My current dilemma with getting a specific 繁體 e-reader versus a tablet is generally because I'm a bit wary of being stuck on one platform when Readmoo讀墨, Book walker, 博客來 exists...

it's a really weird thing. have a friend who's married to a japanese person and been there for over a decade but still constantly uses it in conversation. we've had this debate forever but they insist their partner and people around don't think it's a slur and just keep using it.

#30 Bookshops & Bonedust by by Travis Baldree. The sequel and prequel to Legends & Lattes which centered about a book stores (another object close to my heart) and it was a really lovely and chill read on the train to and fro work. Looking forward to the next in the series!

If you are sufficiently racist, or just bad at your job, or usually both, you can produce a dataset that tells you all sorts of nonsense in a quantitative manner. That doesn't make it true.

Then you feed that dataset into a robot. Guess what, you made a racist robot.

He could, for instance, have written about any number of topics. Here are some ideas for free.

1. What cults are the Anthropic crew in, and what is the ideological ancestry of these cults? (We've done the work for him here, hint hint, its eugenics: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...).