Once screwed up in a gust sailing a single hand trapeze, lost hold of the tiller and main sheet, slipped my footing and ended up skimming the waves on my back, still clipped on, as the boat took off on a screaming reach.
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Once screwed up in a gust sailing a single hand trapeze, lost hold of the tiller and main sheet, slipped my footing and ended up skimming the waves on my back, still clipped on, as the boat took off on a screaming reach.
It's an absolutely cracking piece and, I feel, gets right to the heart of the topic. Meets it head on and offers a really positive message. Something I'll save and maybe refer back to in future conversations with my young son. Thanks for writing this
Defrosted pizza? Not cooked, no? Just defrosted and popped on a plate?
Enjoyed this as I always do your writing but am I allowed I minor nitpick? Bill Gates used to make terrible software, oddly MS hardware has a less crappy history but they never made actual computers as far as my memory serves
QT as I can't reply directly but if it's any consolation I'm also fuming. Until the last 48hrs I'd just been disappointed with Labour. Now I'm furious.
Can't see much likelihood of marches with placards, proclaiming 'BRING BACK OUR CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINES' but kind of feels like that's what we need here
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
They really have stepped up the evil in recent times
Even listing something for, say, a tenner seems to filter out the loonies for some reason
Gah
The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House today. Reportedly a disturbed, suicidal man who traveled there from the Midwest. I figure this will become a regular pilgrimage, the unhinged and hopeless coming from all over the country to die at the gates of the White House.
BREAKING - Trump team met with Ukraine’s top 2 opposition leaders to try to topple Zelenskyy The plan has FAILED - both opposition leaders have officially said they do NOT support calling an election to replace Zelenskyy while the war is going on
British troops have fought and died alongside the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, just to be written off as non-existent people from "some random country". We have to maintain tolerable relations with this administration to try and minimise damage, but my god it's not easy.
was in california for customer meetings, abt 3wks before uk lockdown. Remember everyone shaking hands at the start of week to greet each within a day or so that stopped and everyone was pumping hand sanitiser regularly. we were worried abt getting stuck in a local lockdown and not getting back to UK
The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
"Bloodbath" is an apt description. The number of deaths that will occur as a direct result of U.S. funding being axed is no different from indiscriminate bombing erasing entire populations during a war. It is tantamount to genocide. The U.S. was once the "good" guy. www.science.org/content/arti...
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
fuuuuucking hell
also means you have all these politicians going "agh immigration is getting less and less popular what can we do, what's going on" when like, yeah, if you've got lots of people making the case against something and none making the case for it, what did you think would happen?
So much of the US coverage of the German elections is cast in a "sky is falling" AfD rising apocalypse frame. I get it. The AfD is going to 2x its vote and get around 20%. But another way to look at this is that the AfD blew it. The conditions couldn't be better for the AfD to surge and yet. 1/ 🧵
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in Chile apnews.com/article/chil...
we need to invest heavily in NIH so we can develop new vaccines and cures for .... measles
Good morning, America!
I'm not easily shocked, but the sight of individuals cheering on the richest man in the world as he takes away vital aid to the most desperate people on this Earth has shocked me. There are good people. There are bad people. Then there's Elon Musk and his empathy devoid flesh failure followers.
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
Unfortunately, even if the president is merely a thief undercover as a fascist dictator, we still get the fascist dictatorship.
My publisher's lawyer has asked me to remind everyone that buying my postcard book and mailing those postcards to elected officials could be considered harassment. (Check eatf.art for some places that sell my postcard book)
Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:
look at who's on your side, and who's enacting the policies which for some reason you decided mattered more than basically anything else, and maybe take a moment to wonder if you completely and utterly fucked it
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this already 😂
The next election is a whole US presidency away, probably. Far too soon for this kind of claim about what the polls do and do not show, beyond 'the official opposition are not yet convincing people as an alternative to the government, so disgruntled voters are looking elsewhere'.
Doesn’t get more conclusive than this.
Ok I see. Starting to stray beyond my knowledge and expertise so will leave it there. Nice chatting
You think they don't? It seems to me the unfairness of being able to effortlessly monetise others' works thru AI is rightly upsetting a lot of creators. The language around theft etc stems from this and the lack of representation of creators in the drive for wider use of gen AI
Fair point. Maybe the key difference is the industrialisation and automation. Rather than a considered osmosis and distillation into a new work, you press a button and derivative crap comes out in great volume.
