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"A plain, unvarnished Preston man." Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Interests: AGI, books, food, futurology, historiographic metafiction, ideas, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity, writing
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Our man on "AI hype"

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From a March 2004 entry on my blog, a "Talk of the Town" Financial Page "Bring on the Nanobubble": archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/20... @newyorker.com. "Josh Wolfe[...] compares it to the Internet circa 1993[...]. He think the first big nanotech I.P.O. could happen in the next year."

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refal: Refal ("Recursive functions algorithmic language"; Russian: РЕФАЛ) "is a functional programming language oriented toward symbolic computations", including "string processing, language translation, [and AI]".

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Mid-70s Radio 4 Christmas Treat: it is not true that "Hitch-hiker" was the first sf on radio or even the first humorous sf. In the mid-70s, I remember listening with my brother to a humorous sf play on Radio 4. It must have been Christmas because we only got "The Radio Times" at Christmas

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I, for one...: techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/n...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

BEEF STEW!

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

submitted 95 days ago • 11 comments

Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: kk.org/thetechnium/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Ghost ship if I ever saw one.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

University of Bergen r/brutalism

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Eggs and Egg Products, Agriculture Canada (1973) Designed by Mary Brett

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timeline cleanse www.quantamagazine.org/after-20-yea...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Look what just arrived!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Jeff Bezos creating the new James Bond, as though he is Frankenstein. “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland spinoffs and TV shows that have significant viewership decline after the first episode.” Cartoon by Ellis Rosen @newyorker.com

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

Birds with sphincters, who's working on that? [legitimately why don't birds have sphincters on their cloaca? It's usually described as an adaptation for flight, but would it really add that much weight? Bats can control defecation]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment