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Here’s a nice description of a Tokyo job quit from Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls: And then one morning I handed my boss a letter of resignation. I couldn’t go on doing this job. I had to remove my body...
My frustration around the gym usually involves knowing if I can do one more rep.
I was cautiously optimistic when Research Ireland was created from the merger of Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council, but the general thrust seems to be more of the same. Worse, some of the few valuable programmes...
Happy to be involved in this one given the potentials to get anti and AI critical voices involved. The deadline for submissions is the 31st of July and we're looking for a broad range of voices and part of that is the potential for guest...
Braved the heat and humidity for a walk around the city over the space of a few days. My photography has taken a back seat due to my training and other life commitments lately. So much so that I have sold my Leica Q3 43 and fallen back...
Let me tell you a story. The main character is a little boy, poor, abused, low in status. Maybe it's a girl or an office worker or a prostitute or a grizzled cop maybe a princess, it doesn't really matter. At some point or another, their...
The turn is on a bend in the road. As I drive towards it the road curves to the right and the entrance I want is just round the apex of the corner, on the right. Once you pass the apex you can see the turn clearly so I was slowing as I...
Sometimes even I, as an ardent Luddite, wish AI companies would be slower in driving their own failure. Recently I've been working on a paper relating to faux-social LLMs - those which mimic relationships, therapy, care etc. In part of...
One of the hardest things to hold in activism is that people are not fixed. Scratch a fluffy person enough and they go spiky. Bring a spiky person into real trust and shared purpose and they can soften. Repression, fear, insecurity, ego,...
We are very pleased to be back supporting the Campaign for Better Transport’s Better Transport Week once again and in “celebrating how better transport connects people and places”, we would like to offer some help to community groups,...
The yelling starts some time around four. Hector has plenty of food, and a clean litter tray; if this was a one-off it might be attributed to a bad dream, and he just wants a bit of reassurance, but the fact it’s now happened several...
I asked ChatGPT to play chess with Stockfish. Stockfish is a “strong open-source chess engine”. It has 8 levels of difficulty, which roughly maps to these FIDE levels: Stockfish FIDE Player Level & Description Level 1 ~1000 Beginner:...
I'm not aware of any plans Steve Jackson Games may currently have for a new edition of GURPS. But I do have some ideas for what I'd want it to look like.
28th May 2026 How two cases show how a problem can be attacked in two different ways * This blog has previously covered the extraordinary legal suit brought by Donald Trump against his own government and then the extraordinary supposed...