Currently reading: Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre 📚
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\nI’d much prefer to be guarding small and containable amounts of nuclear waste than having to deal with the global effects of carbon emissions
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@adzebill.bsky.social Depends on who the listeners are and what impact it has on them I guess!
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🔗 Everyone Arguing About Whether the Midjourney Scanner Can Replace An…, Matt Schwartz
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🔗 Agency IS a Virtue, Actually, Dr. Gena Gorlin
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@jamiemchale.com Staying a very short walk from a flamingo colony! 🦩
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\n🔗 Slop Readers, Jacob Falkovich
\n\n\nHere’s the trick: the substance comes from volition, and the volition, for now, is all human. LLMs can’t write good if you tell them “write something for my catering page”. You’re not giving them any substance, and they won’t bring their own. LLMs write fine enough if you tell them exactly what you want to say and to whom and how, the whole structure of argument and motivation and your personal connection to it. But if you get that far, why let Claude be the only one who hears what you wanted to say? Just publish the prompt.
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🔗 W...
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Jack watching the boat at Brighouse with his gran 📸
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🔗 What Will Be Scarce?, Alex Imas
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Boutique, prestige, local, status enhancing, caring
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@lukasrosenstock.net maybe they are addicted to feeling things in their body rather than trying to get fit or healthy
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/04/07/how-social-media-shortens-your/","date_published":"2026-04-07T06:40:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie McHale","url":"https://www.jamiemchale.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4511be58654917f6f718ed5aeabbee14%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jamiemchale"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-07 06:40","date_timestamp":1775544001,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87636802","content_html":"I don’t fancy meditating in graveyards, or lugging a human skull around, so I make my own memento mori from words I can repeat to myself.\nIf years were letters, the average human lifespan would not be longer than this sentence.
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Happy Easter folks!
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🔗 You Are Not a Function, Brendan McCord
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@jamiemchale.com Thank you!
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t4pnyauyasdlgunp2yimrdgu/post/3mellsgvf522n","date_published":"2026-02-11T13:35:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie McHale","url":"https://www.jamiemchale.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4511be58654917f6f718ed5aeabbee14%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jamiemchale"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-11 13:35","date_timestamp":1770816908,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83953438","content_html":"@jamiemchale.com There was a range from “I vibe coded this” to “This uses this AI tool or technique”. I think it’s basically anything that’s interesting in some way.
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\nThey don’t have a calendar set up (I think they are going to do this) - event running every two weeks between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Requirement going forward is that everyone demos.
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