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@mattypenny the famine did have an impact in Strabane, whose population declined from 7,000 to 4,000. A scheme to relieve overcrowded workhouses deported at least six girls from Strabane to Australia, including three in 1848. So yes, quite dark. Irish Famine Memorial
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> all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.
What of the difference between how the brain makes links, with necessary economy, and how AI does it, profligately? How to triage what links matter?
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@bkryer I’m glad someone knows what this cat is thinking!
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> “a polished, erudite prose that had snap, sizzle, and complexity.”
That’s a standard worth celebrating.
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@bobdoto it’s back-and-forth for me too. My writing process oscillates between notes and drafts.
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@drwalt Isn’t it yes and no, no and yes? A car is like a horse & carriage except it isn’t. An ebook is like a book, but not. Blogging is like 17th century pamphleteering but different. Just talking in a cafe like Sartre might still be the very first step to forming ideas? What do you think?
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@chrisfoley Exactly so. I wrote a detailed content calendar once - which I’ve never looked at since.
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@chadkoh I’ve been enjoying your cherry blossom photos – especially since here in Australia the Autumn has just arrived.
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@bobdoto most recently and surely most reflexively ever, Eric Zimmer’s book was written this way too: How a Little Becomes a Lot.
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@cliff538 watch the classic mint cake comedy sketch — Not the Nine O’Clock News series 3 episode 3 (starts 19:56). You won’t regret it. The Archive
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@chrisfoley I’m keen on Doctorow’s idea of finding ‘subjects of interest’ from the bottom up, by writing and publishing, rather than by determining them in advance. Has that been your experience?
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@drwalt good example. The illusion of integrated thought is a problem, which is why I don’t publish absolutely everything just to see what sticks. Thoreau is an inspiration. He gradually honed his writing, so the ‘best’ version was in his books. For me, book writing and blogging are separate.
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@eclecticpassions your entire website is fantastic - thanks for letting me know about it. This is a prime example of why the indieweb is so great
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@eclecticpassions it is impressive and I can take exactly zero credit for a fabulous micro.blog plugin by Amit
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@nielsk and the real mural featured in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, which is very meta and amused us no end
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@amit This upgrade is fantastic! Thanks.
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@tibz Totally agree. Can’t stop listening to it.
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@manton Thanks - my site loads way faster now. But it seems to have broken the Search Space plug-in.
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@fromjason ‘reducing’, not ‘eliminating’?
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@numericcitizen
> “It’s hard to imagine the web without JavaScript, only as a collection of static, linked documents served by essentially passive file servers.”Isn’t client-side scripting the issue, not server-side? I’ve enjoyed using the Gemini Protocol via its Lagrange client (works with other simple protocols too e.g. Gopher). Maybe it’s too simple, but it’s also quite elegant. Excluding client-side scripting kills the benefits — but also some of the problems. Still, it’s hard to evangelise for these protocols. It’s like saying “Try this, it’s worse.” You either like it or you don’t.
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@tinyroofnail Thanks - great Ruskin quotes!
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@uk-news.bsky.social And it’s only taken ten years to notice.
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@cogdog well OK, but that’s a very impressive pile of bones you have there! This is giving me a lot of ideas
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@richardcarter H’m. There’s not clearly a single ‘best’ solution for this.