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Today’s TDC says:
Dan Hon wrote a clever script (and recipe) to train an A.I. to generate British placenames. There just could be places such as “Chorkwheal”, “Storton of Brook”, and “Kinindworthorpe Marmile”, right?
I chose Howelyple, and headed over to NightCafe. I asked for:
In a village called Howelyple, A lone cow stands in a field in front of a cow barn. There is a village church with a stee…
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Bookmarked: AI, tools and transformation — Benedict Evans Do you want to work out how to deploy an LLM-enabled voice analytics tool in your call center? You’re probably going to call Accenture. The vendors themselves have always been happy to help, and now the big labs have their own ‘deploycos’ - we used to joke that a ‘machine learning scientist’ is a statistician who lives in San Francisco, so maybe a ‘forward deployed engineer’ is anyone that OpenAI hired from a systems integrator. On the ot…
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Bookmarked: Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For Time Series: A Visual Guide | Towards Data Science
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I was very circumspect during Blaugust. I didn't post about AI even once. Just a few ironic asides, here and there. It was tough, though. It's just so much more interesting to write about than most of the other options.
Here's the thing: putting to one side for the moment, if you can, all the appalling collateral damage the rush to dominate the AI space is causing - pollution, climate chaos, mass unemployment, wholesale theft of intellectual property, the imminent collapse of the global economy…
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The title of this post comes from the last line of Joseph Fasano's poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper", but to me, it encompasses so much more than that.
For people have always yearned for an easier way—to fudge the numbers, or to outright cheat. At times, there's a valid strategy here. Many things in life are not worth putting 100% of your effort into, and knowing when to go all gas no brakes is sacred wisdom. There are people who work hard their entire lives and have nothing to s…
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This is the fifth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series.
These are the previous posts in this series:
the joys of imperfection
Do we really need the latest tech
My e-reader made me a worse reader
Not everything needs to be in the cloud
The inspiration for this post came to me in three ways.
Yesterday, I had a short talk with Rishi, he asked me what a better way of saying “anti big tech”, and I responded “pro human”.
Soon after that interaction, I watched a video that depressed me and ma…
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It's the last day of Blaugust so I guess I'd better scrape together some kind of summary of how my Blaugust has been. I just checked Krikket's invaluable calendar and I see it's also the last day of "Lessons Learned" week, which I thought didn't start until the event was over, so you can see how much attention I've been paying.
I can say for certain that I enjoyed it more than last year but that's not necessarily the ringing endorsement it could be, since at this time last year I was wondering w…
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What is art? Baby, don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more... by generating images through AI and then claiming that they look good as emotes.
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In the past few days, Debian has held a lengthy and rather bureaucratic vote on how the project will handle genAI and LLM contributions moving forward. There were eight possible options, ranging from a ban to full acceptance, decided by Debian's Condorcet voting system.
The winner was for permissive usage, #5 "Responsible Use of Generative AI" proposed by Marc Haber. Disclosure of AI use is encouraged, not required, and the policy explicitly ducks the copyright status question. To get into the w…
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Developed by: Retro Studios
Published by: Nintendo
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2 (Reviewed), Nintendo Switch
Release Date: Out Now!
This Blaugust feels as though it’s flown by; and for my penultimate post, I’m here with my second review of the month! Just like last week, my aim is to keep my review relevant to the weekly theme. Week 4 of Blaugust is “Staying Motivated” week, so I’ve decided to finally write up my thoughts on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which I finished off earlier this year.
So why…
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Hand-crafted with pure creativity and madskillz back in a day
Time to touch this hot topic a bit, today’s gaming news recap was full of AI related news, opinion pieces and interviews, feel like it’s a good time to look at it from my angles today. Not gonna do any moral and ethical grandstanding here, because I don’t think I’m a beacon of ethics and moral myself and I surely play/use/consume other things that aren’t clean from ethics and moral perspective.
