Stairs #photography
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Stairs #photography
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Ah I see.
Banning Palestinians?
(Largely)
When I worked in Brussels I had English and some French. While there I learned working Dutch and my French became parfait. I also muted the management were Vlaams and the workers were Walloon (lately)
Am bit fed of the BSky top subjects seemly always being US focussed.
I met with an old friend from nearby 40 years ago. Here’s what I wrote about it. #friendship #connection No, that picture isn’t either of us. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
People in Covent Garden #photography
The rain in Covent Garden at lunch today #photography
Pink car #photography
I’m in al streaming services. Popular in Eastern Europe for some reason.
I’m sure she is, she’s also a very underrated actress.
Exactly that. These days it’s bath and listen to radio/podcast for me
Sunday evening. Drums fingers. Maybe a bath.
Curiosity unearths the raw material, facts, experiences, questions, while imagination takes those findings and reconfigures them into new ideas, stories or solutions. open.substack.com/pub/richardf... #substack
Snaps. Been for a walk #thames #photography
There really were some great vintage #scifi covers.
Apparently Hereford is the town that buys the biggest dildos and it turns out Gloucester is the BDSM capital. No wonder they’re all angry in the countryside. apple.news/ATmvz9ZdUTd2...
And Telly Savals of course. His finest three minutes are here (not IF). music.youtube.com/watch?v=LPto...
Of course Robert Mitchum got there first. music.youtube.com/watch?v=XEy4...
Whole album music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
My Cousin Vinny was a great film. Terrific scene chewing performances. It also produced this “gem” by Pesci in character. The whole album is worth a listen. I bought it at the time it came out and have only just stopped laughing. youtu.be/OKYHGskALD4?...
Keir is a desk jockey. He needs to get out in public. Unfortunately quiet competent management isn’t the right mode in the era of screens and soundbites.
When a physicist visualizes an electron’s path or an architect mentally rotates a building design, they’re using the same cognitive machinery that creates fairy tales. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
It’s easy to dismiss imagination as a luxury, the sort of thing that belongs in art studios or children’s storybooks… it’s one of the most sophisticated systems our brains possess… it shapes how we perceive the world, allows us to grasp abstract concepts… open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
Three narrow ways. #photography #architecture
Written a piece on curiousty, imagination and play in an age of AI open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
#Shiny #BlueSkyArtShow #photography
Probability indicates that there’s almost certainly some life out there BUT the issue is can we ever talk to, meet it, visit it? Probably extremely unlikely by the same maths & a whole load of physics. We are effectively on our own, so look after the planet and its life. apple.news/AEUeoNSijR_y...
Car boot sale #photography
Through the trees #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Nature
At last. Mahler’s 5th, some fucking despite from the shit.#BBCproms
It’s like blaming art for Van Gogh’sear.
I didn’t mention the OSA? Fire kills people. Cars kill people. Would you make it impossible to drive given 5 people die every day in the UK alone? AI has been a hugely safe tech so far (since 1979) in comparison. However politicians order its use 2 kill people. There’s where you should be shouting.
It’s new technology. Unfortunately that tends to come with casualties. Even if tech kills people, on average, five people die every day on the road in the UK
It’s a newspaper story not a research article…
It’s not doing that. It’s using AI for parts of the time. It’s time to try new ways of doing this .
From article, you can’t see how exchange is built in. If they do the study then as socialisation is about exchange then it’s no issue. The intent behind it here is the major issue. There’s nowt wrong with radical new ways of teaching & educating. It really is time for new models to emerge.
They talk about the teachers doing to socialisations stuff and teaching can take many forms. Nothing wrong with new models. It all depends on why.
Seems to be a model that has AI driven, human supported learning then takes them out to teach socialisation skills. I don’t have an issue with that,
There’s a lot to be said for this. apple.news/AgV5AsO7yS-i...
I know exactly what happens at the moment of death and it’s not guaranteed to be euphoria. apple.news/AqA7LsPfcQGe...
Do you think our undersea overlords regret not recapturing those monkeys that escaped to the land 300000 years ago? Navy Officer Says Underwater UFOs Are Legitimate Threats. The Evidence Is Hard to Ignore. - Popular Mechanics apple.news/A9DBOj7RoTvW...
So many books by scientists talking about Art seem to actually be talking about Design. They do not seem to see the difference. It’s like an artist talking about science and only really discussing physics when the magic happens in the maths side of things. #reading
Still amazed I’ve written something worth stealing by Meta for their criminal AI.
The smell of Casanovas in 1983 open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
So it’s not far off. It’s in the ballpark I’d say. I’m not a fan of Banks though. I do love Stapledon though. #reading
Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men → Written in the 1930s but still astonishing. Dry but so big. Iain M. Banks The Algebraist (or some of the Culture novels) Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth, A bit uneven, Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad → Think “Hitchhiker’s” but Polish & with more maths.
I just asked chatGPT for what it knows if me, what might be my favourite scifi books. It said… Clarke’s awe (Rama) Baxter’s vast timescales (Time, Manifold series) Asimov’s civilisational sweep (Foundation) Adams’s comic absurdity (Hitchhiker’s) It suggested it thought I’d like the following…
Memory, Smell, Wakey and New Romantics. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
Friends from US were over recently. One of them - who's lived in America for decades and has residency but not citizenship was so concerned about the climate back there that he purged his phone before flying back... But it's the UK that has a free speech problem? www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/l...
