PU #251 - WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS - Inaction and Foreseen Consequences

“What began a few years ago as a gnawing discomfort I had about how quickly people were outsourcing their thinking and creativity to generative Large Language Models (LLMs) now feels like being one of the few people who noticed a pattern of minor symptoms (coughs and rashes) appearing in the years before a deadly plague wiped out a whole civilisation.“

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PU #249 - DON'T HATE THE HEAT, HATE CAPITALISM - Thinking Clearly in a Heatwave

“I guess we should talk about the heat. Mainly because it was all consuming, and the idea there was anything else to think about this week melted out of me somewhere around Thursday night as I lay in bed in a pool of sweat for the third night in a row, cursing capitalism….“

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73. OF NESTS AND PALIMPSEST - Am I Really Making An Aesthetic Choice?

“I have always loved chaotic collage and my childhood bedroom walls quickly became an ever-evolving palimpsest of posters, pictures, postcards, photos, and things I’d cut out of newspapers or magazines, their content adapting over the years alongside my tastes but generally maintaining the same ragged aesthetic; an aesthetic initially limited to a single cork noticeboard on a nicely painted wall but eventually sprawling out and taking over everything until, at one mad point, I was even hanging posters upside down on my ceiling, occasionally waking startled in the night as they lost their battle with gravity and came crashing down on my face.“

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