James Tobin

UK maps showing changes in temperatures for typical summer days and hot summer days.

1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C.

Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

A thread on our response to AI 🧵

✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

Really interesting article. Captures a lot of my thoughts perfectly. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My website homepage with a notice at the top saying, "Visitors to your site decreased by 30% in the last 30 days."

Well this is a bit depressing.
It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me.
Please have a look and repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

It gave me the rage, ngl

Definitely not by doing a victory lap around a ping pong table after an all-you-can-drink holiday brunch. Nope. Turns out you can find crutches in a beach resort if you look hard enough.

I am going to incorporate the potato test into all my future online interactions. Say potato dammit!

It really does 😞

I thought this. Odd numbers at the least.

Day 4 of great quotes because its more interesting than posting what my kids had for breakfast (toast and jam x2).

'Books are a uniquely portable magic.' Simple as that.' Stephen King

I throughly dislike this. Gross.

Day 3 of great quotes because its more interesting than telling the world what my kids had for breakfast (yoghurt and granola). (Side note: discovered I cant spell yoghurt without a run up.)

'All is fair in love, war, and tax evasion.' Tom Sharpe

Experience: I fought off a polar bear with a saucepan I pulled back the tent flap and there it was, an arm’s length away. So I reached for the closest weapon to hand – my mother’s old porridge-encrusted pot

Replace polar bear with wasp and saucepan with upside down glass, and same, same www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sigh. Profound stuff.

I read the entire thing on a 2hr flight. Incredible.

100% this. I just need to know what buttons to press to reset my meter, not a youtube expose on the joys and dangers of electricity.

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Well, that is brutal. I now feel at least two hundred years old

Ah, shite. Crucial part of my student existence in Sheffield too.

Discussing the use of AI at work:

Me: Ha, yeah imagine if i used AI to respond to emails.

Colleague: James, LLMs sound upbeat and chatty, not snarky and irritated. Bit of a giveaway.

I'm choosing to be flattered. I think.

Day 2 of posting quotes i love because its more interesting than telling the world what my kids had for breakfast (cereal, one with no milk. Dry as dust 🤷).

'The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.' Terry Pratchett

And teaches you things about yourself you didnt know, in my experience. That you hate gardening, for example.

We need a hand #Booksky – do please buy a book from us today!

Day 1 of posting quotes that i love because it seems more interesting than telling the world what my kids had for breakfast (crumpets with honey).

'A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'

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Our story Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support local bookstores.

Seems like a good day to repost this, appropos of nothing, certainly not any AI audiobook nonsense. libro.fm/story

Nice one whoever when to the trouble of cropping my signature off this one

Prints here: jimll.co.uk/products/mil...

Oops how clumsy of me to drop this here of all places.

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My books (and many of my stories) have all been fed to Meta's (& other) genAI without consent or compensation to feed tech's anti-art crusade, so I'd appreciate if a few more humans bought/read my books. ICYMI, I've a mythic realist novella out about extradimensional refugees living in Calcutta: