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Notes and links - 10th of May
Some great stories from Priya Parker about how to express a point of view in a contrary context A good way to think about working with AI
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Notes and links - 26th April
"There is also the widely reported multi-person Microsoft Teams call in which a financial department employee was manipulated by an AI-generated deepfake of their own CFO, alongside other AI-generated “colleagues,” into wiring more than 25 million U.S. dollars to Hong Kong bank accounts (Microtime). Whatever else that incident
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Notes and links - 5th April
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worryingLLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocityThe GuardianKevin T Bakergilest.org: AI and the human voiceThe
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Notes and links - March 22nd
Not many tickets left for Interesting: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-2026-tickets-1569883246049 A good way to be famous: @sundanceorg When a nervous Ethan Hawke first met Robert Redford, Redford offered guidance that left a lasting impression. Ethan shared this story at Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert
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Notes and links - 22nd February
oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw — GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️⚧️🎄 (@glairedaggers.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T23:07:39.184Z Now is a good time to shut up about AI (Incidentally, 'now is a good time to shut up about...' would make a good ongoing series) My humanities
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Notes and links - 15th of February
In Defense of Fakes An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on MeScott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon WillisonThe Financialisation of The
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Notes and links - 8th February
"Where we are with agentic AI feels a lot like the cloud computing boom of 20 years ago. Marketed on claims of efficiency and flexibility, its big innovation was to remove friction between a company’s operating expenses and revenue lines of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Whereas project purchasing
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Notes and Links - 30th November
"Researchers have found that listening to music can reduce dementia risk by 39 per cent in older adults." https://www.instagram.com/p/DRRHaOjj-G5
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Notes and Links - 23rd November
A solid read on population/migration etc: https://archive.is/r8ZP5#selection-1595.0-1608.0 Ray Bradbury on putting stuff in your head: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ8XAAsDVll "No, you did not teach yourself to cook" / recipes for gumbo: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/dining/joan-didion-thanksgiving.