Today was a good day
As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it.
You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result.
Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Yes. Absolutely.
'The Morning Ride, Copenhagen.'
Bicycles were the perfect vehicle for a new generation of painters looking for subjects that would express their experience of the modern age. This work (1907) by Erik Ludvig Hennimoder depicts the new leisured classes.
Until someone works out how to get monopoly profits from renewables they are constantly going to be attacked by frightened oligarchs.
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5
As a general rule, the very rich don’t become wealthy through hard work & cleverness. They became rich by being lucky & horrible, or by being related to someone lucky & horrible.
Hard agree.
PAPA LEONE YES
What we need are new rules to force developers to use the permissions they have - new rules to end land banking which is at the heart of our housing crisis.
Labour need to get tough with Developers, not Nature.
In London alone, councils are spending £5m a day on temporary accommodation and support for people experiencing homelessness.
Imagine if that money was spent on housing and helping people avoid homelessness in the first place?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy85klqk14o
Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.
The state delivers so much we take it all for granted. There's a systemic crisis because this delivery is somehow unaligned from politics and daily life, or isn't spoken about in a way people understand. A complex problem most governments can't crack.
This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
'Covent Garden' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
F*** #AI
Maybe we shouldn't have trusted the cigarette companies when they praised the health benefits of cigarettes
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above
Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...
Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
I agree with this bit of flag logic. Canada should seasonally adjust its flag.
Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq)
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
