Busting out your Electric Circus moves with Nelly Furtado is one way to take a break this weekend

As AI slop encroaches into art and entertainment from all sides, I’m ever-more interested in the deliciously unique, awkward and human forms of what entertainers create. In one of the recent scenes from the the exquisitely written HBO sitcom Hacks , Deborah, a seasoned comedian, takes a business meeting with a tech bro. She will one day use AI to write her material, he predicts. Her demeanour, once hungry for all the opportunities (and money), immediately cools giving way to a blistering anti-AI speech that culminates in the zeitgeist of the moment: “There’s no shortcut.” It’s specifically true for art about the human condition. The process of writing jokes, she says, is trying and failing, over and over again “until you figure out who you are.” Perhaps that’s the point – that because we fail, not despite it, something truly funny or beautiful or inspiring can emerge. So, however much time you’ve got, let’s make time to dance, laugh and rage against the robots, and tap into the beauty of being imperfect together.