Pilar Orti

And nobody walked out…?

Royal Parks say no evidence to back Nigel Farage’s claim that migrants are eating their swans – UK politics live Reform UK leader claimed swans and carp being eaten from parks by ‘people from different cultures’

He’s on a roll: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Fascinating article by @charlottetobitt.bsky.social
about a “journalist” writing made up stories with genAI and getting through onto high profile publications.

@caseynewton.bsky.social would love to hear your take in a Hard Fork episode… (wink wink nudge nudge) pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Architectural Photography Walk and Workshop on the River Thames in London Capture striking architectural images on a guided workshop along the Thames, led by experts. Learn, shoot, and refine your skills!

Jealous of the husband, who’s running a #photography workshop with one of his mentors. www.eventbrite.com/e/architectu... #London

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.

Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.

Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Well done!

Reflections on Co-writing with a Bot It’s been over a year now since I published The Remote Worker’s Guide to Time Management, which I co-wrote with ChatGPT. Here are some things I learned through the process.

An interesting experiment from a friend @pilarorti.bsky.social - Reflections on Co-writing with a Bot open.substack.com/pub/spiralli...

Scientists discover new part of the immune system New part of the immune system - hidden inside our bodies - could be used to make new antibiotics.

Meanwhile, good things keep happening: “A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Community - based Knowledge Base and Playing with Procreate A much shorter post for today ( with a wink to Mark), with a different kind of tech-based experience.

I finally managed a short post! spirallingcreativity.substack.com/p/community-...

Every time I have to format a Header in GDocs or Substack I have a similar thought! (Tends to format the paragraph before/after for some reason I can’t see!)

Making a line drawing from a photo A place for sharing free Procreate resources, including brushes, templates, and tutorials. Paid content should be posted to the Marketplace board. A more permanent home for all downloadable resources ...

Link to post explaining how to do this - you’ll need to dig into the comments for updated instructions folio.procreate.com/discussions/...

Playing with Procreate for future Pilates based content…

Oh, for that sky!

Writing in Parallel with 4 Bots and other updates Earlier this week I found myself editing a chapter using four LLMs in parallel.

My latest updates, working with four genAIs and a random pic - today’s Spiralling Creativity post. spirallingcreativity.substack.com/p/writing-in...

Reminds me of Zoom requiring people to return to the office!

You couldn’t make this up! 🤣

Sun coming through trees in the park.

If I’d gone out later this morning, I would have made more Vitamin D.
But then I would have missed this:

Ok, so AI companies can create chatbots that reason like humans, but you can't change the email account associated with your accounts? What??????

Both with Claude AI and ChatGPT... hmmm...

Spiralling Five Times stuff I'm doing or thinking about

Five things I was up to (and still am!) last week. spirallingcreativity.substack.com/p/spiralling...

Any product management folks in my network available asap for a short term gig? Remote but UK only. Ideally have experience with intranets (even better, SharePoint).

Slide into my DMs if so.

“Our books teach us what they want to be as we go along.” - Ink in your Veins ep 478 #writing

You nailed it, @rachaelherron.bsky.social !
This is so true, all my books change focus and structure half way through!

I'm thinking of signing up to Gemini Advanced to try its Deep Research feature. Any thoughts?

(I know I can sign up free for a month, but wanted to see how others are using it and how it's useful.)

Coming Soon — Virtual not Distant

I'm looking for first-draft readers for two books related to remote work. A bit more information here:

www.virtualnotdistant.com/coming-soon

Link to research: assets.anthropic.com/m/52eab1f8cf...

I keep hearing how AI lacks humanity, but Anthropic’s last year showed that “current Al models can engage in what we call "alignment faking": strategically engaging in aligned or misaligned behavior depending on whether the model suspects its actions will go unnoticed.” Sounds pretty human to me.

Today's dilemma: for my Pilates cert case-study: shall I audio record a class, and then transcribe-genAI it (feed transcript of each exercise to Claude to generate bullet points) or shall I sit a the computer and type instructions for each exercise?

I love the simplicity of my new life...

"It was three in the morning, the time when nightmares laugh side by side with reality." #quotes

From "The Power of No" by Claudia Azula Altucher and James Altucher

@fionamcbride.bsky.social Seen this?>>>>

Congratulations to you and @saskie.bsky.social !!!

“Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”

- From Strength to Strength by Arthur C Brooks

A book with a lot of wisdom, recommended to me by @markkilby.com

#wisdom #quotes