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NATUREWATCH! A fox with a huge squirrel in its jaws, St James's Square, London

It took me two weeks to read through the thousands of prompts and responses and it was fascinating to see how reliant students have become on ChatGPT to answer all sorts of questions but less surprising once I understood how insidiously responses are engineered for engagement.

Something I wrote about my family's relationship with Alexa

Redundant Thinking Late last year I started thinking about things that once were useful and are no longer so.

Guess I'm starting a substack then. It will be full of cheery stories about things that aren't useful any more.
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This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US? iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new ones

I've been told off for not smiling 😁

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"We are currently clean on opsec"

One of those mornings when you wake up early and tell your partner not to read the news if they can help it.

BarCraft Brandy Warmer Gift Set with Glass and Stand, Metal - 12 March 2020 This post is part of a series about the things I've bought on Amazon since opening my account in September 1998. For more details about my Amazon purchases and the book I've been working on, have a re...

Five years ago today I was shopping for a present to take along to a 50th birthday lunch. But on the day itself, everyone got cold feet about travelling into London and lunch was cancelled. It was nearly two years before we all got together again.
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#FiveYearsOn

Is reposting your own post replying to your own post best social media practice these days? How exhausting.

Paper Craft Listening to sounds made of books in the London LibraryI am sitting in the main reading room of the London Library, a room which has been graced by some of the most eminent writers of the nineteenth, ...

What is it like to listen to music made out of paper in the London Library?
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There's no better place in London to write in than the London Library.

This is great - feels very hypermodern, like something out of a @greatdismal.bsky.social story

Very sure that this great image will prove useful somewhere down the line...

#stayhumble

Publishing bling parked round the corner from the Penguin Random House offices.

I'm not sure how I'm meant to be feeling about this game. But it is pretty lol.

It's a rare funk you can't run your way out of.

Great starter pack of walking types and writers about walking types.

If you really trusted me Waitrose, you wouldn't need to watch me.

Interesting career pivot from Will Ferrell.

Ok. It might not be as spectacular as the Rockies or the Hindu Kush, but the English countryside has its own charms. And we've got pubs.

My Facebook experience has been massively improved by following interests rather than people. Wonder if that can be replicated here.