True enough but a text like that would be expected to contain references and a bibliography, would it not? Nobody touting the glorious future of gen AI is even pretending to address that bit.
we're about to enter a social experiment 'what if all great powers all have incredibly stupid leadership at the same time'
Managed the gaiman piece. Just. The thought of reading the pelicot stuff more deeply than I have, breaks my brain a bit I have to be honest
What chances the carbon footprint of this is costed? Given the worrying info coming out about energy use of gen AI
Sorry you have to deal with it but taking advantage of the easy block list additions
Yep. bsky.app/profile/leah...
Totally with you on that, sometimes you just need to feed the kids fish fingers and order in a fancy Thai, to be delivered as they go to bed. Proper Saturday night treat.
really quite apoplectic about all the mainstream Tory figures in Britain who backed Musk essentially as a way to own the libs and who will now suffer no consequences from staying silent as their ally behaves like a fascist, and a direct danger to senior female politicians
Meta’s big bet is that people would rather live in a world they know is faked but where they hear what they like to hear (or simply *feel* things that trigger dopamine) than live in the non-virtual world, where the truths are.. harder. So far it’s been a winning bet. We need to wake the fuck up.
Nick Buckley should be stripped of his MBE. Immediately.
Great column Marie. You have a real talent for writing about experiences in a very relatable way. Anyone swithering on hitting the subscribe button just do it!
Doesn't smell of sausage rolls? I'm disappointed
You're so wrong about mince pies tho.
I love christmas and yet I identify with much of what you rail against here. I actually laughed out loud at the turkey thing. I mean it can taste OK but usually it's shit, ages to cook and costs a small fortune.
A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...
The horse went that way lads. www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-d...
Scottish venues are refusing to provide a venue for the Reform Scottish Conference. Nigel Farage is about to burst into mega whine mode. But it is called Capitalism mate, and they don't want your dirty, racist money. Stick it where the sun don't shine.
Guardian is on 250k followers after one week - though I expect will be at a million+ early in 2025 (It had 10-11 million on Twitter/X when it stopped posting). Nick Dastoor says the engagement is much better even when starting at 1/40th of the followers
Thinking about how Michael Mann’s transition from film to digital reflected his evolving thematic interests. Here, two similar types of shot. In “Heat”, on film, the city blurs into a sea of lights in the background. In “Miami Vice”, on digital, objects miles away remain clearly defined.
Yeah, the good stuff in AI use is happening quietly, in medical science for example. The mainstream stuff is just snake oil, but poisonous.
Played as the intro to every metallica gig. Video and all. Epic!
Newsgroups and IRC being the way to find your people
Been thinking about this a lot recently and wholeheartedly agree with your approach to the awfulness. Not got anything to add to the discourse other than to thank you for writing so well. Loving your work.
Fear that's much more easily used by the current govt as a stick to beat them with every budget tho
Easy, and fair, to mock, but isn't this setting up the stolen election stuff for if/when he loses?
In August? Are you quite mad? Embrace the freedom of not being tied to school holidays while you can!
If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites.
Almost exactly 24hrs later and boom, me too. Wow
Love the closing line, sums up the shallowness of the man in my view.
My counter point would be that it's a celebration of books and reading. Kids see each other dressed up and discuss which book. My daughter went as Mrs Pepperpot and we made the costume together as a fun evening activity. However I do see the parental homework thing; I recognise my privilege here.
TBF a test is the best time to find a failure tho
How many of this lunatic fringe have radicalised, vs just finding themselves in a suitably insane climate where they have now got permission to be their true selves, I wonder?
Found some egg flavour crisps in Brittany last summer. Avoid.
Yes! I've been watching Light.. and it's good but something niggles and I've now realised it's the accent thing.
This is great and really captures the hobby thing. I've always had an area of my life reserved in this way, as a sort of self preservation, and feel it acutely when other stuff pushes it to one side. Somehow reading this piece was a sort of validation. Thanks Ian 👍
@edconway.bsky.social has covered this in a lot of detail. Might be over on the other place tho
5 all day every day. Took me till I was in my 40s to realise visualisation was a literal thing for others!
As eloquent as it was brutal. Classic Dunt. 👍
I might need to watch this now. And don't care about the spoilers, they are a big part of the sales pitch!