Royal Mail stops accepting packages to US over Trump’s tariffs Shipments will be suspended from Tuesday until launch of new service which will add extra fee www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Indeed it is.
Portraits #photography
With the clear implication that lots more do it. Or don’t you ever note subtexts? And don’t be such an opinionated twat. Bye.
It seems to be a thing at the moment about men doing things performatively. I’ve seen a few things claiming it. Constant antagonism everywhere.
Louie that picture is part of the problem with the pointlessly provocative article. The only thing I’d say is that the more men read, the better.
As I say, men can’t win. To assume em are reading for posing is an awful take.
Men can’t win can we? apple.news/A3IzU9Pa1Rfy...
Me as a dinosaur
I still use Instagram. I know many there don’t bother, but for me it’s an easy and simple place to show my pics that I don’t have to maintain. I didn’t use it Asa social network, and the pics are all in one place. Instagram.com/richardfadams
“This is revolution without rest, acceleration without pause. It is whiplash without recovery. No interval for breath. No corridor for reflection.” This is the text of a doomer talk. A companion piece to my Gods & Monsters one. I’ve made the slides into a video. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
The Tories are done. What a nasty party. Labour MP ‘receives death threats’ after Tory MP shares video on grooming gangs inquiry - The Guardian apple.news/A9vzlUDclS_S...
That whole Allende thing was profoundly depressing. Worst of all is all the troubles here can be traced back to it via Thatcher.
Turns out my head is a cm too big for most hats.
It’s a great book but a maybe a little too “through an economist’s eyes.” And yes he did indeed. I remember the fuss over knocking his house down.
Current/recent books #reading
I have news for Julie Delpy, so do men. It’s all about compromise. apple.news/A5f_3fWu3S4u...
Yes of course.
That’s the same in Soho towards weekends. It’s a good job there’s wall to wall free WiFi
That’s Brighton for you. It’s over busy at the best of times.
The odd one might have. Most see it as a way to expert power over others through sowing fear. It’s happening again with refugees and the right wing. Mostly charlatans.
Thank you. It’s a funny thing to have grown through this explosion and see the effects. When I left college I just simply didn’t see people again.
Love this. music.youtube.com/watch?v=xNXN...
Starbucks Korea warned this month that a minority of people are going further than just laptops, such as bringing in desktop monitors, printers, partitioning off desks or leaving tables unattended for long periods. Why the fuck aren’t our cafes open this late? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There is no way on earth why they wouldn’t be dismissed as anything but. What a stupid sub heading. apple.news/AVAsOS84oT2i...
if there’s someone you’ve only been “keeping up with” online, someone you haven’t seen in years but still think of, reach out. Suggest coffee, a walk, a phone call, even. Risk the awkwardness. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
Cornwall #BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline
Yesterday I spent the day with someone I hadn’t seen for nearly 40 yrs. We have talked quite a bit online but... The illusion of contact through SM is very real but not. Meeting was amazing & she remembered so much of what we said to each other back then. Conversation was so easy to slip back into.
#totp is abysmal tonight.
What a stupid state of affairs and all caused by your members - members being the appropriate word @reformuk.bsky.social
…posthuman aesthetics creates unprecedented challenges for … art schools … Trad models of art education, grounded in human-centred creativity and cultural transmission, must now contend with the reality of non-human aesthetic systems. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
Within 5 years all moderation will be AI. Within 5 years most content will be AI generated. Within 10 years social media as we know it will be gone. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As a group they are to blame (it’s a generalisation). They’re the generation that first voted Thatcher in which is where the rot set in, and kept doing so. Their kids and grandkids grew up in area of selfishness because of that. apple.news/Ami9W6gikTOG...
My best friend is female. I socialise far more with women as I can talk about things that affect me. Things like Men’s sheds are quite shite for men like me. The ave. man has had a centuries old structure ripped away - online they’re treated very badly. apple.news/AZ2dGpOsQRqS...
Well I’m finally getting to a level I’m actually happy with so thank you,
Thank you Dawn.
In the city #phoyography #street #london #architecture
… to which I’d say, love of symmetry as a basis of that is old school and amateurish thinking or something designer would get excited by. To someone of my vintage and background, asymmetry is much more exciting and daring and so I would score low. Never let scientists tell you what art is.
I’d strongly recommend this ok about neuroscience and art, but it confirms my theory art you shouldn’t let scientists tel you what good art is, nor designers for that matter. It’s tarts with question about your ability to have aesthetic experiences and asks if you get excited by symmetry…
Best cover ever vm.tiktok.com/ZNdXyJXCS/
Very interesting article. More please #wapo apple.news/AsYCbyooERaW...
Very much a morgenmuffel today
The problem with contemporary TV soap operas is that everything is sped ad over dramatised. Just watch this beautiful tiny vignette. www.instagram.com/share/BBGlse...
Got my personal railway station sign for teams calls.
Have to say I’m lucky then. My cardiology team respond quickly. Keep at it
The untidy little corner in which I spend much of my day. There is no luckier thing in life than to love what you do for a living xxx (Posted with the photo this time!)
