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Added a new testimonial from Lesley at BoCreate to my business website https://www.telaco.com - we’ve just wrapped up the first version of the product.
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Finished reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚
“Ordinary people . . . Papa often repeated: ordinary people. An impregnable combination of words, don’t you think? An ordinary person . . . What is that? A parasite who does mean things or a nameless hero who performs a feat of bravery? An ordinary person . . . How many of them have I had a chance to meet? Fate has presented me with hundreds of versions but has never given me the correct answer.”
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Thinking about Why so many elites feel like losers, Freddie deBoer.
What role models of success do I have? What role models are healthy for society in general? What success has intrinsic worth? What success is about the type of person you will be?
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Started reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚
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Finished reading: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford 📚
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Gig last month: www.instagram.com/p/CpECzql…
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Announced the next EdinburghJS meetup: 23rd March. WebGL & text-wrangling/ML.
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Breakfast browsing: An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler 📚
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Started reading: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford 📚
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When I said the incendiary and provocative thing, intending that you would react, I was not actually being incendiary or provocative. I was being thoughtful, and deep… When you say I am contradicting myself, you fail to recognize I am in a Platonic dialogue with myself, and both sides of myself are winning.
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Reading The Economist on the decline of car usage by young people.
As an economic, and social imperative we need to design the urban environment to enable car-free living.
“The city of Jacksonville, Florida, for instance, spreads across 875 square miles. With around 1m residents, that makes it only about twice as densely populated as the whole of England, only around 8% of which is classified as “urban”.”
It seems that “car-free” behaviour can persist, which gives me hope for change.
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The Convivial Society - The prompt box
I care far less about whether an AI is sentient than I do about the fact that in certain states an AI could, bereft of motive or intention, so easily trigger or reinforce the darkest patterns of thought in our own heads.
And this is to say nothing of how those tilting toward violence could likewise be goaded into action—a senseless technology mimicking our capacity for sense inducing what we call senseless acts of violence.
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Finished reading: The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson 📚
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Proud of my brother, winning a VES Award for Avatar 2 - WetaFX on Twitter
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Watched Everything Everywhere All at Once 🍿
