Has anyone read any fiction recently that references the pandemic/Covid in a way that isn't central to the narrative? Like Ali Smith's Summer — it's there, it gets a bit of attention, but it's not the main focus.
Torn between wondering why the hell the Beeb booked Steve Baker as their Token Tory, and thrilling at him watching him finally being made to squirm like the skewered bug that he has always been
So, the techbros are minimising cognitive load by getting rid of the sentence-generating bottleneck and maximising reading potential by getting rid of difficult words?
Going all Ray Bradbury would get them to the same place with lower carbon emissions.
The hill I will die on is that trains need to be longer: nine-car minimum. Ideally eleven or thirteen. No more five-car services with needless first class. Give us the longbois.
super excited for the day AI will be able to take over the most tedious tasks of daily life such as making art, engaging with art, maintaining human relationships, etc., so that I can focus on my true passion: creating value for shareholders
After watching the last Doctor Who, iPlayer automatically started playing Rose (2005) and it is an ABSOLUTE trip. How on earth did RTD talk them into a second episode?
Add food, ruin* film
Babette’s Meat Feast
* I would watch the hell out of all these films (I recognise mine is essentially cheating as ‘Feast’ already suggests food)
My Marvel What If-style inflection point is if my secondary school saxophone teacher had let me play jazz instead of forcing me to do classical grades.
Nobody takes up the sax to tootle bad transcriptions of waltzes. ☠️ 🎷
my 14: I don’t want to take lessons anymore I’ll never play cello or piano anyway.
me: You have to go until you’re 16 then you can quit if you want.
my 14 at this moment: *upstairs with a friend putting on an absolute fucking clinic of a piano show*
Exam question. Given that Josh has deadlines for his writing and his marking, should he be:
a) marking
b) writing
c) messing around with topic modelling
