It’s easy enough to dismiss these birds [pigeons] as rats with wings, but if we hate them for their ubiquity, adaptive success and propensity to make life unpleasant for species that want to share their space, then maybe that’s just because they’re stealing our shtick.
— From Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable clothing’ He was right, I suppose. Although possibly also a trifle smug.
— from Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of “growing out of it”.
This is the person they have chosen to be.
Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends:
No. 5 No. 68.
The rest is all groups, pages and ads.
Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, but the impact is dramatic.
Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails.
This is a different approach to AI.