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I left streaming a few months ago because I didn’t want to keep renting music I already had on CD. I didn’t want music I liked becoming unavailable overnight, tracks changing without my consent because someone decided they didn’t want...
Amodei in his latest blog post wrote a mix of agreeable things and things that I believe misrepresent where the real risk of AI is located. I want to focus my attention on why, among all the risks, open weight models constitute the...
I have a few “Always Photograph” subjects and chalkboard signs is one of them. Sometimes the message on one is clever, and sometimes it’s just simple information. But I can usually make a pleasing composition out of one. Pentax ZX-50,...
Quick Look extensions have evolved over time. Once the category seemed to be made up of legacy junk: kernel-adjacent hacks that broke every time Apple shipped a point release, the kind of thing you install once, forget about, and...
Quick Look extensions have evolved over time. Once the category seemed to be made up of legacy junk: kernel-adjacent hacks that broke every time Apple shipped a point release, the kind of thing you install once, forget about, and...
Last week, I added the short documentary my classmates and I made for our class last semester to Letterboxd's database. Subsequently, my friends asked me to send them the video. The general reaction was very positive; however, one...
Northamptonshire Midweek Mini Break. Pont Esgob Figure of Eight. Forty Acres Apples Arrive. Very Hot, but turning cooooool. Still no rain. Skirrid from Bryn Arw Gym on Tuesday morning, home for lunch in the shade of the log shed yew....
When you vibe-code an app, you constantly ask yourself (or at least I do) - if all the code is written by machines, what exactly do I bring to the table? What makes your app unique, if everyone can do the same now?My answer to this...
A few years back, I was donated a pair of Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Pro Docks as they had reached the end of their useful life with an organisation and the person thought I could have some fun with them. While I can’t say both units were...
I forgot to update the portfolio! I’ve been leaning so hard into my passive investing persona that I fell asleep at my spreadsheet and didn’t twig when the 1 July Q2 deadline sailed by. The markets are a distant background rumble to me...
An AI score can describe a process. Readers still have to judge the contribution.On July 21st, Substack introduced a new “Scan for AI text” feature that allows readers to scan posts to see an estimate of how much of it was written by a...
I asked for recommendations for courses and books related to learning drawing techniques and I got a bunch of great suggestions. I've not tried any of these yet (except a single video from Alphonso Dunn but I want to collect these in one...
Tremendous fun! A big hollywood blockbuster adaptation of homer’s epic, where we follow Sad Damon around the aegean from woe to woe. Probably not for the purist but I found it absolute eye-glue. Amazing scenery, actors, costumes, and the...
When it comes to mystery books, I tend as a rule to stick to Golden Age Crime which is a huge favourite of mine. However, I was recently offered the chance to review a new collection of modern shorts stories gathered in a Crime Writers’...
28th July 2026 We have three years to protect our constitutional arrangements before a possible radical illiberal majority at the next General Election * There is enough time left, just about, to fix parts of our constitutional...