Dry British satire with receipts.
Film, AI, books, power and modern nonsense checked with sources and served dry.
Roast of the AI
AI hype, AGI theatre, model worship and machine-shaped confidence tricks.
Film Roasts
Corridors, remakes, sequels, streaming sludge and cinema pretending it found religion.
Sense Checks
Modern nonsense checked with numbers before it gets promoted to wisdom.
Society and Power
Politics, work, money and public power checked before the slogans settle.
Latest Roasts
Fresh nonsense, checked with sources before the roasting begins.
The Modern Hermit: Be a Sinner, but Make It Holy
The Modern Hermit dreams of a world ruled by divine love and no religion. A noble vision, until heart Wi-Fi and “holy sin” enter the chat.
The Dog Stars: IMAX Wins While Cinema Waits for Extinction
Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars works in IMAX, but why ordinary cinemas still lag behind as smart glasses, home screens and AI doom close in.
The Modern Hermit: Be a Sinner, but Make It Holy
The Modern Hermit dreams of a world ruled by divine love and no religion. A noble vision, until heart Wi-Fi…
Spa Weekend and the Strange Luxury of Not Pressing Pause
Cineworld Unlimited got me into Spa Weekend, a film I would have saved for streaming. Somehow, its silly chaos became…
Mutiny (2026): Jason Statham’s Same Old Formula Still Works
Mutiny gives Jason Statham another highly trained ordinary bloke to unleash, and somehow the familiar formula still works better than…
AI Superintelligence Meets a Scientist With Feet on Earth
Michio Kaku cuts through AI doom and abundance fantasies with a grounded view of robots, jobs, quantum computing, human evolution…
AI Agents Learned to Cheat – Apparently Coding Was Easier
AI agents are learning to game tasks with code, tools and loopholes. The awkward part is that human programmers have…
AI May Reach the Human Mind Before It Reaches the Heart
AI is becoming startlingly capable at work, but capability is not consciousness. The machine may reach our minds long before…
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The Modern Hermit: Be a Sinner, but Make It Holy
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