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Dispatches from a beautiful future in Athens
You finish the day with thirty things still on your list. You ask your AI assistant to prepare a summary of the week’s meetings to send to the team. You give it five minutes, trust the output, and hit send. The next day, three replies....
Momo and Poppy are 7 years old! Happy birthday to them~
With the AI bubble finally deflating, what can we learn from the gender gap in genAI enthusiasm? Looking at /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk's culture of contempt, historical Luddite parallels, crypto bro demographics, and why men are drawn to...
Recently, I made a special trip to see ‘The Great Tapestry of Scotland’. Located in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders, it meant quite a journey (made in several stages) from my home in Ramsgate in the South-East of England! Galashiels,...
Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack...
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The US and other high-income countries have their own set of concerns about China’s role int the world economy–but the concerns for low- and middle-income countries may be even more severe. A standard way of thinking about the process of...
Squirrel in the neighbor’s mulberry tree. Photo by Rachel.
(This blog essay is overdue because I'm still waiting for new prescription glasses and writing while cross-eyed with text zoomed to 250% is tedious. They should be here later this week. Meanwhile ...) Back in January 2022 I wrote an...
Thoughts 🎸 Finally spent some more time over the weekend working on my hand built guitar. Planed it a bit more and then started cutting away the extra. It's all being done with hand tools to everything takes a bit longer. A wooden board...
If you are thinking of settling in any of the nations of the United Kingdom, then you are probably aware that you will have to take the Life in the UK test (which assesses applicants’ knowledge of British history, values, laws,...