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Hwæt we Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Be interesting to see how that “rediscovery of ancient culture” will work. Which fascist adjacent historians are going to get a piece of that particular pie then?
Enshittification in action. I wanted to read something about Foucault and dystopias, so I banged ‘Foucault + Dystopia’ into a search engine. Note how the title of the article I need has been ‘AI-enhanced’ INTO SOMETHING COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT, negating the whole purpose of a library catalogue?
On a train and just read the first two stories. Very impressed. There really should be more short story collections out in the wild- I used to read a lot of them, but these days it’s very much a rarity.
I wish I could turn back the clock to 5 minutes ago, when I did not know what a ‘golden birthday’ was.
Publicly posted, so I haven’t bothered to anonymise. I donated a fiver to his GoFundMe simply because people are arseholes sometimes.
Oh my word, the chazza book table at the Co-Op had this wonderfully 1970s #MustyBook @bobfischer.bsky.social @georgyjamieson.bsky.social get a load of this! 🧵⬇️
Considering the size of TikTok as a platform there doesn’t seem to be much variety of opinion there, does there? Maybe they should get out of their echo chamber.
Yes. I am crap at maths because I did not work hard enough at it at school. When I use a calculator now, it is not so that I can do higher level mathematical thinking- it’s because I have barely functional arithmetical skills.
Fucking hell. For reasons, I was looking up the dates for when Dusty Springfield was hospitalised for her mental health, and I stumbled over this charming little gem from Roger Lewis, writing in 2014 in the Spectator.
I will believe that when he explains exactly _how_ an AI will set up a business from scratch and generate millions in revenue without any human intervention. It’s complete bullshit and every time he says something like this the press should be all over him instead of unquestioningly accepting it.