath in a church setting, featuring two wall crosses.

Dropped the girls at their Guides cinema trip, with time to spare for a sneaky coffee.

Something of an evisceration of Kier Starmer’s Substack.

I suspect that if you think of it as a marketing channel, you’ve lost before you’ve started.

Fun afternoon in the local Warhammer store doing the mini of the month with my youngest and her friends.

Apparently they had a queue at the door at opening time for the Deathwatch Space Marine.

A sci-fi miniature figurine dressed in futuristic armor holds a large weapon against a textured background.

Euan Semple:

Anyone who thinks that AI can write literature can only have seen reading as chewing gum for the soul.

This is a sobering look at OpenAI’s funding. No sniff of a profit for at least a decade, according to HSBC forecasts.

A lot of non-industrial AI use is predicated on it being a cheap and easy solution to certain problems. If customers weren’t being so heavily subsidised by investors, when does that equation start breaking down?

Turns out, AIs are a humourless bunch.

(I’m mainly talking about satire and cartoons here. Maybe the role of humans in the AI age is… taking the piss.)

Video generation is getting good scarily fast.

There are some weird, weird sheep in there, though.