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One of my favourite Michael Bywater quotes is from his development notes for a computer game: "PUZZLE 1... WARNING: this is a nasty trick puzzle because if you solve it, you lose the game".
The man understood life! Very sorry he's no longer with us. I wasn't done talking to him yet.
#RestPeacefully
The man understood life! Very sorry he's no longer with us. I wasn't done talking to him yet.
#RestPeacefully
August 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
One of my favourite Michael Bywater quotes is from his development notes for a computer game: "PUZZLE 1... WARNING: this is a nasty trick puzzle because if you solve it, you lose the game".
The man understood life! Very sorry he's no longer with us. I wasn't done talking to him yet.
#RestPeacefully
The man understood life! Very sorry he's no longer with us. I wasn't done talking to him yet.
#RestPeacefully
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“Loss sheds its light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.” Bywater, ‘Lost Worlds’
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Loss sheds its light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.” Bywater, ‘Lost Worlds’
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Michael Bywater d.yesterday after three tough years with Lewy Body Dementia. Never a linear man he was columnist,author, tutor, organist,cook. Flew alone across Australia, drove through Europe with his dog,read Medicine @corpuscambridge.bsky.social before switching to English. @the-independent.com.
August 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Michael Bywater d.yesterday after three tough years with Lewy Body Dementia. Never a linear man he was columnist,author, tutor, organist,cook. Flew alone across Australia, drove through Europe with his dog,read Medicine @corpuscambridge.bsky.social before switching to English. @the-independent.com.
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July 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
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Society of Authors anti-LLM AI protest tomorrow in London.
If you write, don’t bother looking up whether Meta stole your stuff. They did. It’s barely “content” to them. It’s soup. Arseholes.
Protest corporate colonialism / parasitic tech capitalism, or just come and shout. I’m going to.
If you write, don’t bother looking up whether Meta stole your stuff. They did. It’s barely “content” to them. It’s soup. Arseholes.
Protest corporate colonialism / parasitic tech capitalism, or just come and shout. I’m going to.
📢Join us tomorrow at Granary Square 1pm for a protest Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More details below 👇
Meta Protest – The Society of Authors
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societyofauthors.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Society of Authors anti-LLM AI protest tomorrow in London.
If you write, don’t bother looking up whether Meta stole your stuff. They did. It’s barely “content” to them. It’s soup. Arseholes.
Protest corporate colonialism / parasitic tech capitalism, or just come and shout. I’m going to.
If you write, don’t bother looking up whether Meta stole your stuff. They did. It’s barely “content” to them. It’s soup. Arseholes.
Protest corporate colonialism / parasitic tech capitalism, or just come and shout. I’m going to.
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Every major UK newspaper is running with the #MakeItFair #CreativeRightsInAI campaign today. I hope the government is listening. www.newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
February 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Every major UK newspaper is running with the #MakeItFair #CreativeRightsInAI campaign today. I hope the government is listening. www.newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
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Every UK national newspaper has printed identical front pages.
A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: apnews.com/article/uk-m...
Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members
Join the fun, write to your MP today!
A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: apnews.com/article/uk-m...
Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members
Join the fun, write to your MP today!
Every UK national newspaper prints identical front page
Journalists and music industry urge Labour to abandon plan to water down copyright laws for AI firms, amid threat to £126bn creative industries
inews.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Every UK national newspaper has printed identical front pages.
A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: apnews.com/article/uk-m...
Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members
Join the fun, write to your MP today!
A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: apnews.com/article/uk-m...
Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members
Join the fun, write to your MP today!
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We all know one of these poor folks......
December 20, 2024 at 11:31 PM
We all know one of these poor folks......
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Great advocacy for swifts in this thread from @benjyhere.bsky.social. Do read and add a swift box to your house wall if there's not one there already...
If I were allowed to write a @theguardian.com Country Diary, it might go something like this. @nicwilson.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @brigit.strawbridge.bsky.social
Balham, SW London: little beats the thrill of nesting swifts and you can have it too.
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Balham, SW London: little beats the thrill of nesting swifts and you can have it too.
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November 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Great advocacy for swifts in this thread from @benjyhere.bsky.social. Do read and add a swift box to your house wall if there's not one there already...