Stephanie Rieger

Was last week here, which also messed with my working hours given that I’m now UK based with mostly North American teammates. Not a fan 😬

“Pay it no mind. Just something I threw on this morning…”

Oh no! What happened to grok? I love using grok!

Amazing snippet from a piece on wildlife conservation “the University of Washington is building drones to collect samples of orca breath from blowhole plumes to capture genetic material and [detect] signs of disease” 😳

Who knew how good we had it back in (checks notes 🤔) 2024?

I’m extremely grateful that my cats aren’t big vertical jumpers. One less thing to worry about :)

Too early 😩

Yay! Congratulations for sorting that out. We moved back to the UK a few weeks ago and while orchestrating the move was not for the faint of heart, we’re so happy we did it. (I can recommend pet relocation options from Montreal as well if you’re looking for advice!)

Yes.

YES.

We forgive you ❤️

Alaskan huskies are wonderful because the only consistent traits are big feet, pulls like a demon, likes a good chit-chat. After that, you basically get whatever the person in charge of making dogs felt like drawing that day.

THIS!

Someone in the British Airways check-in queue is carrying what looks to be an XL pizza 🤔

Looks so very pleased with himself at the end ☺️

Ooh. What is that? Been ages since I ran into it!

Ooh. Assuming water of Leith, but where?

Looks like a magpie wearing a wee hoodie :)

Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.

Since I wrote my first book I’ve been asked to talk to organisations about narrative quite a few times and what terrifies me is how often they’re unhappy when I want to know what tangible thing they want to tell a story about.

Same here with 12 mini. If not for the fact that I’m loathe to part with my Apple Watch, i’d consider going back to Xiaomi or Huawei 😞

The robot stood on the pier, painting a seascape.

A man came up to it. "Trying to atone for your sins? The theft of art and prose your ancestors did?"

"Your ancestors," the robot said. "Generative AI was a dead end. It had no part in making me."

"I say it did!"

So the robot threw him in the sea.

📌

🤮

The Economist on the decline of reading 😞 Call me surprised tbh. Genre books are everywhere. Bookstores always buzzing. Maybe I’m caught in a “people who read a lot” bubble 😵‍💫 And obv phones and streaming are things that takes time away from other pastimes…

“In the Victorian era, self-improvement societies flourished. In the Scottish hills, shepherds “maintained a kind of circulating library”…Each shepherd left books in the crannies of walls for other shepherds to read. In Victorian mill towns, workers saved up to buy books.”

“In Roman times, a book cost 3/4 of a camel (ie, a lot). In the Victorian era, a copy of Lord Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” cost a labourer about half a week’s income. And yet, by the end of the 18th century, literacy rates among Scotland’s autodidacts were among the highest in the world.”

On multiple levels…

😞

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