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November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This is, incidentally, also true in physics
I tell people that the problem is not coming up with ideas, I think of a couple dozen of them a day. The real problem is knowing which of the damn things is any good for writing up. Most of them are junk. I have to let them roll around in my brain a while to find out which is which.
Do you have a clever/pithy/useful answer when people ask where you get your ideas? If so, can I steal it?
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is, incidentally, also true in physics
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I've been hiding this for a long time, but here it is. The real first roleplaying game, created in 1970: Crypt. I've created an annotated manuscript of this lost treasure trollish-delver-games.itch.io/crypt
Crypt by Trollish Delver Games
The first roleplaying game unearthed
trollish-delver-games.itch.io
September 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I've been hiding this for a long time, but here it is. The real first roleplaying game, created in 1970: Crypt. I've created an annotated manuscript of this lost treasure trollish-delver-games.itch.io/crypt
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Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Just a flavour:
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Just a flavour:
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.
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This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire
Forcing companies to create access pathways would insert vulnerabilities that could be exploited
www.irishtimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
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there’s some asshole professor on the local news
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
there’s some asshole professor on the local news
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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A bunch of Unbound authors DID reach out in March to the Society of Authors when Unbound went into administration.
SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.”
So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention
SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.”
So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention
For authors, The Society of Authors is here to help. If you have been affected – or want advice on your next deal – do get in touch. Your rights matter, says Anna Ganley 👇 #BookSky
www.thebookseller.com/comment/five...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/five...
Five lessons for authors from Unbound
How can authors protect themselves from a publisher's collapse?
www.thebookseller.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A bunch of Unbound authors DID reach out in March to the Society of Authors when Unbound went into administration.
SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.”
So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention
SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.”
So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention
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ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
May 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
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Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky
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Northwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freeze
While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…
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April 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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well you know what, three years ago today I ran eleven and a half miles at a pace of 10:00/mi and today I ran two miles in half mile increments with two minute walking breaks but I share this for anybody who's climbing back up a hill they already climbed once. we'll get there & it'll feel good
March 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
well you know what, three years ago today I ran eleven and a half miles at a pace of 10:00/mi and today I ran two miles in half mile increments with two minute walking breaks but I share this for anybody who's climbing back up a hill they already climbed once. we'll get there & it'll feel good
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Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists.
My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬
My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬
February 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists.
My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬
My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬
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Hello, people of bluesky, if you are just joining us—here is an old comic I made about Dracula
November 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Hello, people of bluesky, if you are just joining us—here is an old comic I made about Dracula
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you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
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love ppl who thirst to be intellectuals but could never cut it. the line is "heavy hangs the head that wears the crown" which is a misquote of Shakespeare, Henry IV, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." tl;dr these guys are ignoramuses but everything is tl;dr for them that's why they like AI.
This is it. The three most pathetic tweets ever twatted, all here in one devastating incel thread. Print this out and put it in the Louvre.
It's really insufferable in context
December 27, 2024 at 7:54 PM
love ppl who thirst to be intellectuals but could never cut it. the line is "heavy hangs the head that wears the crown" which is a misquote of Shakespeare, Henry IV, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." tl;dr these guys are ignoramuses but everything is tl;dr for them that's why they like AI.
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this is put very concisely and I just wanna report from middle age that you can fight this within yourself. it happens! you soften! but you just keep checking in with yourself and being sure that softening is toward people who are threatened, who have it worse than you. simple internal housekeeping!
everyone anywhere near the mainstream feels the way the wind is blowing and is looking for an excuse to move rightward to improve their standings in what comes next
December 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
this is put very concisely and I just wanna report from middle age that you can fight this within yourself. it happens! you soften! but you just keep checking in with yourself and being sure that softening is toward people who are threatened, who have it worse than you. simple internal housekeeping!
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“Well those people aren’t using these valuable resources or they aren’t using them correctly in our opinion” is the first step in every exploitative, colonizing action designed to facilitate structural theft.
December 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
“Well those people aren’t using these valuable resources or they aren’t using them correctly in our opinion” is the first step in every exploitative, colonizing action designed to facilitate structural theft.
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The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
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🎄Have Yourself a Quizzy Little Christmas🎄
The Irish Techie Table Quiz is back, it's a free fundraising for the Dublin Simon Community.
🗓️ Tue Dec 3, 18:30-21:00
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💟 Join us and the tech communities, and help spread the word of the event.
The Irish Techie Table Quiz is back, it's a free fundraising for the Dublin Simon Community.
🗓️ Tue Dec 3, 18:30-21:00
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November 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
🎄Have Yourself a Quizzy Little Christmas🎄
The Irish Techie Table Quiz is back, it's a free fundraising for the Dublin Simon Community.
🗓️ Tue Dec 3, 18:30-21:00
📍 Workday
🎟️ ti.to/irishgeeks/t...
💟 Join us and the tech communities, and help spread the word of the event.
The Irish Techie Table Quiz is back, it's a free fundraising for the Dublin Simon Community.
🗓️ Tue Dec 3, 18:30-21:00
📍 Workday
🎟️ ti.to/irishgeeks/t...
💟 Join us and the tech communities, and help spread the word of the event.
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