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knocking a tedious but necessary chore off my to-do list after 5 years by writing a short prompt, getting Claude to write a script, and having `llm` churn over a folder full of files 20 minutes to do a half day job and I feel totally vindicated in my colossal procrastination

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The Juvet Agenda: 25 questions about the future of AI in society, from the dawn of gen-AI in 2017 juvetagenda.org

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what does my head in about this beatboxing is that it's all the human mouth and the Pleistocene was 2 MILLION YEARS so odds are some pre-historic proto-human was banging rocks and spitting weird synth beats under the Milky Way on the African savannah, and we will never hear youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?...

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the UK sugar tax approach doesn't work for me. glucose is reduced... but then manufacturers just add aspartame artificial sweeteners break my natural calibration of sweetness and calories and also I find drinks with aspartame are crazy addictive it's increasingly hard to find non-aspartame sodas.

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had separate calls this week with young product designers and technologists in India and China and holy moly I get so much energy even just speaking with these talented, focused, keen, positive individuals the UK should be facing east, partnering and learning as much as possible, with open hands

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Reading this from @genmon.fyi and nodding all the way through, including the update at the end... www.interconnected.org/home/2025/01...

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I'm excited about this talk: @wired.com + Kyndryl are hosting a tight 2 hrs 15 mins online event on AI and the impact on business I'll be rambling on about AI agents for 18 mins in the middle, live from a green screen somewhere in Wapping register here 👉 registration.rethinkai.wired.com/digital25

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people are really leaning into doing work video calls in otherwise-quiet cafes hey

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I wonder at what point Adam Curtis will include his own archive report of a dog that says sausages in one of his new docs

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me looking at the text-based settings in VS Code: ugh I can’t find anything why isn’t there a UI also me in the settings UI in Xcode: ugh this is a fiasco just make it a config text file

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Looking forward to listening to the In Our Time on the evolution of lungs. Two guests previously appeared on one of my fave ever episode, the fish-tetrapod transition www.braggoscope.com/2025/06/12/t...

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totally sniped by this question and I have to close my Wikipedia window before it eats my entire afternoon

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I haven't changed my conference profile pic for years, and I do wonder what people think when dorian gray is swapped out and a haggard old man comes on and starts talking at them

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rather than Liquid Glass, which feels like an end-stage refinement of OS UI, I would have preferred an anarchic re-imagining of the days of Kaleidoscope theming let me treat my phone like a WinAmp skin kaleidoscope.hryjksn.com

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ChatGPT is down? Could be a state-sponsored IQ attack (post from 2023) interconnected.org/home/2023/11...

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no fix listed in the watchOS 26 developer release notes 😔 pls tim apple make my airpods work again

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Vaccinated against all the things

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Let’s say I needed a one year, one day/wk fellowship at a prestigious and probably academic AI institution for uh philosophical reasons, somewhere to incubate a particular concept, then who should I speak with?

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Some things I’m in: two upcoming talks and a podcast episode interconnected.org/home/2025/06...

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The Netflix Originals red N is such an anti-signal to me, I immediately assume it’s minute-by-minute-honed attention-farming prestige slop Which is unfair! I’m sure there is a ton of amazing red N stuff So how do I distinguish? I need like a BBC One/Two/Three/Four breakdown

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I wish I had the engineering chops for this, it sounds amazing — will be watching Marker closely Work with Jani!

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cute names for operating systems is so millennial coded

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"fun" banking snafu: replacement business credit card sent to wrong address → bank cancelled that but ALSO my existing card → replacement replacement card has not yet arrived → all my monthly business payments are bouncing → will the card arrive before dunning runs out and my sites get deleted?

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