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• Post #4468033

  “I tell the students I meet: imagine you’re an Olympic athlete. You set out to sprint the 3km across London, from Clapham to Balham. You know if you take the bus, it will be faster. But you also know that the point was never being in Clapham or Balham; they’re very similar: they both have a nice Pizza Express. It was the strength you built, the speed and knowledge of your body that you gained. A student’s essay on Macbeth has no value as a product.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interact...

• Post #4124415

  Saw loads of whales frolicking surprisingly close to shore this morning Execellent weekend with a good mix of family and social stuff (and a little bit of doing nothing much) Got Wordle in two guesses today #threegoodthings

• Post #3764476

  Still more than USD$1 trillion in the hole. It’s like watching an addict unable to leave the craps table.

• Post #3764137

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116897952707477120 “Google does not have the next Google Search, Microsoft does not have the next Microsoft Office, Meta does not have the next Facebook, and Amazon does not have the new AWS. That's why they need you to believe that Al is a big deal without them ever having to prove why outside of capital expenditures. They want you to assume that all this money can't be wrong”

• Post #3674100

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116883056238329898 This is one of my favourite reads of the entire year

• Post #3549354

  If only I’d known I could just write “GAofB”, my editing career might have looked different. More from David Sedaris #bookstodon

• Post #2304032

  Still running iOS 18. Do I absolutely have to update to iOS 26 eventually or can I just stay here?

• Post #2304031

  Reading about Oswald Mosley and pondering the difference between his very stereotypically macho (‘swashbuckling’, apparently) mass appeal vs Trump, who when you think about it is actually not very conventionally masculine at all. He’s all soft and big bottomed and small handed and milkweed voiced.

• Post #2229556

  The internet is a mess. I couldn’t remember whether dehumidifier water is non-potable because it’s distilled (thus no electrolytes) or stagnant (bacteria) or both, and here is a ‘resource’ I found

• Post #2229554

  Tf is fashion doing, seriously. Prada what is wrong with you. Fascism cosplay at a time like this!

• Post #2229553

  Bueno ice-creams are maybe my platonic ideal of ‘treat’ Daughter got a merit award Excellent and very funny adult ballet class today #threegoodthings #3goodthings

• Post #2229552

  Found this in an old kids’ almanac today. It really was a different time

• Post #1577653

  Why is it that it’s only on here that people are talking openly about how bad most LLM output is? People might joke about its ‘quirks’ and hallucinations, but otherwise it seems to be universally accepted that AI is Very Important. At the consumer level it’s making products worse. Google search is worse (and that was a high bar. It had already been pretty thoroughly bastardised). Autocorrect is worse. All the small interactions we have with tech are worse and no one is talking about it.

• Post #1530011

  Made a quilt out of remnants from my ever-growing fabric stash for my cousin’s new baby and cannot wait to give it to her.

• Post #1395417

  10yo and I have been doing up Granny’s old doll’s house, room by room, and it’s offering extremely peaceful respite from, you know *waves hand in direction of planet Earth* Here is the little kid cat’s bedroom: