Watched Superman (2025) ★★★★

Finished reading The Reluctant Dungeon by Lise Eclaire - ★★★★

Watched Jurassic World Rebirth, 2025 - ★★★½

Finished Reading Return of the Runebound Professor - ★★★

Rewriting isn’t just editing. It’s a kind of time travel. And sometimes, the consequences are emotional.

Would such an AI become an AGI? 🤔

Just because you don’t know how to do something, that does not mean it’s impossible. It only means that you don’t know how it can be done. - Chainfire, Terry Goodkind

Inbox is unpolished, notes is polished. Books go into refs. Outbox is notes updated for publication

I was hoping to have a similar situation with Chennai weather today, but alas...

“Work will always be work. Some people work doing what they love. Other people work so that they can do what they love when they’re not working. Neither is more noble.” - Anis Mojgani

Authors have started adding the equivalent of the robots.txt file to books.
From The Simulacrum by Peter Cawdron @pcawdron@aus.social

"The starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose." - Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style

"Reading a book requires a good deal of attention—and with #attention becoming a rare commodity, fewer people are able to devote themselves to #reading without distraction." (Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus)