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Grumpy, Sober and Taking Notes: Ten Modern Annoyances

A tour of the little things driving me quietly round the bend
Grumpy, Sober and Taking Notes: Ten Modern Annoyances
One of the things I've noticed since I gave up the booze (in May 2024) is that I'm an exceptionally judgemental person. I don't know where I get it from as my parents were really easy-going, tolerant folk. Not me. Hardly an hour goes by where I don't find something to moan and groan about. I thought perhaps I was just experiencing the common cognitive bias which psychologists call the 'fundamental attribution error'. That's the one where, for example, while driving you think that... read more
 

Breaking: AI unlikely to take over the world!

AI Isn't Coming for Your Brain – It Can Barely Sell You a Subscription
Breaking: AI unlikely to take over the world!
I'm sure you will have had some truck with AI of late, either as a user, an observer, or, increasingly, a victim. We all seem to be victims of AI at present. Every social media platform is rapidly filling up with 'AI slop' - machine generated content, either memes or videos that no matter how impressively realistic they are than last years 'AI slop', they remain annoyingly identifyable as 'AI slop'. Even if you're not a social media victim of this invasion, as an observer it’s hard... read more
 

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