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Against friction

Russell Davies

Russell Davies

25 Apr 2026 — 1 min read
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Against friction

I have a thought bubbling under; I'm worrying that if we celebrate friction it'll lead us astray. I talked it out loud

and I'm going to collect some links

Our Longing For Inconvenience

People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
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What are you working on?

What are you working on?

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Notes and links - 28th June 2026

Notes and links - 28th June 2026

"Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides" The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AILeaked audio from Accenture says

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Walking Slow

Walking Slow

I've embarked on another pointless, slow and unmonetisable project. I call it Walking Slow although that is a bad name. I always find that the most poignant things on YouTube are those street scenes from 50 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, NOT THAT LONG ago.

26 Jun 2026
A screen grab saying 'FINDINGS' and an episode title

For 41256/41233/4764 fans

Findings (may not work)

21 Jun 2026

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