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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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transcriptGraham Linehan is a normal and well man.

A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeah thats a kink. There prob are a bunch of sex workers he could hire who could help him with that.

E: forgot to mention, a sex worker even confirmed this is a kink.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think sex workers should be tasked with society offloading glinner

glinner should fucking suck less

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Certainly. Some might want to take his service however, not going to speak for them. But doubt he would be a good client, nor that he would pass the vibe check for any who didn't already knew who he was. So not sure if he is even able (also doubt he is mentally able as he sees women too much as objects to he saved/protected vs actual people).

But yes sorry if that came off as offloading societies problems on sex workers.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh no

He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

coming soon to whatever remains of CBS with an introductory 1 hour lecture by Bari Weiss

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

most well adjusted terf

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

The CIA wouldn't be able to torture this kinda shit out of me. Jesus, Linehan.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago
[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

TIL I take the same medicine as Glinner