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Simply put: AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high. AI will fill the world with grindingly average texts, passable but derivative illustration and video, and unoriginal but functional new...
I hadn’t been planning a re-read of this book, but when FictionFan announced a review-along I couldn’t resist joining in. I’m not sure exactly when I first read it, but it must have been around twenty years ago when I went through a...
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed?...
You sit down somewhere quiet. Maybe in a coffee shop. Maybe on your couch after a long day. And out of nowhere, a thought hits you. Why am I not more successful? Maybe you thought you’d have kids by now. Or a business that prints […] The...
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing the problems with single sign on, Google chrome forcefully downloading 4gig of a LLM and why on earth is meta smart glasses selling...
There’s a pretty clear geographical split in what different countries call Greece. In most of Europe, the name comes from the Latin Graecia. But across North Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia, the name is usually derived from...
Devin è tornato! E questa volta l'ho trovato meno overprodotto rispetto agli ultimi dischi (per fortuna!)
2015 short police procedural mystery novel, tartan noir, in the Logan McRae series. Logan's day starts with a failed attempt to stop a suicidal jumper, and goes downhill from there.
After a rather lean blogging month in May, I’m hoping to get things back on track in June, and that includes cracking on with my chapter-by-chapter journey through The Tale of Genji. Before that, though, perhaps as a kind of warm-up, I’m...
How posts on this site actually get made — from a thought to a published page, and the per-sentence commenting layer I use to chase down where a draft is breaking. The comment box is open on this one. Try it.
It has been just over a year since I started blogging again. I started up, after a hiatus of a few years, on May 22, 2025. I feel it has been a good year, and I wanted to share some thoughts about getting back into the blog-o-sphere...
It is well worth a visit to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, north east London, to view the incredible work of the revolutionary Victorian designer and craftsman. While many people can be seen enjoying a wander around the...