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Why do I mention knitting? Well, knitting was a necessary craft for most of human history and of course, it’s therefore been around for a long time… Eventually though… the emergence of industrial processes removed the actual need for it. richardfadams.substack.com/p/the-pandor...

The Pandora’s Loom: What 5,000 Years of Knitting Teaches Us About AI

Get knitted and write now.

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The real issue is one of cooperation: how do we learn to work with these machines in an age when co-authorship is as natural as the average thinkers leading screaming witch hunts on Substack? richardfadams.substack.com/p/death-of-c...

Death of Craft vs the Death of Art

AI really isn’t the end; it’s a beginning. Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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It will disrupt most things. I read of parents who take photos of their kids and use AI to place them in a school photo setting instead of the annual portrait we all bought. apple.news/A_Uf3w9gGRIK...

Parents and newlyweds use AI to scrub watermarks from professional photos - The Times and The Sunday Times

My weekly poetry reading from my book. It’s called Not Yet and is available on Amazon. This poem is a shortish angry one about education. #poetry youtu.be/62-rYZ2uKTw?...

Decoherence (In teh Key of V)

YouTube video by Richard F Adams

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St Ann’s Hill beacon viewpoint looking towards Heathrow on the horizon.

Barnsley Best. #photography

Barnsley’s finest woman in bikini arms raised. Tables and chairs round her. It’s a sticker on a bar window

Holm Moss and Newquay #photography #clouds

Clouds, escarpment cutting through. View from high hill looking over the west riding

View across Fistral beach towards the headless with massive lit cloud over the beach. Dramatic.

I don’t get these people. I’d be walking round with t shirts printed with my awards. It’s the most middle class thing really isn’t it. apple.news/AYm6k0MatTBe...

Anne-Marie Duff: ‘I keep my Bafta in a cupboard’ — The Times and The Sunday Times

After acclaim for Bad Sisters, the actress talks about her emotive new play, losing her mother and brother and fainting on stage

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Short story about the Pope and Ai that I wrote in 2018 richardfadams.substack.com/p/personal-j...

Personal Jesus

The Vatican builds an AI guardian angel for every home, trained on humanity’s data. Then it speaks, in Latin, and quotes Revelation. Personal Jesus, a short story.

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Just watching Lair of the White Worm. I’d give anything to even have a tiny part in a film like this. www.imdb.com/title/tt0095...

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Many lynchings occurred way after this. Barbaric country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago - why are they resuming now?

The Pentagon says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, but experts suggest officials are reading the country wrong.

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I wrote this nearly ten years ago - it's about the Vatican and AI #scifi #shortstory richardfadams.substack.com/p/personal-j...

The new 2CD edition of Rubber Soul arrived and it has contemporary mixes on disc 2. The biggest surprise is that these mixes prove Ringo actually was great drummer .

I’m fed up, you’re fed up. everyone talks about failing systems and yet few moaners ever articulate what it is that should replace things. richardfadams.substack.com/p/what-are-s...

What Are Schools For?

What is the point of schools - future purpose in a new Ai epoch

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So @the-independent.com TWO in three DON’T think he should resign???? Quality journalism. apple.news/AkETUJGsDS32... One in three Brits thinks Polanski should resign after by-election defeat, poll shows - The Independent

One in three Brits thinks Polanski should resign after by-election defeat, poll shows — The Independent

Green leader facing calls to quit from within his own party

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Citizen Paul Templeman@paultempleman.bsky.social · 3d ago

He soooooooo jealous Obama isn’t he? Obama is everything Trump is desperate to be. He’s a small child who was never disciplined:

“I saved more lives than anyone in history,” Trump claims www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

This guy is pathetic.

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

This viewpoint is irrelevant. Eventually it will emulate those characteristics to the point where this is no discernible difference. This shows a limited understanding of what happening. apple.news/AeUOuqU-wQ1y...

As an atheist, I’m with the Pope: AI can never have the ‘human spark’ — The Observer

Anthropic is trying to convince religious leaders that Claude can be conscious and moral, but an algorithm can’t comprehend our lived experience

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If I was running an AI company and was thinking betting shareholder annual dividends I’d know that the writing is already on the wall for them. They will be eaten by the spawn of their own companies and sooner than you think. I’d want to slow down development like Altman wants.

This will happen more and more and will become more rapid. The great industrial complex of software will almost entirely shift to a handful of AI providers. Eventually even those will be eaten by themselves. ahutchinson.substack.com/p/someone-ju...

Someone Just Vibe-Coded the Entire Adobe Suite

And it’s not completely crap

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On a popn-adjusted basis, the US recorded roughly 9.6 times England’s rate of rough sleeping/unsheltered homelessness: about 78 people per 100,000 residents versus 8.1. That is the closest defensible comparison calculated from 2025 snapshot counts & population estimates. apple.news/A90TEb2u1Tkq...

People Think I’m ‘Living The Dream’ — Here’s The Dark Reality About What's Happening In America That They Ignore. — HuffPost UK

“I can’t afford parking at a campsite full-time. I can barely afford the gas to drive. I’m living above the federal poverty line, but not by much.”

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