Paul M. Cray
@pmc.bsky.social
"A plain, unvarnished Preston man." Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Interests: AGI, books, food, futurology, historiographic metafiction, ideas, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity, writing
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I sat next to a 25 year old on Monday night who controls an online audience the size of most nation states and he just sat as he heard about the idea of “the internet pre-MySpace” and asked if the pre-platform forum-based world was “just like the dark web?”
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I sat next to a 25 year old on Monday night who controls an online audience the size of most nation states and he just sat as he heard about the idea of “the internet pre-MySpace” and asked if the pre-platform forum-based world was “just like the dark web?”
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whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
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you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
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I stand by my original assessment that Quidditch is just a version of Rollerball.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I stand by my original assessment that Quidditch is just a version of Rollerball.
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There are lots of closer and better wineries, one of the many good things about (West) Seattle!
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
There are lots of closer and better wineries, one of the many good things about (West) Seattle!
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Maybe a trip to Chateau Ste Michelle is in order.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Maybe a trip to Chateau Ste Michelle is in order.
At Salford or DERA, there was definitely interesting stuff, but not really what you would call buzz
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
At Salford or DERA, there was definitely interesting stuff, but not really what you would call buzz
I had high hopes for my astronomy PhD at QMW, but, of course, that was a nearly complete bust too
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I had high hopes for my astronomy PhD at QMW, but, of course, that was a nearly complete bust too
Although I did some chums who did physics, I didn't on with the other people doing physics in my year at my college, so that whole aspect of it was a complete bust
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Although I did some chums who did physics, I didn't on with the other people doing physics in my year at my college, so that whole aspect of it was a complete bust
I mean there was some buzz at university and many good times with @celestialweasel.bsky.social, but it was mostly terrifying, both socially and academically
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I mean there was some buzz at university and many good times with @celestialweasel.bsky.social, but it was mostly terrifying, both socially and academically
I guess that's my problem diagnosed
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I guess that's my problem diagnosed
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The real buzz must come from within
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The real buzz must come from within
I have always wanted buzz from before going to university, but I have never found it. I thought there would be some here, but no
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I have always wanted buzz from before going to university, but I have never found it. I thought there would be some here, but no
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Buzz is IME always extremely localised (and I suspect even in the places it allegedly exists is largely fake / illusory / imaginary)
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Buzz is IME always extremely localised (and I suspect even in the places it allegedly exists is largely fake / illusory / imaginary)
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New national motto just dropped
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New national motto just dropped
Not really practicable unfortunately for various reasons. But is very noticeable than whilsf SF is supposedly the Wild West right now, there's nothing (or very little) here really and, definitely no buzz
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not really practicable unfortunately for various reasons. But is very noticeable than whilsf SF is supposedly the Wild West right now, there's nothing (or very little) here really and, definitely no buzz
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Maybe you need to move to the bay for a while?
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe you need to move to the bay for a while?
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I think a lot of the boarders are more from international UHNW families these days. I married into a family that was exclusively publicly educated and for our generation, across cousins and siblings, I think only one person is sending their kids (partial) board at a public school.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think a lot of the boarders are more from international UHNW families these days. I married into a family that was exclusively publicly educated and for our generation, across cousins and siblings, I think only one person is sending their kids (partial) board at a public school.
I mean most public schools have a mix of day/weekly boarders/termly boarders these days, so there probably is a mix of people at them plus all those minor public schools have to get their pupils somewhere
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I mean most public schools have a mix of day/weekly boarders/termly boarders these days, so there probably is a mix of people at them plus all those minor public schools have to get their pupils somewhere
Yes, but then who actually sends their kids to boarding school? Clearly some people do
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Yes, but then who actually sends their kids to boarding school? Clearly some people do
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Middle Middle may send kids to private school but not to a public school, I'd say.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Middle Middle may send kids to private school but not to a public school, I'd say.