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WEEKNOTE #448
Two Names of Everything
I’ve decided that internet SEO has pickled my brain, because I’ve also decided I prefer the way products are named online.
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WEEKNOTE #447
Back 3 It
I used my break to turn 41 years old, finish recording the next episode of Permanently Moved, engaged in some serious life admin, and…
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WEEKNOTE #445
Why We Should Start Naming Heatwaves
Listening to the rain arrive out the open window, I decided we should name heatwaves the same way as we do storms.
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WEEKNOTE #444
The Future Arrived in June
I often think that it’s best to explain that a climate model simulates a ‘possible world’ where a set of assumptions are allowed to…
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WEEKNOTE #443
Taste As Interface Behaviour
It’s an apparatus that observes you observing, then changes its own behaviour based on that observation, which in turn shapes the future view you…
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WEEKNOTE #442
The Backrooms as Permissive IP
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
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WEEKNOTE #441
Daily Averages
I still have a web time tracker extension installed in my personal browser profile. Six years later, here are my daily averages across that…
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WEEKNOTE #440
Telephone
Rumours talk hold when highly important events are shrouded in ambiguity in the presence of a censorious cultural environment.
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WEEKNOTE #439Just Sad
Grief is a process that has only a beginning, so I am trying not to mistake this first darkness for the whole sky.
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WEEKNOTE #438
Jubensha Con
On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha.
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WEEKNOTE #437
Turnstones
I can’t belive its MAY. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but then again, so are events.
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WEEKNOTE #436
Nearly Doable
I can honestly report that sending physical things to people is bloody brilliant.
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WEEKNOTE #435
Novel Cognition
The novel brought about a new kind of cognition; and why AI might be doing the same.
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WEEKNOTE #434
Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually
I think judging an LLM on it’s writing output is a complete category error. It’s what they possible with language that is important.
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WEEKNOTE #433
Easter 2026
Over Easter I hung out with my parents, went for walks, participated in a chaotic church raffle, and did a bunch of odd jobs…
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WEEKNOTE #432
Creative Loop
All a scene really is, is just people just prompting each other in a tight feedback loop.
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WEEKNOTE #431
Try Our Best
At the time of writing, we are about thirty hours from finding out whether the current global settlement is still to be or not.
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WEEKNOTE #430
Writing for the Machines
Maybe I should just admit to myself that all I really want, is for some small trace of me to live forever in the…
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WEEKNOTE #429
The Launch and the Climb
The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.
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WEEKNOTE #428
Up In Flames
This evening I just junked the whole thing and went with with a SaaS tool. So that was 12 solid hours spent this weekend…
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WEEKNOTE #427
The Firehose and the Feed
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer…
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Resale Realism
The size second hand economy is growing super fast in the UK, about 11% a year.
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WEEKNOTE #425
Large Language Numbers
I’ve been trying to get a better grip on what kind of world I’m actually living in right now.
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WEEKNOTE #424
Prompted to Panic
All week I’ve been thinking to myself ‘I’m not going to write about Moltbook, I’m not going to write about Moltbook’. But I’ve found…
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