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Muttley.
Yes line manager, of course I feel very efficient in my new (yet old) office with nobody else around, a clutter of books and a clutch of old VR equipment, a large wall monitor, and game DVDs.
Is this from the War on Iran or the Epstein files?! Getting difficult to tell!
So nice when colleagues coauthor and improve the whole piece without making you feel schemmy (schematically scummy). Now to tell them (and the poor editors) the chapter is 5 weeks past deadline because I didn't realize I could solve writer's block by writing paragraphs from the back to the front.
AI replace this, AI replace that. I'd be more interested in Motivational Machines.
Have you just used it as vehicle for vexation? Now that sounds useful!
Is it always an either/or?
This special issue is SO GOOD
Looks great!
Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org
Do they put Org. in front?
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
Join us & the @stir.ac.uk Art Collection Artist talk with Toby Paterson RSA
How do artists think about architecture and the experience of place?
27 March 2026
13:00–14:00
Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Free event. In person and online.
Register:
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ICE using warehouses as prisons.
Prison corp here we come. www.news.com.au/world/north-...
"The statement that “in 1902 Australia became the first nation to introduce equal federal suffrage” cannot be accepted."
the Azadi (freedom) tower in Tehran suffering airstrike.
"Tower of freedom" in a creepy, beautiful, style that Sauron could have penned. But I'm not one of the convinced that bombs are the answer. It's like we have gone back 100 years. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
if true this is inexcusable.
The man wrote a whole book about this:
Well done Australia, that shows how independent you were/are ... www.news.com.au/national/pol... "the tax cut was effectively ‘a handout’ and that supporting it restricted their ability to spend more on defence, in line with the new expectations of the US Government.”
Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.
"Digital art: I want to be confused. I don’t want to understand. I want to see something for the first time again. Rarely a game does that, and when it does it’s a precious thing."
my exact feelings
"1. Trying to learn sinner man on piano. 2. Man." So you are halfway there already!
I think maybe the people corrupting the system to take status from the system (a degree) have some responsibility for this...
Even without the moral issues, Altman seems to think AI developed itself, no, human energy and investment did. www.news.com.au/technology/i...
Why does the UK seem to be arresting people over Epstein associations but not USA given he was American with mostly American contacts? It is a strange world.
Thanks @ign.com and @duckvalentine.bsky.social for following along on this for the past few weeks.
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