Prompting đź”—
I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example fr [...]
Derek Kedziora
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Beyond the ken of mortals đź”—
The reading for my MA programme in Buddhist studies took an interesting turn to Don Cupitt, who was something of an intellectual for the idea of Chris [...]
Unintended values đź”—
There’s a thoughtful piece making the rounds called Phantom Obligation. The argument is that RSS readers took their design inspiration from emails, th [...]
The academic-hobbyist divide in fish keeping đź”—
Reddit and other online sources of aquarium info are both vexing and all hobbyists really have access to. Reddit is dominated by a lot of people who j [...]
Now—November 2025 🔗
I knew, but I don’t think I actually knew knew just how all encompassing a baby is. At over six months in, life is finally settling from the chaotic f [...]
Building cities đź”—
I go back and forth with periods of writer’s block for this blog / microblog / whatever this is. But I think I’m back again. This time, my focus is go [...]
Humans and Pandas đź”—
As my six-month old daughter is sprouting teeth and making mostly unsuccessful attempts to crawl, I’ve been thinking a lot about fertility. Too much o [...]
Literalism and the decline of literacy đź”—
Literacy standards have been falling, and the current generation of university students is the first in the post-war era to have declining IQs. Anecdo [...]
Also done with second braining đź”—
I’ve spent way too much time productivity hacking and fiddling with the perfect PKM (personal knowledge management) system. And I’d increasingly been [...]
The ideology of the tool đź”—
I’ve previously written about how there’s something creepy and very sexual lurking behind a lot of the people into “AI”, primarily men who can’t hand [...]