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TELEMETRY: Are people really using AI to text friends and family? Is that something people would actually do? I said to a friend last night that when I go to the mainstream internet these days it makes me feel sane, ordinary and normal....
Low clouds merging into fog. In the front garden, several dozen bergamots are in bloom, rain dripping from their purple locks. A very sodden chipmunk runs past my feet.
13:43 - Ugh, sold a shelf I bought for 60 Fr at Ikea for 20... And after fees I made 15.50 Fr. They're still selling this shelf at Ikea too. Someone got a good deal and it wasn't me.
We systematically overestimate the amount of context people have about the matter at hand — the decision that needs to be made, the problem that needs to be solved. Start by ensuring everyone is operating with the same context.
Bringing software and AI leverage into durable, necessary businesses.
I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on...
Social Media Recipes Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Reviving the former Emancipation Day/Fifth of July, New York celebrates the first Monday of the month as Abolition Commemoration Day, marking the state’s 1827 abolition...
Business and money are the only two obscene topics left in American poetry. You can write specifically about sexual acts or excrement in American poetry and be praised, but if you write about business, you’re considered somehow polluted....
Regular readers know we've been discussing the deeply dysfunctional and just plain weird culture of the techno-optimists for going on 20 years now.Probably the first thing you need to keep in mind when dealing with the movement is that...
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar holds quite a significant place in performance history to which its ongoing longevity attests. First staged in 2020 at the venue, it transferred to the Barbican a...
"Norwich Evening News," February 3, 1970, via Newspapers.comIf you’re at all familiar with my Twitter/X or Facebook feeds, you know that I periodically share old newspaper reports about the seemingly endless varieties of mayhem carried...
Recent Comments recording — jg: “Well, the camera pooped out after 15 minutes. I suspect it got too hot. The advice is to remove the internal battery and just run on the…”
A few holidays among colleagues, so it was a nice, quiet week at work. I bought a pack of Tim Tams for a slice of nostalgia from my time in Australia/NZ. I think they're fairly widespread in the UK now, but I hadn't had one for years....
I’m the comics editor of a literary journal, and when we received this submission, I nearly accepted it. In fact, I was pretty excited. I was co-teaching Creating Comics at the time and had just been talking about different kinds of...