Today I’ve been thinking about the non fiction I’ve been considering. It’s probably more memoir/findings document than anything else because I find non fiction boring and can’t bring myself to write lists of research.
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Writer, programmer. Author of Human Software - a novel about data centres, AI and dark corporate dealings. "One More Island" coming January '27. Brit in NL. https://richardwbown.com
All the hard problems are as far away from the things that AI can *solve* as ever. One thing is clear though, LLMs make solving these problems much more fun and tangible.
A north cardinal marker at the top of Texel
Watched “Go!” reviewed at the time as "high-octane eye candy aimed squarely at members of the infamous Generation X. Fast-paced and often witty, but ultimately vapid." Doesn’t seem either fast paced or witty now. Yet a fun, late 90s curio.
What advice would I give to first-time self-publishers? Remember that "kill your darlings" applies to your marketing material (cover, blurb, positioning) as much as it does to the words in the book. #writingcommunity #indieauthor
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12 years ago we very much didn’t go into the Salvador Dali museum in Figueres
"Don't use 'AI' editing, don't use 'AI' art, don't use 'AI' translation, don't use 'AI' anything that calls into dispute whether your work is actually yours." Well, quite.
The Register@theregister.com · 2d agoSci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
I once spent a very long time learning this. I never got anywhere close and yet I still love it.
"Cooldown" is the bane of my life currently. It's a good idea, but the implementations that internal teams are rolling out are like, "Here's that latest package that you can't have just yet. Oh dear your pipeline is broken"
InfoQ@infoq.com · 2d ago#GitHub's Dependabot now waits 3 days by default before opening pull requests for new non-security dependency versions. The delay gives security scanners and the community more time to detect and remove malicious releases before they're integrated into projects. 👉 bit.ly/4fJm8uj #DevOps #InfoQ
Boom. I can go to my grave knowing that I once topped a chart.
Richard W. Bown is 📝 editing@bownie.bsky.social · 4d agoHuman Software is back up to #2 in the Amazon charts ("Social Aspects of the Internet"). With your help, we can get it to #1! It's currently free on Kindle until Sunday night (PST) www.amazon.com/Human-Softwa... #booksky #indieauthor #ai #datacenters
My earbuds randomly pause my music because they think I've tapped them. ARE MY EARS THAT BIG AND FLAPPY NOW?
It used to be that your meeting could've been an email, but I see that's expanded to your meetup, your conference talk, your conference, your whole way of being.
Ik ben mijn Nederlands aan het bijspijkeren. Google Translate FTW
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Richard W. Bown is 📝 editing@bownie.bsky.social · 5d ago"Human Software" is where the Phoenix Project meets Local Hero. Available for free on Kindle this weekend. "When corporate wants you gone, who does the dirty work?" www.amazon.com/Human-Softwa... #booksky #freebook #indieauthor #ai
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That's enough for a first session. Over half the book is summarised at a scene level. #amediting #indieauthor #writingcommunity
#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
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Human Software is back up to #2 in the Amazon charts ("Social Aspects of the Internet"). With your help, we can get it to #1! It's currently free on Kindle until Sunday night (PST) www.amazon.com/Human-Softwa... #booksky #indieauthor #ai #datacenters
“Look, you burgermeisters have to tax your townsfolk to buy these fancy bulbs I’ve invested in—it’s just one gazillion guilders per bulb, yeah?—or this whole Dutch tulip bulb industry will be in trouble!”
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
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Honestly the amount of energy the anti-AI and anti datacentre movement has, is itself heartwarming.
Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · 7d ago“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon
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