Lindsay
@lndsy.bsky.social
I like to walk & read. Everywhere.
Bookseller at @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social.
Bookseller at @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social.
Wonderful! www.independent.ie/regionals/wa...
Waterford home of international travel writer Dervla Murphy bought by local council
A treasured piece of Irish literary history has been acquired in perpetuity for the public in Waterford following a long-running campaign
www.independent.ie
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wonderful! www.independent.ie/regionals/wa...
Finished reading My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni today. An existentialist fable from the perspective of a beech marten. What does it mean to be animal? Are we better off not knowing? A unique novel, beautiful and cruel, strongly recommend! #booksky
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Finished reading My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni today. An existentialist fable from the perspective of a beech marten. What does it mean to be animal? Are we better off not knowing? A unique novel, beautiful and cruel, strongly recommend! #booksky
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OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.
Have developed a habit of reading and napping in the woods this summer and it is genuinely the best thing ever.
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Have developed a habit of reading and napping in the woods this summer and it is genuinely the best thing ever.
On it
Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.
August 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On it
I hate this piece. It is very good.
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I hate this piece. It is very good.
Retreating into the woods with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, searching for some sanity in this mad, mad world.
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Retreating into the woods with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, searching for some sanity in this mad, mad world.
What I wouldn’t give to have a root around in this collection! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Nick Cave fans swarm charity bookshop in UK after musician donates thousands of books
‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What I wouldn’t give to have a root around in this collection! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Tore through both of these this week. Fascinating, hilarious… boy, does North America ever get dealing with death wrong.
July 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tore through both of these this week. Fascinating, hilarious… boy, does North America ever get dealing with death wrong.
I would like to get off this dystopian ride now. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
arstechnica.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I would like to get off this dystopian ride now. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
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#WorldAlbatrossDay is celebrated annually on June 19 to raise awareness about the conservation crisis facing albatrosses and other seabirds. This Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans, Status: vulnerable) is from Joseph F Green's "Ocean Birds" (1887). www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380127 #ILoveBHL
June 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#WorldAlbatrossDay is celebrated annually on June 19 to raise awareness about the conservation crisis facing albatrosses and other seabirds. This Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans, Status: vulnerable) is from Joseph F Green's "Ocean Birds" (1887). www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380127 #ILoveBHL
Contemplating my next walk. Anyone done the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way?
June 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Contemplating my next walk. Anyone done the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way?
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This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is a hell of a thing to read.
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People think LLM stands for Large Language Model, but it's actually "Lots and Lots of Monkeys". This in an homage to the technology's origins where a million monkeys were chained to typewriters until one accidentally produced something resembling useful text. This model was deemed unsustainable.
May 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
People think LLM stands for Large Language Model, but it's actually "Lots and Lots of Monkeys". This in an homage to the technology's origins where a million monkeys were chained to typewriters until one accidentally produced something resembling useful text. This model was deemed unsustainable.
A sliver of hope amongst the AI slop.
"AI is so good at producing the expected that it's accidentally creating a market for the genuinely unexpected. Which means the future belongs to people willing to be professionally weird." www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...
"AI is so good at producing the expected that it's accidentally creating a market for the genuinely unexpected. Which means the future belongs to people willing to be professionally weird." www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...
Evidence of a Life Lived: The Final Human Signature
There's this thing that will eventually happen when you're scrolling through your third consecutive hour of AI-generated fashion campaigns at 1 AM, each one more perfectly calibrated to your aesthetic...
www.linkedin.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A sliver of hope amongst the AI slop.
"AI is so good at producing the expected that it's accidentally creating a market for the genuinely unexpected. Which means the future belongs to people willing to be professionally weird." www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...
"AI is so good at producing the expected that it's accidentally creating a market for the genuinely unexpected. Which means the future belongs to people willing to be professionally weird." www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...
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My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
May 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
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A big benefit to visiting local bookstores is that all the books we will recommend actually exist. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers
Newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated book list featuring made-up books by famous authors.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A big benefit to visiting local bookstores is that all the books we will recommend actually exist. www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
How cruel to have to spend the day in front of a computer screen when mornings with coffee and books like this exist.
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
How cruel to have to spend the day in front of a computer screen when mornings with coffee and books like this exist.
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My sweet little bookshop @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social turned one this weekend, and @pictongazette.bsky.social published this lovely piece today! pictongazette.ca/post/the-wan...
May 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
My sweet little bookshop @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social turned one this weekend, and @pictongazette.bsky.social published this lovely piece today! pictongazette.ca/post/the-wan...
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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
April 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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When @sinblache.bsky.social and I wrote PROPHET I worried we were writing our billionaire tech villains too cartoonish
we weren't
we weren't
A Startup Linked to Peter Thiel Wants to Build the "Next Great City" in Greenland
Funded to the tune of $525 million, Praxis aims to “revitalize Western Civilization” through a techno-libertarian city upon a hill
www.insidehook.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When @sinblache.bsky.social and I wrote PROPHET I worried we were writing our billionaire tech villains too cartoonish
we weren't
we weren't
I love the beauty and especially the sound of the ice, but very grateful to have power restored after 15 hours! What luxury to have the heat on and the kettle boiling. Not a bad thing to get a reminder of how lucky that is once in a while.
March 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I love the beauty and especially the sound of the ice, but very grateful to have power restored after 15 hours! What luxury to have the heat on and the kettle boiling. Not a bad thing to get a reminder of how lucky that is once in a while.
Been thinking a lot about this gravestone I spotted in St. Andrews, Scotland a few years ago.
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Been thinking a lot about this gravestone I spotted in St. Andrews, Scotland a few years ago.