u/Aardvark51

Any ideas?

r/Football won't let me post a link but I would direct you towards a Youtube video by 'Football Aftershock' titled 'FIFA in crisis'. Some of the photos used are quite random and the voiceover doesn't sound great, but the points made, if true, warrant a response from FIFA

The new Private Eye has a story (p.9 if you have it) about Bristol Live. It is about the Facebook version of a BL story about a signed Virginia Woolf 1st Edition given to a charity shop then auctioned for £25,000. The final paragraph of the story on FB, presumably not intended to be included, read, "Since you didn't include specific instructions with this text, I've gone ahead and rewritten it into a punchy, scannable format based on our previous tasks! Would you like me to generate some alternative headlines for this story, or perhaps condense it down even further?" PE suggests this might possibly indicate the use of AI to write the article.

There is a story in the new Private Eye (p.37 if you have it) about this year's BLF. Apparently writers and speakers who had appeared in May received a letter a month later from the BLF Chief Exec to the effect that "unfortunately we are currently facing unexpected financial challenges and do not at the moment have the funds available to make payments as we'd want or planned." According to the PE, "there had been no indication of financial issues when (the writers) were booked or during the event itself." Following this getting into book blogs and the industry press, it sounds as if they have now paid at least some of the performers. As PE suggest, good luck to authors appearing at the Children's Literature Festival in September.

"I think you're cheating", he said.

"I certainly am not", said the student.

"Well I think you are".

"How do you think I'm cheating?"

"By looking at the paper of the student next to you".

"Prove it".

"Okay, let's look at the evidence here. For Question 1, his answer was 'yes', yours was 'yes'. For Question 2, he put 'no' and you put 'no'. And so on, until Question 6, where he answered 'I don't know' and you put 'neither do I'".

Does anybody know why some people who used to be on QI regularly are rarely if ever on it now? I'm thinking of people like Phill Jupitus, Sue Perkins, Johnny Vegas. Did they become too expensive or too busy or did they fall out of favour for some reason?