Tastes of the week,
Days fly by,
Talks, words and writing,
Family, friends and art.
Full Week
I’ve had a really full week. It was Eve’s Birthday on Wednesday and we went out to eat the Vegan tasting menu at Gauthier Soho. Our second time there, but out first since they gave up their star to go fully vegan. It was … a-amaz-ing.
Here’s a couple of plates:
I also gave a talk this week, but the real effort around it has been the fact the text has become much longer than an hour long talk … and I’m not totally sure what to do about it. I’ve written 17k words and i’m still not done.
Here’s a slide. Look how happy I am about the subject.
We went out again to eat with Eve’s family yesterday lunchtime, and then had a few people over for drinks quiet drinks in the evening. Eve got given a Ross Muir print as a present. 😍
On The Blog
A bit quiet around here as I’ve been extremely busy. The Great Archive Project of 2025 continues however. Deep cut episodes of 301 are now online right the way back to Episode 23 of 2018.
Quarterly zine; my gift to you ✉️
Photo 365
The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- PROJECT ENTRY might expand to be bigger – more news soon.
- Doing that talk. still typing and writing
- Podcast starts again next week
- Signed off my bio for the BBC report I contributed to
- Heard from someone who has built their phd around my solarpunk work – honoured.
Terminal Access
Gordon wrote about David Lynch and the Elvish Model of Loss
So the Elvish model of loss is one in which we lose things and we lose things and we lose things and that’s just what happens when an age ends. Other good things will happen, and better things will come, but not on timelines that mortals will understand.
Dipping the Stacks
Breaking down what Eliza, the open-source agent development framework, actually delivers, why it matters, and where its limits lie.
The State of Chinese Science – Journal #150
While China isn’t at the frontiers of basic scientific research in all fields, it is certainly at the frontier of its application to everyday life as inexpensive and functional technologies available to a wide base of ordinary people. The medium is the method.
The American Climate Corps is over. What even was it?
But the American Climate Corps’ thousands of members across the country will keep their jobs, at least for the time being. That’s in part because the Climate Corps isn’t exactly the government jobs program people think it is.
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, the trend among undergraduates in the last decade is clear: Between 2011 to 2020, not just literature but almost everything humanities-related is down by double-digit percentages. The corresponding growth of the S.T.E.M. fields was even more pronounced.
Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans | TechCrunch
So NotebookLM’s team decided that some “friendliness tuning” was in order, and posted a self-deprecating joke about it on the product’s official X account:
After we launched interactive Audio Overviews, which let you “call in” and ask the AI hosts a live question, we had to do some “friendliness tuning” because the hosts seemed annoyed at being interrupted.
Reading
Still re-reading Autobiography of a Yogi. Still reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. Still chipping away at Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh.
Still reading the Gaunt’s Ghost‘s book series. Finished book #13, Finished the anthology, now onto book #14!
Music
Baby Needs to Vape – Cloudy Heart x Grimes AI
I’m really not sure whats going on here. Cloudy is a (virtual?) influencer art project? that also has a meme coin. It’s all very 2025. Song with Grimes’ AI voice model is v.good tho.
Remember Kids:
But the success story was also a matter of timing. The chip was born just when the computer was starting to grow up.
The Chip by T. R. Reid
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