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Subtitle: Reflection on blogging, and the struggles of sharing
For those who don’t know, Blaugust is a writing challenge to write 31 blog posts during the month of August. If you’re new to my blog, it’s nice to meet you!
Writing with a laptop, stock image by Nick Morrison
I only planned to get the bronze award, which is to just write five blog posts (~1 a week). And this is the last one. Very grateful I did it. It gave me a chance to update my blog with some much needed fixes, including:
Added a…
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I started playing Elite: Dangerous in the past couple days, trying to actually give it a fair shot instead of getting aggravated because I couldn’t figure out how to do something between calls. It’s going….well, it’s going. After a ton of battling my controls, I can fly at least, fly without immediately crashing into things. And without whipping out my weapons at the drop of a hat, that is improvement at least.
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Due to recent reports about “AI”/LLM/“agent” tools and services, I have growing concerns that the #security properties of the open web are changing, or have already changed, in practice, to a degree that we haven’t seen in many years.This past week’s articles / reports on further investigations and details of the OpenAI Hugging Face intrusion / incident: * OpenAI report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf* 2026-08-2…
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OpenAI:
Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. […] We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts.
What a remarkable statement—and accusation—to make publicly. Such comments are generally couched in opaque corporate speak. Points to OpenAI…
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Whoops I have nothing prepared today either. Let’s talk about AI writing. People love talking about AI writing, don’t they?
Everyone knows that AI is quite bad at creative writing, however there’s one area where I think AI writing is perfectly acceptable, and that’s technical writing.
Technical writing doesn’t have to be creative. It’s just there to communicate information concisely and accurately, so that the reader can absorb and use that knowledge, or use it as a reference.
In the day job I’v…
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At this year's Gamescom, I had the chance to talk to the developer of MIMIC, an upcoming asymmetric social deduction game inspired by The Thing and Alien: Isolation!
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Fourteen books (and one play) I love that tell you about me lilithesque Thu, 27 Aug 2026 - 12:05
by lilithesque, Tue September 01, 2026
Disclaimer: Nothing at all connects the books listed below, except that in a Most-Dog-Eared-And-Dropped-In-The-Bath-Paperback competition of all time, these would be my top entries.
I bring you this list, dear reader, not to say these are the best or even my favourite books I’ve ever read; not even to further expand your TBR or to assert any undeniably objective…
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So it's Thursday and I haven't posted to the blog since Sunday, and I don't think I have another post in me. This was my first crack at #Blaugust and, to be honest, I lasted a lot longer than I expected.
I can't remember another recent sustained writing spell, and not one that has gone for so long. I did clear out the drafts folder – what's left are some incoherent thoughts that need more than a light massage – and I broke the writing dry spell as well. So it's been a positive experience. Would…
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Once I run Arch Linux, THEN I’ll truly be a technical person… right? Right? Learning new things from Cat Hick’s book: Psychology of Software Teams. Dr. Cat Hicks Lucky how many of these traps I’ve either missed or never had the time to fall into. As a bio-person no one was there to tell me I can’t program or learn Machine learning or build an AI company… so I did.
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Everybody hold your breath, this post is about AI, but it has nothing to do with stealing artwork or data center overcrowding. It’s a practical guide to using agentic AI assistants, something I don’t see written down very often. Usually I only see AI written about as a nebulous malevolent force hiding behind a foggy shroud of distrust.
By way of introduction, and as a way to shoehorn a different draft into this post, I pose the question: Is AI something new, or is AI merely this generation’s ver…
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It was near the end of April when I interviewed the creator of Bubbles.town, Benjamin Behnke, and I feel as though I've been using the platform for enough time to give a more long-term review of it now. Here are some of my thoughts, and if you disagree with any please drop a comment!
The Good
I want to start with the positive, which is that I've discovered and continue to find new blogs on a wide variety of interesting topics thanks to Bubbles. Blogs about family genealogy, wonderful illustrator…
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Mozilla and Twitch are putting the burden on users to say "no" to AI instead of asking them to say "yes".