Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • international police cops

    I have long been aware that the reason spam emails such as 419 scams are so poorly written is to filter for, uh, low-information voters, shall we say—those who are more likely to follow the entire phishing chain, if they’re insufficiently (media) literate to recognise the initial contact as spurious.

  • help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

    I don’t think it’s difficult to foresee the effects [of LLMs] on academic knowledge production at all, as the effects outside of the academy are glaringly obvious: I mean, have you tried searching the internet recently?

  • a bear of very little intelligence

    One wonders what sort of things those two discussed over their plausibly liquid lunches along the Strand?

  • previously unexplored genre substrata

    Next time someone asks you “what is genre, anyway?”, send them to Lucy Sante.

  • directions for the limo driver

    From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.