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The speaker on this train: Please mind the gap between the BZZZ! your next stop is Wahroonga BZZT! on the seats. Thank you. Cal Newport, Reality Check: What you’re going to get out of the LLM is a reasonable-sounding plan (they’re story...
by Cláudio Alves Should Diane Keaton have been double-nominated, in 1977, for ANNIE HALL and LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR? With their new rules, the Academy has upturned quite a number of Oscar traditions and stats. For example, actors can...
We are grossly underreacting.
There was a time when adults could feel something without screaming at you about it. We could disagree, hard, in a meeting and walk out with our faces still attached. Bad news arrived at the dinner table and the meal finished anyway....
It's a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through...
AI's efficiency is subtly eroding informal team interactions, impacting trust and innovation.
The first recording today starts with the end of Bronco Billy. Then it’s another helping of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. First, The Masked Magician makes a whole car disappear. Then he pulls a car’s documents through a...
How can us mere mortals, living in a ruthless, dog-eat-dog capitalist system, ever hope to obtain the sagacity and wisdom of a Stoic sage? Is it even possible to become wealthy or to better one’s condition in a way that … Continue reading →
Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is about to reissue his Mo Wax singles as a deluxe boxset . This gives me a good excuse to share a few thoughts on his landmark Mo Wax debut… “This is a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty… just a...
They rise quietly from the earth—tall, time-carved sentinels shaped by wind, water, and patience. They lean, they shift, they endure. Not in haste, never in spectacle, but in a slow and ancient rhythm. A dance measured not in years, but...
When the weather shut down our original plan, we shifted to a canyon we hadn’t seen and a float on the Gunnison. It worked out, but the lower flows and changing conditions echo a larger reality across the Colorado Plateau. Read More ......
Iris surveillance These crept up on us in our front garden. We went to the Lake District for a week and when we arrived what should we find but these show-offs. Quote of the Day “The saddest aspect of life … Continue reading →