ianmiles.bsky.social
Prof Emeritus, University of Manchester.
Research: foresight, innovation, services, soc change...
HE/HIM -don't mind, but dislike those who find pronouns offensive
No interest in sport
I love music, speculative fiction, play with words and colours....
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Like the tin.
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8) the gossip
9)the man's plainer
10) the disruptive imp
.... any more?
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7) the excuser. Instant ways of escaping boring conversations and getting out of tough spots.
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6) the PA that dies background research on everyone you meet, making you instantly aware of their tastes, relationships, past history. (TBH I can imagine a relatively benign version of this one, along with horror story variants)
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5) the PA as management consultant, forever thinking outside of the box.
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4)the PA that constantly tells you how you can monetise or market things, and provides you with the jargon and persuasive techniques to do so.
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3) the PA as trained to feed you witty reposts, or scathing criticisms, when things are being explained to you.
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2) the PA as bar room lawyer. Forever advising you that such and such a statement constitutes a verbal contract, that you can take other people to court on trivial grounds, etc...
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1) the personal assistant becomes flatterer. It whispers in your ear, telling you how brilliant you are, how what you are doing is the best establish, etc. (I imagine an AI that can hear and understand conversations etc, maybe through an earphone or ear ring.)
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An steroid?? Is that an asteroid on steroids? ThT seems most likely from it's erratic but powerful threatening behaviour.
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Rode Hall, sorry. www.rodehall.co.uk
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RODE Hall, not Rote. Apologies! Also failed to mention the metallic unicorns.
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Generated by AI?
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Please provide sources for the story about the *death not wheelchair" offering. Horrific if true.
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Not America First, but epoch-defining beercan prose here
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Canatra! pixels.com/featured/can...
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Important to explain that vaccination may not mean total immunity, but dies generally reduce the risk of severe infection. And to acknowledge that (rarely) there can be nasty side effects, not to deny the remote possibility and suppress all claims otherwise.
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Not a lot of people know this either, but if you have any bill with your UK address on it (council tax etc), you can get a public library card from pretty much any library system in the UK, even if you don’t live there. From there, mountains of online archives are yours for free.
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Not to mention my goat...
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Wait, I didn't have to spill some of my own blood too?
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So often people I know lost their manuscripts, usually on trains! For me just scarves, gloves...
I once retrieved a portable word processer I'd left in a phone booth at Victoria Station. Good thing, since I'd borrowed it.