Although I’ve mostly managed to keep noting things, I’d stopped microcasting them. Though I might start again, just to please myself.
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Someone told me that her friend was having a chatbot write her husband a poem for their anniversary, which made me wonder if the husband desired a polished product or an expression from the heart. In Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, the big-nosed title character ghostwrites love letters for his friend to the Roxanne both of them love. She comes to realise it’s the author of the letters she really loves. What happens when you realise the true love who touched your heart is’nt even human? Accepting it as your Al lover seems to be one answer.
I enjoyed the comparison of ai with Cyrano, and the rest of the article was striking.
After quite a few dull and breezy days sunset over the Clyde was lovely & quiet yesterday.
Read: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller ★★★ 📚
This little bend of smooth stones, the leaning cliffs. The smell of spruce. The small cutthroat making quiet rings in the black water of a pool. This little bend of smooth stones, the leaning cliffs. The smell of spruce. The small cutthroat making quiet rings in the black water of a pool.
Post apocalyptic, few survivors left, mostly killing each other. The main character loves fishing & the outdoors, handy skills to have except all the trout died too. The descriptions of what is left & what has been lost are poetic. Mixed with adventure, murderous action & brutality in a fractured storyline without much punctuation, not in a bad way.
#SilentSunday
Read: Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young ★★★★ 📚
I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next.
Reads almost as it has been run right out with any editing. Jumps from topic to topic & across times, with occasional words to the reader. Follows a wide range of the author's experiences obsessions in a somehow really engaging way.
The Sunday Poem: Mineral by Kathleen Jamie | The Observer
I enjoyed reading this in the paper this morning.
Can’t say the same about the online edition despite having a subscription with “Unlimited access” there is an advert every stanza!
Read: One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad ★★★★★ 📚
Clearly, logically & beautifully written. I started collecting some of the most powerful quotes, but there is little that could be skipped. The focus on children, the author's own & those in Gaza, is so important.
Really impressed by the National Education Union’s general secretary Daniel Kebede on the T.V. today.
Victoria Park. First snowdrops I’ve seen this year and the earliest I’ve noted on this blog or uploaded to flickr.