Worth keeping an eye on: The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think)

Good luck on writing that five year business plan, folks.

(Says the man deep in writing a feature about the office of 2030…)


This week’s swimming lessons inspiration.

A quote on a whiteboard reads, "It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves" by Sir Edmund Hillary, accompanied by a simple drawing above it.

Sunrise up on the Downs.

A scenic sunrise casts a colorful glow over a landscape with silhouetted trees and a grassy field.

Beach sunset.

A rocky beach is bathed in the warm colors of a dramatic sunset, with an sea view and Worthing visible on the skyline.

It’s normally late February or March before we dig the bikes out, but today was such a lovely, mild sunny day, we dragged them out of the garage, pumped the tyres and went for a cycle up and round the fort.

A yellow mountain bike with disc brakes is lying on a paved surface.

A winged maple seed fell from a tree, landing on the page of the book I was reading. The world was going about the work at hand. Survival and renewal were literally in the air.

From the introduction to Visualizing Nature edited by Stuart Kestenbaum 📚


Started reading: Visualizing Nature by Stuart Kestenbaum 📚

Picked it up cheap in an Islington bookshop. Looking forward to it.


Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media:

Also you have the right to check their papers, as in to demand they prove to you their commitments and beliefs, and their unwillingness to do so on demand is a sign of culpability too. Have they properly condemned the recent something or other? It is not your job to find proof; it is this complete stranger’s obligation to offer it up, and there is no reason they would not if they were not guilty as charged. Condemn them for insufficient condemnation issuance.

This is amazingly funny, but you’re a better person than I if you don’t wince, too.


Manuel Moreale:

I’ll start sounding like a broken record but, at this point, I don’t care: social media was and still is a mistake. Enough people all bunched together in the same space with the ability to quickly interact with each other will produce more harm than good.


I’m not saying AI is Apple’s achilles heel.

But