"...like a Tory councillor who liked dubstep before he finished business school." Ouch. I know Blake's not exactly cool these days, but come on.
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Yep, I'm trying to be the cautious voice in the room in that regard too - appreciate you posting your thoughts on all of this!
I think we broadly agree - I'm trying to be less cynical. There's a lot to be done in terms of leading teams towards making llms work in their context - I'm trying to figure this out for a data eng / analytics team in a conservative environment particularly around tooling and with mixed skills.
But the ux is a thing and it's fine for folk to have preferences. I only really got the whole 'this AI coding stuff is alright' with opencode, but can totally see why some folk like cursor or Claude code or whatever else.
Also, it is the year of Linux on desktop.
So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
It's an instrument and like a grown up educational toy. I can justify this as personal development, right? How else am I going to embrace vibe coding and relearn to solder while making a racket?
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Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.
Incredible strength and courage from Zelenskyy. Standing up to a room full of bullies in an orchestrated, stage-managed ambush. Never backing down. Never letting the lies take root. Absolute hero for the ages.
What, why?
I'm on the "this FKA Twigs record is great" train.
The Weenknd is not for me.
AD93 is a wildly good label.
I wanted to do a catch up list of records from last year, I've got as far as the Moin, Astrid Sonne and a few others - maybe next year I'll know what I liked from last year.
Billy Woods.
Marble. A social network where everyone joins and follows everyone by default. Users then chip away at the mess and through an exclusively subtractive process of removing bots, grifters and the such like get to something vaguely tolerable.
Stay tuned for more tech ideas from Camberwell Valley.
