Dom Czapski

@czapsticks

Dancer turned dance critic. Improv performer and teacher. Bylines: The List, Springback Improv: Hoopla, Free Association, Blanche, Disco Disco, Two Chairs London

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Dom Czapski@czapsticks· 9d

fun night doing improv with these idiots (Two Chairs Improv) at @pleasance.co.uk last night

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· 14d

the sense of a fatal build-up of emotional reserve - David Stubbs

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· 14d

imagine fleeing war and famine and your first contact with the British people is human barnacle chris philp incredible pond life exclusive from @lbc.co.uk

LBC news card. Chris Philp in a pink striped polo shirt holds a microphone in selfie-style close-up on the left of the frame; behind him, a group of people wearing orange life jackets and carrying bags walk across a sandy beach under a clear blue sky. Below the photo, on a blue panel, a label reads 'EXCLUSIVE' and the headline reads: 'Where are the police?' Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp follows migrants to a dinghy live on LBC – as he questions value of £662m deal with France.

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· 21d

Trump couldn't get anyone to come to his great rah rah america fair basically because he isn't an artist (Hitler managed 400 thousand people!)

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jul 11

The New Statesman - truly the voice of the proletariat, jfc

Photo of a magazine column titled ‘It’s a love story’. New Statesman columnist Alan Rusbridger writes that his daughter Bella and son-in-law Greg attended ‘the wedding of the century’ – a celebrity-packed event where guests surrendered their phones. When he asked Bella if he could mention her conversation with an A-lister in his column, she refused, even for the New Statesman. The column ends: ‘Reader, I have been gagged.’

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jun 29

youtubers of yesteryear

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jun 27

in Montpellier for the dance festival and everytime i go to one of these things i think holy moly isn’t arts funding amazing

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jun 10

Haydn says get off the internet kids

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· May 31

the Whistler exhib at @tate.bsky.social is a goddamn breath of fresh air

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· May 27

Great Britain, land of opportunity... Tara Clerkin Trio on juggling a successful band and survival

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· May 18

thank god for goodreads taking security seriously. can’t bear to imagine what could happen if this information fell into the wrong hands

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· May 13

this is such a delightful read. It’s so odd we never talk in any detail about the intricacies of funding creative lives. Mason Currey does it vividly, with real feeling and empathy for every person described here, even the selfish bastards #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· May 5

Mafia state dresses its luminaries in money-drenched children's costumes while the rest of the world is told by their media that this all has some sort of meaning

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Apr 27

“I just see what catches fire“ - Lola Seaton on Gwendoline Riley #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Apr 24

So: US AI ingesting output of artists at no cost = ok; Foreign AI ingesting output of US AI at no cost = not ok Got it.

DEMETRI SEVASTOPULO - AUSTIN
CRISTINA CRIDDLE - SAN FRANCISCO
The White House has accused China of industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs' intellectual property and warned that it would crack down on a practice that exploits US innovation.
"The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier Al systems," Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo seen by the FT.
The accusation is the latest escalation in tensions over Chinese groups allegedly raiding advanced Al research amid an arms race to lead in the technology. It comes just weeks before President Donald Trump is set to meet his counterpar Xi Jinping in Beijing.
The issue gained attention afte
China's DeepSeek was accused of using distillation - the process of training smaller AI models based on the output of larger ones - to build a powerful product at a lower cost.
this means

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Apr 24

@grok generate picture of a tiny violin

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Apr 13

Yeah!!! #writing

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 20

I put a percentage of that into what I do and then morph it into somebody else’s character - Jack Black

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 12

Susan Sontag - the writer must be four people #writing

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 11

one of the many brilliant things about David Szalay's Flesh (last year's booker winner) is the surgical precision he uses to describe the most unnoticeable and mundane elements of our lives, eg. ending a zoom meeting #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 6

and the award for weirdest authors portrait goes to Jonathan Cape London for Flesh by David Szalay, who looks like he’s been caught in the park holding hands with Jeffrey Epstein #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 6

silicon valley demonstrating (if any further demonstrations were needed) once again their cosmic levels of stupidity.

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Mar 5

also from the Mason Currey blog

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Feb 17

a pretty effing prescient DFW in 1996: “One of the scary things about the nihilism of contemporary culture is that we’re really setting ourselves up for fascism” #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Feb 5

drive

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Feb 2

late to the party here but may we all one day write paragraphs as effortless as Miranda July’s in All Fours #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jan 7

using AI is like having a brilliant intern who is so brilliant you suspect they may actually be profoundly stupid

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Jan 3

First read-through of Fellowship, 80 pages in. Good lord it’s brilliant! And i don’t even normally care for fantasy! #booksky

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Dec 3

fair point, franz

Dom Czapski@czapsticks· Dec 1

the great David Milch #writing