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Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity

@zibaldoni.bsky.social

山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is available everywhere, and I'm writing a follow-up. Here for: writerly, bookish things; bicycles; notebooks; human intelligence.

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Drew@drwsplnd.com · 2d ago

My mum went to school with Rod Liddle. FAMILY GROUP CHAT Me: Mum, your mate Rod is dead. Mum: Stewart? Me: Liddle. Mum: Oh, he was a cunt.

Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d ago

American society must be protected from knowledge of Branston. Discovering it would unleash a Discourse so powerful it would break the fragile bonds between men and usher in an age of darkness.

Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · 2d ago

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity@zibaldoni.bsky.social · 3d ago

There may be an upside somewhere, but this reasoning is currently flooding Amazon with shit AI-compiled ebooks. Maybe just develop ideas the same ways as before? (Pencil, notebook, daydream, blackboard, discussion, presentation, happy hours of deep thought?) It's not as if those ways don't work.

Juan Moreno-Cruz@jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Using LLMs should allow us to think bigger, harder to grasp, difficult to execute, longer to develop, ideas. That idea that’s been in you brain since forever but you hadn’t had the time because you had to retool and what not. Trust yourself. Go for that shit. Now is the fucking time.

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.

University Simulator: a classic 80s platform game in which you move emails from one pile to another while dodging circular saws. There are no power-ups and your jumping capacity gradually declines. At the end the high score goes to someone who was playing a different game on a different console.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Narcissism is best represented by the standard screen display for a first person shooter video game. Other people are just to be punched until coins come out of them, then looted for medipacks (that will help you not face any consequences cos you’re special.)

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

Sam Missingham@samatlounge.bsky.social · 2w ago

This makes for very grim reading, and reading accounts of bullying and gaslighting in @hachetteuk.bsky.social's division @orionbooks.bsky.social really hideous. Kudos to the two ex-Hachetter staff who spoke publicly.

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 2w ago

The Bookseller’s investigation into bullying in the book trade has raised concerns about the sector’s approach to staff welfare, with reports of a culture of denial within some businesses, a sense of fear among employees, and a lack of accountability among some senior management teams 👇.

Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity@zibaldoni.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once, while completely drunk, I was allowed to drive* the last DLR of the night, by its driver, whose last shift it was and who hated the underground with a passion. Still grateful to him. *I think this amounted to opening and closing the doors but still

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wanted to be a train driver since I was a tot. I have poor vision so can't drive a car, let alone a train, and I've had to settle for risk management in finance. But I try to sit at the front of the DLR and pretend I drive it to work.

Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity@zibaldoni.bsky.social · 2w ago

In my experience ChatGPT for search is like giving the job to an intern who doesn't speak your language particularly well. Sometimes fine but so often bizarrely wrong that you have to check the shit out of everything so if you require accuracy what's the point?

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity@zibaldoni.bsky.social · 2w ago

As an employer I would *definitely* favour a certified ai-free degree in my potential hires.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · last yr.

My prediction for how this will play out: Most colleges will doubledown on AI even as employers realize their graduates know next to nothing. Elite colleges will market themselves as being non-AI. Not using AI will be a bespoke luxury commodity that's highly sought after.