Västerbotten bound
I said I had announcements, and I wasn’t kidding. I’m doing a bunch of public stuff this month, which is nice—not least because it gets me out of the house.| Velcro City Tourist Board
I can think of few people in the pro-AI academic space whose writing betrays such a desperate yet frustrated desire to be affirmed and approved of by those whose ranks he once aspired to join.| Velcro City Tourist Board
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.| Velcro City Tourist Board
This Vice piece on “British Chaos” content cropped up in Jay Springett’s weeknotes, and with it came a sense of recognition. The phenomenon of their global visibility may be somewhat new—though there was a similar flurry back in the late Noughties and early Teens, as online video started to get established—but without my having seen any of the stuff mentioned, I found myself able to put faces and mannerisms to almost every character described.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Who is Paul Graham Raven? | www.velcro-city.co.uk
Few things hurt quite so much as a confrontation with one's obsolete exceptionalisms.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Sean Monahan, reporting from what seems to be the frontline of a nation speed-running the descent into decadence:| Velcro City Tourist Board
My firm, Magrathea Futures AB, turned two years old yesterday. I started looking at statistics on business survival rates to see how that measures up against the context, but very quickly decided against further spelunking in the dark waters of quantification. I’m still going, and that’s what matters.| Velcro City Tourist Board
From Rest of World:| Velcro City Tourist Board
I think I would have first heard about the practice of the morning pages during my Masters, if not before then. I further think that I was put off the idea by the name; mornings were not a thing with which I was well acquainted for many, many years, and the idea of actually getting up in the morning (whether absolute or relative) and sitting down to write before anything else, even breakfast, was less absurd than it was simply unthinkable.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Attention conservation notice: this post is one of a series of five such posts which excerpt from the chapter whose citation details are below.| Velcro City Tourist Board
The last couple of weeks have been mentally sluggish, which should come as no surprise after the frankly relentless (but nonetheless invigorating) pace of late April and the whole of May. That period coupled a frantic rate of output with a genuine jouissance in the work itself, but I had to sacrifice more than a few weekends to hit all the dates and deadlines, and on some level I knew I’d have to pay for it in the long run.| Velcro City Tourist Board
I said I had announcements, and I wasn’t kidding. I’m doing a bunch of public stuff this month, which is nice—not least because it gets me out of the house.| Velcro City Tourist Board
