alexmaclaren.bsky.social
Reading, cooking, counting my blessings
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‘Footer bags?’
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😬 I’m him too, I’m afraid. Do post any marriage saving strategies you come across
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Very much liked this, and pace J Ganesh Linda Jaivin’s Shortest History of China is a belter
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Yes indeed, precisely. The narcissism and self-pity are off the scale.
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I wonder what the Mail said!
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The Daily Mirror, I think, unless you are referring to some other Mail connection?
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You’re right, and I’ll always remember my bitterness toward the 2010-11 Opposition that let the huge fraud of it take root.
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They’ve been taught, and many believe, that writing is just having the idea. And are in for a rude awakening when they try to break into the industry.
I’ve read a lot of game screenplays as a hiring manager. I never judged the IDEA; it was all about the writing quality and characters
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For me ‘entrapments of its own design’ was the tell.
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"if the first AI systems are built with the wrong value systems, or they're built unsafely, that could be very bad." Would love a hopeful Bayesian calculation of the odds of this, because my priors are not opti-fucking-mistic.
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Since Vandross the very name has become extremely sexy
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So, whatever?
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That this is almost too good to be true needs to be noted. On thebother hand I dread what the internet has done to my capacity for trust.
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That does look good. That imprint is new to me, but it seems has been around for yonks!
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Pics please, aint seen one
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I think the answer to your question is yes, these tools put copy editors out of work, and in my opinion the published copy suffers considerably, most noticeably during the pandemic when publishers rushed books out in a panic without the proper human attention to these matters.
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Concur. It's the bright, clever wedge in a door; a door that is could open to the legal annihilation of the creative economy. It ignores questions of consent and accountability in ways that should make Democracy itself vigilant.
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He's deleted his post, interestingly
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As much nonplussed as horrified: this is the perfect way to pollute your reputation and that of your collaborators. It's a colossal red flag, and I'm curious what it will take to repair the damage, if it's possible at all.
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I'm often contrasting two subtly different sensations with my clients: feeling 'seen' (comforting) with feeling 'watched' (stressful)
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@gralefrit.bsky.social FYI
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I’m an actor working in corporates on communication questions, and this is very interesting! I also wonder how cultural patterns may be relevant (research carried out in Japan)
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Ikiru is the opposite of bleak!
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I think the MF overture filmed by Bergman may be one of my favourite sequences in cinema, possibly the most profound
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Britten, man.
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What Chris says!
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I'm always sceptical when Scots hint at some innate 'bullshit detector' sixth sense, but when the Farages and Johnsons of this world deign to venture there, I notice they inevitably get battered; unlike in England where they are simply allowed to wang on indefinitely with their lies.
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'what posh people sounded like in the olden days' is the most hilarious disinformation campaign the world of stage/film/tv ever launched, and a lot of the time they didn't know they were doing it.
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Yes! Well reminded.
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I want Kent County Council to advertise this post for the library service: "Inspirational Librarian Warrior Chief (full time)"
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It does! though *sotto voce* I wish our library service were more effectively managed, as well as more adequately staffed and housed
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I think I did misread your post slightly!
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Unlike social care, the library statute is very loosely drafted; in my opinion libraries have both benefited and suffered from its binding/non-specific nature.
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I watch from East Kent with trepidation, particularly as I am familiar with the flakiness and delusion some of the people now in post.
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Libraries are a statutory obligation too, and in many ways act as a social care adjunct. Folkestone Library has been left closed when cuts at the Tory KCC meant a terrible 'warm, safe and dry' policy for public buildings (which results in buildings cold, dangerous and wet, and finally shut)
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THE PAIN
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You were thinking it would be good to have only one end open to pour the cornflakes out, to reduce staleness jeopardy (and you were right)
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He kept acting occasionally; in Last Orders he played the old friend of Michael Caine, with his son Nolan as the flashback version.
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They are extremely good at keeping shtumm militarily. I remember reading how difficult it was in 2022 for the Pentagon to establish intel sharing with Zaluzhny, because if he wasn’t talking to his own boss, why would he trust Milley & the US?
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Yeah it's true, there's a joy in both - I think I've recognised lately that mileage for it varies hugely from person to person. Stunt filming needs to retreat somehow once you've gasped; Michael B Jordan handing a roll-up to his twin brother/self in 'Sinners' was fun, then unobtrusive.
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FAOD it was still a brilliant production, but Patrick Marber has set the team a difficult technical challenge there - I'm very curious about how they did it, and what other solutions there may be.
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Mamet is really interesting on stuff like this: technical matters becoming a distraction from the story. Happens in theatre too: I watched #DealersChoice at the Donmar last week. They repeatedly turn over specific hands in the poker game, and the faking of this became a high-stakes jeopardy for me
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Makes me think of the ‘tons of volunteers, working for free’ economic model of the theatre experience that was ‘You Me Bum Bum Train’. Which suddenly acquires an ominous, tech-adjacent familiarity