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AI Anxiety

At Algorithm central

it’s time to make a choice

between ChatGPT and DeepSeek

While you still have your own voice

 

It’s a race to get the brightest app

whose misleading demeanour

will leave you in some logic trap

A digital in betweener

 

We know AI will kill us all

It’s no harmless lingua franca

It’s been created just for profit

By some lawless tech bro wank...

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The Piper's Lament

Wee Willie’s agent made the call

Willie wasnae expecting it at all

As in his bed he idly lay

That fateful January day

“Get up Willie, Tam exclaimed

Get oot your bed and leave yer hame

Get on your kilt, your brogues, your hose

And grab your pipes and don your clothes

I’ve had a call from the SRU

The very man they need is you

This is no wind up, it’s the truth

They ...

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Forton Services

When this place first opened

It was a science fiction wonder

A gleaming, glassy palace

Over the tarmac rapids’ thunder

 

At night it was a spaceship

In a ribboned Milky Way

Of Ford Anglias and Zodiacs 

With its shimmering array

 

Of magazines and wine gums

Pies and chips and peas

For modern minded connoisseurs

To bask in motoring ease

 

Peeling off th...

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