µblog - archive for 2024-07 🏳️‍🌈

🔗 Abigail Nussbaum: “A Political History of the Future: What We Talk About When We Talk About AI”

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🔗 Pivot to AI: “CalcGPT: bringing the magic of AI to basic arithmetic”

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🔗 Mike Chisnall: (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea

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🔗 Kevin Beaumont: What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’

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I review Iain M. Banks’ Matter for the 3rd time:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#matter

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Look to Windward is better than I remembered 20 years ago:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#look-to-windward

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🇸🇪 på väg till Gotland. Vi har bestämt oss för att endast bese öns berömda stenformationer om vi raukar köra förbi dom.

Uppdatering: vi såg raukarna vid Långhammars, dom var faktiskt otroliga.

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Congrats England on not losing to penalty shootouts as usual.

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I rate Inversions above Excession, but only just:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#inversions

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Excession edges out Player of Games as the worst Culture novel so far. It was a slog.

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#excession

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🔗💀 Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality

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Use of Weapons is the best Culture novel, there are six more books to go to change my mind:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#use-of-weapons

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Finished The Player of Games:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#player-of-games

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🔗📸 Dante Stella: Expired film is

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I started a re-read of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels:

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Culture-reread.html#consider-phlebas

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Time to re-read the Culture series. I’ll even try to brute-force my way through The Player of Games.

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🔗 On Burnout, Mental Health, And Not Being Okay

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The enemies in #EldenRing usually have pretty cool names. “Ancient Dragon-Man” is a rare exception.

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