In this video, Stephen Fry narrates Nick Cave’s letter, which argues that using ChatGPT as a shortcut to creativity is detrimental. Surprisingly, I found myself in agreement. Having been involved in …

Shorthand to make your handwriting worse than it is: https://orthic.shorthand.fun/ This one feels like a direct attack given my recent mini tongue-in-cheek rant: …

I’m on the last book of the Long Earth Series, The Long Cosmos and reading it makes me sad and wistful. Perhaps it’s knowing that Terry Pratchett didn’t live to see it published, perhaps it’s the little hints and hooks of Discworld. Whatever it is, there are parts of the book where I laugh out loud, like when Sancho …

“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel,” Hong Kong of the Desert So goes …

Completely randomly on mastodon I came across this wonderful tool via Ada. It’s not fancy, it’s a funky looking, but I was instantly in love. Here it is: Giant Heart Poetry It has a syllable counting …